Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…( James 4:8) Our desires are created by our focus. I learned this truth during a time of personal struggle way back in 1982. The previous year I had taken a volunteer position as an associate pastor in a small church. I had taken this position after just graduating from one of the Bible schools I attended. I later realized that I had missed God’s best. The experience left me empty and disappointed. I didn’t want to read my Bible,

Bless the Lord, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding the voice of His word (Psalm 103:20). We are not alone. Not only do we have the Spirit of God to enable us and help us from within, but we also have the help of the angels of God from without. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them (Psalm 34:7). For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you

And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming (1 John 2:28). Two classes of believers will stand before Jesus when He returns; the confident, and the ashamed. The confident are those who loved not their lives to the death. They resisted the strong desires of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. They kept the world at a distance by immersing themselves daily in the Word of God,