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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 4/12/12 - Step 11 - Seeking God's Face

"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." Matthew 7:7-11 NLT

Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God through Jesus Christ, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out. (12 Steps for Christian Recovery)

At this point in our step process we should be mostly free of our past, and continually examining ourselves in the present. The next task for us should be to seek to constantly improve our relationship with Christ. Because of the change God has made in us, our prayer life should be more that the self centered laundry list of our wants and needs. We begin to pray for God's will for us and the power to carry it out. We also begin to listen for the answer. There is nothing spooky about this step, prayer is simply talking to God and meditation is listening for the answer. Yet too many of us never even bother to listen.

The problem is that every relationship requires us being able to listen. If you never listen to your spouse they will probably feel as if their feelings and opinions are not valid to you. If we act like this to our friends they probably won't be our friends very often, yet we treat God just like this and say how much we want to grow.

Our growth is directly tied to our relationship with God. The more we seek Him, the more we will grow. If we don't seek Him we won't grow. 

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