Give Me Times of Refreshing

[S] Acts 3:19 --
 ¹⁹"Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

[O] I need a times of refreshing especially after feeling a fatigue from the small group launching efforts, fighting some sort of virus in my system, roof leaking in multiple locations when we had the storm yesterday.  My kind of refreshing is to get away from all this and when I return all the problems will have been erased but God's refreshing is to have more of His presence in my life than my sinful nature; and quickest way to do that is to repent and return to Him.  This morning, I was at a retail location about to get some service and they find some problem with my account again.  This is the like the 5th time this has happened and so when I walked up to the customer service agent, I started out by saying "I'm frustrated this is happening again and again...."  Not what I would call a refreshing time.  So this verse convicts me even more today of the significance of repenting and returning to God to restore the refreshing times in my life.

[A] Daily, reflect and repent of the shortcomings in my own life.  Seek for increasing of His presence in my life by 1) filling my mind with His words; 2) minimize my own ways of thinking.

[P] Dear God, may Your presence overflow out of my life to allow times of refreshing in my life.  May I not seek from anywhere else but by increasing Your presence in me.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.