Seeking Now!

I had step away from a while, a few days ago I was so sad by the spiritaul warfare I was under and my sin. My wicked sinner I cried. I called a friend she started praying for me, from that God awaken my heart. To the great need of prayer in my life. I thought I would share this with you, I sent out to my friends asking them to seek the lord with for ask 20 days or so..

I Hope you come and seek the Lord with me and ask the Lord to bring a Revival in our Hearts... And our nation..
I am three days behind but this month is Haystack Awakening Prayer They did it last year around this time...

It is Oct 1-21 A time of seeking the Lord and praying for a Revile in our Nation.
http://student.org/prayer/Haystack%20Awakening%202006.pdf
I hope you can print this out and go through it..
"Two hundred years ago, on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., a group of five students were meeting outdoors for intense prayer when a sudden thunderstorm hit and sent them running for cover in a nearby haystack.

Those young men kept praying, and God responded in such a powerful way that the first six mission sending organizations in North America were born out of what became known as the Haystack Revival movement."
http://www.seekinghim.com/nationalprayermeeting/index.php
"Join other believers all across the country, along with Christian leaders and co-host Nancy Leigh DeMoss as we seek God together for a fresh work of revival.

I just listen to one Today it was wonderful Greg posted about it too..
This "live" prayer meeting will take place on Christian radio beginning September 15, 2007. Join us for twelve consecutive Saturday mornings from 10 – 11 a.m. ET"
Also here is another prayer guide for 21 days
you may like this more.
http://www.thedivineexperiment.com/divineguide.pdf
Day 1.. Revival must start in our Hearts.... How hungry are we?
What is Sin?
Do we hate our sins? Do we see as the Lord see it.. Or are we so wicked to
say that which is evil as good. I know I have.. Have we made Little of Sin
wow is us,, Lets come and repent.. Come lets confess our sins to one another.
May we learn the Evil of Sin!! Let us cry out to understand the depth how much God hates sin. Let us see OUR SINS as rebellion against God. Let us see how sin is
in opposition to Gods ways. Let not make sin little but see it as it is WICKED ACT.
" Sin is a revolver in the face of God sin is infinite evil, a volition of His law and will not be ignored"
Open our eyes by your mercy...
To pray and ask the following, and God to refresh us..
1- Love God with all mind soul heart?
which ways to do I love other things
what things have I loved for then God?
2- Do I delight in spending time God?
Is being in his word more important then all worldly things?
3- What is our hunger for God? How much do we seek Him?
Do we delight being talking with God?
" He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee
which he loves not for thy sake" Augustine
4- our Bible times, motion or deep?
5-pride are we humble?
6-pity and worry? job money children family
7- Coldness in prayer?
8-Fear of man? How many people have we told of Christ this week?
9- Lack of trust? in Gods word
10- Holiness? Do we want to be holy as he is holy or is talk?
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become a prey?15 The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
Jer... 13-15
Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever
Ps ...73:23-26
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what iat you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment. only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Ps 51...
What are things that we can do?
Get a small group together and start praying... ( friends)
Guys be willing to lead a group....
Be willing to fast.. and pray..
Give up TV, going to movies. From events sports...
Pray for your pastors
Pray walks around your city

" This is the engine that will drive the Church Yes I want you keep coming on Sundays But the Tuesday night is what is what all about." the prayer meeting" Jim Cymbala
" you can tell how popular a Church is by who is coming on Sunday morning
you can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is who comes on Sunday nights But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting" unknown

In In LOve
charlen

Day 2

“we know everything about spiritual life but how to live it” We have lots of talk of prayer but little of it”
“divine experience was born out of the desperation to break free from the routine of the status quo and the bondage of the spirit of the world that has infiltrated our lives as believers”
Do We Want have a Divine Experience? Do We hunger and long to Be with our God?
How much do we delight in our God? What is the importance of prayer? Why must we pray?

Prayer is when we acknowledge our great Need for God. And we are in Great need our nation is full of wickedness our Church are looking like the world. And Even we are of need of humbling and repenting. It is time to Seek the Lord. To know him and to delight in being with him.

