Lately I have been faced with many amazing changes in my life that have continued to bring me to my knees both in seeking guidance and praising Him for His blessings in my life. I have battled fear and worry and have handed it over to Him to handle for me. At the same time I have also come face to face with His grace and Divine intervention. He has poured His love and guidance over me but it has taken an emptying of me in order for Him to be able to change my heart.
To know Him and to be sensitive to Him, we have to totally surrender to Him. We have to seek Him in prayer and ask to be sensitive to His voice. See, often times we go to Him in prayer with a handful of choices that we want Him to decide for us. God, should I take job A or job B, should I move to state 1 or state 2, should I get married, should I stay single, should I have a baby or travel the world.....the list goes on and on of all that we bring to Him. We say, "Lord, this is what I want but I don't know which one is better, You pick."
It takes more than that. We must learn to enter His presence with empty hands, no hidden agendas, no multiple choice test for Him.....we must go to Him completely empty. We must go to Him with a total willingness to do whatever He says. We must surrender our life and our will to Him and trust in the desires He has for us. We must empty the desires of our hearts and allow Him to refill our hearts with all that is Him.
If you haven't listened to the Jeremy Camp song, "Empty Me", I highly recommend this song. This song explains exactly what I am saying. It gives me chills every time I listen to it. We need to be emptied in order to be refilled by Him. Emptied, not just by our wants and what we think we need but emptied of everything. Emptied of shame, unforgiving thoughts, bitterness, things of the world, tomorrow's to-do list......everything! We must be willing to surrender our whole world in order to receive His Heaven!
Holy Fire burn away,
My desire for anything
That is not of you and is of me.
I want more of you and less of me.
Holy Fire burn away,
My desire for anything
That is not of you and is of me,
I want more of you and less of me, yeah.
Empty me,
Empty me, yeah,
Fill, won't you fill me,
With you, with you, yeah.
Holy Fire, burn away,
My desire for anything
That is not of you and is of me.
I want more of you and less of me, yeah.
Empty me,
Empty me, yeah.
Fill, won't you fill me, with you, with you, empty me now.
Well won't you empty me, well won't you empty me now. repeat x2
I want more, I want more, I want more of you, Jesus.
I want more, I want more, oh.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus, oh yeah,
Thank you, Jesus, yeah.
Holy Fire, Holy Fire, Holy Fire, Holy Fire
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