Believe it or not, I’m not talking about food.
Successful relationships don’t just happen; they are always intentional.
So let me ask you, do you hunger to know God more in 2009?
Are you NOT satisfied with business as usual in your relationship with God?
If so, you are in great company…
Great people of God all thru Scripture had an insatiable APPETITE to experience MORE of God.
People like Moses, David, and Paul to name a few…
If you want MORE, let me encourage you to read PURSUIT OF GOD. No matter how many times I have read Towzer’s book, it always challenges me. It’s one of my favorites and a reread for me every year. I put it on my blog as a resource so you can check it out. Let me know what you think!
How is your appetite? Do you want more of God?
GOD HAS A GREAT VISION FOR MY LIFE…I HAVE A CHOICE…IT WILL TAKE HARD WORK…IT WON’T HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY. I have never been as hungry ever for God and his word. May he bless all our paths to live in his word.
I’m very hungry for the things of God. I want to know the vision He has for my life, my church and my community. I shamefully had to confess this morning that my vision (as well as my circle of friends) had become too narrow. There is NOTHING He can’t do! He has a vision on my life, I have a choice, it’s hard work and it won’t happen right away.
Pursue it and do it!!
I am still in pursuit of All that God has planned for my life. The minute I “truely believed” I remember how ‘hungry’ I was for the comfort of the bible. Now (yrs later) I realize how growing in the Lord IS actually, a concious effort to think of Him in Everything I do. Still working on it, but oh, how hungry I am to truely be the woman He wants me to be! I will never stop learning about Him; His resourses are endless!!!!!!! I’m IN Love With Him, and it’s the best “relationship” I’ve ever been in!! Thanks be to GOD!
This fast is very hard some days but today at work when a bag of m&m’s split open and they went every place . Instead of thinking why can’t I have them I thought my kids are worth more to me than a treat that will last seconds. God has intrusted me with not only my birth kids but other teens in need of a home and I am fasting for guidence for all of them. I know God is going throught this with me and tell myself and those around me my kids are worth more than any temperary feeling some simple please of food may bring. I am focusing on the goal and God will bless my life in the end. Just wanted to share some thoughts that have helped me throught. Amy
The thought that God has a personality always stops me to really think about God as someone that I can get to know. I think that my thinking about God as God, not as a person, may be one of the blocks to my relationship with Him. This thought probably best defines the chasm I feel between God and me. I struggle to express what my stuggle to know God is really all about. I have worked in a prison for 7 years now. I have seen many opportunities to really help the “criminal” (aren’t we all criminals in some way or another), but within a few short months turn into what Tozer describes as the “PROGRAM.” I feel so frustrated because I know that we could have something
“real” but instead politics as usual prevail. As I read Tozer, I once again recognize that I am so willing to turn my own relationship with the Lord into a ‘program.’ As long as I get my daily 30 minutes of prayer, 30 minutes of reading, weekly church, fasting once or twice a year…then I find myself once again lost in a ‘pursuit’ of those things that I think will satisfy me. If I am to be honest I do not in large part hunger after the Lord. Rather, I am so dissatisfied most of the time that I continually turn to the Lord because at the very least I have learned that He is my answer…and I do love Him. I know one thing for sure I do not want to stand before Him and have messed this thing up…that I know for sure…that keeps me seeking after Him…