IT'S ALL ABOUT SERVING OUR SAVIOR!: A BURNING DESIRE FOR GOD

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A BURNING DESIRE FOR GOD

Do you remember when you first got saved? I'm sure that you do. That's a feeling you can never forget. I was thinking today about my daddy. He led me to the Lord. I started thinking about that overwhelming feeling you get when you become saved. It's like a flood just sweeps over you. A feeling like nothing is ever going to be able to stop you, because now you have God on your side. I wondered why we lose that feeling. The Bible says God never changes. He's always the same, so that just leaves us. We change the feeling. Over time, we let the world get to us and break our spirit. We need to find a way to get that "New Saved" feeling back. That type of feeling that only God can give you. He didn't change it.....we did. We allowed the devil to sneak in and steal a piece of our joy. Don't you know that the devil is happy about that. Let's take it back from him! I am praying that God will set my soul on fire for him. To give me that "WoW" feeling again. That feeling that nothing will ever come between me and God. That type of feeling that everyone you run into, you want to tell them about your Jesus! You want to get that feeling back? Pray for God to change your heart. To make your heart desire him only. I know that if we truly seek his presence, he will come. He's never changing, always the same. Let him put us back together again, and let's learn how to keep that burning desire in our soul.....forever.
Lord, I want to feel your presence today and always. Please set my soul on fire for you!

DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD AND HE WILL GIVE YOU THE DESIRES
OF YOUR HEART.
                           PSALM 37:4

O LORD, GOD OF OUR FATHERS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND ISRAEL, KEEP THIS DESIRE IN THE HEARTS OF YOUR PEOPLE FOREVER, AND KEEP THEIR HEARTS LOYAL TO
YOU.
                  1 CHRONICLES 29:18

YES, LORD, WALKING IN THE WAY OF YOUR LAWS, WE WAIT FOR YOU; YOUR NAME AND RENOWN ARE THE DESIRE OF OUR HEARTS. MY SOUL YEARNS FOR YOU IN THE NIGHT; IN THE MORNING MY SPIRIT LONGS FOR YOU.
                         ISAIAH 26:8-9

May God fill your heart with a burning desire for him, and may he bless you always!

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Our Beggining and how it all got started

My husband, Gary, was the pastor of a church in Conway, AR. He resigned because we felt like God wanted us some where else. We came back to our home church in Little Rock, AR. and waited on God to show us where to he wanted us to go. I prayed every night; Lord show me where you want me to go and I will be willing to follow. I prayed for a full-time ministry and for the Lord to show me how to love as he does. I felt I didn't really know how to love and I wanted to learn. Gary soon got a call from a church by our home that was looking for a pastor. We went there for several Sunday's for him to preach and was told that the church was going to call him to pastor. On that same day, I received a call from my best friend to please pray for a set of house parents at ABC Homes. Immediately I knew what God was asking us to do. Two weeks later we set off for our trip to visit ABC Homes. I was very excited to be going, but thought I can't do this. I liked my time to myself, I liked to get up and go when I wanted. I didn't want to be around a house full of kids and kaos all day! God put me in my place real fast. He let me know how selfish I was being. I had just told him the night before, you tell me where to go and I will follow. Now I was telling God I couldn't? Well, he convicted me real quick on that one. We spent the night at ABC homes in Monticello and got to know some of the kid's. They were so happy and so full of love. Gary and I got up the next morning and walked through the campus. I started crying feeling overwhelmed by the presence of God. God was all over the campus and he said; Denise, this is where you will serve me. Gary felt the same conviciton and we knew God needed us there. We stayed for almost a year and felt God asking us to move on. We gained custody of a 17 year old boy, Jackie, who is on fire for the Lord. We are very excited about what God has instore for our family and very excited to have kids to minister with us. God is so good! We seek his will for our lives always!

OUR LIFE

I am so glad you dropped by to read what we did today. It is so nice to know that we have prayer warriors on our side. Please continue coming back and viewing the blog so you will know where some of our prayer needs are. God bless you all. We love you and hope you have a great day!

Love, Gary and Denise