Love Letters: Echos

Love Letters:  Echos
#7 in the Series:  Daddy, It's Me--Conversations of an Ordinary Person with an Extraordinary Heavenly Father 

Imagine yourself in a beautiful canyon. There are dark green pines and black spruces at one end.  The other end is a sheer rock face.  You raise your voice and shout, “Hello!”  And wall echoes back, “HELLO…Hello..hello…”. It is a humorous experience and often produces laughter which then echoes back more laughter!

Though not all our experiences with scripture are humorous, I think God definitely has a sense of humor and I think he really enjoys it when we interact with him and his word. 

Praying the scripture back to him is one way to do this and it gives him the opportunity to speak back into our heart.

For example:

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—”  ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭1:3-5‬ NIV

An echo prayer might be: 

Father God, I praise you because you have blessed me.  You have blessed me with EVERY spiritual blessing because of Christ’s sacrifice for me and because I have accepted him into my heart.  You said you chose me before the creation of the world.  Little old me!  I am that special to you!  You chose me to be holy, set apart for you and to be without guilt. Because of your love and the sacrifice of Christ, I am now your child with all the rights of inheritance.  And my inheritance is heaven! And it is your pleasure to offer me this!  How amazing!  Thank you, Father!  Thank you, Jesus!

God is so amaaaazzzing!

Your turn…choose a scripture to echo back to God…if you don’t know where to start there are amazing ones in Psalm 119 (pick a section of a few verses that speak to you) or Ephesians 1:17-23, 2:1-10 or 3:16-20.

Let me know what impact that had.

Onward to freedom for your mustang heart!