I am so grateful for the wonderful evening we had last night and for the way that God, through the prayers of His people, met individuals. I am so lucky to be able to host such a thing, to share food, friendship and the Love of God to people who come.
Yesterday I was reading Psalm 68 and it kept getting richer and richer for me in meaning.
Starting with a call to sing to God and extol Him who rides upon the clouds, and moving into what He does, I believe, in response to that praise:
He sets the solitary in families.
He marches through our wildernesses- those places in life where we keep feeling like we haven't yet arrived, those unsettled times.
And He shakes Sinai itself when His presence comes. I remembered mount Sinai, and mountains, it struck me, can be those seemingly insurmountable obstacles that block our progress.
And He sends His rains- "You, O God, sent a plentiful rain .... " Rains of refreshing, rains of His Holy Spirit.
Also, repeatedly in this psalm is His promise to give His people strength.
V.28 says, "Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, O God, what you have done for us.
V.32 says to "Ascribe strength to God. HIs excellence is over Israel and His strength is in the clouds.
And as we do so, as we join in the Psalm and declare , "O God You are more awesome..! and tell HIm of His goodness, then He releases HIs rains, His strength back to us, His freedom, and a deeper understanding of His love and acceptance for us.
Plus it has one of my favorite verse:
v. 5 "He is a father to the fatherless, and defender to the widows."
I say all this to say that that is pretty much what He did last night. As we entered into wholehearted worship, we began to feel HIs presence. And it all flowed from that point. I'm so grateful to provide a place where this can take place. And for the God who does it all.
