When looking to enhance your wardrobe with jewelry, consider your purchase wisely. It’s always best to look for what I like to call core pieces of jewelry. Most often core pieces are necklaces that can be worn in multiple ways to create varying looks with one simple piece. These are pieces that can stand alone, or in combination with others quite easily. They can blend in with your current jewelry wardrobe or be partnered with other new items.

You may be wondering what to look for in a core necklace. Look for multiple strands, the ability to wear the necklace long and short, interesting textures, and basic colors including silvers, golds or blacks.

The high fashion jewelry that I sell offers many unique and versatile core pieces. Take for example Main Event Necklace: a 6-strand beaded necklace featuring a mix of silvery grey faux pearls. This is a true core necklace that can be worn with casual, business or formal attire. It can add a fun flare to your wardrobe or offer the elegance you desire. Check out these examples below. Keep in mind, with this core necklace you’ll see a total of 11 ways to keep it fresh, and it’s only $46!

Main Event twisted

Main Event twisted with Camille Pin at center

Main Event twisted with Ovation

Main Event twisted with Pearls Night Out

Main Event braided

Main Event braided & doubled on black ribbon

Main Event braided with Camille Pin at side

Main Event opened & worn as belt

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Main Event opened with Camille Pin at side

Main Event opened with Camille Pin at side and Ovation Necklace

As you can see above, versatility pays off and is a feature that you’ll learn to appreciate in our economy. Core pieces of jewelry are essential to any woman’s wardrobe and can make the difference between a mediocre wardrobe and a fashionista. More Core Necklace examples to follow!

So I posted part 1 of God of the impossible a few days ago, taking a look at the Israelites journey out of Egypt to the Red Sea, focusing on the fact that our impossible circumstances have the opportunity to bring glory to God…if we let them. You see, it’s our choice to invite God in or try to deal with them on our own. The Israelites were backed into a corner, literally stuck between a rock and a hard place, that is the Red Sea & the approaching Egyptian army. The people cried out to God & Moses. But I want to take a look at what happened next. Exodus 14:13-14 “And Moses said to the people, ‘Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”

Take heart, your impossible circumstances are possible with God! Again and again in the Bible we see the reality that God fights for us. Deuteronomy 1:30 “The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” Deuteronomy 3:22 “You shall not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who fights for you.” And here in Exodus 14:14 “The LORD will fight for you.” And He did just that. Picture it…Pharaoh and all his army and chariots, and officers were approaching the Israelites. They were close enough that the Israelites looked up and saw them approaching, which means the armies had the Israelites in their sights as well. There was no where to run and they knew it. They cried out and God heard their cry. His response through Moses was fear not, stand firm where you are, don’t do anything, be silent and watch as I deliver you. You’ll never again see the Egyptians that you see now…watch as I the LORD fight for you.

As we see what happens next, I can only imagine the Israelites standing in awe of God. The next 24 hours held deliverance from their impossible circumstance and they were able to witness it with their very eyes! They saw God’s supernatural ability to overcome working in their favor! God truly fought for them. We see this threefold: we see God’s protection, provision and power.

We see God’s Protection over the Israelites. “Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.” – Exodus 14:19-20. Whether the Israelites realized it or not, this was God’s miraculous protection, shielding them against the impending attack of the enemy. The presence of God that was leading them moved from before them to behind them. The presence of God shifted from guide to guardian so that one never came near the other all night. I can only imagine the times that God has supernaturally brought his protection to us. Some we may recognize and many more we may never know about. He is our shield, our protector.

