A Simple Plan
me in the Prayer Room during a 10 am set
This morning I woke up from an anxious dream, and the first thing that popped into my head was this refrain from a song I heard recently in the Prayer Room:
Let this truth sink (grow) deep inside of me
I was made for You
And You delight in me
And we will be together forever
It resounded through my brain incessantly as I got ready for my day. While I was eating breakfast. Doing my make-up. Packing my lunch. Finally, I decided that it must be pretty important, haha. As I considered it further during my first few minutes in the prayer room, I realized that it was just what I had asked the Lord for: direction for meditation.
When you spend six to eight hours a day sitting in one room, you get bored regardless of what’s going on. When you add to that intensity the fact that what is going on in that room is coming out of your own focused attention…you realize (a) that you have nothing to offer in and of yourself–you run out of ‘you’ a lot faster than you think you will and (b) if you keep focusing anyway, God delights in your desire.
But, what exactly do you do?
You think thoughts in the direction of God, addressed to Him so-to-speak. You sing songs other people thought of. You sing Scripture verses other people wrote. You sit and listen. You copy Scripture down in your natural handwriting. Then you write it again in your ‘cool’ handwriting. You dance a little so you don’t get stiff. Then you pace up and down reading your Scripture again and again and again…
God loves this! It’s so weak! It’s so opens up your soul and spirit to truth–which is weird, but true: I have done it.
It’s comforting to have a plan going in, to keep your mind focused. That’s why I just love that the Lord gave me that song: it’s a game plan. So I’ve put together a sheet of Scriptures on which to meditate or to consider my way through the points in the song. Enjoy! And let me know what you think, how you encounter God’s heart.
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I Was Made For You
- Psalm 139:13 : For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
- Ephesians 2:10 : For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
And You Delight In Me
- Isaiah 62: 4, 5b : It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,” nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”; but you will be called, “My delight is in her”…So your God will rejoice over you.
- Psalm 16:3 : As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.
- majestic : gloriously grow up, increase, be risen, triumph; excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, lordly, mighty principal, worthy
- delight : satisfaction, gratification, joy, pleasure
- joy : prospect of possessing what one desires
And We Will Be Together Forever
- Hosea 2:19 : I will betroth you to me forever.
- John 17:24 : Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given me, be with Me where I am.
- Psalm 16:11 : You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
This Is A Me 