What are God's desires? What is the rythm of His heartbeat? God desires everything from us! I know we say this and we know this, but especially for those single ladies and single men, please hear me when I say that the Lord desires our FULL attention. I don't know about all of you, but we must come to a place where we desire no less than JESUS...where we are tired of the same old habits, and patterns that do not glorify our Saviour...tired of allowing others or anything to divert our attention for the Lord...Tired of just saying we want the FULLNES of CHRIST...but actually acting on it! There are so many things that can interupt our session with the Lord.
Its like we have an umbilical cord with our Heavenly Father that is our connection between us and Him. What is so interesting about the umbilical cord is that with a mother and her baby what goes through the umbilical cord is what feeds the baby...so what the mother eats or drinks enables the baby to grow...that umbilical cord is NEVER broken while the baby is in the womb. The baby is consistently being fed through the mother during time of growth and development. I look at this like so, we have an umbilical cord with our Jesus and we are fed consistently by HIm, but we are fed spiritual food which comes through our RELATIONSHIP with Him. If at any time our relationship is interrupted or disturbed by anything, then we can not be properly be fed by what the Lord desires us to have, because the umbilical cord strength is through RELATIONSHIP..whew...
After the baby is born the umbilical cord is cut. Now, I am not saying our connection with the Lord is cut, NO...never, but see it this way....the baby is now able to be fed in a different way...in a way where the tie between mother and baby is still there but the way he/she is fed is different. Still being groomed and developed the baby still takes in and learns from the mommy. The connection is never lost, but the baby has grown and developed more so that it can be fed more and in such a different way...Are you getting this? The baby needs its mommy, and daddy...the baby needs to be fed, can't feed itself....as the baby grows the baby is now a toddler, now a teenager, now an adult. All babies play close attention and just ABSORB everything and their surroundings and thats how they learn. Well, all of what they have learned and what has been imparted into them will be tested as they become older and become adults. What will benefit these children as they come to be adults? Relationship. Look at families now...its through relationship with others (speaking naturally) that we develop into who we are...if you do a test and put two children in different environments and surroundings from birth, you can determine of what they will develop to become. ... Okay, all this to say, as our FULL attention is on the Lord, He can continue to fully invade our lives...if we only open up a window to Him, or crack a door we are not able to RECEIVE the fullness of what the Lord desires to IMPART. THe Lord desires ALL of what we have and are...to be totally focused on HIM...not on "ministry", not on things, or people....but on HIM...through JESUS can we do Ministry..because HE IS MINISTRY..(remember to never take the driver's seat in anything, always allow the Lord to take control... when the Lord gives us something, whether it be a ministry, a vision or whatever...dont say "thank you Lord for that, now I got it....let's have this meeting and do this, or thanks Lord for all of this," and in our mind we begin to direct it and develop our own vision..in that we are taking control, loose control of your life so GOD can then gain control..then the ministry or whatever God has given us will flourish and produce the fruit He desires )through our relationship with CHRIST will HE enable us to be EFFECTIVE for HIS KINGDOM, and for others, not just for self. IT's not enough anymore that we are just saved, or just doing HIS work...WE MUST recognize that HE is the MINISTRY, HE is our CONDUCTOR and leader...never COMPROMISE...we must make sure our relationship with HIM is in TACT...that we are not just getting up, setting up meetings, talking on the phone, on facebook all day...and then saying "okay, Lord here is my time with you!" His desire is to be ONE with us, and for us to be ONE with HIM. The great men and women in the bible had awesome relationship with JESUS our LORD. Anytime, that relationship was interupted we see failure, because there is nothing in ourselves and in us that we succeed. The bible says in I PETER...to "prepare your minds for action"... we must prepare our minds to act on all the scripure we quote, all the knowledge we know, and move into action! IT begins in the MIND! May we be willing to be fed with all of what the LORD has to offer! GOD is greater than anything and everything! I pray HIS love eternally is set in your hearts, and the revelation of HIS love propel you all HIGHER and HIGHER in relationship with JESUS! May we all be able to receive all of what the LORD is and continues to deposit into each one of us!
The Lord is now drawing His people to HIMSELF in such a magnificient way! We are to be "sanctified", which means set apart! He is drawing us AWAY to HIMSELF :) TO those Hidden and secret places, where we must seek and dig to find HIM...He desires us to know HIM in that way...do we desire the same? Or do we want to continue in the same ways, the same friends, the same environment..or are we willing to turn away from all, even the things God has for us, to continue to develop our relationship with HIM. Last thing, I said this before, Abraham had recieved many promises from the LORD, but because HE was more concerned about HIS relationship with the LORD, and not the promises; through relationship was he then able to receive all of what GOD had promised. He trusted GOD knowing that HE is FAITHFUL, but Abraham's love for GOd, and faith was tested greatly...and he passed the test! How much do we truly love the LORD to leave all of that which is common to us, friends, family, desires, habits, patterns, mindsets...to follow HIM. If God said forsake everything, are we at the place to do it? Get rid of your phone, get rid of your friends...and shut in with me for years..would we do it? God desires our full attention...and for you singles, keep your full attention on the LORD...the man or female God has designed for you should do the same, as He completes the work in you both individually, when He brings you together you both will be like an ATOMIC BOMB of His shining GLORY to all! LOve HIM, and recieve HIS LOVE...thats the only way we can love one another. Respect and edification is essential in a relationship. God respects and loves us even in our most horrible actions and characteristics...remember
Blessings,
Jua
