Its just God saying 'you made a commitment to live for Me, so get your ass off your computer and seek Me, because I have things to tell you'.
We MUST go beyond saying we want to do things for God, beyond slogans which are meaningless if they are but words. There is alot to be done, alot to come, so we MUST be ready. There are many things that may distract us, even things that we think may count but really dont, and in repentance we come before God and ask that He takes our lives as living sacrifices, pleasing to Him. A whole, complete sacrifice, not a partial sacrifice, not bits and pieces. Our whole lives must be saturated with the presence of the Holy Spirit, and though we are unable to achieve all these by our own effort, if we make the decision to seek Him, He will come to us. So put aside worldy desires and distractions, and seek Him.
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The wilderness is where we are forced to leave behind the familiar, the comfortable, the past successes, the accomplishments, and the old bag of tricks that always worked before. The wilderness is where God takes us when He wants to get Egypt out of our hearts. He wants to separate us from all that we crave, so that all we crave is Him. Just as God wanted to get the taste for Egypt out of the Israelites' mouths, He wants to get the lust for certain comforts out of our appetites, too. It's not that He doesn't want us to ever be comfortable. It's just that He doesn't want us to depend on the comfortable. He wants us to depend on Him. He doesn't want us to love the comforts more than we love Him. When God aims us in a new direction, we have to let go of what we've known, be willing to embrace the unfamiliar, and trust that He will sustain us on the journey.
- Stormie Omartian
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We MUST go beyond saying we want to do things for God, beyond slogans which are meaningless if they are but words. There is alot to be done, alot to come, so we MUST be ready. There are many things that may distract us, even things that we think may count but really dont, and in repentance we come before God and ask that He takes our lives as living sacrifices, pleasing to Him. A whole, complete sacrifice, not a partial sacrifice, not bits and pieces. Our whole lives must be saturated with the presence of the Holy Spirit, and though we are unable to achieve all these by our own effort, if we make the decision to seek Him, He will come to us. So put aside worldy desires and distractions, and seek Him.
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The wilderness is where we are forced to leave behind the familiar, the comfortable, the past successes, the accomplishments, and the old bag of tricks that always worked before. The wilderness is where God takes us when He wants to get Egypt out of our hearts. He wants to separate us from all that we crave, so that all we crave is Him. Just as God wanted to get the taste for Egypt out of the Israelites' mouths, He wants to get the lust for certain comforts out of our appetites, too. It's not that He doesn't want us to ever be comfortable. It's just that He doesn't want us to depend on the comfortable. He wants us to depend on Him. He doesn't want us to love the comforts more than we love Him. When God aims us in a new direction, we have to let go of what we've known, be willing to embrace the unfamiliar, and trust that He will sustain us on the journey.
- Stormie Omartian
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