You see, we have a REAL enemy. This isn’t an enemy that we can see with our physical eyes. This isn’t a tangible enemy that we can capture and defeat. This is an enemy that can only be defeated by God, and in fact has been. I love what the Bible, Jesus says in John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” You see, Jesus understood the reality of the spiritual world. He understood that there is a real and present enemy whose sole purpose is to steal, kill and destroy! But He also says, I came that they may have life, and not just life….abundant life!!! What does that mean? Abundant Life? Many of us think Abundant life means living life to it’s fullest…and that’s part it of, but there’s so much more. Abundant Life means victory. Abundant life means freedom. Abundant life means reaping God’s blessings. Abundant life means intimate relationship with our Lord and Savior. Abundant life means living your life to the fullest that God has designed for you. Abundant life means inhabiting the promises of God, the promised land!

Not only do we see God’s Protection, but we see God’s Provision. “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.” – Exodus 14:21-22. We see here that God literally did that. He is the creator of all things, he is able to control the winds. All things are possible for God because He is God! Just as God made provision for the Israelites in their impossible circumstance, know this: he has already made provision for yours. Whatever it may be, he already knows and he has prepared provision beyond anything you can imagine. This an old hymn that I grew up with: God will make a way where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see. He will make a way for me. He will be my guide. Hold me closely to His side. With love and strength for each new day, He will make a way, He will make a way!

I can think of many times in my life that God miraculously provided because He IS able! Can you imagine the Israelites watching the waters part before their eyes, rising to be walls of water to the right and left, so that they could walk through on dry ground? Wow! That would be one of those awestruck moments. Jaw dropping! Yeah, God said he would do it, but oh my….he really did! And the waters remained long enough for 2 million people and their flocks and herds to walk through on dry ground. God miraculously provided a way for the Israelites and He will for you too!

So we see God’s protection, His Provision and lastly God’s Power! “The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.” – Exodus 14:23-31.

I love that…the Egyptians began to flee from before Israel for the recognized the mighty hand of God at work on behalf of the Israelites…and they were no match for God! As if parting the red sea so they could walk through on dry ground wasn’t enough, God fulfilled what he promised through Moses: the word tells us that not one of them remained. He not only protected them through the night, provided a way for them through the sea, but also showed his great and mighty power over the Egyptian army by annihilating every last one when he released the walls of water to confuse and overwhelm the Egyptians.

We all face impossible circumstances. The good news is that God is God of the impossible. He specializes in the miraculous, in the supernatural! In fact, he loves to do it because it brings glory to His name! We serve God who will fight for us, who will deliver us to victory, who makes our impossible circumstances possible! Despair will try to cast you down, keeping you from standing. Fear will tell you to retreat, run away. Impatience will tell you to do something now. Presumption will tell you to jump into the Red Sea before it is parted. But God would have us to stand, and watch His supernatural victory as he delivers us from our impossible situations!

What impossible circumstances face you today? What circumstances make you feel cornered, with no escape? What circumstances are rising up to overwhelm you? And what will be your response? Will you respond to your circumstance with fear, and retreat? Or will you call upon God and implore to see HIM move in your life, fight on your behalf, and bring victory that can only be attributed to Him and to His Glory? We all want to see God’s miracles in our lives, we want to see God bring hope to our despair, healing to our brokenness, and restoration to our relationships and ultimately deliverance from our circumstances.

I love how the Bible has continuity when it comes to seeking God and finding Him, to seeking His wisdom and receiving it. Matthew (7:7-8) tells us “ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” James (1:5-6) tells us “if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.” Proverbs (8:17) tells us “I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.” Jeremiah (29:13) tells us “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” 2 Chronicles (7:14) tells us “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Deuteronomy (4:29) tells us “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 1 chronicles (28:9) If you seek him, he will be found by you.”

When in times of pain or trouble, our response to these nuggets of wisdom in the bible should be simply stated, “My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek” (Psalm 27:8).

