Here is the first part of a new song. It is a great description of communing. It is called Womb Of The Morning.

I come to You O Lord in the womb of the morning. To sit and worship You and call upon Your name. You answer me with a sweetness that melts my heart. And opens me to receive Your words. Your words like oil penetrate the places in my heart that were hardened through fear.

There is nothing on this earth that compares to communing with the Lord. Don’t let things rival your time with Him. He is always Present. He waits for us. He won’t compete with the substitutes we choose to fill in our emptiness.

In Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:3. Our communion with Him, through His word, causes our roots to go deeper. In Mark 4:17, the folks had no root in themselves and fell away. In verse 18 the cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things choked out the word. Don’t let it happen to you.

John 15:7 in the Amplified says, “If you live in Me (abide vitally united to Me) and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts…” We fellowship with the Lord through His word which is living and powerful. 

Isaiah 55:3 says, “Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live…” Psalm 40:1 says, “I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry.” Incline means to listen favorably.

2 Peter 1:3 says that He has given us everything we need through our relationship with Him. Isaiah 55:1 says, “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters…” Psalm 42:1-2 says, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God…”

Psalm 63:1 says, “O God, you are my God; early will I see You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.” Our true satisfaction is found in Him.

Abide means to dwell, stay, remain, wait for. John 15:4 in the Amplified says, “Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. (Live in Me, and I will live in you.) Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.”

Here’s a dramatic example of what vital union means. I sawed off a low hanging branch in my backyard, and left it lying on the ground. 1/2 hour later I noticed that the leaves on the branch were totally wilted. I cut it off from its life source!

Job 7:17-18 says, “What is man, that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart on him, that You should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?” Psalm 8:4 says, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?”

Genesis 1:26 says, “Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image…” We are created for relationship with our Creator. 

How often we emotionally or physically back up when faced with impossible circumstances. We might seek something for immediate diversion, instead of drawing closer to the Lord. I love Paul’s example. Philippians 3:13 says, “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.”

One fluid motion. As he is forgetting and letting the things behind go, he is at the same time reaching forward to what the Lord set before him. Verse 14 says, “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

We press forward through intention. I’ve learned from David’s psalms to say, “I will…” when I need to do something unpleasant. Even though being pulled backwards emotionally, David pressed in through “I will praise the Lord.”

Every thought has a motive. We can course correct the second we have a thought that would cause us to draw back. The thought comes before the emotion. In fact our thoughts are responsible for our emotions.

Hebrews 10:36 says that we have need of endurance. Verse 38 says, “Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” We cannot move forward, and at the same time draw back.

Jesus is our Example. Hebrews 12:2 says, “…who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” What is He doing? He is interceding for us. 

Romans 8:34 is a great verse to commit to memory. It is a deep abiding truth for us to hold onto. It says, “Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.”

1 Peter 1:8-9 says, “Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.”

Though Jesus knew what would happen, Luke 9:51 says, “…He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.” Nothing would deter Him. Verse 53 says, “But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem.”

John 13:1 says, “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world and go to the Father…” Verse 2 says that supper was ended. It was all set up for Judas to betray Him.

Verse 3 says, “Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hand, and He had come from God and was going to God.” He then washed the feet of His disciples, including Judas, His betrayer.

The scene was already set in motion. The detachment of troops and officers were on their way to arrest Jesus. John 18:4 says, “Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward…” No shrinking back. Luke 14:27 says, “And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”

Psalm 18:2 says, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”

Three Psalms written by David. He understood rocks. When he was fleeing from King Saul, he dwelt in the fortresses of rock formations. 

Psalm 91:1 says, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

How do we dwell? We ‘dwell’ in Him through our relationship with the Lord ~ communing with Him in our heart, and through our words. We live a life hidden in Him through relationship. Everything in our walk is related to our intimate communion with Him.

John 15:5. When living independent of Him, the verse says, “…you can do nothing.” That means it is all futile activity, that is all borne through our flesh which continually opposes the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives. All ~ everything without exception! C. T. Studd said, “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”

Think of Moses. In order for his request to see the Lord’s glory, He hid him in the cleft of the rock. Exodus 33:21-22 says, “…Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.”

When I read verse 22 hymns come to mind. Rock Of Ages. Hiding In Thee. A Shelter In The Time Of Storm. Following on the heels of those titles are a stream of verses. Here are a few you can look up. 

Psalm 62:2 says, “He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.” Verse 7 says, “In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.”

Psalm 61:2 says, “From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” 

1 John 1:6 says, “If we say we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” Everything in our Christian life comes down to our relationship with the Lord. 

When there is hidden sin, it blocks our fellowship with Him and with others. Verse 7 says, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.”

Psalms 66:18 says, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.” This is a good verse to think about when we are not getting an answer to prayer. Iniquity is doing anything independent of the Lord.

Proverbs 3:7 says, “Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from evil.” What is the fruit? Verse 8 says, “It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.”

3 John verse 4 says, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”

2 Peter 1:4 says, “By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakes of the divine nature…” We are called to participate with Him as His image bearers.

Hebrews 1:3 says, “Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person…” The Greek word for express image is charakter. How do we do that? When we are offended we respond with grace. 

I like to think of it this way. We come in the opposite spirit. Proverbs 15:1 is a great example. It says, “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Another one of my favorites is Proverbs 25:15 in the Amplified. It says, “By long forbearance and calmness of spirit a judge or ruler is persuaded, and soft speech breaks down the most bone-like resistance.”

Quarreling doesn’t work. It is a futile battle of flesh against flesh. James 3:14 says, “But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.”