Longing to just BE with Him.
My pastor from church subscribes to the International House of Prayer Limited Edition CD Club. Let me take a moment to explain this.
Okay.. So the International House of Prayer is a prayer room located in Kansas City, Missouri. since 1999, they have been praying and worshiping for 24 hours a day, every day of the week, and every week of the year. Night and day worship.. Solomon's temple, and several revivals of it occur in the Bible.
Anyways... every 2 months, they release a sort of "best of" CD with about 4-6 tracks. they record every worship set, and then shorten the tracks to the best part of the 2 hours, and then send the CD to the subscribers..
ANYWAY... my pastor gets the CDs, and I walked into his house last week and heard it and it was AWESOME.. anyway... the worship that comes from IHOP (and other 24/7 worship venues) is always fresh and awesome, and I was listening to it and.... well every once in a while, because I know that IHOP is in my future, I just get this feeling inside of me that can only be described as the heart of David, in Psalm 27:4 - "ONE THING I have desired of the Lord, that I will seek, that I may DWELL (that means to live) 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."
Something I noticed today... I never thought about it this way, but I noticed that everyone in the world (no exceptions) whether they admit it or not, deep down inside, they know there's this "superior being" out there... and I think that that idea come from this.. Jesus DESIRES us to be WITH Him where He is (John 17:24). That's not a casual, "hey, if you got a minute, come over here for a sec. That desire that He has is SO STRONG that it creates within us a desire to be with Him.
and I get that feeling every once in a while and I just loonng and I desire, almost to the point of lovesickness, to get to a place where I can just be with the Father and with the Son and sit there and say, "Hey daddy, why is the sky blue?" and He'd answer back, "Because I made it that way, son! I knew that you would like it!" and just to sit before Him and ask Him and inquire in His temple. Ohhhhhh my heart aches! anyway.. that's what I'm feeling.
hope all is well with everyone else!
any questions or prayer concerns, let me know, and i"ll get back to you (maybe not right away.. schoool is BUSY!).
Blessings to all who read this, even if they think I'm 100% wrong. God loves everyone!
rg