That’s exactly what i was doing a few years back. Out of that seeking, a song was birthed in my heart that I titled I Will Wait. I wrote it at a time in my life when I was seeking to know the God’s direction for my next steps. I was in a time of worship, asking God for His direction and proclaiming that when he spoke, I would listen and obey. My husband jokes with me about this song. He calls it my Battle Cry Song. He says it reminds him of a song that Aimee Semple McPherson would have wrote. And when I think about it, yes, it is a battle cry song. I was in the middle of extreme spiritual warfare. I felt like the Israelites in the desert, who had been delivered from physical bondage, but were waiting to get into the promised land. That wasn’t an easy time. They were in a holding pattern of sorts. The promise was awaiting them, but there were battles to be fought and won before they could inhabit the promised land.

My circumstances at that time in my life seemed bleak, to say the least. I was managing the 2 Curves that we owned, commuting daily between the two (one in lafayette, one in fairfield), working 60+ hours a week between the two clubs, all while volunteering a minimum of 15 hours at our church in various roles every week. I was growing tired and weary as one business was flourishing from the ground up, and the other was struggling to stay above water…and sinking fast. I was being drained in every manner – financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. I knew something needed to change, but first I had to hear from the Lord. My question seemed ongoing as I waited and waited and waited for the answer. I knew what answer I wanted, and when I wanted it…but I also knew that I couldn’t move ahead without God’s blessing to do so. I didn’t want to step outside of His will for my life. Thus this song was birthed in my heart.

I will wait patiently
I will wait for You to speak
I will stand here in this place
Lord come reveal to me Your grace

I will hear and obey
I will proclaim this is the day
When I will go wherever You lead
Lord come reveal Your will to me

I can remember, on many occasions, singing those words with all my heart, sobbing before the Lord out of pure anguish at my circumstances and utter determination to remain steadfast until He said to move no matter how much harder my circumstances became. It was pure will and the awesome knowledge that God had a plan and purpose in it all that sustained me during that time. Eventually, the Lord answered, and I was able to take my next steps forward into the blessing he had prepared for me. Since that time the Lord has used this song as encouragement in my life time and again.

Whatever you’re going through, wherever you’re at with God, whatever circumstances rise up against you to overwhelm and discourage you…remember that God is sovereign. He has a plan and purpose for your life; one that will be so much better than all you could ask or imagine. He will give you direction. All you need to do is seek him, ask him, and wait for His answer with the expectancy that yes, he will answer you, and the determination that your answer will be simply put: yes Lord!

Today has been a day that the Lord has been speaking. I have heard his voice in my spirit loud and clear. It is for freedom that he has set me free! He has freed me from every bondage and stronghold that would rise up against the knowledge and truth of God in my life. It’s already been done, yet I MUST CHOOSE TO WALK IN IT!

From the worship this morning to the message brought by Pastor Brian to the introduction of breaking free by Beth Moore to the Psalm 44 that I read in my daily devotions…one thing is clear…God is speaking to me about freedom!

The Lord has identified a stronghold in my life, namely resentment. The details i will leave between me and God. Needless to say, I have been allowing a bondage in my life, and thus a stronghold for the enemy of my soul. The bondage has hindered me from the fullness to which God has called me, and the stronghold is in my thought process. I have thought myself a failure, worthless, empty, unable or unworthy to contribute to the co-pastor role that I have been given. I have allowed myself to be isolated, to return again and again to the destructive thought patterns that don’t align with what God has to say about me and my situations. I have allowed those thoughts to exalt themselves above the truth and knowledge of God, above what God has to say about me and believes for me.

No more! No more will I bow to the enemy of my soul! No more will I allow fear and self- doubt to control me. No more will I accept what the enemy or others say about me as truth. No more will I allow defeat. Instead, I will rise! I will rise in the freedom that has been purchased for me by my Lord Jesus Christ. I will rise in the confidence that God has given me. I will rise to the calling upon my life. I will rise to the level Jesus is beckoning me. I will rise, because I am FREE!

