Doors to the Sea: Prayer: Allurement

Monday, August 6, 2007

Prayer: Allurement

Prayer is perfect and complete oneness with Me. . .be filled with the Spirit.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

I will allure you and bring you to the wilderness and speak tenderly to you and make the Valley of Trouble a Door of Hope. I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will take you for my wife in faithfulness and you shall know the Lord.

Thank You, O God, for being the Shepherd of the lost sheep; for leaving the 99 and going after the one who has gone astray. Thank You for not only searching, but for finding and carrying the poor lost lamb back to the fold with great rejoicing. I rest gently in Your loving arms and listen to your heart beat, knowing that it beats with great love for me.

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Welcome to Doors to the Sea

The title, Doors to the Sea, comes from Job 38.8-11: Or Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? -- when I made the clouds its garment and the thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'? These verses record part of God's response to Job's questions regarding his confusing circumstances. God is much more grand than we imagine -- the bounding and pounding surf of the sea abruptly halts at the command of God! Living on the Oregon Coast it is a constant reminder that God is not unaware of our circumstance -- we are to simply come to the One who created the Doors to the Sea and lay out our requests and praises. We may not get an immediate answer; but we can be assured that God knows our situation and has established parameters on our circumstance: Thus far shall you come, and no farther! God is faithful and will see us through. Each day's prayer is based upon quiet time readings taken from three different Old Testament chapters and one New Testament chapter. Key verses are highlighted and then a prayer is crafted from the thoughts expressed in the verses. Amazingly, each day's prayer speaks directly to the author's circumstances. We pray you will be blessed as you share this journey of prayerful contemplation.