May we take this time to set aside all non- essential activity and seek Him!!
Repenting of sin and compromise in our lives “ turning back whole heartedly to God and living and applying the word to our lives”

I pray that By Gods grace he will restore our cold hearts to bring us to a deeper intimate love with God.
Eph. 5:2- “And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
Col 3:5 “ Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthy nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry”
“ Be killing sin or it will be killing you” John Owen

The evil of Sin?
John Piper - “ Stated a ver strong definition of sin in these words: what make sin sin is not first that it hurts people, but that it blasphemes God. That is the ultimate evil and ultimate outrage of the universe”

Let us seek the Lord with fasting and pray.... Humble us

*Do I tell God what I am going to do, Or do I say whatever you ask Lord?
Do I yield to Gods word?
*I am thankful for my brothers and sister in Christ?
Do I really love them? Do I pray for them daily?
Are willing to have same mind as Christ giving up all rights
our money, time, house, car, comfort, food, clothing, for others
*Pray in the spirit?
*Are we tender hearted and compassionate for our brothers and sisters
are willing to die for them and wash their feet?
*Willing to obey even if mean death.
Where are we not obedient?
*Driving in the car- are we kind in our thoughts to others drivers?
Are praying for others around us? Are we obeying the rules of the road?
Are we speeding? Are we wearing our seat belts?
* Our body’s - are we taking care our bodies? What are we eating right?

Day 3
Prov. 4: 14-15 “ Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way evil man, Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go your own way”

Lets Humble ourselves before the Lord... To Stop saying pointing the out others sins, but to ask God to help us see our own sin.
“ humbling ourselves seeing our great need for God”
Are we willing to “ wait on God and not say we are busy”.. Isa 64:4 wait on the Lord
Are we proud?

“ If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves..”

*Are we willing to bend to God and be humble?
*Are those who prefer our ways more then Gods?
*Are we self centered self indulgence and self love
*“ Pride keeps us from honesty confessing our sins acknowledging our failure before God and man and are stubborn in our own ways”

*“ how long will you refuse to humble yourself before me” Ex 10:3

*“ Humility is the reality of your entire dependence on God for life and all its dimensions pride the very root of all sin, is the loss of the sense of who God is and exaggerate belief about who we are”
Until we humble ourselves before God we cannot truly abide in Gods presence or experience His favor”

The evil of Sin
“ Pray we see how sin in our lives in taking from God is all these areas:
*The Glory of God is not Honored
Where Has MY Sin not given glory to God?
“ Eat or drink do all things for his glory”
*The Holiness of God is not reverenced
Where Has MY SIN not kept me from seeing God in all His Holiness?
When Has MY SIN not fear the Holiness of God?
* The greatness of God is not admired
Where Has MY SIN kept me from admiring God Greatness?
*The power of God is not praised
Where Has MY SIN kept me from seeing Gods mighty power in my life?

Day 4\t
“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.”\tLuke 12:35-37\t\t\t

Today there are many Pastors in America that are not teaching the whole Word of God
There many whom are watered out and preaching a different Gospel
We are not to add or take away in doing so it no longer is the Gospel
There is a great need for old Gospel to be preached again. Lots of mans centered thoughts and ideas have come in to our Churches. Thousands in America think they are saved
because they said a prayer once in there life.

Let us pray for Strong leaders.
*“Men who will stand before His face and hear His voice daily,

*Men who have no desire in their heart for anyone or anything other than God Himself,

*Men who fear Him so greatly that they hate sin in every form and love righteousness and truth in all their ways,

*Men who have overcome anger and sexually sinful thoughts, and who would rather die than sin even in thought or attitude,\t\t Zac Poonen

May God show us where we are fearful of Man.. And haven’t shared our faith..
Let be that when we “open up our mouths we would fearful and boldly make known the Gospel”
Let our heart be so Joyed in Christ that we will be unstoppable.\t\t

The Great Evil of Sin
* The truth of God is not sought
Where has MY SIN kept me from seeking Gods word?
*The goodness of God is not esteemed
Where Has MY Sin kept me from esteeming Gods goodness
Where have I failed to thank God for his goodness in my life?
* The beauty of God is not Treasured
Where Has MY SIN kept me from Treasuring Christ above all things
and falling in love with His beauty?

