"I Don't Understand" ..........

Tonight, after CIMS class, David and I went with 2 other couples to get a bite to eat. Our waitress came over, and she wasn't her usual happy self. We asked her what was wrong and she began to share with us what she was going through at home, which was very sad. One of the ladies in our group asked her if she was a Christian? The waitress asked what that meant? My friend said, "Have you ever asked... Jesus into your life?" She said, I don't know what that means." I sat there amazed because I was raised up in a minister's home and was taught about the Lord all my life. We began to share with her about how Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and how much He loves us and wants to live in our hearts. My friend told her about the plan of salvation. When she asked her if she would like for Jesus to come into her heart and life, she said yes. Then we told her we would pray for her and she looked at us and said, " I don't know how to do that. I've never prayed before." We prayed the sinner's prayer with her and she received Jesus into her heart!
I sat there, just going over in my mind what it must be like to have never known the plan of salvation, never known how to pray, never been to church in my life.....I can't imagine..... My heart went out to her. She is a beautiful young girl, with a lot of turmoil in her life, and she didn't know how Jesus could help her. There are so many people out there that have no ideal what Jesus is all about! Sometimes as Christians, we take for granted that people know, they just don't want it. But this isn't true as I seen tonight. We need to seek God and ask Him to lead us to people that need to hear about Him so we can be a witness to them. I don't ever want to miss an opportunity to tell someone about the Lord. Even as I type this, I can still see her face as she said, " I don't know how to do that....I've never prayed" ......God help us to be a light to the world..... "The harvest is plenty but the labors are few"

"Are We Really Seeking God?"

  This morning, as David and I were on our way to Sunday School, we were going over our lesson and just talking about God and how He wants to bless His people, but yet He wants us to desire Him and His presence first. As we talked, God spoke to my heart and reminded me of this scripture. Jeremiah 29:13 says, " When you seek Me, you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." I spoke that scripture out to David, and God spoke to me strongly again and said, "You say you seek Me....but do you really seek me with ALL your heart? Because when you seek for Me, when you really search Me out, then that's when you will find Me. I testified to this in Sunday School this morning because it was so profound to me!
Think about it, and this might be a simple example, but David and I got on a kick a while back where we tried the maple flavored sausage, and we loved it so much that we went back to the store, and couldn't find it again, so we began to look in every grocery store trying to find it. One night we went to 5 different grocery stores...hunting this sausage. Why? Because we desired it! We wanted it so badly that we were willing to do whatever we had to do to find it. We were seeking it out. And we found it.
Well, God wants us to be that way with Him! He wants us to want Him so much, desire to be in His presence so badly, that we will seek Him out until we find Him! You may say, "Well, why would we have to find God? Isn't He always there?" Well of course He's always there, but I believe that we sometimes half heartedly desire to be in His presence. We half heartedly seek His will for our lives. But He's saying that when we Seek Him, with everything in us, desiring to be in His presence so badly that we won't stop praying and seeking Him until we find that place with God that we know He wants us to be in, and we are in tune with Him, and we're in His presence........ that's when we will truly find Him. My heart's desire is to seek God with ALL my heart, above any and everything in my life.......that is when He is pleased with me.......that is when I find Him in such an awesome way!
I don't know about you....but that excites me!!