Old Treasures on Tuesdays đź‘‘
“Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days” (Ps. 90:14, NIV).
I woke up this morning with this verse bubbling up in my spirit. Lately, the Lord has been emphasizing to me His desire for the first fruits of my attention as my day begins. He wants to begin communing with me as soon as I wake up, but He needs my cooperation. He has been challenging my tendency to immediately look at my various and sundry smartphone notifications – and to instead lie there for a lingering moment, tuning into Him.
So I did that this morning, resisting the cell phone summons and instead heeding His. Holy Spirit flowed through my inner being with these beautiful words penned by Moses.
“Satisfy us.” Personalize that. “Satisfy me, Lord.” My phone is not going to profoundly, luxuriantly satisfy me to my very core, but His presence will. In fact, His presence is the only thing that is going to provide rich satisfaction for the day that lies ahead of me.
“In the morning.” Before you and I even open our eyes upon waking, we can reach out for Him in spirit. With countless other voices clamoring for our attention at the beginning of the day, this requires discipline. Will we choose His voice over the others?
“With your unfailing love.” His love for us never, ever, ever fails. Never wavers, never fades, never falters, never withers. Never grows tired of our struggles, never wearies of cherishing us. He’s inviting us, before we rush into our routine, to linger and drink deeply of this love.
“That we may sing for joy.” Once His love gets into the very fiber of our inner being, it naturally, spontaneously produces joy. Who, deeply experiencing her belovedness, wouldn’t have a song on her heart?
“And be glad all our days.” Beginning the morning with a soak in Daddy’s love will invigorate our souls with gladness for the entire stretch of the day before us. And we can do so all of our days! We can perpetually live this way!
What a marvelous opportunity we have, to start out the next twenty-four hours fueling up with His indescribably satisfying presence. Will you linger for a moment and marinate in His matchless love?
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Do you have a favorite verse to start your morning with?
Feeding On Jesus 
A beautiful verse reminding us of the joy and satisfaction that comes with seeking Him the first thing as we awake.
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Yes! I pray this verse almost every morning, it means so much to me 🙂
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Thanks for this post. It is so important to start the day immersed in God’s Word. It helps to center us on God and His ways.
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You are welcome, CG. May He draw us ever closer to His heart at the start of each day and throughout! Thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙂
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I love the time just before fully waking, when I’m still snuggled in bed, to pray to God, thanking Him for another day, and asking for guidance on what He’d have me do for this new day. It is a great way to wake up, and I’ve received some of my ideas for future posts in these moments.
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I am so glad that you can relate to this, Cindi! They really can become some of the best moments of the day, can’t they? I love that you get some of your creative inspiration then. Beautiful!
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Hugs and kisses to you!
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Gratefully received (albeit a bit belatedly. We just finished hosting a missions team, catching up on here now!)
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Thank you for this beautiful reminder. Hugs and Blessings!
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Gratefully received! Thank you Faye 🙂
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Beautifully written. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you so much, Trishikh! Rich blessings to you (We just finished hosting a missions team, catching up on here now!)
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Just yesterday I felt the Holy Spirit encourage me to sing “Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place”. I was at home during prayer time, and I just sang and felt God’s presence. Thank you for this beautiful post, reminding us to seek Him each morning.
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It brought joy to my spirit to read of your special time with Him, Janet! Thank you so much for sharing that, it sounds truly beautiful. (We just finished hosting a missions team, catching up on here now!)
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Ah yes, resisting the cell phone summons… Not easy for someone as distractable as yours truly. Even just getting ready for my morning prayer walk, I’ll take a “quick look” at the weather to determine what to wear… Forty minutes, five text messages, three news articles, and five emails later, I still don’t know what to wear …
I’m so grateful for God’s grace. Once I’m walking – with no cell phone – He welcomes me into His presence and blesses me, and I wonder why I take so long to get there.
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Smiling lovingly. BOY do I relate! I finally ended up starting a separate email address to receive the devo emails that I subscribe to, because it was too hard not to. get distracted when they came to my general email. But the phone in general is such a challenge to not be mastered by! Thank You Jesus for your abundant grace upon grace!
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