Week #1 – Authentic Experiences

Invocation
Eternal God, You have been the hope and joy of many generations, and who in all ages has given men the power to seek You and in seeking to find You, grant me, I pray You, a clearer vision of Your truth, a greater faith in Your power, and a more confident assurance of Your love. Amen.
-John Baillie in A Diary of Private Prayer-

Read Psalm 46

Daily Scripture
Monday 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Tuesday Genesis 32:22-31
Wednesday Philippians 3:7-12
Thursday John 4:1-26
Friday 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Saturday Jeremiah 17:5-10
Sunday Job 42:1-6

Selections for Meditation

Personal Meditation

Prayer
Let your praying this week be for a true sense of being heard. Do not particularly pray for feeling or for specific answers. Rather pray for the quiet confidence that you are in conversation with your Heavenly Father.

Hymn “I Know Whom I Have Believed”
by D. W. Whittle

I know not why God’s wondrous grace
To me He hath made known;
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for His own.

I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart,
Nor how believing in His Word
Wrought peace within my heart.

I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I’ll walk the vale with Him,
Or meet Him in the air.

But I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that He is able
To keep that which I’ve committed
Unto Him against that day.

Benediction
Heavenly Father: Let me see Your glory, if it must be from the shelter of the cleft of the rock and from beneath the protection of Your covering hand, whatever the cost to me in loss of friends or goods or length of days, let me know You as You are, that I may adore You as I should. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
-A.W. Tozer in The Knowledge of the Holy-