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated 9 years of marriage.  I can’t believe it’s been 9 years!  We’ve been through so much over these past 9 years.  They’ve been filled with ups and downs, joys and sorrows, good times and rough times; yet, through it all we’ve only grow stronger as a couple.  I can honestly say our love for one another has increased with each passing year.  I am ever so thankful for my hubby.  He is a man who knows what’s important ~ he loves God and loves his family.  I look forward to the next many, many years ahead of us.  I know they hold more ups and downs, more joys and sorrows, more good times and rough times…and I am excited to experience all of them with my best friend and partner in life.

Wow!  It’s been a while since I’ve updated my page.  A LOT has happened since I blogged last.  For starters, Brian and I are now daddy & mommy to a beautiful baby boy.  Ezra David was born on November 28th last year, which means he’s almost 8 months old now.  How time flies!  He’s already eating solid foods, sitting up, crawling, pulling himself up to a standing position, and trying to walk.  He loves to jabber at us.  Today it was all “dadadada dada” which Brian LOVED. Ezra is such a happy baby who loves to smile and giggle.  I recently found his tickle spots and he can’t get enough.  It’s too cute.  He loves to play in his walker, specifically to taunt Maggie, our 8 year old miniature beagle.  Here’s the scenario: Maggie goes to eat her food or get a drink of water and Ezra charges at her, she backs up and he giggles and backs out of the way…repeat the process over and over.

I must say, we love being parents.  Ezra has changed our lives, and I can’t imagine life without him now.  Brian and I are happier and more in love now than ever.  Amazing what babies will do to you  I’ve been attending various mommy groups in the area so that I can meet other ladies and Ezra can have little ones to play with. They’re lots of fun and give me a reason to get out of the house! Brian and I have been learning to surf, so one day we can teach Ezra.  We live in SC, gotta learn!

We are still in Santa Cruz at the church (going on 2 years now), though we’ve relaunched as Crosspoint Foursquare Church with a focus on being the church for the unchurched in Santa Cruz County.  Our mission is simple: to bring hope, healing and restoration to the next generation in Santa Cruz County.  We’ve been blessed to be on this journey together.  There’s nothing like working with your best friend day in and day out.  We’ve got an awesome staff that God has arranged with us…and more are coming to partner in the ministry here.  It’s so exciting!  We’ve seen over 30 salvations since we launched on Easter Sunday.  God is faithful and is definitely moving here in Santa Cruz! I simply can’t wait to see where He’ll lead us as a church in the coming months and years!

Being that we’re a small church that is reaching out to the unchurched, there’s simply not enough income to support us as full-time pastors.  Thus, back to the workforce we go.  For me, it looks a bit different now that it did a few years ago.  Previously I owned and managed 2 Curves for a total of 8 years.  However, I now have a baby and the blessing of being a stay-at-home mommy to my Ezra!  So, I’m going to open up my home to another family’s kids during the week, and restart my Premier Designs business.  Honestly, I’m excited!  I love jewelry, and I love to put on jewelry parties.  We get to play dress up in the jewelry and have fun with a bunch of ladies.  Who doesn’t want that!!!

Brian is applying to various positions within the area, and is continuing his design business as usual.

I know that God has purpose in all of this.  I know that He will continue to provide for us everything that we have need of.  He always has!  And my prayer is that through this we will befriend more people here in Santa Cruz as we build our family, our life and God’s church together!

My daily devotions are something that I love!  I find strength for the day and hear God speak to me through his inspired word, the Bible.  This morning my husband and I went to Starbucks before work to enjoy a time of devotions together.  When we do devotions, we use the SOAP format:  we read Scripture

, write an Observation, Application &  Prayer.  Here’s my SOAP from this morning.

