“You need to be patient. Allow My plans to unfold. I am at work, no matter how things may look to you. As you wait for Me to complete what I am doing in you and those around you, I desire to be with you. Determine in your heart that Our time will not be about things, needs, and wants. Let’s minister one to another. Let’s simply be together because it is wonderful to do so. Our intimacy is why I have created you. Do not waste a moment of it.”

Psalm 37:4 NIV

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 46:10 NIV 

“Be still, and know that I am God...”

Psalm 150:1-6 AMP 

1) Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the heavens of His power!

2) Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness!

3) Praise Him with trumpet sound; praise Him with lute and harp!

4) Praise Him with tambourine and [single or group] dance; praise Him with stringed and wind instruments or flutes!

5) Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with loud clashing cymbals!

6) Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Going to our Lord, laundry list in hand, becomes old quite quickly. Spending intimate time with Him is the reason we have been created. We are formed to be in His presence. Adam and Eve closed the door with their sin. Jesus made the way at the cross.

It fascinates me to observe how little I really use the most incredible opportunity presented to me and to everyone who has surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus. We have been invited to spend unlimited time in the presence of our Father in Heaven, simply because He loves us. How often do we misuse or abuse that privilege?

Forgive me, Lord,

Jim Corbett