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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

God searches the heart and understands every motive. To be acceptable to Him, our motives must spring from a love for Him and a desire to glorify Him. Obedience to God performed from a legalistic motive – that is a fear of the consequences or to gain favor with God – is not pleasing to God.
Jerry Bridges

Prayer can no more be divorced from worship than life can be divorced from breathing. If we follow his impulse, the Holy Spirit will always lead us to pray. When we allow him to work freely, he will always bring the Church to extensive praying. Conversely, when the Spirit is absent, we will find excuses not to pray. We may say, “God understands. He knows I love him. But I’m tired. I’m so busy. It’s just not convenient now…” When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
Robert Kendall

“The Ever”

I didn’t know these things that I could do
I didn’t know how much I could lose
Why did I forget so easily
Why couldn’t I see I had everything

But you saw more
You saw my deepest part
With the light of a thousand stars
You saw them, awake in me
And through your eyes
You showed me everything
You woke me up inside
Brought back to life
I lost myself
But now I breathe again

Like a poet without pain
Like a beauty without rage
Like an innocence without a life to save
Like a hope without a slave
Like your eyes without a face
Like an instinct with no other life to take

It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage

But you saw more
You saw my deepest part
With the light of a thousand stars
You saw them, awake in me
And through your eyes
You showed me everything
You woke me up inside
I’m back to life, I lost myself
But now I breathe again

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“The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7). The supreme Creator of heaven and earth did two things in creating man. First, He formed him from the very dust of the ground, and, second, He breathed His own breath into the nostrils of Adam. This distinguished man from all of God’s other creatures.