God's amazing..His love is amazing.
I am beginning to find that there is this love- a love that i have never known- that God has for me! Like i know He loves me, I have felt His love and all but there is this higher, more heavenly, genuine, pure, love that goes beyond all description. I cant describe it. It want to Live for Love. I want to know this Love even more everyday and to love others with this love. I think alot of us miss this love, or at least I have. We compromise ourselves and even what our hearts/spirit longs for because of selfish reasons. We settle for whats less of His best in our lives. those things can end up in Lukewarm living. I lived there for so long. Where I felt I was trying to live in the natural with the phrase "i dont feel like it" over my head and where God is in the spiritual realm, in the heavenlies. I wanted to be there. We all need to get rid of this "i dont feel like it", "its to inconvienent" and so on attitude. We will never see the fullness of God in our lives or live/taste that abundant life Jesus came to give cause our whole view will be turned toward us.
I want to live in the Dream God has. I want to live in the Vision God has. I want to live and engage in the heavenly purpose God has for me. To submit to something greater than I am. To see the wonders and mysteries of God revealed to me. So, you know i asked God to change me, help me, and change that phrase that was hanging over my head. And of course Faithful One He is, He did. [this was all last week] That where i began to see this love like i never had. It surpasses everything lol =D. I watched a Misty Edwards video lat week, which is what God used to change me and just give me a whole knew perspective and a whole new thing to strive for. to Live for Love.
Something she said i really like was "We are not mostly sinners who try to love. We are mostly lovers who struggle with sin."
Flips your mind around doesnt?
I felt like the Lord was showing me and telling me that night that this is love I will only know by encountering his love. Encountering His heart. Encountering Him. I HAVE to encounter Him everyday! I strive now to Encounter the depths of His heart where this Love is found everyday. I can not go a day with out this love- i dont want to. I want to Love him with ALL of my heart, with ALL of my soul, and with ALL of my mind!! Something Misty said was, " have you ever stopped to ask God what it means?" And yall, what does that mean??? what does that mean to God?? One of the songs the worship team sang at the end of the video after she was done said I want to love you with all of my heart, with all of my soul, mind and strength and then says "because you love me this way". Have you ever thought about, i know i hadnt, that God loves you with ALL of his mind, soul, strength, and heart! That He just wants to consume you like never before and reveal THIS Love to you in so many ways like you have never seen, known, or felt?? Something I keep telling God is, "I dont want to just feel, I want to Encounter!"
This is what i strive for. God strives for my heart and affections, so i want to strive for His heart and His affections! This love is a love that has power, authority, and is agressive.
God dreams BIG. God's dream for us is big. God's dream for this world is big. That Dream God has is what i want to live in-in engage in. I was praying on the way home this past sunday and i was like "God, we dream little. You dont. You dream big" We need to stop reaching just for what we can get- what we already have. And begin to reach Beyond to the things we dont have. There is so much more that God has for us that we dont even know is there. I remember just about a week ago I was talking to God about how i was tired of routine. tired of w
hat i felt was the same thing. It was awesome but i want more. I wanted different. I felt like God was saying "well if you want it then take it" [ or something like that, i dont remember exactly if that is word for word.] Basically, i felt like He was just holding it out to me, wanting to give it to me, but just waiting for me to reach Higher to take it and quit reaching for the same thing. God's dream is so big, yet He wants us to join in. Its like everyday He invites us to live and engage in the Dream He has. He wants His beloveds to be apart of it. Cause thats how much He LOVES us!
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you know...there is a reason y God provided me this time to read this post tonight instead of last week. lol. There was a part in your post about "not feeling like it" and i have been just ugh dealing a lot with that lately. Feelings are wrong - i mean they are when you are letting them control your life. And basically I have been dealing with that a lot too lately. Just like when it comes to people i need to forgive who've hurt me or just talking to God - I would have the excuse that "i didn't feel like it" because i was hurting - and my feelings were coming first. But hey! feelings change and i sure can not have them ruling my life!! Even though things might really be challenging right now, God has a plan for me - just like He has a plan for u :) so thank you for posting this up - and i am so glad i read it today becuz i was just having one of those days where i needed to be reminded of that. I seriously need to remind myself again and again about that :D love you!
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