Is He Your True Desire?

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hldude33

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[SIZE=medium]“Is He Your True Desire?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]By Zach Wood[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]Psalm 73:25-26[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]Every one of us would agree about how our desire should be for God and not for the things of this world. However, if we honestly took a daily look at our lives from a distance, we would most likely see a difference from what we desire and how we really live. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]It is truly my desire each day to make God number one and to serve Him with all my heart in whatever the day may bring. Even though my honest desire is to seek Him, there are many different distractions that seem to catch my attention as I go about my day. I find it difficult to keep my attention often on growing with God. It is easy for me to get caught up in daily preparations that I completely miss out on just stopping for a while to see something God wants me to focus on and meditate on. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]We all experience challenges all through our day. I hope and pray that this passage will encourage you to be strong in your daily desire to seek God with all your heart. We are bombarded with needs and demands at work, at home and other various things we are involved with. We must remember that our number one desire, above all other things, should be to make God priority and our heart’s desire to serve. If anything else is more important than desiring Him, then a priority check is in order.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]From the time we get up in the morning to the time we lay our head on the pillow at night, Satan is working hard to pull you away from your desire and focus in serving God in any possible way he can. He will not stop or rest in getting you to forsake that desire. He wants to put anything possible in your way to lure you and entice you to fall from walking with God. However, the more we desire Him and the stronger we become in our relationship with Him, the less impact Satan has on us. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]Honestly ask yourself the question again, “Is He your true desire?”[/SIZE]
 

afaithfulone4u

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I agree that we must always put Christ first place in every thing we do. We must put the Word in first place whenever we are tempted to lie, cheat or steal or to gossip, fornication, adultery, coveteousness or walk around in unbelief by not understanding that God is with us and wants us to be safe, joyful, upright and of a good character in all of our dealings which keeps us FAITHFUL to Christ.

Many think that it is how much we do for others that makes us upright for God but those are what Mary thought to when she was burdened with much labor to entertain Jesus which are fleshly works that are good, but they can be deceptive.
But in reality He wants to be like Martha, to humble ourselves at the feet of Jesus, under the authority of the Word making him able to work within us to renew our minds so that we learn how to cause no man loss or harm.
We must put another's best interest first place for that is what love is all about.. But never does it mean to go about doing other's work making them lazy. Or paying all their bills making them lazy and a burden to others or to look to us as their source from which they can rely. We must always be on the look out of how to get others to LOOK UP to God for all of their needs in life... just as we are to be doing. For we in ourselves can do nothing.. but our feet can take the good news of the kingdom that is available to all who can believe so that God can raise them up in His wisdom, integrity and IMAGE. Now that is a good deed!
 

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You have Mary and Martha around the wrong way. It was Mary who rested at the feet of Jesus while Martha busily went about making preparations... :)

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afaithfulone4u

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Angelina said:
You have Mary and Martha around the wrong way. It was Mary who rested at the feet of Jesus while Martha busily went about making preparations... :)

Bless ya!!!
Thank you for catching that! I have done that more than once, but have caught it.

afaithfulone4u said:
I agree that we must always put Christ first place in every thing we do. We must put the Word in first place whenever we are tempted to lie, cheat or steal or to gossip, fornication, adultery, coveteousness or walk around in unbelief by not understanding that God is with us and wants us to be safe, joyful, upright and of a good character in all of our dealings which keeps us FAITHFUL to Christ.

Many think that it is how much we do for others that makes us upright for God but those are what Martha(corrected) thought to when she was burdened with much labor to entertain Jesus which are fleshly works that are good, but they can be deceptive.
But in reality He wants to be like Mary(corrected), to humble ourselves at the feet of Jesus, under the authority of the Word making him able to work within us to renew our minds so that we learn how to cause no man loss or harm.
We must put another's best interest first place for that is what love is all about.. But never does it mean to go about doing other's work making them lazy. Or paying all their bills making them lazy and a burden to others or to look to us as their source from which they can rely. We must always be on the look out of how to get others to LOOK UP to God for all of their needs in life... just as we are to be doing. For we in ourselves can do nothing.. but our feet can take the good news of the kingdom that is available to all who can believe so that God can raise them up in His wisdom, integrity and IMAGE. Now that is a good deed!
I have corrected that here, thank you Angelina
 

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Psalm 42:1-2 (NIV)
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As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?