May we pray and confess... Let us seek the Lord.
1- Do we fear God?
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”Matt. 10:28
2- Do all things for His Glory? Not to us but to His name.. All we do eat drink be to his glory
3-Are we imitators of God , reflecting his glory in all we do?
4- What does our love God look compared to those we love here on earth?
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”

Thank you brother for your post.. May those that God leads will call in and share their hearts in prayer.

Let us keep awake and pray all the more.
Changes Us God Humble us, we cry out. We are of great need of you.

In his love
charlene

Day 5

“Blessed is poor in spirit..”

“ Humility is the first step in submitting to who God is. It’s a great response
to his Lordship, leadership, and the authority of His word and ways.”
“ When we choose to humble ourselves, we deal with the very core of our sinful nature. Then we are in the place where God’s grace and mercy can be poured out on us.”

Do we depended upon our strength? If what are ways we do so?

“ Help me to understand, that I must decrease so that You can increase in me.”
From : http://www.thedivineexperiment.com/divineguide.pdf ... Seeking for 21 days

Are we eager to reminder the poor?
In AZ 6,100 Children are in foster care.
1 in 6 Children have no health care.
1 in 5 Children live in poverty.
90 parents are reported for possible abuse or neglect
1 in 4 AZ Children are in poverty.
Every year 296,000 Children live poverty
What are we doing to help the poor?
www.newlifepregnancycenters.org

Evil of Sin
“ The faithfulness of God is not trusted”
Do MY SINS keep me from trusting in God?
“ The promises of God is not relied upon”
Do MY SINS keep me from knowing His promises and
trusting in them?
“ The commandment of God are not obeyed”
Do MY SINS keep me obeying God?

Confession
Who is like you majestic in holiness awesome in glorious deeds is doing wonders”

* Do I Remember what God saved me from.?
* Do I thank God for his saving work and grace in my life daily?
. “Think upon Gods mighty works.”
* I thank God I am no longer slave to sin?
* Do I Fight for justice for the poor? What I am doing?
*What I am doing about the 40 millions babies that have been killed and thousands killed every year?
*How do I treat the sojourned?
* Who I am willing to welcome in my home?
Lets pray
“ Hear my prayer O lord Let my cry come to you” Ps 102

Day 6

Phil 2:5-8
“ We want to made much of we want people to like us and amire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, “ Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled: and whoever humble himslef will be exalted” Matt 23:12 John Piper

“ Apart from us experiencing and implementing Jesus humility in our lives in God and ministries will be feeble and mostly fruitless.”
http://www.thedivineexperiment.com/divineguide.pdf . Seeking Him for 21 days
“Jesus humble himself before men and before the father. He never sought his own honor, but for the Father”

* May we repent of Seeking honor form men, and trying to please me.
* May we repent of having fear of men.
* May we repent of desiring mans praise more then Gods
* May we repent of exalts our deeds and goods works.
* May we repent of thinking more highly of ourselves then we should.\t\t
Rom 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

We are busy in the Church, but what about outside in the streets of our city? Some are many bible study and groups within the Church.
* Who is feeding the hungry?
* who are visiting the Sick?
*Who know their neighbors?
* Who have their neighbors over?
What are doing to serve the poor and the lost in our city?

Evil of Sin
“ The dare of God’s justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of power, the contempt of His love!”
“ The justice of God is not respected”
Do MY SIN keep from fighting for justice?
“ The wrath of God is not feared”
Do MY SIN keep me from fearing Gods words?
“ The grace of God is not cherished”
“ The presence of God is not praised”

Confession
* Do we live to please God and not Man, more worried about offending God then man?
*Have we fought to keep truth? Or have we come to believe lies?
* do we remember the poor? Do we bring into our homes and feed them?
* where are we not truthful?
* what lovers do we have? “ I called to my lovers but they deceived me”
* do we fall face down before the Lord?

Lets pray
“ I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy
because he incline his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as Long as I live” Ps 116

Day 7
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4

* Ask the Lord to show all that which we love that in the world. To Show were we have be friend the world.
* LET us REPENT.. Of our love we may have for the world.
What area do you struggle with? What areas do you enjoy?
* Food? Movies? Dress? TV? Sleep? World thinking?

