Thank you for joining us on the blog, designed to give everyone at Northview access to experiencing Northview40 together. We invite you to email us at Northview40@gmail.com and share your experiences throughout the 40 days. Your comments will be posted here as well as each day's prayer topic, corresponding Bible verses, and a suggestion each week for how we can fast together during this time. Your involvement will help make Northview40 a rich experience for all.
We hope that you will be encouraged to take your own steps toward a deeper connection with God, your goal being intimacy with Him, not just a "perfect prayer life" for several weeks. A wise woman has said, "No one of us would say we don't need God. But how much of what we do is done without Him?" Let's invest a few minutes each day to pray and a few more minutes once a week to fast, taking a risk to need Him and watching to see what He will do.
3. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;
ReplyDeleteI will sing of you among the peoples.
4. For great is your love, higher than the heavens, your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psalm 108,3-4
It is so easy to get stuck in the rut of simply asking God to do stuff for us, and forget that He is a God that is worthy of our deepest affections.
ReplyDeleteI like when He hugs me every day, and love His peace!
ReplyDeleteI think of Jesus’ friendship with Lazarus.
ReplyDeleteI think of him as he retreated from the multitudes after a long period of ministry.
I think of him as he enjoyed time in the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus.
And I think of Jesus taking the little children into his arms and blessing them.
I think of his obedience to his mother, even as a grown man, when he turned water into wine at the wedding feast.
I think of Jesus’ love and care for the scorned, the unlovely, the poor. I think of his compassion for the woman caught in adultery or his honoring the widow who had only two mites to give...
David Wilkerson