~I Don't Want No Rock to Cry Out In My Place!~

I've had this on my mind a couple of days.  I actually think I should have said it in church last night, but I didn't.  So, here I am today writing it down and repenting.

I find myself setting my sites on that next great meeting.  I couldn't wait for our church camp meeting to come because I just knew God was going to move.  I was going to be refreshed and find help.  Then I couldn't wait for that next camp meeting to get here, so I could get the help I felt like I needed in order to help others.  In both camp meetings God did move GREATLY, no doubt about it.  But it never fails that when we come expecting to receive, God moves.

What would happen if in EVERY service we came with that same expectation that we have for camp meeting or revivals?  What if when we walked through the door, if we knew we needed to be at the alter repenting or praying through, we went straight to the alter and got it done.  Then the rest of the service we would be free.  What if we got rid of that 'move me if you can' attitude and just started to praise God?  What if we quit worrying about who was there or what so and so was wearing or if someone is sitting in the corner talking about us and worshipped our Savior with everything that was in us?  Let me tell you what would happen.... we would have REVIVAL!  God would touch our hearts in a way that would change us, heal us and set us free.  That touch would then spill over and touch those around us and save our lost loved ones.  We have only seen a measure of what God has for us and it's right there for us to walk into.  We have sold ourselves so short on what God has for us.  It's time to move past our feelings and walk into that great move!

I don't know about you, but I am tired of just a regular old service.  I want to come into every service and leave with less of me and more of Jesus.  I believe it's the only way we are going to make it through these last days.  We can't settle for a form of godliness, we have to really have JESUS!!!!!

John 4:23&24

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

~My Heart~

I just want to worship him. I want to fall in love with Him over and over and over again. With 3 boys ages 3 and under, I have to be honest, sometimes I wonder why I got dressed and went to church because I have spent the whole service either saying No, No, shhhh, be still, changing diapers and taking the oldest to the bathroom, running out as fast as I can when the get too loud because I don't want to interrupt the entire service or that last and great thing of trying to get ME out of the way. And all my soul wants is a little time to really worship my Savior. So, why do I go? Because I know that even though I may feel like I have missed the entire service, I haven't. There is something in every service that will stick with me, even if I am unaware of it getting in there. And my babies need to be there. My middle son reminded me just this past Sunday night that even though I think he has no idea what is going on... things are sticking with him too! In the middle of one of my Shhhhs, dad said Amen to his prayer and my son looked up and said Amen! :)

You see, the thing I have to remember is that I haven't always even had that desire to worship Jesus. Especially that longing from inside that seems to already be worshipping when I feel like I just need that worship time. And while I want to worship from the outside too, (I do get to at times), God sees my heart. My heart of worship. I am thankful that he is my heart's desire and that I have that longing to worship and to be in the house of the Lord.

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As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after you

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship you

You alone are my strength, my shield

To you alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship you

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Psalm 27:4-5

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

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I was glad when they said unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord.

There is peace, sweet peace

There is peace in the house of the Lord.

I was glad when they said unto me, let us to to the house of the Lord.

There is love, true love

There is love in the house of the Lord.

I was glad when they said unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord.

There is hope, our only hope

There is hope in the house of the Lord.