Psalm 119:10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

The conflict rages on within us. One part of us desperately hungers for more of God, a closer walk in His Spirit, a deeper intimacy with His heart. Another part jumps up and races off in random directions, following whatever happens to appeal to it at the time, or following old habits and tendencies that we have released and left behind.

Hebrews 2
v.16 For surely His concern is not for angels, but He is concerned for Abraham's descendants.
v.17 For this reason He had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God. Then He could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people.
v.18 Since He Himself has gone through suffering and testing, He is able to help us when we are being tested.

Matthew 18:20 Where two or three are banded together in My name, I will be there in the midst of them.

When God finds two or three people in union, who only want His Will to be done, who want only to serve Him, He has a plan that can be revealed to them. The grace of God, which is the power of God, can come to people who are together in one place with one accord. A union like this is miracle-working. God is able to use such people. Only good can come through such consecrated people, brought together in unified groups for a single purpose and of a single mind.

Our birth in Christ is as certain as God's promise. When we come to recognize our need and turn in belief to God's promise, and in acceptance of Jesus' sacrifice, the Spirit moves in ways we can not understand but with results we cannot deny to lift the burden of sin from our hearts and give us joy that shows in our faces and voices and actions.