Have you ever finished a meal and made the statement that if you
could start over you would do it again, because the meal was so delicious? Have
you ever been in a worship service and when it was over you wanted to repeat it
again? If you are like me and have ever eaten in a restaurant and enjoyed a
meal like that, I could guess that you went back again to that same restaurant
in hopes to enjoy another meal as you might had that first one. Encountering
God is kind of like enjoying a great meal and wanting to repeat it again.
Sadly, many people have never experienced that kind of encounter with God and
so they do not desire to enjoy basking in His presence at all. You see it takes
a spirit of divine desperation and holy hunger to succumb to encountering those
precious times with God. But once you do encounter Him nothing else will ever
satisfies you like He does.
It may very well be that you need a fresh
touch from God or that you have never had an encountered with God before. If
not, it may be because you have only had an intellectual understanding about
Him, but have never wanted His will for your life. Maybe you have never pursued
Him in order to encounter Him. It may be that you have been busy trying to fill
the void in your life that God has placed there for Himself with other things
that have distracted you from knowing the truth about Him. Possibly you are in
a place right now where you have stopped attending church or you have simply
grown weary in Church attendance and activity and feel like you are only
walking through the motions of knowing God. Maybe it is simply repentance that
you need. You see our repentance brings spiritual passion that propels us to
seek Godly worship and when Godly passion is birthed in our hearts and in our
churches, God’s very presences enters our hearts and our churches once again.
The process of perusing God begins on bended knees. If there is any thought
that satan would like for us to be deceived on is the thought of how important
repentance is in our lives. For he knows that we cannot encounter God on any
level if we are unwilling to repent from the very things that separate us from
God, and that my friend is our sin. Even the smallest of sin.
Whether it is a
fresh touch from God that you need today or the fact that you have never
invited Him into your life and been willing to turn from your sin allowing Him
to change you, the simple fact is we need God in our lives and according to
John chapter 14 verse 6, it is the only way to get to Him. My prayer for us
today is that God would make us incredibly hungry for Him!
Loving on you today!
Bren
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