Okie dokie, so lately I have been thinking a lot about money and having things-material things. I have been praying for God to work on my heart to not desire the things in this life that have NO eternal value, but to only desire to bless others with the blessings I have been given. I don't want to be a person that desires materials or a person who finds happiness in having things! I want to desire God---my daily bread....ALONE! He is the source of everything and I want all of Him..and so if I want all of Him...I gotta get rid of the want for anything and everything else that does not line up to His word and that does not have eternal purpose. I believe when God does house cleanining in our hearts like this it makes room for our focus to get OFF of ourselves and onto HIM! This opens our hearts to desire what HE desires...which includes souls! I have been experiencing this in a new way recently and it has been so wonderful to come into more oneness with the father's desires. God has been seriously tugging on my heart about the people I know that are not saved, that do not know Him!!! I get all emotional about it...BUT unless I pray for these people...unless I TAKE ACTION in prayer or in whatever the Holy Spirit leads me to do...then these are just emotions!! (This ties into my last post about prayer). Anyways, SO basically, when we desires things for ourselves that do not have eternal value--things that are selfish desires, like material possesions and etc....we are blocking our hearts from being open to desiring what God desires....desiring stuff=HEART BLOCKAGE! This is one reason why we must ask God to prune our hearts of selfish desires. It is such a joy to desire what God desires, to get a taste of God's own heart!!
Lord, work on our hearts, bringing us into more oneness with your holy desires. Lord, we don't want to be caught up in the things of this life that do not impact eternity. God we want to be about your business. To do this, we know we must get rid of the cloudiness that covers and hardens our hearts that is a result of selfish wants and ambitions. Make us more like you. May we live to please you alone and be people who make an impact on the rest of eternity...all for YOU! In Jesus name..AMEN!
1 timothy 6:6-10
"Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can't take anything with us when we leave it. So, if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of eveil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows"
WOW this verse is sooo solid! Basically Paul is telling it like it is!
P.S. -----Today I went shopping, which I actually don't enjoy that much anymore, oddly enough. I went to Sears (of all places haha). Anyways, I bought ONE item and the worker handed me a reciept that literally is at least the size of a regular ruler-12 inches that is!!! Seriously...WHY is the reciept so long? -(I only bought ONE THING) HAHA..for some reason I just think that is so funny! When I picked it up I felt like I was whipping out some ancient century long scroll or something.
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