I have long loved Ephesians 2:10: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (NASB).

Earlier this week, I read this quote in a devotional called Battle Prayers: “The longer I go without your Word, the weaker my spirit becomes and the harder my heart grows. But feasting upon it, I grow stronger and more sensitive to Your Spirit.” 

We have all seen or experienced the tension that comes in the face of peer pressure. If you haven’t personally known the pressure of the school playground crowd or the college party crowd or the workplace crowd, surely you’ve at least seen Ralphie get his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole in A Christmas Story.

Do you long to see more of God’s presence in your life? I suspect we all do. 
I heard a phrase this week that stood out to me about this. It was a line in a prayer...

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling.

Isaiah 30:15 (ESV)