Lord, Visit Your People

This morning I was reading a little from  Matthew 8:14-17 NIV:
[14] "When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. [15] He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

[16] When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. [17] This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

I was just thinking that this is exactly what we want Jesus to do, to come visit this house!  We want You Jesus, present in our midst. We love the stuff You do, but we are more interesting in You than in the stuff.  We know that when visit You will be Yourself, and as a result of that we will see healings and deliverance, for they flow out of who You are.

In line with the previous verse, I felt lead to these verses from Isaiah 64:1-4 NIV:

[1] "Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
[2] As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
[3] For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
[4] Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him."

Yes Lord, this is what we pray!  That You would come down and visit us with Your very presence.  That You would do great and awesome things that we did not expect, that Your name would be glorified in all the nations.  Lord, that the people would know that You and You alone are the God who loves them, who has redeemed them, and who desires real relationship with them.

Yes Lord, visit Your people!