Renovation in Progress

I'm going to be brutally honest and vulnerable here. It may even shock some of you. I have needed a "Quiet Time" renovation for some time now. It's not that I haven't been spending time with Him or reading my Bible. It's just that I want MORE. I want a radical intimacy with Him that I know will take a strategic plan to happen. And while I have been here in Nashville, shopping around at Opry Mills, I may have stumbled on just the thing. It's a book by Catherine Martin called "Six Secrets to a Powerful Quiet Time". I have discovered some incredible truths there and I want to share some of my discoveries.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 says "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth: for I delight in these things."

There is NOTHING more important for you and I as Christ followers than to KNOW Him intimately. I don't know about you but I am "desperate for Him" as Michael W. Smith says. I want to dive deep in His love and in the knowledge of Him. And I want that for you, too. What greater adventure could there be? So hang on - and share in these truths with me from time to time.

If you haven't been having a quiet time with the Lord each day, you can start right now. How will you ever grow in your relationship with Him, if you are not spending time with Him? I love my husband and I LOVE to spend time with him. And because of all the time we have spent together I KNOW him, I know I can TRUST him, I know he has my best interests at heart...and he is just my husband! How much more God knows me already - He MADE me. He can see my heart. He can see my motives. He sees the ugly part of me that no one else sees and loves me anyway.

Hey, I have been a believer for almost 30 years and I still struggle with getting a consistent quiet time with Him. You are not alone. We are not perfect. But I am praying that we are hungry enough for Him - desperate enough for Him - to know Him...that we will journey together so that we might KNOW and UNDERSTAND (as much as our finite little minds can) that HE is the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justcie, and righteousness on earth. We will do this because He DELIGHTS in these things.

Ask God right now to prepare your heart for the journey- the pilgrimage of your heart to HIS!

Hang on! He is doing a mighty work in you right now!