” The work of the Holy Spirit is to manifest the active presence of God in the world, and especially in the Church” Wayne Gruden

Do we rejoice at our great privilege of being able to be in Gods presence?

* What is our view of Gods presence? How is it biblical or non biblical?

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,” Rom 8:15-16
“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” James 4:8

* How can we draw near?
* what are ways you lack in drawing near to God?
* what things are keeping this from happening and why?
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“ I have not come to do my own will but that of the father” John 6:38
* are we seeking for Gods will to be done in our lives?

John 5:19

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

John 5:30

I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
* what things do I think I can do without God? Or what I am doing in my own will?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

John 8:28

So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

“ Jesus emptied Himself of His divine prerogatives as eternal deity and became a servant so that God might be all” His life was one of absolute submission, trust, and dependence on the Father”
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* Do I seek Gods will in all we do?
* May I repent of not fully trusting and surrendering our lives to Christ.
* May I repent of own desires, goals, motives.

“Your kingdom your will be done” on earth and in our lives..

Understand fully what he will is..?

Confession
* Do I speak about others who are in Church or at work?
* I am Open with time and home?
*Who do I rely on? On God or jobs? Our husbands or wives? Or Churches? Or friends?
*Who do I call to when trouble comes? God or people? What is My trust in God?
*What do I value in my life? How much time do I give for God?
* Then how much Time with other things, I enjoy?
*Such computer,
*sermons,
*family,
*eating,
*friends.

* Selfishness, thinking of self before others?

Lets pray

“ Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me” Ps 51

what struggle will we face when say we will pray?
What will we face when we cry out and say here I am. I am yours? What will it be like?
What if cry ? What if longed? How I ask will it be until our eyes are not longer dry?

I started this heart of prayer a two weeks now. Of asking and of seeking my God. I am ask what does it mean to Seek God? and why Now? Do I keep what with everything eles? What do I give up?

I know That I left my house and sought many places I thought will able me to pray..
then to find I can't pray at all, I am to hot or cold, or other things. Has this happen to us all?

Then where do I go? Where is my specail pleace I can pray?
I set out a place. But I woke and still battle was there. Why I ask God to help me to pray?
Didn't know my longing? But there was somthing more he wanted to teach me? I pray one day with fire and another with none?
Why one with passion other with every word with struggle? Why is it I am unable to pray?

It is my heart cry over and over? I said I want to seek you? then it hit as a dear prayed for me. I was saw as light came down I am in sin.. Confess and turn. And so I did, and the more I sit and wait to hear the more he helps me pray.

It wasn't and never has been in my power to pray. I am no wonderful spiritual person. But it is all His grace.

So when we come and seek Him, it is to have a right view of us and of Him. and they sin in our lives mass it up.

So when we come to seek him let come with a heart that wants to be done with sin.
Why? for it does not bring glory to God..

How wonderful our God is to be sought. If you are battling in prayer as I am let us pray for each other. If you are longing to seek God and know Him more, Come let share of what he is teaching with each other. And if you are wanting to seeking God and humble yourself, then let repent our sin together.

Come dear beloved let seek God and be humble and repent and confess...

In his love
charlene

Day 8

Please remember.. 21 days seeking Him..http://www.thedivineexperiment.com/divineguide.pdf
And radio prayer meeting each Saturdays.. Has any one listen to them? Seekinghim.com
And I have been blessed by this wonderful blog of Gods men seeking Him
They are praying for each other daily.. Are there other doing this too?
May we pray for them and others who are seeking God now and all spiritual warfare that is at hand. That God will bring prepared hearts to meet with him.. Please go and read there post they are so rich and real. http://canton-prayer-union.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-members-of-cpu.html

Humble me .....and Give a deeper for Christ let not the flesh on my eyes of heat win, let my flesh and all its desire in put to death. Let it not be I hunger for worldly things. But for Christ and all His glory to be displayed in my life.

Evil of Sin

If by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live Rom 8:13

“ beware of all sin in all of its manifesting, working and schemes. This is especially important since sin, by its very nature, is deceitful , causing believers to underestimate its extent and seriousness in their own lives”

2 Tim 2:2

Confession - where have the sin hidden? Hide not come step into the light, and let Christ and his word expose all.

