{"id":2639,"date":"2016-01-05T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2016-01-05T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:12:11","slug":"a-prayer-to-know-gods-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/01\/a-prayer-to-know-gods-smile.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer To Know God\u2019s Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i><\/i><\/b><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cLet your face smile on us, Lord.\u201d Psalm 4:6b<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cMay his face smile with favor on us.\u201d Psalm 67:1<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cMay the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.\u201d Number 6:25<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How do you perceive God? If His face isn\u2019t smiling in your imagination, please rethink your concept according to His Word. The truth is that He does smile. Yes, He smiles. He doesn\u2019t smile at our suffering or smile at our sin. But He smiles on His beloved, and that is you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Father,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Please smile on me today. I lift my face to you, and I ask you to shine the radiant light of your face upon me. Guide me this day into joy and into light. May I feel your joy in every thought, every decision, and in even every trace of memory, for I know you have redeemed me from the darkness. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>May I drink in Your beauty and unfailing love. Just as a good parent smiles on her child, so you smile on me. Forgive me, please, for the times I have caused you pain and sorrow. May my choices, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions give you reason\u00a0for joy today. May I sense the warmth of your smile as I go about my duties today to Your glory and to the honor of your countenance.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Amen<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet your face smile on us, Lord.\u201d Psalm 4:6b \u201cMay his face smile with favor on us.\u201d Psalm 67:1 \u201cMay the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.\u201d Number 6:25 How do you perceive God? If His face isn\u2019t smiling in your imagination, please rethink your concept according to His Word. The truth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,7,4,25,3,1],"tags":[1564,1563,1560,1562,1561],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-jesus","category-prayer","category-uncategorized","tag-enjoying-god","tag-giving-god-reason-to-smile","tag-god-smiles","tag-gods-favor","tag-the-countenance-of-god"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Prayer To Know God\u2019s Smile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/01\/a-prayer-to-know-gods-smile.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Prayer To Know God\u2019s Smile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cLet your face smile on us, Lord.\u201d Psalm 4:6b \u201cMay his face smile with favor on us.\u201d Psalm 67:1 \u201cMay the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.\u201d Number 6:25 How do you perceive God? 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