Always Seeking Deeper

   Awhile ago, at our CEC women's retreat, I shared about Drawing Near to the Tender Heart and Hand of God.  This blog entry is especially for the women who shared a cabin porch with me at those times, but also for those men and women who, like them, are seeking a continually deeper relationship with Adonai (Abba, Yeshua, and Ruach Hakodesh).
 
More Scriptures on which to meditate:
   Isaiah 26:9   "Cause my soul to yearn for you in the night and to long for you in the morning."
   Isaiah 45:3. "I will give you treasures hoarded in the dark, secret riches hidden away, so that you will know that I, ADONAI, calling you by your name, am the God of Israel."
   John 17:3. "And eternal life is this:  to know You, the one true God, and him, whom You sent, Yeshua the Messiah."
   Colossians 3:1-2: "So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above,
where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God. Focus your minds on the things above, not on things here on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God." {Ask Him to show you pictures of all the ways you are hidden in Him, including in the light of His being}
   Colossians 3:10. "...[because you have] put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in fuller and fuller knowledge, closer and closer to the image of its Creator."
 
We can gain both wisdom and purity, practical sense and innocence (Matthew 10), daily direction and long-term vision, just by spending time with Him.  We don't dwell in an ethereal realm, but in an earthly one, where our jobs, relationships, and survival depend on wise, 'practical' actions. However, when we connect with our wise Father, spending significant chunks of time with Him each day in the realm of His Kingdom, we absorb His Personality, including His wise and discerning nature, as well
as His compassionate heart.  We become not naive, but innocent; not cynical but discerning.  We
walk in His Kingdom while we're walking on the earth, taking steps that bear fruit in people's earthly lives as well as their eternal ones.
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The Hebrew word Shama means "listening with undivided attention."  Do it. 😊
See if He sends you on a 'word' treasure hunt through His Love Letters, after You lose Yourself in Him for awhile.

Some were asking for more worship songs....Here are a few that foster sweet intimacy and draw you up to Heaven. Please add your favorites in the Comments section at the end of this blog entry, and remember to 'sing Him a new song' of your own.

• Roy Fields:   Less of Me, Fill This Place, Majesty, In the Presence  of Angels
• Fernando Ortega:  Come Down, O Love Divine;  Give Me Jesus.....any of his
• ***Julie True:   Let My Life Be Worship, Father's Heart; Angels, We Invite You; Healing in Your Presence; and any others
• Michael W. Smith:  Take Me Over, Deep in Love With You, Son of God, Agnus Dei...
• Kari Jobe: Beloved, Beautiful; The More I Seek You; Here.....more, more, more
• Kirk Dearman: All Creation Worships You...
• Chris Rice   Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus)...
• Selah:  Depth of Mercy; Draw Me, Lord; ....