Luke 14 26;
*"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
* what Is my love For Christ compare with all earthy loves?
* Does my love Christ all earthy loves to shame?
* Is it seen in my time and money in my talk and desires?

Matt 10:37
*Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.\t
Col. 3:1-4;.
*If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
* What do I think about through out the day?
* What are my goals in life?
* What in my longing after things here and now or things of heaven?
* Do I think of life as a breath a moment?
* How in my mind of Christ and when? When I am reading or in Church?
* What about at work or in store? What are my thoughts?
* Do I long for Christ to return? Why I am here what I am living for?
1 John 2 : 15
*Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
*15For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Do we take Christ as our example and follow in his steps?
1 Pet. 2:21-23;
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his

* which ways Have I not walked in following Christ?
* Which ways have I been found with sin my suffering?
* being angry upset, that God has allowed me to suffer?
* Acting in hate towards those who bring suffering and pain?

Lets pray...\t
“What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use-men of prayer, men mighty in prayer” Col 4:2\t

“WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure ..Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use-men of prayer, men mighty in prayer” E. Bounds

Day 9
Evil of Sin
“When sin lets us alone, we may let sin alone; but sin is always active when it seems to be the most quite, and its water are often deep when they are calm” John Owen
“Sin sets its strength against every act of Holiness, and every degree of Spiritual growth. We will not be making the progress in holiness without walking over the bellies of our lust. He who does not kill sin along the way is making no progress in his journey” John Owen
Gal 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Heb 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
“ If sin is always acting then we are in trouble if we not are always mortifying it” John Owen
Confession

Matt. 26:26-27;
*Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." 27And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you,

1 Cor. 11:24-26
and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
*And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

How do we Love others?

Rom 12:10
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
* How I do and don’t show brotherly affection?

Eph. 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
* How I am willing to give up my life for others as Christ did for me? What keeps from being a sacrifice for others?
Col 3:14
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony

* What ways do I need to repent of lacking in love and not have harmony with my brothers and sisters?
1 Thess. 4:9
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another
* I repent of not allowing Gods ways of loving others.
1 Pet. 1; 22
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

* I repent of not obeying and thinking of my shallow and weak love for others.
1 Pet. 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

* I repent of the lack of earnest love for others. Not seeking out fellowship, or really caring for them.
1 John 3:14-19
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
* I repent I have become angry with many brothers and sister because they hurt me or upset me or I didn’t get my way.
* I repent of my pride of thinking I am better.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
* I repent of my talk of love but no action in my life.
Lets pray
"Give ear to my prayer from lips free of decit"Ps 17;2

Day 10

Evil of Sin
“To neglect sin it decay a inner man”
2 corn 4:16
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Rev 3:2
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.

Heb 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

“ The frame of the heart grows worse and worse. When sin gains a considerable victory. It brakes the soul”
Ps 31:10 51:8\t
For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
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confession

Are we Proud? Let us ask these question for ourselves...
A Pride Test : Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Series: Humility: Coming to God on His Terms

“Number one, do you look down on those who are less educated, less affluent, less refined or less successful than yourself?”

* Do I think I better then others?

“Do you think of yourself as more spiritual than other believers you know?”

* Which ways do we see our self better?

“Here's another one. Are you quick to find fault with others and to verbalize those faults to others? Do you have a sharp, critical tongue? We would call it discerning, analytical but fault-finding.”

* I Repent there are time with others I am very sharp and, critical with my tongue.
* I have spoken of others and their sins to others, I repent of this wrong.
Jonathan Edwards, by the way, wrote a powerful convicting piece on evidences of spiritual pride and this is one of seven that he listed, fault-finding.

He said, "Spiritual pride causes us to speak of other people's sins while humility disposes us either to be silent about them or to speak about them with grief."
* Do want to point sin out or am I grieve over it?
* I repent of pointing sin out when I have done the same.

“He said, "The spiritually proud person shows that in finding fault with other saints, "They're low in grace, how cold and dead they are, how quick to discern and to notice their deficiencies."

* I repent when I have had little grace.
* When I have has lack of wisdom of how to speak of others about sin.
* I have been quick to discern and make in my mind what I think. And not go to the word.
* I repent of not spending more time in prayer and reading Gods word.

