A Single Day In Your Presence

A single day in your courts
    is better than a thousand anywhere else!
I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God
    than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.
For the LORD God is our sun and our shield.
    He gives us grace and glory.
The LORD will withhold no good thing
    from those who do what is right.

—Psalm 84:10-11 (NLT)

LORD God,

Help me to purpose in my heart to seek out those places where I can find You and spend time nourishing myself with the abundance of good things that You have waiting for me there—things which can only be found when I spend time worshiping in Your Presence.

Let me be content to stand in whatever place of service You have for me, in order to serve You where You are at work—rather than to live the so-called “good life” that this world claims to be able to offer me.

For You are my sun and my shield—lighting my way and giving me life, as You guide and direct me through the dangers of this dark and dreary world and shield me from the unrelenting attacks of my enemy.

And You give me grace—which is both that good will that You display toward me and the good work that You are doing within me—and glory—which is both the honor that You have given me by adopting me as Your own and the hope that You have given me for that eternity with You which is yet to come.

Thank You for not withholding from me those things which You have determined to be for my good, as I seek to walk uprightly before You—doing what is right, as my reasonable service to You.

Help me to purpose in my heart to seek out those places where I can find You and spend time nourishing myself with the abundance of good things that You have waiting for me there—things which can only be found when I spend time worshiping in Your Presence.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.