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Well, she touched me,......YEAH, but you touched me too!' After about a minute, then my mother would say while never taking her eyes off the road, "I will touch you here in about a minute."
AH yes, silence would then rule from the whole entire car! MOM had put her foot down from the front seat. And no one was to touch another person. You could not even get close enough to do it accidentally on purpose.
I remember being at church, and someone asking God to touch them. "OH God, I really need YOU to touch my finances. Yet I thought, " if you asked them if they tithed", you might get a puzzled look from them. Then you might have someone ask God to touch them in their body, but they have not spend much time seeking the HEALER!
Of course the passage I am thinking of right now is from Genesis. Genesis 32:22-32 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two females servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
Now crossing at Jabbok, meant he was crossing in emptiness.
23 He took them, sent them over the brook and sent over what he had. 24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.
Now most certainly Jacob probably thought this to be Esau. But the Man was not hairy like Esau.
Let alone Jacob most likely turned to prayer to God.
25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as he wrestled with him.
When asking God to touch anything we might need help on, means God is coming to do it His WAY and not our way......you know like microwave the situation, zap in few seconds, and we are rich! No truly God has His word for our lives and in it is the treasure of all heaven behind it.
Ego is foremost flaw that has to go from our lives.
Jacob had to meet Esau without any pretentious nature. So without ego, without that 'flash in the pan' thing, being sincere would have been the main focus of Jacob to take to his brother. And within this meeting with Esau, Jacob would need God and not his own personality or character to garner some points with the betrayed brother.
This was given to us from Psalm 139:23-24. Verse 23: Search me, O God and know my heart; try me and know my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Jacob would have had some great anxieties when meeting with his brother. Would Esau come to kill him? He mentioned when Jacob had betrayed him for the blessing from his father Isaac, that Esau threatened to take him out. So Jacob would have some enormous amount of anxiety going on within his body and his thinking.
But he came with all he had and come to make peace with Esau. Still God showed up. Whatever Jacob had prayed God came. For within our passion must burn a passion for God and His way. His truth keeps us, and prevails when we learn to keep our mouth shut in anything negative against His way and His doing.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Sometimes, we worry over silly things. We become anxious about the mundane or even stupid. But God tells us to call aloud, To get His attention, we should cry, and also be willing to change our attitude to how God wants it done. He desires to come to show and shine His light in the dark places of our thinking and to reveal what needs to be removed from us.
In revealing "those mighty things" means God will reveal to that which has been inaccessible for us. In this God will answer and astound us in the most profound ways.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. It is always in the present tense. We are to always be asking, We are to always be seeking and when we knock we are to be serious about it. For if I truly mean to knock, then I mean I want the time to go over of what I am asking and the desire to receive it is always within that teaching
It is by His love we come to His family. By His love we are the "touched". In and by His love, we are empowered to love ourselves and our neighbors. Drawing near to the Father, helps us to trust. Drawing near in devotion is a matter of us choosing the right path to walk. In an intimate time with God and through that relationship we gain oh, so much more of Him. We gain more of His love, and live by it. In that warmth of life we turn from the empty and the mundane to live a life worthy of living. By entering in, the determined will see their personal goal unhindered and that is to seek Him in humility by staying out of the quick expected answers for the more revealed truths that we need to being established in Him and received that which was so inaccessible from the attitude of "I want it now"...when it is available because His Son died for us. In keeping that point so clear, we are reminded of His goodness, acknowledging worry is sin and that our trust is now in Him.
Touch us Father, and may we be reminded of the great price that was given for us to be called YOUR children. Amen!
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