“And we can do that and sound so pious, so spiritual. "People in my church, they're so cold; they're so dead." Is that a reflection of pride in our hearts?”

* What areas I am I cold and dead in my walk?
* I have judge, thinking others so dead and cold?
* Where do I need to grow?

He says, "Christian humility causes a person to take notice of everything that is good in others and make the best of it and to diminish their failings."

* What ways can I find the good in others?
* I repent of not pointing good out in others more.
* Change my heart to come a humble to always see good in others.

Pray at all times...

Day 11
“ Pride: Enemy of God”
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” James 4:6
Selfishness, carnal ambition, jeaousy, and envy all have their origin in the condition of our hearts
called pride. Pride keeps us from honestly confessing our sin before God and man, and often manifests itself in a stubborn insistence about our own way.”

“ Jesus clarifies that the origin of our sin comes from within: “ Out of the hearts of man come evil thoughts, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness.. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man” www.thedivineexperiment.com seeking him for 21 days

* May God help to be Honest with him and others
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Evil of Sin..

1 king 8:46:47
If they sin against you— for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near, 47yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'
Confession

Are you driven to receive approval, praise or acceptance from others?

*I repent of wanting people to approval at times.
*Who do I want to get the Glory?
* I repent of wanting people to praise me in my work. Forgetting whom gave the ability to do it?

Are you argumentative? You have to have the last word. Think about what it's been like in your home for the last day or two.

* I repent of being argumentative with family.
* My flesh wants to be right. I want to win.

You know Proverbs tell us that only by pride comes contention. So where does contention -- "Yes," you say, "my husband, he's a proud man, that's why we have so much contention in our home."

No, it takes more than a proud husband to have contention in a home. It's a proud husband and more often than not, a proud wife, too. Are you argumentative?

* Are we argumentative?

Do you generally think that your way is the right way, the only way or the best way?

* I repent of thinking I am right or have to be right.
* I am willing to be wrong when Gods word is brought into it
* I am humble with others when they say I wrong?

Do you have a touchy, sensitive spirit? Easily offended? Do you get your feelings hurt easily?

* which and when , and who?

This is another one of the evidences of spiritual pride that Jonathan Edwards talked about, people who take offense easily. He said, "Spiritual pride takes great notice of opposition and injuries that are received and is prone to be often speaking of them.

* Who are we hurt by?
* Have I forgiven?
* Do I lack forgiveness, and have bitterness?

"Humility, on the other hand, causes a person to be like his blessed Lord when reviled, quiet, not opening his mouth but committing himself in silence to Him who judges righteously."

How about this one? Are you guilty of pretense? Trying to leave a better impression of yourself than is honestly true? Here's a way to go about seeing if you have that one. Would the people who know you at church be shocked if they were to come and discover what you're like at home?

* Do I try to leave a better of view of me to others?
* I know in our wicked hearts we add or take things out to make it sound different
* Do I tell whole truth?
* Do I make things seem more or less?
* I repent of lying to my family and friend in not add all the facts at times.

Lets pray\t
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 1 Tim 2:1

Day 11
Let us see and understand God hates Sin.. Expose us Lord
Let us Confess
Are you proud? Do you think you are better then others? Do you think so little
all your sins, Do I think so little of my sins?

Another one, do you have a hard time admitting when you are wrong?
I don’t think so.
Do you have a hard time confessing your sin to God or others? not just in generalities.
I don’t think so.
We all say, "I need to be a better woman. I need to love the Lord more. I need to read my Bible more." But when it comes to the specific issues: I'm in love with food, I'm in love with television, I love entertainment more than I love God. I mean the specifics. Do you have a hard time confessing those?
* I repent of being shallow and weak with confess and lacking depth in my talks.
Do you have hard time sharing your real spiritual needs and struggles with others?
I don’ t think so. But I do with men like my brother or pastor or leader when I have
issue.
Are you excessively shy? You say, "shy," that's pride? Excessive shyness, what is it? Self-centeredness, what do other people think about me? That can be an evidence, a subtle form of pride.
I repent of being self- centered and caring about what people think about me.
Do you have a hard time reaching out and being friendly to people that you don't know at church? Do you stick to your own little group there, hard to reach out to new people? That can be pride.
*I repent of being self- centered and keeping to myself. And not reaching out as much as I should
"Do you become defensive when you are criticized or corrected? That anger that wells up, what is that? That's a fruit that grows on the root of pride. Why do we get angry when somebody criticizes us? We may not express it outwardly but inwardly because our pride gets hurt."
* I repent of being upset not wanting to be wrong.
* I confess that pride that loves that sin more then being wrong.
*I pray that By Gods grace he will restore our cold hearts to bring us to a deeper intimate love with God.
Eph. 5:2- "And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."
*Col 3:5 " Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthy nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry" " Be killing sin or it will be killing you" John Owen
* Pray we will acknowledge our great Need for God
"Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what it you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment." Ps 51...

