A couple of days before the new year of 2024, I heard these words, “Press in, ask for more in 2024, we will need and meet Him like never before.”
The two words that were highlighted by the Holy Spirit were need and meet.
So, as we begin the year let’s learn what the Lord wants to teach us as we begin another year.
As I positioned myself to listen, I asked what do we need Lord?
The next day I opened up a new devotional that I started on January 1st. In the introduction was this paragraph:
“Everything about you was made for God. You were created to need His presence. The true longing of your heart is to know Him, for you were formed in His image. (Genesis 1: 26-27). Prayer is expressing this soul-thirst for God. We come alive when we come before our True Source. The human spirit is empowered by prayer. Absolutely nothing compares to being with Him!” Dr. Brian Simmons, “Prayers on Fire.”
The Lord answered my prayer: We need His presence.
That’s what we were created for. We need this every year, every day actually of our lives, but 2024 was the year that we will need His presence.
My next question was, “What happens when we press in through prayer as we recognize that we need His presence?”
My answer this time came quicker, “We meet Him.”
Yep, we meet Him as we encounter His presence. Yet, this year He was saying, “We will meet Him like never before.”
I am not talking about meeting the Lord in the sky like it says in, 1 Thessalonians 4: 17, indicating rapture. What I believe the Lord is saying we will meet Him in our prayer meetings, conferences, and in our personal time with Him.
He is longing to come so very near that we will meet Him as we press in for Him.
If we have a pure desire to meet the Lord and encounter Him afresh and anew, He will meet us there. Meetings won’t be like the old meetings. New direction, new fervency, and new vision will be given with blueprints that will catapult us to a new level in our service to the Lord.
Don’t be satisfied with the old; desire, want, and press in to meet Him like we’ve never met Him before.
There is more for us!
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