The Gaze of the Soul

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Chapter 7 Prayer
Scripture Reference Hebrews 12:2

O Lord, I have heard a good word inviting me to look away to You and be satisfied. My heart longs to respond, but sin has clouded my vision till I see You but dimly. Be pleased to cleanse me in Your own precious blood, and make me inwardly pure, so that I may with unveiled eyes gaze upon You all the days of my earthly pilgrimage. Then shall I be prepared to behold You in full splendor in the day when You shall appear to be glorified in Your saints and admired in all them that believe.

Amen

Ch ch ch changes

Did some messing around; let me know what you think!

Don't feel sorry for me

When I was first diagnosed with hypoglycemia and was telling people I got a lot of "Oh your poor thing." when I mentioned that I can no longer have sugar or processed foods. For all of you who might feel that way I want to say; no need. I am not feeling the least bit deprived. Just look at the pictures of some of the food I am enjoying.


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The Speaking Voice

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
Chapter 6
Scripture Reference John 1:1

Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he said to You, "Speak, for your servant hears." Let me hear You speaking in my heart. Let me get used to the sound of Your voice, that it's tones may be familiar when the sounds of earth die away and the only sound will be the music of Your speaking voice.

Amen

Week Six

I am in the 6th week on the Glycemic Index Diet and things are going well. 26 lbs lost so far and my energy level has doubled and pain has continued to get better. Pain level is down about 65 percent.
Thank the Lord God Almighty for bringing me to this place! He is good, all the time He is good.

The Universal Presence

The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer Chapeter 5

Scripture Reference Psalm 139:7

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. You have been there and I knew it not. I have been blind to Your presence. Open my eyes that I may behold You in and around me.
For Christ's sake,
Amen

Apprehending God

The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer Chapter 4

Scripture Reference; Psalm 34:8

O God, quicken to life every power within me, that I may lay hold on eternal things. Open my eyes that I may see; give me acute spiritual perception; enable me to taste You and know that You are good. Make heaven more real to me than any earthly thing has ever been.
Amen

Sorry

Sorry about slipping that name change in on you without warning. I have been reading some blogging advice and figured my name needed to match the address better.

Removing the Veil

The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer Chapter 3

Scripture Reference; Hebrews 10:19

Lord, how excellent are Your ways, and how devious and dark are the ways of man. Show us how to die, that we may rise again to newness of life. Rend the veil of our self-life from the top down as You did rend the veil of the Temple. We would draw near in full assurance of faith. We would dwell with You in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter Your heaven and dwell with You there.
In Jesus' name,
Amen

The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing

Chapter Two; The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer


Scripture Reference,; Matthew 5:3

Father, I want to know You, but my cowardly heart fears to give up it's toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from You the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart all those things which I have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that You may enter and dwell there without a rival. Then will You make the place of Your feet glorious. Then will my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it it, for You Yourself will be the light of it, and there will be no night there.
In Jesus' name,
Amen.

Following Hard After God

OK Here it is; the only change I have made is to pronouns etc. where Tozer uses King James English. I changed to modern, all else it unchanged and in it's entirety.


The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer, Chapter One Prayer

Scripture Reference; Psalm 63:8

O God, I have tasted Your goodness and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God,the Triune God, I want to want You; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Your glory, I pray You, so that I may know You indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up my love, my fair one and come away" Then give me grace to rise and follow You up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
In Jesus' name
Amen.

No, I have not forgotten

I know I said I would be posting prayers from The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer. I still plan to, however I got distracted and didn't get around to it and now it has been absconded by my beautiful daughter . Therefore when I find it again I will begin posting as I said I would.
In the meantime, I thoughts are pinging around in my head so haphazardly that I find it difficult to and put them to blog.
I know I should write more, I intend to write about 100 more than I actually do.
Hang in there with me and I will get better; especially if you all pray for me to get more focused.

The Whole Time

I have this little book on my shelf with the "gonna read someday" books because a few people have mentioned it something good to read. The book isThe Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer and I finally started reading when my daughter needed it to study in her prayer group I must say that those people who said it was good to read were wrong; rather this book should be on the "imperative you read" list for every Christian.

If you have never read it don't delay, find a copy immediately and do start reading. It won't take long it is only 118 page of fairly large print.

Mr. Tozer places a prayer at the end of each chapter and over the coming days I will post one a day. They are deeply rooted in a passion to know God and I have been moved to the core of my being by them. A.W. Tozer puts my thoughts and feelings about what being a Christian means to me in such eloquent terms I am amazed. This man could not know me, for I was not even born when he wrote this book. Yet it is as though he plucked the words right out of my heart.

Out of the Depths

I was reading this a few days ago and it has been coming back to me over and over since.
Today something happened that gave me and my daughter an opportunity to apply this directly to a situation without even realizing it. God's Word is so amazing! We so often look at a situation and think "God is punishing me" But no, how can He punish us for something He has forgiven, even forgotten? If we allow ourselves to remember that forgiveness and just wait on Him; He will redeem us, He will show us His mercy.
Thank you God!

You'll laugh so hard you'll...

This how my morning went; I called my son last night and asked him to walk over so he could go with me to go to the grocery store today. He agreed and in turn I said I would take him to sell some of his Compact Discs. So he came over and we had some coffee and then we set out. We went to the grocery store first, a little discount place called ALDI where you pack up your own groceries. As we finished up I thought to myself "maybe I should go to the bathroom" decided against it and went to the car. We loaded the groceries and took off for the the CD store which is close to the health food store. I told my son I would be at the health food store and to come on when he was done. I stepped out the car and felt an all too familiar feeling. Gritting my teeth in determination I carried on.
I entered the store and began looking for the things I needed which required filling little bags with spices etc. and finding the bin number and marking the bags, tedious work. Moments after my task began my determination failed and a steady warmth began to work it's way between my legs.
After several minutes of trying to pretend all was well my son arrived chatty as usual, and asking tons of questions. I was short and vague with him and he asked me what was wrong. I just said "stop bothering me" and went on with my tasks. Finally I finished and we left and went back to my house. He carried stuff in for me and I went and washed up and changed. When he finished with the groceries I called him over to me and said. The reason I was acting the way I was in the health food store is that I was peeing on myself.
Glad I could make you laugh!

Amazing cure

for writer's block! I wish; cause that is why I have been absent for awhile. I just can't seem to get anything to flow from these fingertips!

I am still healing well; I can now lift a gallon of milk with my right hand and it doesn't hurt any more on than it does to lift it with my left. I am so looking forward to having the left one done!

I am still managing the new diet well. It has been three weeks since I got the news that I am hypoglycemic (pre-diabetic) and in a couple of days it will have been as long that I have been on the diet. I am still feeling better, though I had a bout with a virus a week or so ago and felt pretty yucky a couple of days.

My biggest struggle right now is trying not to do too much. I need to have little notes stuck all over the house that say you can really only do half of what you think you can. This was a rule I learned in Fibromyalgia Self help course several years ago. Although maybe learned is a misstatement, more like was told and wrote down.
Guess I'll make that it for now. Back soon, I hope.

Free car!

Not really, just wanted to get your attention. I do have exciting news though.
I went to the MD today and I have lost 13.4 pounds in less than 2 weeks!!
Hallelujah!