As I have been here at home, it's been great to just relax, rest up and refuel. Being home with my family and back in my home church has been such a blessing, and I am extremely thankful.
Yesterday at church, I had the opportunity to go up front with elders and pray for those that needed prayer. As soon after, a woman came up to my Mom and I and said, "Ok, I have two things; One, I want to know what it's like to hear God's voice 24/7, to constantly be hearing the voice of the Lord day and night. Second, I just have this feeling that something big is about to happen, I don't know what it is, but I know something's coming." As she was saying this, she was crying and shaking. You could see her intense hunger for the Lord!
We began to pray and intercede for her, being sensitive to what the Lord wanted to say. Immediately I was reminded of the Welsh revival.
Thursday and Friday night we held "the Burn 24/7" with Sean Feucht at our church. He spoke about the revival and how it began with 15 teenagers in a room, who would not let go of God until He gave them what they sought. That's when revival broke out!
So spoke to the woman, telling her about the revival. I told her that like the youth that would not let go of God, that she was not let Him go until she received that which she was feeling, that which she was hungry for.
Later that day, I could not stop thinking about her and her intense and contagious hunger for God. Oh how I want that hunger! I want the kind of hunger that pleads for Him 24/7, that strives to hear His voice every second of everyday!
On Friday night Sean shared an illustration with us:
That morning he had gone hunting extremely early up at Seeley, MT. As he was trumping around in the snow, he found fresh elk tracks. For hours he followed those elk tracks around and up and down the mountains. He finally became very frustrated and thought to himself, "I don't want to be where this elk has been anymore, I want to be where he IS!"
The church, the body of Christ, has become content on following the tacks of where God HAS BEEN, instead of hungering and striving for where HE IS!
I can't believe that I have settled with following His "tracks", just residing in the places where He has been. When and where did I begin to think it was ok to settle for a mediocre christian life? To hunger for the "hunger of the Lord"? This may not make sense to some reading this, it hardly makes sense to me...all I know is I don't want to follow His tracks anymore. I want to be where He is! Not tomorrow, not the day after, but today!
"So set a fire down in my soul, that I can't contain, that I control. I want more of you God! I want more of you God!" by song artist Will Reagan - "Set a Fire."
