Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever

As a church we're at the beginning of our 21 day fast and I am loving experiencing the manifest presence of God at a deeper level together.

There are so many ways I've prepared for this fast, in a lot of ways I've prepared better than I ever have. I read books on fasting, I bought all I would need for the next three weeks beforehand so I won't have to walk into a store, I mentally prepared and began drinking a whole lot of water early on all to get me to this moment of spiritual preparation.

There has been a holy expectation stirring inside of me, an intense desire to know God more and see His kingdom come on the earth but I don't think I've even begun to fathom what God wants to do as we meet and make room for Him.

As that's begun to stir in me and as I've been praying over our six prayer points as a church and over my specific prayer points, I was reminded by one of my devos this morning of what it's all about: Psalm 100, enjoying the presence of God.

Have you ever heard of Westminster's Catechism? Several older, wiser men of God got together several decades ago to biblically search out the answers to some of our most basic but hardest questions. One of them being "what is the chief end of man?" aka why do we exist? Their answer? TO GLORIFY GOD and ENJOY HIM FOREVER.

This truth keeps surfacing in my heart and mind and today that's all I want to focus on; glorifying God and enjoying Him as I'm setting aside so many other things. I truly believe that's what He wants most, everything else will fall into place from there... All of the things that are heavy on my heart, all of the things we want to see happen as a church and individually... It all begins and ends with Him. So why not take today and simply enjoy Him?

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