FRESH VISITATIONS OF GOD
The Lord appeared to (Solomon) a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. The Lord said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me.”
1 Kings 9:2-3
No matter what level of spiritual maturity we are on, we need renewed appearances, fresh manifestations, new visitations from on high. While it is right to thank God for the past and look back with joy to His visits to you in your early days as a believer, I encourage you to seek God for special visitations of His presence. I do not mean to minimize our daily walk in the light of His countenance, but consider that though the ocean has its high tides twice every day, yet it also has its spring tides. The sun shines whether we see it or not, even through our winter’s fog, and yet it has its summer brightness. If we walk with God constantly, there are special seasons when He opens the very secret of His heart to us and manifests Himself to us—not only as He does not to the world but also as He does not at all times to His own favored ones. Not every day in a palace is a banqueting day, and not all days with God are so clear and glorious as certain special Sabbaths of the soul in which the Lord unveils His glory. Happy are we if we have once beheld His face, but happier still if He comes to us again in the fullness of favor.
I commend you to be seeking God’s second appearances. We should be crying to God most pleadingly that He would speak to us a second time. We do not need to be converted again, but we do need the windows of heaven to be opened again and again over our heads. We need the Holy Spirit to be given again as at Pentecost and that we should renew our youth like the eagles, to run without weariness and walk without fainting. What the Lord spoke to Solomon concerned his prayer. And as the Lord answered Solomon’s prayer in this second appearance, we may be sure that there was much about the prayer that makes it a model for us. We shall do well to pray after the manner that successful intercessors have set.
Holy Spirit, I need You every morning to renew my strength and soul. Visit me now, I pray. Amen.
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