What we Need: To be willing

give me a willing spirit.

Psalms 51:12 (HCSB)

Are you willing?  Willing to serve that is?  Here is an honest confession.  I'm not always willing to serve.  Sometimes I become selfish and want to be served instead of serving.  When we encounter that we need a spiritual renewal.  Remember as a Christ follower/disciple we have been called to serve.  David asks for a willing spirit.  We should too.  We need a desire to be a servant to others.  It is our call.

So when you find your self lacking in motivation to serve.  Follow David's lead and ask God for a willing spirit.  He will give it to you.  He wants you to serve as well.

What we need: Joy of Salvation

 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation

Psalms 51:12 (NASB95)

Do you have His joy today?  Now, I am not asking if you are happy.  You may or may not be happy but you can still have joy.  Joy is not happiness.  Happiness is an emotion.  Joy is something more.  It is a state of mind.  It is a sense of peace even contentment in your spiritual state of being.  Joy of salvation is just that.  It is a peace or contentment in your salvation.  Happiness comes and goes but Joy holds on no matter what the circumstances.

Be joyful today in your salvation.  Honestly nothing else really matters.

What we Need: To be in His presence

Do not banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me. Psalms 51:11 (HCSB)

As we live day to day as a Christ follower, we need to feel His presence in our lives.  As Christ followers we can never lose our salvation and the Holy Spirit comes as a deposit in our lives and does not leave.  However, sin does severs and damages our relationship with the Lord.  King David pleads that God would not banish him because of his sin.

David really understands the severity and offense of our sin to God.  We sometimes do not.  But we also need to recognize the grace and mercy of God and realize that He has created us for fellowship with Him. 

Seek his presence in your life today and enjoy the sweet fellowship with our master!

What we Need: To be made consistant

renew a steadfast  spirit within me.

Psalms 51:10 (HCSB)

Do you need consistency in your spiritual walk?  If you are like me you may answer that question with a sarcastic, "No!  I am consistently do the wrong thing."  David asks for God to give him a steadfast spirit.  He wants to be steady or consistent.  But to be consistent in godliness not spiritual failure.

God can make us steady.  He can keep us consistent in our walk.  He is willing, if we are.  Pray today that God will make you consistent in your walk.  It may make all the difference as you follow the Master.

What we need: To be made Pure

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

Psalms 51:10 (NASB95)

 What do you need?  Spiritually, what do you need?  We often think of revival as something we do maybe once a year or so.  But revival is really a spiritual renewal that needs to be happening regularly.  For King David it did.  Particularly here in Psalm 51.  He has just come off of the whole Bathsheba incident.  He has committed adultery, murder and cover up.  He has been confronted by the prophet and He needs spiritual renewal.

God is so good that He does not abandon us after we have abandoned Him.  David asks, "God create in me a clean heart."  He asks for purity. 

Here is a challenge for us today.  Perhaps we need to go to God confess our sins and ask Him for purity.  Ask Him to clean our heart. 

Grace

Grace is good. Consider its implication in our day to day living.

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