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I keep wanting to blog about what is going on in our life as a family and keep everyone updated and I always amazed at the end of the month that the whole month has gone by already. When I do think about my blogging and what I am sharing, it always seems to fall short of what is truly important to me and that is my walk with the Lord.
I am wanting to share what is happening in my life and at the same time I just want readers to see that this is just my journey and not one to be compared to. Others, I am sure are far beyond where I am at and I am sure there are others that are not where I am at. As long as we are all on the path towards seeking the Lord, I think we are doing good.
With that said~~~Since the beginning of the year, I have had this strong, strong conviction on my heart to seek the Lord, to spend time with him. It came through a series of different sermon’s at church and I believe culminated right before we had our Missions Conference in February. I had also started to a series on Revive Our Hearts about the Song of Solomon How to Fall and Stay In Love with Jesus. WOW!!
I have not finished the series and I am just amazed at what the Lord has shown me through listening to these broadcasts. I have been able to focus my time throughout the day to make sure I am getting chapters of His Word read. I want to share with you a few quotes that I heard in the broad cast…
“But I want to love Him with a passionate, fragrant love that engages my whole being and all my senses.
She has come to realize how wonderful he is, and she longs to experience his love in the fullest possible way. She doesn’t want to just know about him casually. She doesn’t want to just know about him. She wants a close, intimate, personal relationship with him. There was a time when she was contented with his absence, but not so any longer.
I think this is a picture here of a believer in Christ who has an intense desire for a more personal, intimate love relationship with Him. This is somebody who’s come to be dissatisfied with the ordinary. They long to go further than average believers. There are other believers around you in your home perhaps or your church who are content with the status quo, just to go on professing Christ. It’s just a so-so, ho-hum relationship with Him. But you have been awakened to the loveliness of Christ. There’s something in your heart that can no longer be satisfied with a common, casual, distant relationship with Him.
You long for that intimate love relationship with Christ.”
This is where I am at. I find it so hard to put into words. The quotes from the broadcast resounded so much within me. I just have this feeling that penetrates my soul it is in the very cells of my being. So I have given up per se my Pinterest account…I have it but I know longer pin items to it, I see it was taking up too much of my time. There are lots of great recipes on there I still plan to use and there are decorations on there for our Ladies Tea at church I will be using, etc. It has just come to be uppermost in my mind to make sure my free time is on those things that would really glorify Him. Not that Pinterest is the evil one, but if something is taking so much of your time that you are no longer focusing large amounts of your day on the Lord but on a worldly pursuit, then it is time to let something go.
I believe it was in early March that I was at a Sunday evening service and was blessed beyond measure. Unbeknownst to the congregation the teens had been challenged by our Youth Pastor to memorize scripture. I am not sure if the verses or chapter was assigned or if they were able to pick on their own. What took place, was a young gentleman by the name of Timothy, came to the podium and recited all of John chapter 4 with no assistance. I think Timothy must be all of 17. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the congregation. Perhaps due to the conviction of the Holy Spirit upon most of us for not spending enough time to get God’s word in our hearts. I am told he did it in a week earlier than the time allotted.
Well shortly thereafter, there was another broadcast on Revive Our Hearts You Need Hunger a three part series on how to memorize the word. Janet Pope was the guest speaker and she has written a book on how she started this process in her life. I might add she has memorized 14 books of the bible and over 100 chapters. She showed that we do not have blocks of time in our day to sit down and devote to memorization. However, we do have time when we are getting ready in the morning, when we are folding laundry, when we are putting together the evening meal, driving children to sports practice, waiting in lines, waiting at practice, and the list goes on and on….when you add up those little snippets of time, you DO have time to get the word in your heart.
So I took the challenge I heard, just as she took it years ago when she first heard someone quote a chapter at a conference. I started last week and memorized Psalms 1….yes 6 verses. Some might scoff, but I say let them. I did it, I set my mind to it and accomplished my goal and am moving forward. My children are on board with the idea and we sat down this week to start the complete book of Titus. One verse at a time day by day building on the previous verses. I am looking forward to the blessings that abound for getting the Lord’s word in my heart and a constant mediation in my mind.
In the midst of all of this, I came across a blog post that mentioned The Hello Mornings Challenge A challenge to get up and seek the Lord first thing in the morning with prayer, scripture reading as well as exercise. I took the challenge as well. I was getting up at 8am previously and am now up at 7:30 and am seeking to get up at 7am. The next challenge session starts May 6th and the FREE registration starts April 26th it will be a 13-week bible study of John and there will be a downloadable file to study along. I am really excited to be apart of this Spring/Summer session and have signed up to be a an Accountability Coach to encourage those on my team. I hope you all can join in if you have the time.
I also finally found a great deal on a used copy of Baxter’s Explore The Book, it is by J. Sidlow Baxter and it is the six volumes in one book and goes through the whole bible in an in-depth study. I had asked my Pastor for a good study book of the bible as he does not recommend Strong’s concordance and he gave me this book that I mentioned. I am really looking forward to being able to find out more about the bible and the people that wrote the books of the bible, etc.
Well that is it in a nutshell. You see everything else just seems, to me, to pale in comparison to the Lord and my hearts desire.
