Today's thought - 07 September 2026 (A deep desire)

 

How are you, my friend? I do hope you had a great weekend, and you are well rested. Sometimes we wake up and it feels like we are not ready for this day. It feels like you should have slept more or you feel you must just stay in bed.

This morning I am reading Psalm 42 and verse one is just one of my favorites. “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God”.

So, my question on this wonderful and blessed Monday is, “How hungry are you for Jesus Christ”.

Paul writes in Ephesians 4:17-19, “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness”.

Paul continues and says that we should put away or rather let go of the “old man”. Our past self, the one who is corrupt by the needs and wants of the world. He says we should be renewed in the spirit of our minds. In other words, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. So, that we can put on the new man, the new life we have in Jesus Christ.

Every day has its own challenges, and I have written to you before that you should not worry about tomorrow but as Jesus said focus on today. Jesus said that worry will not add one thing to your life, and we know that we should not be anxious about anything but rather pray about everything. Jesus said our Farther knows what we need. He knows our sorrows and He knows what we need.

We read in James 5:16, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

Now back to my verse in Psalm 42. As the deer longs for and desires the cold steams in the mountain, so should we desire the warmth and love of our Father. The infilling of the Holy Spirit and the power of our Lord. We should desire Him more and desire an intimate relationship with Him. We should fully let go of the old man and embrace the new man. This comes from fervent prayer. A fervent prayer is a passionate, deeply sincere, and heartfelt request made to God with intense focus and genuine emotion. And I want to add with persistence.

My dear friend, this is vital to our day-to-day battles and something you should never neglect or stop. It is so important that we abide in Jesus and He in us and I can not emphasise this more. I can’t make it through a day if I did not start my day in prayer and reading the Bible. I feel so much closer to the Lord, and I hear the Holy Spirit much clearer as I draw nearer and deeper to the Lord. We have to understand what Jesus said when He said that without Him, we can do nothing and with Him we can do anything.

My prayer for you today is this. I pray that you will feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in your prayer time and that you will have an encounter with Him every time. I pray that you will be filled with His power and strength and that He will bless you and enlarge your territory. I pray that God’s hand will be upon you and that no evil will come near you, in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Have an awesome day.