"Yahweh Shammah" (Ezekiel 48:35), The LORD (I AM) is there (with us, present). You must want us to be aware of this truth, this reality that is beyond our comprehension, for You keep reinforcing it. "Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I say of the LORD, 'He alone is my refuge, my place of safety'" (Psalm 91:1-2, NLT). From Your shelter...  Read More

Lord, You have been our dwelling place through every generation (Psalm 90:1). You are our dwelling place, our sanctuary, our tabernacle now. You are at the core of our being and its circumference, within us and surrounding us. Yes! From everlasting to everlasting, You and You only are God! Forgive us when, way too often, we take Your presence for granted. Worse yet, forgive us when we simply forge...  Read More

As Your glory departed the temple (Ezekiel 10:18-19), so You promised it would return (Ezekiel 43:1-2). Father, I fear Your glory may depart our wayward nation and so I pray that You would save us. Would You show us Your glory that we may truly learn to fear You and walk in Your way. Would You revive us again that we may tell every generation of Your faithfulness and sing of Your great love foreve...  Read More

"Hello darkness my old friend..." in 'the Sounds of Silence' (Simon and Garfunkel) is not original, I see. For, the Psalmist said: "...darkness is my closest friend" (Psalm 88:18b, NIV). So, Father, this is my prayer for the one who is overwhelmed and depressed, who feels abandoned and all alone: be their present Help, abundantly available to them. Surround them unmistakably with Your mighty, tend...  Read More

Father, today in my devotional reading, I was asked a question: Why? Here is the statement that led to the question: God in His triune nature [the Holy Trinity is in perfect community and communion] has never been lonely, yet He created us for relationship with Him. Why? Clearly, even in our reading through Ezekiel and the Psalms, You desire a relationship with the beings You created in Your image...  Read More

Teach me your way, LORD,    that I may rely on your faithfulness;give me an undivided heart,    that I may fear your name.I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;    I will glorify your name forever.For great is your love toward me;    you have delivered me from the depths,    from the realm of the dead. (Psalm 86:11-13, NIV)I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will...  Read More