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Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

by Julia Bruce
CEO & Keynote speaker

Read Monday’s post here: Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

If you missed Monday’s post, start by reading it here. Revival begins with a humble heart that is willing to to say, ” Search me O God.” Each day this week we will focus on a different area of our lives to ask God to search our hearts for anything offensive within us.

Today’s “Search Me” prayer:

Search me, O God, and know my heart. See if there is anything offensive with me in regards to the words I use and my thoughts.

Search Me, O God, for the acceptable words I speak:

There are two verses to focus on as you ask God to search you for how you speak. The first is Psalm 19:14, which says: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Are your words acceptable only on Sunday when you’re in church or are they acceptable Monday-Saturday, too? What about when you step on legos in the dark? Are they acceptable when the children are misbehaving? What about when your spouse irritates you? Are your words acceptable in rush hour traffic?

Search Me, O God, for the acceptable words I speak:

The second verse to consider is Ephesians 4:29, which says: “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Corrupting talk tears other people down. It is negative, condescending, complaining, or any other ungodly way we speak.

Spend some quiet time alone with God and for anything He reveals to you, seek His forgiveness. Ask God to convict you of any time your words are corrupting and unacceptable to Him. Ask Him to help you speak words that build others up and show grace. If you catch yourself using corrupting talk, immediately ask God to forgive you, then say three acceptable things about the person or situation for which you spoke corrupting words.

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Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

by Julia Bruce
CEO & Keynote speaker

Read Monday’s post here: Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

If you missed Monday’s post, start by reading it here. Revival begins with a humble heart that is willing to to say, ” Search me O God.” Each day this week we will focus on a different area of our lives to ask God to search our hearts for anything offensive within us.

Today’s “Search Me” prayer:

Search me, O God, and know my heart. See if there is anything offensive with me in regards to how I use the internet.

Search Me, O God, for I use the internet:

The internet is a wonderful and useful tool. But if we are not careful we can easily get caught up in using it in ways that could be offensive to God. Naturally, if we are looking at porn or have an online relationship that dishonors our wedding vows, we have something offensive within us. But what if you spend more time on your computer, phone, ipad or other electronic devices than you do with your spouse or children? Would God find that offensive too? Are you surfing the net during the pastor’s sermon? Are you watching movies or video clips on TicToc that God would claim are offensive?

Spend some quiet time alone with God and for anything He reveals to you, seek His forgiveness. Ask God to convict you of any time you are using the internet in a way that dishonors him. If needed, ask a friend to be an accountability partner. A good way to change the time you spend on the internet is to spend that time in God’s Word or prayer. You could use it to listen to Christian podcasts that would help you grow in your relationship to Christ. I good rule of thumb is to ask yourself if Jesus was sitting next to you, would you look at that site with Him? If not, change what you’re looking at.

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This book includes 365 daily activities and takes you on a guided journey through Biblical principles about Godly marriage that you can then apply to your marriage, as well as helping you talk through concepts that can help you develop a solid relationship. Inside you will find simple, quick activities that include:

  • Scripture to memorize and meditate on
  • Conversation Starters
  • Concepts from the Bible on Godly marriages
  • Romance Builders
  • Relationship Builders
  • Personal reflections
  • Date ideas
  • Group date ideas for you and other Christian couples

Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from Westbow Press Bookstore, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, and Barnes & Nobel. Click the icons below to purchase from your preferred bookstore. Now also available at WalMart online.

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 Join the community of couples on Facebook who are committed to intentionally growing their marriage and learning how to have a marriage that honors God. Here you can post photos of the different activities as you do them, ask questions of other couples, share how God is using this book to strengthen your marriage, and grow with other Christian couples. We’ll see you in the community.

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Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

by Julia Bruce
CEO & Keynote speaker

Read Monday’s post here: Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

If you missed Monday’s post, start by reading it here. Revival begins with a humble heart that is willing to to say, ” Search me O God.” Each day this week we will focus on a different area of our lives to ask God to search our hearts for anything offensive within us.

Today’s “Search Me” prayer:

Search me, O God, and know my heart. See if there is anything offensive with me in regards to idols I have made in my life.

Search Me, O God and Identify the idols in my life:

The nation of Israel was guilty of turning their back on God and worshipping idols. You many not have a carved image in your home that you worship, but we are often guilty of setting up idols in our lives. An idol is anything you make more important than God. You can make idols out of money, children, spouses, careers, hobbies, and possessions. When we ask God to ” search me ” for any idols, He will reveal to us the things or people we have given a higher priority to than we have given to Him.

Spend some quiet time alone with God and for anything He reveals to you, seek His forgiveness. Ask God to tear down any idols He reveals to you and help you keep these things/people in their correct priority. Give God the place of honor in your life and stop making your idols an idol. Make a daily habit of worshipping God. Revival will only occur as we get rid of idols and return God to the place of honor He deserves.

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This book includes 365 daily activities and takes you on a guided journey through Biblical principles about Godly marriage that you can then apply to your marriage, as well as helping you talk through concepts that can help you develop a solid relationship. Inside you will find simple, quick activities that include:

  • Scripture to memorize and meditate on
  • Conversation Starters
  • Concepts from the Bible on Godly marriages
  • Romance Builders
  • Relationship Builders
  • Personal reflections
  • Date ideas
  • Group date ideas for you and other Christian couples

Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from Westbow Press Bookstore, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, and Barnes & Nobel. Click the icons below to purchase from your preferred bookstore. Now also available at WalMart online.

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 Join the community of couples on Facebook who are committed to intentionally growing their marriage and learning how to have a marriage that honors God. Here you can post photos of the different activities as you do them, ask questions of other couples, share how God is using this book to strengthen your marriage, and grow with other Christian couples. We’ll see you in the community.

