Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of you...

I am so hungry.

Hungry for more.

More of the Lord’s JOY…
Joy that cannot be described with the tongue, and yet can be shared among others who have experienced it…. they just know. They just… get it.
And though I now think I’ve got as much as I can handle; that my cup’s been filled…God will make it overflow tomorrow.

Why?

Because the Father LOVES us. He delights in giving us good gifts. GIFTS. As in, not just things we need. But things that make us happy. Just because He can.

Matthew 7:9-11
9 which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God is emotional. God is concerned with our happiness — not that holiness is thrown out the backdoor… but we can have BOTH.

I’ve never known this side of God before — how could I have been so blind to it?

How could I have stopped with the Christ’s crucifixion and my salvation? — Don’t get me wrong, those are the primary elements! But how did I miss the actual relationship part that comes after the resurrection… I mean, that was the whole point, right?

So many people preach about Christianity being a relationship with God… but how many of us have lived under the pressure of obligation of reading the Word or praying, instead of living under the Gospel of GRACE, and allowing those things be the fruit of soaking up the presence of Jesus?

We weren’t meant to be saved just to continue with sucky despairing lives and just ‘hold on for the hope of heaven’…. HEAVEN IS HERE, AND HEAVEN IS NOW.

John Mark McMillan says, “I don’t want to sing about dying and going to heaven. I want to sing about living and heaven coming to me.”And I’ll add to that: And with the Holy Spirit working through me, I will bring heaven to others.

It’s like I’ve been sitting at a banquet table with a blindfold on, keeping my hands to myself, only smelling the aroma of the food before me. The smell was lovely…. but now, I have taken the blindfold off… I can actually see what delicious delights lay before me. And I am not minding my manners; I’m grabbing everything He gives me. God is filled with tastes — the tongue of my spirit is ready for a serious binge.

”Taste and see that the Lord is GOOD!”

Aly