We are empty..
*" Jesus emptied Himself of His divine prerogatives as eternal deity and became a servant so that God might be all" His life was one of absolute submission, trust, and dependence on the Father"
*"For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God," Rom 8:15-16
*"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded." James 4:8

*You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4
* Ask the Lord to show all that which we love that in the world. To Show were we have be friend the world
* LET us REPENT.. Of our love we may have for the world. What area do you struggle with? What areas do you enjoy? * Food? Movies? Dress? TV? Sleep? World thinking? *May we beware and Confess:
If by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live Rom 8:13
" beware of all sin in all of its manifesting, working and schemes. This is especially important since sin, by its very nature, is deceitful , causing believers to underestimate its extent and seriousness in their own lives"
2 Tim 2:2- Confession - where have the sin hidden? Hide not come step into the light, and let Christ and his word expose all
Lets pray....
"How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings" Ps 36:7 " I confess my iniquity I am sorry for my sins" Ps 38:18

Day 12
Gods Word

Consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly .Gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God,
and cry out to the LORD.

* Let us gather and fast to the Lord...

Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. Is not the food cut off
before our eyes, joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?

* May Pray that He would restore the Fear of God again in His people.
To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned
all the trees of the field. Even the beasts of the field pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.
The LORD utters his voice
before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great;
he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome;
who can endure it?
* May we Pray to long to hear the Voice of God.
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Return to the LORD
"Yet even now," declares the LORD,
"return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
and rend your hearts and not your garments."Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him a grain offering and a drink offering
for the LORD your God? \t\t

* When Have I wept? When have I fasted?
* When have I mourned?
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;
16gather the people. Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders; gather the children,
even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.
Between the vestibule and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?'"

* May we return with all our hearts... Let us gather it is time..

You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else.And my people shall never again be put to shame.
The LORD roars from Zion,
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth quake.But the LORD is a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel

*Let truly fear the Lord, He melt our hearts.

Day 13
Gods Word

Amos
“those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned”
* I repent of not caring for the poor as I should.

"You only have I known
of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities”

"For the Lord GOD does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.”

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness
that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks. And you shall go out through the breaches,
each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon,"
declares the LORD.
"Come to Bethel, and transgress;
to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days; offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them;
for so you love to do, O people of Israel

* May God forgive of works that are done out duty and not love

For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel:
"Seek me and live; but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal
or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
and Bethel shall come to nothing."
“ Seek the LORD and live,
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel”

* I repent of not seeking God with everything.
* May God help me to really seek him again
“Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you,
as you have said.15 Hate evil, and love good,
and establish justice in the gate;it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

* I repent of calling what is evil good.
* help me to see what is evil and good.
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord:
"In all the squares there shall be wailing,
and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!'They shall call the farmers to mourning
and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation, and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,
for I will pass through your midst,"

“O Lord GOD, please forgive!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!" The LORD relented concerning this:
"It shall not be," said the LORD.

* let not our eyes be dry..

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5Then I said,
"O Lord GOD, please cease!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"6 The LORD relented concerning this:"This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.”\t

Day 14
Gods word
Jonah
“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me;all your waves and your billows
passed over me. Then I said, 'I am driven away
from your sight; yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.' The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head
6at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O LORD my God.7When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple. Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love. But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the LORD!"

* Does God bring distress that we might call to him?
* What things have I ran from God from?
* What ways I am running From God?

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish."

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"\t\t

* Do I care more for my comfort then lost souls?