Jer 29:13 ~ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Seeking with all your heart, what does it mean to you?
When we were little ones and we played hide n seek, if you were the "IT" person, you would go close your eyes tightly and sometimes even put your hands over our face to cover our eyes so not to be able to see anything and as the "IT" person you had to count out loud so everyone could hear you counting. When you reached the determined number you would announce in a loud voice, "ready or not here I come". Then you would begin your pursuit! You thought of a million hiding places and where everyone could be and you always went to the obvious places first, you know like where you have hidden before yourself. Now depending on your Hide n Seek territory, this game could last quite some time or not long at all. But it always seemed fun to seek after the last one who you just couldn't manage to find. You would seek here, you would seek there and just miss them it seems. Sometimes the game would end because you just couldn't find that last person and you gave up. Which always meant you were going to be the "IT" person again, because YOU COULD NOT FIND THE ONE YOU WERE SEEKING AFTER.
Have you ever felt this way in your spirit seeking? I have and quite frankly, if we were all honest I believe we would all say, we have been there before. Seeking after God only to give up after a little bit, saying I am seeking him, I am, I really am, but I just can't seem to find him. Then in your frustration get up and pursue something else, maybe TV or a game or the Internet or a good book.
I have found that at that time, at the point of I am not hearing anything, I don't feel the presence of God here in my seeking, it is at that point that I want to turn away and go do something else, that is when I have to press in a little harder and refuse to go on to something else. I press in to seek more of him, it becomes my heart cry to find him. I must connect, I must connect! Then I find him.
You know, He is there all the time, with you all the time. But it is moments of desperation cries of the heart that he reveals his heart to you.
I have read the Tommy Tenney books, God Chasers, God Catchers and the daily devotional for the God Catchers and have done the workbook that goes along with them. Great information. He talks about the hide n seek game but as he plays it with his daughter. How she is the "it" person chasing after her daddy and they are running and running and he is always just a few steps from her and then she will stop and say, OH DADDY and it melts his heart and then he turns around and begins to pursue her. I love to say, OH DADDY to my God and melt his heart. Then feel his presence all around me.
What have you been doing to melt the heart of your Daddy God? How does he respond?
Please feel free to respond on comments~
Blessings ~
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Post Script ~ "WORSHIP" after Worship
How do I begin~
For the last 2 Sunday nights, there have been a handful of people that continued at the altar for a considerable amount of time after worship. Originally those who had gone for prayer, had now brought in a Presence of God in their WORSHIP of Him.
This was no ordinary worship, it is the worship created from the compassion of Christ and the passionate heart seeking ALL our Daddy God has. And I don't mean what is in His hands, I mean all of what is in His heart! THAT catches His attention fast.
Sunday, two weeks ago, I, myself was undone in the presence of God, His Spirit was upon me so heavy. I ended up on my face before him in my worship, more than once. Trying to get up and compose myself only to find out we, me and God, were not finished yet. I laughed and I wept, I laughed and I wept. I sang and I tried to dance. I say tried because I stayed where I had been sitting and there isn't much room in between the rows of seats. My Daddy God visited me in such a way, I am, once again, forever changed. It really isn't something you can put in to words, you just know you have been touched and changed.
That Sunday had started out with a vision for someone, as I was getting ready for church. All I saw was the back of this person, He gave words to me for them. I began to wonder who it was and during the altar call, as I was praying for different ones, I wondered who it was for and the altar call was almost finished, and I saw this person and believe they had already been prayed for, but I had really felt the need to go over to them and as I laid my hand upon their shoulder, I saw it all again. This, is who it was for. God is so good!
Well, I guess I did that Sunday kinda backwards.....
This Sunday, which was yesterday~ began with words,
Isa 40:3
The voice of one that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
vs4 ~Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth
The CRY OF ONE, the cry of one, the cry of one!
WOW!
It was an incredible day in the Lord. Sunday night I spent with the babies and the little ones, it was the best yet with them. After cleaning up, I went in to the sanctuary, a handful still at the altar. Hmm! A handful, the cry of one!
The music of the few who remained of the worship team continued. The worship and cries of those few who remained at the altar continued, and continued, until there were just a handful, the cry of one~
WORSHIP after worship, was beyond description, I was on my face before the Lord, I was singing before the Lord and I danced, I danced before the Lord, as never before. It was only me before the Lord. While there were others there, it was only me and him, no one else mattered. Nothing else mattered, except my worship of him! My cry was not for SOME "THING" it was for more of HIM, MORE OF HIM!
After moments like these you are ruined for the ordinary. You can't help but walk away changed, changed from the inside out and from the outside in.
AS we were preparing to leave, we were talking about events in the past of the Glory of God and how WOW it was. And as I am writing this now I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying and declaring, that was then, this is now! A new day has dawned, what is in the past is in the past, what you think of when you remember me you are remembering the past, but again I say to you the past is the past and this is a new day. A new day for my manifestation to be ever present with you, the chosen priesthood, the ones who are a peculiar people. The one who cries out. Says the Lord. I will reveal my glory, I will reveal my face, I will reveal my heart to you as never before as it has been written, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, what you are about to see and hear, says the Lord. It will be a new thing because this is a new day! You are near my heart and I have seen great pleasure in watching you and hearing your heart cries. Now get ready says the Lord, as I descend to ascend you to the heavenlies. Says the spirit of the Lord.
Thank you Jesus!
Life as usual, I think not!
