Praying God's Great and Precious Promises: a visible God.

Praying God’s great and precious promises over our spouse, loved ones and ourselves this morning.  Today’s promise is a VISIBLE GOD.  Jesus says in Matthew 5:8 Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.” This promise is also found in Revelations 22:4, “And they shall see His face, and His name shall be in their foreheads.” 

There have been moments after I have cried out to God in prayer that I have stated: “I have seen God”. This has happened during very difficult seasons I have walked through where I felt I was drowning from the weight of the world, all the life was drained from me and I had no idea how to take the next step in life.  Now I did not physically see a visible God, but what I did see was a supernatural moment where the Lord showed up whether to give me a direct and specific right-now word to encourage and guide me through the situation I was in or whether it was a very vivid dream of God showing me how He has angels around my family protecting us and carrying us through a difficult time. In those moments, I did not physically see God, but rather I saw God in the way He came and gave me a specific word and I saw God when He reassured me in a very vivid dream that my family was protected.   

I have "seen" God through answered prayers.  During the infertile season where my husband and I desired, cried and prayed for children and God answered through adoption and birth by blessing us with eight children. 

I can remember a very specific time when I was in prayer with a group from church and as I was praying with my head in my lap and my eyes closed, I saw Jesus walking up to me.  I saw Him!  As much as I was overcome with emotions at the very presence of Jesus in front of me I could not physically reach out and touch Him.  I saw Him in the spirit.  However, the promise above, Jesus says we will physically see God.   I cannot even imagine what this will be like!  But God has a prerequisite for us to be able to physically see Him: a pure heart.   Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  The Pharisees were outwardly doing the right thing but their hearts were unclean.  This can be true for us.  No man can clean us and make our hearts pure.  Only Jesus can do this.  There is no Mom or Dad or person who can make our children’s hearts pure.  Only Jesus can do this.  Same with any loved one we are praying for.  Only Jesus can make their hearts pure. 
 
Father, I thank You today for the promise of seeing a visible God. There have been times when I see You through Your word or see You through dreams but to one day physically see You brings excitement deep within me!  Lord, the world is against You.  Instead of running from impurity, the world seems to run to impurity. We live in a world that is trying to pollute our minds, our spouse’s minds, our children’s minds; portraying sin as a way of life that is acceptable and encouraged.  I praise You that greater are You in us than he that is in this world.  I thank You for protecting the hearts of our spouses, the hearts of our children, and our hearts, Lord.  I pray for a hedge of protection around my spouse’s thought life and mind, around our children’s thought life and minds and my thought life and mind.  Where there are any impurities in our lives, I ask You to cause a distaste for sin to rise up in us. I pray we will not grow lukewarm to Your word and Your ways.  Shut the unGodly doors in the natural and the spirit we may have walked through because of impure choices but for every wrong door that closes open a new door leading to You, open the doors of opportunities that connect the purposes You placed in us with our Godly passions. Cause each one of us to desire You Jesus.  I declare today and speak forth that my spouse, my children, my loved one and myself are pure in heart.  We choose Your ways for our life; we choose to keep our heart pure and because of this decision, You promise that we will see a visible God; a visible You! I thank You for this promise. In Jesus’ name Amen.