S:  Psalm 105:4 says:

“Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually

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O:  As a kid, I remember one of my favorite games was Hide and Seek.  The point of this game is that one person hides with the intention of NOT being found and the other person counts to 100 (without peeking) to allow the person to hide, and then begins an urgent and diligent search for the one that hid.  This means opening cupboards, checking beneath beds and behind doors, in the closets…for the hidden one has to be found before the game is over.  The one who is seeking to find the hidden person is doing so with all

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Just as the kids seek and search for the hidden one, so also we are instructed to seek the Lord, seek His strength, and seek his presence.  This means that we do so with all urgency and diligence.  The great difference between the kids game of “Hide and Seek” and us seeking the Lord is that He will make Himself to be found.  He wants to be found by us!  We see so many references to this in the Bible. One of them is found in Jesus’ words:

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds , and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” – Matthew 7:7-8

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But you may ask, what does it really mean to seek the Lord?  Seeking the Lord is simple: it’s both a desire and an intentional step of walking in cadence with His will for your life. When we seek the Lord, we seek what it is that He wants for us.  When we seek his strength, it’s because we acknowledge our weakness and inability to do anything in and of ourselves.  When we seek His presence, it’s an intentional choice to live our lives for Christ and die to the struggles and desires of our flesh.

Moreover, Psalm 105:4 ends with the word continually.  We are instructed to do these things on a continual basis.  This means that we don’t make one decision to seek him, seek his strength or presence, but that we make continual decisions to seek for these things and to walk in step with where he is taking us.

A:  What does this mean for my life?  I acknowledge that of late I am worn down by some things that have taken place in my life and ministry.  I acknowledge my weariness and weakness.  Yet I also acknowledge my calling in life and ministry.  I MUST be intentional.  I MUST urgently and diligently search for the Lord, for his strength and for his presence in my life.  Moreover, I MUST choose to walk in cadence with His will for my life – that I would continually walk in the light of His presence.

P:  Father, I thank you for this reminder of where my strength must come from.  I am nothing without you o God.  I can do nothing without you.  I seek you o Lord.  Strengthen me to stand, that I may continue in the life and ministry to which you have called me.  Help me to walk in cadence with your Spirit, continually.  In Jesus’ mighty name ~ Amen.

My SOAP from Saturday is below.  SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application and Prayer.

S:  John 17:15,18

“I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one…As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.”

O: This Jesus’ prayer to the Father regarding those who are his (his current disciples) and those who will believe upon Him (vs20).  Just as there was purpose in Jesus coming to the world, through He was not of it…so also there is purpose in Him sending us into the world: to be His representatives, displaying His likeness, His love, His power and authority.  He prays to the Father for us, not that we would be taken from the world to which He has sent us, but that God would keep us from the evil one while we are here.  There is a real enemy of our souls; one that is in dominion over this world for now, and he desires to grasp onto us and snatch us from God that we would no longer be a threat to him.  For our enemy knows that Jesus overcame and gives us the power to overcome as well!

There is significance in this:  Jesus prayed this prayer for us.

A: Jesus says He sent me into the world. He has established purpose for my life.  He has placed me exactly where He wants me in time and location.  I am called and appointed, as a child of God, to be His representative to a world in desperate need of a savior, my savior Jesus Christ.  I must live my life with this in mind, this thought always before me.  And I must daily allow God’s inspired God-Breathed Word (2 Tim 3:16-17) to sanctify me through and through, that I would be strengthened in resolve to STAND against the enemy of my soul.

P: Father, thank you for giving me understanding of your scripture.  To know that Jesus prayed for me, to know that you are keeping me from the evil one and sanctifying me through your word – I am humbled.  Father, mold me into the likeness of you son, that the world may see Jesus.

~ Rebecca

These past weeks have been filled with many highs and lows, with a sense of hope and a sense of desperation.  I have a business that I have put my life into.  This business was not just any business, but a ministry to so many lost, hurting and broken women in our community.  Women would come with the intent of physical health, and would also receive spiritual and emotional health.  I can’t even begin to count the number of times I was able to pray with hurting women, give a word of encouragement or exhortation, and lead someone to the loving arms of the Savior Jesus.  Many of the members here consider this place a refuge amidst the storms of their life.  (Not my words, but theirs).  This business has existed solely to minister to the needs of women in this community and lead them to Jesus.  