Blessings~
For the last 2 Sunday nights, there have been a handful of people that continued at the altar for a considerable amount of time after worship. Originally those who had gone for prayer, had now brought in a Presence of God in their WORSHIP of Him.
This was no ordinary worship, it is the worship created from the compassion of Christ and the passionate heart seeking ALL our Daddy God has. And I don't mean what is in His hands, I mean all of what is in His heart! THAT catches His attention fast.
Sunday, two weeks ago, I, myself was undone in the presence of God, His Spirit was upon me so heavy. I ended up on my face before him in my worship, more than once. Trying to get up and compose myself only to find out we, me and God, were not finished yet. I laughed and I wept, I laughed and I wept. I sang and I tried to dance. I say tried because I stayed where I had been sitting and there isn't much room in between the rows of seats. My Daddy God visited me in such a way, I am, once again, forever changed. It really isn't something you can put in to words, you just know you have been touched and changed.
That Sunday had started out with a vision for someone, as I was getting ready for church. All I saw was the back of this person, He gave words to me for them. I began to wonder who it was and during the altar call, as I was praying for different ones, I wondered who it was for and the altar call was almost finished, and I saw this person and believe they had already been prayed for, but I had really felt the need to go over to them and as I laid my hand upon their shoulder, I saw it all again. This, is who it was for. God is so good!
Well, I guess I did that Sunday kinda backwards.....
This Sunday, which was yesterday~ began with words,
Isa 40:3
The voice of one that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
vs4 ~Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth
The CRY OF ONE, the cry of one, the cry of one!
WOW!
It was an incredible day in the Lord. Sunday night I spent with the babies and the little ones, it was the best yet with them. After cleaning up, I went in to the sanctuary, a handful still at the altar. Hmm! A handful, the cry of one!
The music of the few who remained of the worship team continued. The worship and cries of those few who remained at the altar continued, and continued, until there were just a handful, the cry of one~
WORSHIP after worship, was beyond description, I was on my face before the Lord, I was singing before the Lord and I danced, I danced before the Lord, as never before. It was only me before the Lord. While there were others there, it was only me and him, no one else mattered. Nothing else mattered, except my worship of him! My cry was not for SOME "THING" it was for more of HIM, MORE OF HIM!
After moments like these you are ruined for the ordinary. You can't help but walk away changed, changed from the inside out and from the outside in.
AS we were preparing to leave, we were talking about events in the past of the Glory of God and how WOW it was. And as I am writing this now I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying and declaring, that was then, this is now! A new day has dawned, what is in the past is in the past, what you think of when you remember me you are remembering the past, but again I say to you the past is the past and this is a new day. A new day for my manifestation to be ever present with you, the chosen priesthood, the ones who are a peculiar people. The one who cries out. Says the Lord. I will reveal my glory, I will reveal my face, I will reveal my heart to you as never before as it has been written, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, what you are about to see and hear, says the Lord. It will be a new thing because this is a new day! You are near my heart and I have seen great pleasure in watching you and hearing your heart cries. Now get ready says the Lord, as I descend to ascend you to the heavenlies. Says the spirit of the Lord.
Thank you Jesus!
Life as usual, I think not!
Blessings~
Thursday, May 1, 2008
I'll Never Know How Much It Cost
I woke up this morning to a song in my head. It is something we all do and usually that song sticks in our brain all morning if not all day long.
A portion of the song is as follows:
I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that cross,
Well, actually here it is as close as I can get it... please take a moment and worship!
Light of the world, You stepped down into darkness.Open my eyes, let me see.
Beauty that made this heart adore You, Hope of a life spent with You
Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God
You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me King of all days oh, so highly exalted, Glorious in heaven above, Humbly You came To the earth You created, All for loves' sake became poor.
Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God. You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God, You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me. Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God. You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me.
I'll never know how much it cost to see my sins upon that cross--
The actual title of this Chris Tomlin song is "Here I am to Worship". When we sing it at church, it always takes me to a deeper worship. I can't really sing this without tears flowing down my face.
what my Savior did for me, for you, for each of us is unfathomable. That He knew, he knew what was going to happen on that cross and even before the cross and He chose, yes, HE CHOSE to follow His destiny anyway because He knew the impact on the Kingdom of Heaven. He too, had a will, just like we have our own will, to choose, and not to choose.
What do you choose? To make an impact on the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of Darkness?
Blessings ~
A portion of the song is as follows:
I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that cross,
Well, actually here it is as close as I can get it... please take a moment and worship!
Light of the world, You stepped down into darkness.Open my eyes, let me see.
Beauty that made this heart adore You, Hope of a life spent with You
Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God
You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me King of all days oh, so highly exalted, Glorious in heaven above, Humbly You came To the earth You created, All for loves' sake became poor.
Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God. You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, To see my sin upon that cross.
I'll never know how much it cost, Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God, You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me. Here I am to worship, Here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that You're my God. You're altogether lovely, Altogether worthy, Altogether wonderful to me.
I'll never know how much it cost to see my sins upon that cross--
The actual title of this Chris Tomlin song is "Here I am to Worship". When we sing it at church, it always takes me to a deeper worship. I can't really sing this without tears flowing down my face.
what my Savior did for me, for you, for each of us is unfathomable. That He knew, he knew what was going to happen on that cross and even before the cross and He chose, yes, HE CHOSE to follow His destiny anyway because He knew the impact on the Kingdom of Heaven. He too, had a will, just like we have our own will, to choose, and not to choose.
What do you choose? To make an impact on the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of Darkness?
Blessings ~
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