Set My Face

So I set my face toward the Lord God to seek Him in prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. Dan. 9:3

This morning the Lord touched me deeply as I pray-read this verse:

1. Set my face: A turning in position, to be rightly angled.

2. Toward the Lord God: Setting face is toward God, turning away from anything other than God to God. This is the real repentance, the basic requirement for salvation from negative things and salvation to the positive things of God.

3. To seek Him: Setting face toward the Lord God is to seek Him; being poor in spirit, longing for more of God, to gain God and be filled, saturated and permeated with God Himself.

4. In prayer and supplication: Doing all the above in prayer and supplication, earnestly and desperately longing for God.

5. With fasting and sackcloth and ashes: Proving the seriousness and diligence in our seeking for God, paying any price to gain the priceless treasure, the Lord Jesus Christ!

It is indeed not enough to diligently and regularly read the word, much more there must be the joining to the word that was read, to the extend of paying any price, even if it is deemed martyrdom. This is where I need the Lord's grace more. I have been lover of the word, or at the least, reader of the word. But how much of what I read do I really understand with spiritual insights and revelations and visions, and how much of what I understood are truly lived out, practically and experiencially? Honestly, not so much. But thank the Lord for the revelation of the word, a testimony of Daniel!

Lord, I set my face toward You; to seek You, to gain You and to be one with You in every matter great and small. Lord, grant me the grace to be Your ardent and genuine seeker.