Wednesday, March 23, 2011

"Oh, I don't have to fear anything...
Because your love makes it worth it all.
And I can so willingly
lay everything down at your feet because,
your love makes it worth it all."




Sometimes we get so tied up in life that we forget the foundation of what makes us who we are. We forget that it's the Love of God that started it all and that his love will also finish it. It's through his love alone that we exist and through his love alone that we live right. If we aren't solely depending on his commands and his love then we will be out of place, and it's the truth. It's that small shift inside that whispers to us "Something isn't right..." or "Something is out of place, but what?"

The more of us we give to him, the more of him he gives to us. If we want God to fully reveal himself to us and continue to do it every day we walk in him on this path, then we've got to give him ourselves, too. He's a jealous God, and it so happens that we are jealous people. Not the sin jealousy, but the desire. Deep down we want all of God, but so many things that aren't God have worked their way through in us as temporary, fake replacements.
Momentary pleasure.
"This will work."

He will not reveal himself more until we've given him more of us. We can't be afraid to go deeper into the eyes of love.

Sometimes people even face contemplation of "Do I really want to be that close to God? Am I willing to give up everything in my life to have a real love encounter with him?"

Sometimes, even for intercessors that have found themselves out of their places, they get scared. They start to wonder if they really want to go deeper into the presence of God, because they remembered the last time they got in God's face they were on the floor for hours and for two weeks they spent a lot of time with God every day, and then after a while they grew comfortable.

Is this a generation that is willing to get rid of what is "comfortable" in order to seek the face of God and see more of him in our lives and in our cities, schools and nations?

Passion and Hunger work together. The hunger for something is what sparks passion, and passion and hunger drive us forward on this path he's leading us on. Without the hunger for him and without the passion to seek his face, we slow down and eventually stop. And that is where we are comfortable.

Just how important is he to each of us? How passionate are we for the things of him?

Ask yourself.

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