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However, my husband and I moved away almost one year ago.  We tried to sell the business with no luck.  We tried to hang onto it hoping that it could still be a blessing to women in this community, but we were no longer able to sustain it.  About a month ago, my husband and I prayerfully made the decision to close the business.  That decision was met with what I feel is the favor of the Lord.   I alerted my landlord of our decision, and he released me of all future financial obligations – I’d call that favor!   Since the decision was made, we have begun the process of closing our business, as well as making a final attempt to give away our business to someone who can run with it and make it a successful venture for themselves, carrying on the vision of making women healthy spirit, soul and body.  

We are in the final stretch of closing our business this Friday, yet I have women that are seriously considering the take-over of my business.  This is a time where my trust has to be in the Lord.  This is a time where I feel burdened, but my hope must be in the Lord.  He must remain on the throne of my heart, even in the midst of trial.  

As I was reading my Bible this morning, I came across a Psalm that seemed to speak to me where I’m at- Psalm 55.  I was specifically struck by what this verse says:  

Cast your burden on the Lord , and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.   –  Psalm 55:22

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Right now, I feel the burden of being in limbo.  I don’t know if in fact I am closing my business on Friday or if it will be transferring to a new owner.   It is an emotional roller coaster.  Yet I am encouraged.  It is so wonderful to know that I can cast my burden on the Lord and He will sustain me through this.  I don’t have to go it alone.  Even  more, he doesn’t want me to go it alone.   What a great God!

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As of now I don’t know if we will close or transfer, but I do know the one who does.  I don’t know wether to prepare for closure or prepare to walk away at the end of this week, but I will cast my burden on the one who does, and he will sustain me.  Either way, God is still my provider.  Either way, God will remain on the throne of my heart.

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As I was in my quiet time with the Lord, I came upon this verse: Psalm 27:8.  The psalmist David writes

You have said, ‘Seek my face.’

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My heart says to you,  ’Your face, Lord, do I seek.’”  (ESV)

Another translation says it this way:

My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’
   And my heart responds, ‘LORD, I am coming.’”   (NLT)

This is the state of a heart that is open to God.  Open to his great love, open to his mercy, open to his discipline, open to his refining, open to his shaping.  This is the state that I desire for my heart at all times.  

So often, we get inundated with the noise of life.  For me, it’s things like twitter, facebook, emails, business, church, etc.  I’ve noticed a trend lately: when I arise in the morning, I find myself checking my emails, facebook and twitter to see what I’ve missed.  When I go to bed at night, again I am checking these applications to make sure I didn’t miss anything throughout the day.  But God would say to me “Come and talk with me; seek my face.”  Don’t get me wrong, I do spend time in His Word on a daily basis.  I even spend time in prayer; yet I need to adjust my priorities.  The first and last thing I do during the day should not reflect a love for this world, rather should be to spend time with the one who loved me first, my Lord and Savior.   

The Psalmist says in verse 4 “One thing have I asked of the Lord

, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.”  David had it right: his intent was to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of his life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and inquire in his temple.  In the Old Covenant, the temple was the place that housed the glory of the Lord, the shekinah presence.  So David was saying, my desire is to constantly be in the presence of the Lord, to never leave it, to sit in awe of His presence and to seek His counsel at all times.  

What’s so amazing about God is that He wants us to be in His presence at all times, He even invites us to be enter into His presence.  He made available the way for us to have access to Himself by the ransom of His only son Jesus who paid the price for our sins and paved the way to restored relationship with Father God.  It is because of His Great Love for us that Jesus came, died on the cross for our sins, and rose again to defeat death, hell and the grave.  He did this so we could be restored to God and have relationship in His presence.  

So what does all of this mean?  It’s simple:  I resolve to keep God on the throne of my heart.  As He calls to me and says “Seek my face”  my heart will respond “Your face Lord do I seek” and my actions will reflect this heartfelt response.