# Seek Day 2 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *Father, You alone know what lies before me this day. Grant that in every hour of it I may stay close to you. Let me today embark on no undertaking that is not in line with your will for my life, nor shrink from any sacrifice which your will may demand. For my Lord Christ’s Sake. Amen. (A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 24 #### The King of Glory #### A Psalm of David. *24 The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,[a] the world and those who dwell therein,2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.5 He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.[b] Selah7 Lift up your heads, O gates!And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!9 Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts,he is the King of glory! Selah* #### Scripture for the Day: Matthew 7:7-12 #### Ask, and It Will Be Given *7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!* *The Golden Rule* *12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.* #### Reading for Reflection: *Let us not amuse ourselves to seek or to love God for the sensible favors (how elevated soever) which He has or may do us. Such favors, though never so great, cannot bring us so near to God as faith does in one simple act. Let us seek Him often by faith; He is within us; seek Him not elsewhere. Are not we rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, or busy ourselves about trifles which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? It is to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear. (The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Abide with Me *Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;* *The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:* *When other helpers fail and comforts flee,* *Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.* *Thou on my head, in early youth didst smile;* *And, though rebellious, and perverse meanwhile,* *Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee,* *On to the close Lord, abide with me.* *Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;* *Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;* *Change and decay in all around I see—* *O Thou who changest not, abide with me.* *I need Thy presence every passing hour;* *What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?* *Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?* *Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.* *I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;* *Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;* *Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?* *I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.* *Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;* *Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;* *Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.* ### Closing Prayer *Lord, I am yours; I do yield myself up entirely to you, and I believe that you do take me. I leave myself with you. Work in me all the good pleasure of your will, and I will only lie still in your hands and trust you. Amen. (The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)*