#Obedience,#Obey,#Peace,#Hear From the Lord

Once can not afford to get so busy that you start to do things on your on, on schedule.  When we get too busy, we start making schedules, pre-emptying out time, until the Lord no longer has a place in our lives.  A person can get too busy 'doing the Lords work', until things become routine.
The Church can not afford to be too busy until it can not hear from the Lord.

It takes time to seek the Lord. It is not something that can be done at the drop of a hat.  To enter into the presence of the Lord and fellowship with Him takes time.  The Bible says the Lords ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts.  They use to sing a song that says, 'you can't hurry God, no no no no, you have to wait'.  The same still holds true today.

In II Chronicles 7:14, the word says, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face...."  We can stop right there.   First He said if 'my people'.  Not just anybody, but His people.  Then He said His people have to humble themselves.  It takes something to be humble and stay humble.  For the Bible says pride goeth  before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.  Pride and prayer do not go together.

Then He said His people should pray and seek His face.  That takes work.  Getting rid of thoughts, bringing the mind in to focus on the Lord, blocking out those around you and entering into the prayer closet.  Praise God.  No better place to be than in the presence of the Lord.  Many times loud gets confused with prayer. Just because someone is loud and saying a lot of words does not mean they are praying.  There is a place in prayer where what is in the heart is what is said with the mouth that brings true fellowship in the Spirit.  If the heart is not clean, the words spoke will not be real.  A clean heart brings forth pure words that get the attention of the Lord.  That takes work.  Like the old Saints use to say, 'pray until you feel something you can hold on to'.

In order to know the will of the Lord, to know what the Lord is calling for, His people have to pray. Don't forget to take time to meet with the Lord in prayer, daily.

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