https:\/\/youtu.be\/eerjElgk4Dg<\/a><\/p>\nIs this the desire of our hearts?\u00a0 It is the foremost<\/em> desire of our heart? Or is our greatest desire today to achieve at work?\u00a0 Is our greatest desire to be politically correct?\u00a0 Or even is our greatest desire to do good works? Family, our greatest desire must be to see Jesus, and in doing that, through the Holy Spirit, see the Father. All these things are good, but if we are not turning to Jesus and away from all else, we have gained nothing.\u00a0 If we have been kind to our neighbor but done so to feel good and have not done so to glorify God, it is for nothing.\u00a0 If we lovingly have raised our children, but have not raised them to place God first, to love God first, and glorify God with their fully yielded lives, it is for nothing.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t burn for Jesus, God forbid, how shall they burn?\u00a0 Family, what burns in the heart of those who love and ache for God is a desire to see Jesus. \u00a0We must love Jesus.\u00a0 God gave us the Word of God to reveal Himself and to lead us to Him and to keep us in Him.\u00a0 Yet, some, sadly, miss the point.\u00a0 Some can impressively quote scriptures, yet they have no love and they never see Jesus.\u00a0 Some can argue doctrine, and yet, they have never seen Jesus.\u00a0 Or perhaps they have a fading memory of a moment when they were greatly moved and called out to Him, but since then, their heart is untouched, while learning the scriptures.\u00a0 They have memorized the Word, but they don\u2019t know the Word Himself, Jesus.\u00a0 They don\u2019t ache to see Him and don\u2019t even remember that seeing Him is possible, and necessary.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t have love, we have nothing.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t burn in our hearts, we are not where Jesus would have us be.\u00a0 We must be single minded in our pursuit that God is number one in our life and there are no close number twos.\u00a0 Family, if you will, God must be number one and there must be no number two\u2019s.\u00a0 If we love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind, then all the number two\u2019s are taken care of.\u00a0 Before we are truly ready to love others, God must first be loved.\u00a0 Before we can truly care for others, in the ways that eternally matter, we must get on our knees before God and receive the eternal care that He has given for all who respond to Jesus.\u00a0 If we truly know the Lord, if we truly love the Lord, then He will burn within us, as He did within David.<\/p>\nWhat we need most every day, no, every moment of our lives, is to first of all see Jesus.\u00a0 To hear His sweet voice and to have our heart, even more completely, our very souls, turn to Him to see and listen.\u00a0 Before our feet touch the floor may we see the Lord, and hear the Lord, as we say to Him \u201cGood morning Lord.\u00a0 I love you Lord.\u00a0 I am listening Lord.\u00a0 Please help me to listen and to follow you. Lord, may I do no other thing today if I do not glorify You.\u00a0 Lord Jesus, oh dear sweet Lord Jesus, please, please, I want to see You, to reach out and touch You, to gaze into the eyes and see Your love.\u201d\u00a0 Family, may we start out our day desperate to see Jesus.\u00a0 And all this is not burdensome.\u00a0 Love is not burdensome, it is a joy too big to contain.\u00a0 It is peace so deep, so vast, and so expansive that it can never be exhausted.<\/p>\n
Family, what the Lord wants for us every day is to see Him, to touch Him, to be touched by Him and to hear Him.\u00a0 That is the way He would have us start and live every day.\u00a0 To live a victorious life in Jesus, we must turn to hear Him who calls for us.\u00a0 We did that one day in order to come to Him. The Revelation that John received would not have been received if He did not respond to the voice of Jesus.\u00a0 May we do it every day!\u00a0 Let us, every day, first look to Jesus, to see Him, to desperately reach out to Him. to touch Him, to hear Him and to say that we love Him!\u00a0 Amen?\u00a0 Amen!!!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMicah 7:7<\/strong>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMicah 6:8<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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