Yearning

Last night, I had the overwhelming sense of God yearning for us. So, I looked up the word "yearn" and wanted to share a few of the meanings:

• To have an intense desire or longing for someone not present; to want strongly
• To languish as with love or desire; to desire strongly or persistently
• To have affection for, feel tenderness for

Here are a few words that fit in context of this entry:

• longing
• desire
• pant
• pine
• hunger
• ache
• crave
• languish

As I considered God's everlasting love towards me, and as He put others that He loves as deeply in front of me in that moment, I wrote this down in nearly one continuous flow. It is spoken to those He loves passionately, but because they are living in a distant, faraway land (for whatever reason), away from the nearness of His presence, they cannot know how He feels about them.

Hear the Lord speak to your heart.

Every moment
Of every day
And all through the night
While you sleep
Jesus yearns for you
He never tires or grows weary
He does not rest
He never gets discouraged in the quest
His Holy Spirit
Is striving
To ignite your heart
And set it ablaze
With passionate love
For Him...
Making you exclusively His
Wholly devoted
Completely in love with
And lost in devotion
To Him,
To His purposes,
For His people,
Ever yearning for eternal
Pleasures found
In Jesus
Alone.

"The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously." (James 4:5)

May I yearn for Jesus more and more everyday and never settle for what I had yesterday. Let's burn for passion for Him. Let's come to Him today, like these little children...



Below is a song I just found called "Yearn." Hear these two young men pour out their hearts as a prayer unto God. May we do the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5JU53DRJc

Revive Me, O God!!

"You will experience spiritual warfare. Satan will fight you at every turn as you draw near to Me. The last thing he wants is that you seek to draw near to the Lord your God. For, by doing so, it weakens his power in your life, your family, your circle, and it will cause a powerful bond between you and Me."

My desire is to be revived by the Lord again and again. Why? Because our hearts grow cold too easily. We all desire - and need - to be revived. This is not for God to revive spiritual gifts within us, though that will happen. It is not so we get fired up and perform better in life, business, ministry, etc. Rather, it is so that our hearts will burn with passion for Jesus, desiring Him above all others, above anything else. It is to fulfill the desire on the heart of the Lord Himself - that His Bride would look away from the din of this world and catch even a glimpse of His stunning beauty, to behold the most desirable One in the universe. Seeking the Lord in His glory through the eyes of faith - revealed by the Holy Spirit to our hearts - will cause us to respond to His overtures to draw very near, to learn of Him, to understand His compassion for the multitides. This kind of revival pleads for the Lord to bless and multiply the creative ideas in our hearts to carry out the strategy the Holy Spirit gives us to perform His will in and through us in the earth. All for the glory of Jesus...


Corporate revival mobilizes a willing army, outfitted, cleansed, working together as a well-practiced unit of soldiers. It is hearing the battle cry given by the Holy Spirit of God to "snatch" them from the fires - quickly. Revival stirs us to awaken out of a coma of complacency and compromise. The Holy Spirit infuses within us a fiery love for Jesus that not only motivates us to move in His power, but to demonstrate the power of God through His gifts to people who are spiritually dead.


Revival is also very personal. It is a personal awakening to our first love - Jesus returning us to that place where He first found us, when the newness of our love for Him caused us to be much more reponsive to His word, His touch, His presence. We were explosive in praise, radical with eliminating sin from our life, and eager to sell everything we owned and follow Him to the ends of the earth.

So, we ask ourselves today: "Where did we go off and become hard-hearted, indifferent, and lose our love for Jesus and His Word?" The answer? One step of compromise at a time. It could be ignoring a clear command God gave us - "Write that letter!!" which seemed rather insignificant at the time, but the urgency of it never ever went away. Even today, the guilt of our disobedience to the prompting of the Holy Spirit fills us with shame. Over time, each disobedient act causes a deafening of our spiritual ears, dulling us with an inability to hear the Holy Spirit, causing us to become more and more cold-hearted towards the things of God and His kingdom. Our passion for Jesus then begins to wane and we fill that hunger for Him with substitutionary obsession-compulsions from the world, or take on some other lesser spiritually demanding task-oriented exercise, deceiving ourselves to be "okay" with God. In our heart of hearts, however, when we are quite alone, we know we are far from okay. Our hearts of filled with fear and dread, and pride will keep us separated from the Lover of our souls...if we let it.

And, all the while, God has not looked away from gazing at us. Not once. His longing for our impassioned hearts set aflame for Him has never waned. The prayer of my heart every moment is "Revive me, O God!"

Seek the Lord!

There is a definite word being given to the worshipers of the Almighty God, to Jesus His Son: Seek the Lord while He may be found! It comes as an urgent plea of the Spirit of God to His church, Seek the Lord while He may be found. While it is true that the world has seen difficult days in the past, I think we all agree that what is yet to come will be days none of us could have ever anticipated, even that which we have read in Scripture. Seek the Lord while He may be found!

At present, we are enjoying a feast of the Word of God, in a variety of palatable forms: books, television stations dedicated to Christian broadcasting, internet websites covering every topic imaginable, etc. We will have no excuse for the time we have used to be sure.

The urgency of the Holy Spirit to seek God is not only because of dark days yet ahead. I believe Jesus has such a great desire to impart Himself in greater measures to us that He is calling us to draw near. This move near the Throne of God requires our action, a response to the Spirit of God who arranges opportunities for us to hear Him speak, listen to His Word revealed to our hearts, see Him as He is in His incredible glory. Learning to be sensitive to His quiet pleas and respond to Him immediately will facilitate a union of our heart to His, allowing us moments that satisfy the deepest part of us, because we are "in" His Presence. It is important to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit who will direct us in our worship to Him, if we allow Him to. The result will be refreshing and will reveal facets of the character of God we never before imagined. Our time in His presence will certainly affect every part of our being as well.

The more I seek you, the more I find you...