Nov 13-15

Hello everybody

Ok here we go...

One of the many ways in which we can commune with the Holy Spirit throughout the day is by speaking Gods word over our lives. Jesus, in John 16, tells us that the Holy Spirit is our Helper who will guide us into all truth. Truth only comes from God. God placed this truth into His Word. Jesus is the living Word of God. What I'm trying to get at here is that when we dial down and speak to the Holy Spirit by quoting biblical phrases over ourselves He will then be empowered to help these statements become true over our lives and He (the HS) will help us become more like Jesus. (Jn 17:17)
For example:
Someone could be having problems with where they are looking and they could be giving themselves over to the lusts of the flesh by allowing their eyes to run this way and that. The Bible clearly states that this is not a good thing. (Matt 6:22,23)
So in order to deal with this problem that person could address the Holy Spirit in any given moment through their day (many times repeatedly) and they could pray "Lord I wish to have 'doves eyes.'" (SOS 1:5) When a dove looks somewhere they can only see straight forward meaning if someone had doves eyes set on Christ they would only see Him and would be fixed on Him.
Or the person could pray "Holy Spirit help me to keep my eyes in check so that I do not turn to a wicked way" - (Proverbs 4:25-27)

These little prayers that we address to the Lord seriously help a lot! Not only do they keep us communing with the Holy Spirit throughout our day they actually help us keep ourselves in check and God will actually move on our hearts and He will lead us into victory!
So I'd like to challenge anyone who's fasting this week or whoever has read this, to find some great prayer language and focus on an area that you struggle in and seek the Lord this week with prayer and fasting and rending your heart! (Joel 2:12,13)
I'm personally going to hit Song of Songs and focus on the example of 'doves eyes' for this week. Asking the Lord to continually sustain me and refresh me (SOS 2:5). That I will walk out of my hardships fully dependant on Him being victorious (SOS 8:5)!!
-Drew