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Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

by Julia Bruce
CEO & Keynote speaker

Read yesterday’s post here: Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

If you missed yesterday’s post, start by reading it here. Revival begins with a humble heart that is willing to to say, ” Search me O God.” Each day this week we will focus on a different area of our lives to ask God to search our hearts for anything offensive within us.

Today’s “Search Me” prayer:

Search me, O God, and know my heart. See if there is anything offensive with me in regards to my relationships within my family, including my spouse, siblings, children, and/or parents and grandparents.

Spend some quiet time alone with God and for anything He reveals to you, seek His forgiveness and take time today to restore the relationship problems so that all of your family relationships honor and glorify God.

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God, Love, and Marshmallow Wars

What’s Inside God, Love and Marshmallow Wars?

This book includes 365 daily activities and takes you on a guided journey through Biblical principles about Godly marriage that you can then apply to your marriage, as well as helping you talk through concepts that can help you develop a solid relationship. Inside you will find simple, quick activities that include:

  • Scripture to memorize and meditate on
  • Conversation Starters
  • Concepts from the Bible on Godly marriages
  • Romance Builders
  • Relationship Builders
  • Personal reflections
  • Date ideas
  • Group date ideas for you and other Christian couples

Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from Westbow Press Bookstore, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, and Barnes & Nobel. Click the icons below to purchase from your preferred bookstore. Now also available at WalMart online.

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 Join the community of couples on Facebook who are committed to intentionally growing their marriage and learning how to have a marriage that honors God. Here you can post photos of the different activities as you do them, ask questions of other couples, share how God is using this book to strengthen your marriage, and grow with other Christian couples. We’ll see you in the community.

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Prayers for Revival: Search Me, O God

by Julia Bruce
CEO & Keynote speaker

Why ask God to “Search Me?”

King Saul accused David of treason and he accused David of not being faithful to God. David, like the rest of us, knew that from time to time his motives were not always right, so in Psalm 139:23, he asks God, ” Search me, and know my heart.” He wanted God to examine his intent – to be sure that there was nothing offensive within him.

God is omniscient – He knows everything, including our thoughts, motivations, and all the things about us that we think we keep a secret. So why pray for God to search our heart? It isn’t for God to discover the offensive things within us. He already knows them. The answer is found in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” The reason I ask God to “search me” is to reveal to me the offensive things that my deceitful heart is keeping me from having a right relationship with God.

A deceitful heart

We can easily fool ourselves into thinking, “I’m not that bad.” We make up excuses for why it is okay for us to do something we shouldn’t. Or we compare ourselves to others who sin more than we do. And we rationalize why it is okay “this time.” At the end of the day, we fall for the lies that our deceitful heart tell us because we think those lies will bring us happiness.

Eve thought eating the forbidden fruit would make her happy. Cain thought killing Abel would make him happy. Joseph’s brother’s thought selling him into slavery would make them happy. Samson thought marrying a Philistine woman would make him happy. David thought sleeping with another man’s wife would make him happy. Solomon had 999 wives and thought each one would make him happy and when they didn’t, he thought #1,000 would be “the one.” The rich young ruler thought his wealth would make him happy. And Judas thought 30 pieces of silver would make him happy. But what all these people had in common was the same lie from their deceitful hearts.

The heart still deceives

Today is no different. The heart has been deceiving us from the Garden of Eden and it still deceives us today. We see it when a woman becomes frustrated after 25 years of marriage because he husband ignores her – so she reconnects with a high school boyfriend, begins an affair, and then divorces her husband.

It is in the college student that grew up in church and was taught how to live for Christ but then leaves those teachings behind to live like the rest of the world.

We see it in dating couples who choose to ignore God’s commands regarding sex before marriage and move in together before the wedding.

It is in the employee who takes company property or is dishonest in the time they claim they worked.

It is in the senior adult who says it is ok to just sit back in the pew because they are “too old” to serve God anymore.

There are countless other ways we can see how the heart deceives us everyday.

Search Me, O God

If we want to see a revival, we need to fall on our knees and with a sincere desire to know the areas where we have been deceived by our wicked hearts, ask God to search our hearts to see if there is any wicked ways within us. But be forewarned! Praying this prayer will bring conviction. God will expect you to make the needed course corrections. It will require you to see yourself in the way God sees you.

You are not likely to like what God reveals to you. But when He does, you will then need the humility to admit your sins and to seek God’s forgiveness and mercy. Then you will need the courage to apply the necessary changes in your life. As the Holy Spirit works within you to transform you into the image of Christ, revival will begin in your heart.

Are you willing to spend time alone with God and ask Him to search your heart and show you the offensive ways that your deceitful heart has been hiding from you?

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This book includes 365 daily activities and takes you on a guided journey through Biblical principles about Godly marriage that you can then apply to your marriage, as well as helping you talk through concepts that can help you develop a solid relationship. Inside you will find simple, quick activities that include:

  • Scripture to memorize and meditate on
  • Conversation Starters
  • Concepts from the Bible on Godly marriages
  • Romance Builders
  • Relationship Builders
  • Personal reflections
  • Date ideas
  • Group date ideas for you and other Christian couples

Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from Westbow Press Bookstore, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, and Barnes & Nobel. Click the icons below to purchase from your preferred bookstore. Now also available at WalMart online.

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 Join the community of couples on Facebook who are committed to intentionally growing their marriage and learning how to have a marriage that honors God. Here you can post photos of the different activities as you do them, ask questions of other couples, share how God is using this book to strengthen your marriage, and grow with other Christian couples. We’ll see you in the community.

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