Desiring Desperation

You want to be radiant?
You want to glow?
You want to impact hearts for eternity?

Dwell with me.
Know me.
Listen to me.
And the secrets of my heart,
the keys to the Kingdom will be yours.




God is doing monumental things in me, y'all.
Pray.


Count on the goodness of the Lord.

Elliot on a Rainy Day

It's a rainy Thursday afternoon...and I'm sitting at Barnes & Noble.. pondering. I just cracked pen my new Elisabeth Elliot book that I just purchased and am stuck (already) in the introduction!!

Elisabeth's words have encouraged, convicted, and strengthened me with the help of the Holy Spirit!

She had a written a prayer (also on a rainy afternoon) at Wheaton College in 1947.. and it sounds just like the prayer I've been uttering to my Savior in 2008 at Barnes & Noble:

"Lord, give to me a quiet heart that does not ask to understand, but confident steps forward in the darkness guided by Thy hand."

This was my heart's cry and desire then. It is the same today. A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the KEY to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed. God loves us with an everlasting love. He is utterably merciful and kind, and sees to it that not a day passes without the OPPORTUNITY for new applications of the old truth of BECOMING (John 1:12-13) a child of God. This, to me, sums up the... [ Meaning of life ]

-Elisabeth Elliot
Magnolia, Massachusetts
October, 1994 <--- just 14 years ago!!

I feel change coming

I Feel Change Coming
- Lisa Gungor

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/gungor-06.m3u

October Morning

This is the love language of my Savior this morning...

Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
Psalm 34:8

To taste a thing must precede our DESIRE for its
sweetness. - John Piper


Piper's quote from above is so true. To taste and see
that the Lord is good must precede our desire for the
sweetness of HIMSELF!!!

Touring has been such a neat experience! I've been to
so many new places and have met so many people.. its
quite exciting!!
What has been the most challenging part of tour though
is surrendering daily. I learned the hard way that letting
myself become my own priority leads to feelings of ultimate
emptiness.
There were many times I was crying out to Jesus for joy.
For strength. For grace... and even though all of those things
are good, I was missing what I was in DESPERATE need of.

Just Himself.
My Jesus.

Everything that I kept looking to for fulfillment kept...
leaving me..needing Him.

And y'all, once HE became what I desired... (more than
strength, joy, or grace for the day..) He filled me with good
things!!
God is mightly honored when a people know that they will
die of hunger and of thirst unless they have God, Himself!


As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants
for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the LIVING GOD.
Psalm 42:1-2


He.."filled my heart with GREATER JOY than with their
grain and new wine abound."
Psalm 4:7


His goodness is great in my life.
(Psalm 31:19)