Post by MIRIAM JACOB on May 30, 2009 3:26:02 GMT -5
ABBA
“Suppose it was so ordained that your whole future, your eternal destiny was to depend on your personal relationship with the Pastor in your area. Wouldn’t you arrange to spend considerably more time with him than you do now? Wouldn’t you try with his help to overcome all the character defects and personality traits that you knew were displeasing to him? And suppose business obligations called you away to that city of saints and scholars. Wouldn’t you drop him frequent notes from there and be eager to return to him “as the deer pants for the streams of water” (Psalm 42:1) And if he confided to you that he kept a diary of personal memoirs, which were the deepest whisperings of his inner self, wouldn’t you be eager to not only read them but to steep yourself in them so that you might know and love him more?” – Brennan Manning
Doesn’t just reading that quote awake something inside of you, a hunger and fire so deep that it feels like it will ravish every part of you if you let it?
The depth of intimacy that the Lord calls us to is sweeter than the sweetest of honey.
His heart does not condemn, His Word does not crush, but uplifts, invites…and calls us ever so deep.
To ignite the fire within our hearts, hotter, stronger and more intense than ever before is His desire, the all consuming passionate One….longs to consume us passionately!
There is a place found in Him where all our concerns, our cares, our worries fade, and we are intoxicated and overwhelmed by His beauty before us.
His gaze ever so loving, ever so gentle, yet can break through the hardest of hearts, invites us into the Bridal chamber, the place of the heart to heart dance that lasts for all eternity.
The invitation before us; to truly seek His face, awaits us daily…to be swept up into the whirlwind of love, a love that purchased us at a price and cost us nothing. A love that embraces us not for what we do, but who we are. Not for where we are going, but for who we were created to be. A love that suffocates, that takes our breath away, the love of our heavenly Daddy…. Nothing compares!
His heart beckons… His heart yearns…
Our hearts beckon…. Our hearts yearn..
All for Him… for His beauty… to know the depth of who He is…
To affect our every move, our every breath, our every word..
His beacons of love, light, soft gentle touch to those yet found..
The wind of the Spirit whispers to us again today..
Come deeper… Come higher….Your destiny is here…
The eyes of fire of the all consuming passionate One gaze upon us…the heavenly dew of revelation saturates us ... our arms and hearts open wide to Him.. OVERFLOW we cry...
Leaving all behind… we run to His arms…
…. Create in us a hunger we have not known …..
….. A thirst to never be quenched …..
….. A heart to never stop yearning …..
…. A voice to never be silenced …..
Complacency shattered, discouragement, fear, emptiness burned away in the fire of His love…
Before Him in awe… our deepest cries come forth…
”Abba”
© LANA VAWSER
“Suppose it was so ordained that your whole future, your eternal destiny was to depend on your personal relationship with the Pastor in your area. Wouldn’t you arrange to spend considerably more time with him than you do now? Wouldn’t you try with his help to overcome all the character defects and personality traits that you knew were displeasing to him? And suppose business obligations called you away to that city of saints and scholars. Wouldn’t you drop him frequent notes from there and be eager to return to him “as the deer pants for the streams of water” (Psalm 42:1) And if he confided to you that he kept a diary of personal memoirs, which were the deepest whisperings of his inner self, wouldn’t you be eager to not only read them but to steep yourself in them so that you might know and love him more?” – Brennan Manning
Doesn’t just reading that quote awake something inside of you, a hunger and fire so deep that it feels like it will ravish every part of you if you let it?
The depth of intimacy that the Lord calls us to is sweeter than the sweetest of honey.
His heart does not condemn, His Word does not crush, but uplifts, invites…and calls us ever so deep.
To ignite the fire within our hearts, hotter, stronger and more intense than ever before is His desire, the all consuming passionate One….longs to consume us passionately!
There is a place found in Him where all our concerns, our cares, our worries fade, and we are intoxicated and overwhelmed by His beauty before us.
His gaze ever so loving, ever so gentle, yet can break through the hardest of hearts, invites us into the Bridal chamber, the place of the heart to heart dance that lasts for all eternity.
The invitation before us; to truly seek His face, awaits us daily…to be swept up into the whirlwind of love, a love that purchased us at a price and cost us nothing. A love that embraces us not for what we do, but who we are. Not for where we are going, but for who we were created to be. A love that suffocates, that takes our breath away, the love of our heavenly Daddy…. Nothing compares!
His heart beckons… His heart yearns…
Our hearts beckon…. Our hearts yearn..
All for Him… for His beauty… to know the depth of who He is…
To affect our every move, our every breath, our every word..
His beacons of love, light, soft gentle touch to those yet found..
The wind of the Spirit whispers to us again today..
Come deeper… Come higher….Your destiny is here…
The eyes of fire of the all consuming passionate One gaze upon us…the heavenly dew of revelation saturates us ... our arms and hearts open wide to Him.. OVERFLOW we cry...
Leaving all behind… we run to His arms…
…. Create in us a hunger we have not known …..
….. A thirst to never be quenched …..
….. A heart to never stop yearning …..
…. A voice to never be silenced …..
Complacency shattered, discouragement, fear, emptiness burned away in the fire of His love…
Before Him in awe… our deepest cries come forth…
”Abba”
© LANA VAWSER