Becoming Passionate About God

If you are like me you get so busy with work, family, and church (and writing) meeting everyone else’s needs that you begin to neglect the most important thing – your intimacy with God.  I found myself praying for everyone else’s needs and studying the Bible more than ever but always for my writing or Bible studies but not to hear God speak to me personally.  After doing this for a while I was getting depleted.

I realized I needed more of God in my personal life. The way I am now doing that is by guarding and protecting my relationship with God in prayer.  I am going to pray daily about every area on my life so I will be anchored and close to Him.  And I am going to share that walk with you so you can join me in it too.

In most of my blogging I have been sharing my knowledge of raising kids for Christ. Now I want to add this new dimension.  If we wish to help our kids go deeper with Jesus we as moms and parents have to first go deeper with Him. There are different ways of approaching this but I have chosen the following.

Step One: Just as we get close to the special people in our lives by spending time with them and being open with them we do the same in our relationship with God.  This if the only way we can become passionate about Him.

Step Two: We start by asking God to fill us afresh with His Holy Spirit, His power. We pray for His power to transform us and our circumstances.

Step Three: We put our expectations in God and don’t look to people, even the special people in our lives, to meet our needs. God completes us.  We move forward in His purpose for our lives.

God’s Promise to us:

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.”  2 Corinthians 4:7 KJV