Revelation of the Spirit - #20 Upon thy altar I lay my heart
I don't I've ever had a more serious matter of the heart than out that what I've done today. I'm currently reading Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot. This book is basically the book that put her on the map so to say as a writer. Her story is one that I have to admit, I fall in love with everytime I hear it. This book I'm reading now is about her falling in love with her future husband Jim Elliot but waiting on God for the right timing. They come to a time when they are graduating college but both feel as though it's not God's time to seek any further relationship. They often go on long walks and talk for hours, but when it came closer and closer Elisabeth realized maybe they should "cool it" so to say. So Jim making a reference to Abraham when he offered up his only son to God, said he was to sacrifice his love for Elisabeth. "So upon the altar I lay you" are the words he says to her.
I realized that God was calling me to lay something upon his altar. My heart. My hopes, desires, fears and dreams. I offer them to the Lord. I offer them up as a sacrifice that they may be used for his Kingdom. I am pouring out my heart to him as Mary of Bethany poured out her ointment on the Lord's feet. With all my heart, soul and mind I desire to serve the Lord.
I know I am sharing a deep part of my life with the Lord but I feel as though it is necessary. I feel as though someone who doesn't believe in the Lord or doesn't know how serious the Lord is about offering our everything to him needs to know that there are people out there living and running hard for the Lord. I don't know if I'm the best example but this is my life and the real fact of all our lives is that we are not perfect.
My prayer for this post is that when someone reads it they would feel the conviction of the Lord to lay upon his altar that last part of their life the enemy has a stronghold on. Whatever it maybe, your love life, your addiction to food, internet, masturbation, pornography or whatever part the enemy still has a stronghold that when you read this you would feel the conviction of the Lord on your heart. That you would pour out your heart, soul, body and mind to the Lord and serve him with every inch of your entity.
I pray for each and everyone of you that read and I pray the Lord's grace upon each of your lives.
Amen.
I realized that God was calling me to lay something upon his altar. My heart. My hopes, desires, fears and dreams. I offer them to the Lord. I offer them up as a sacrifice that they may be used for his Kingdom. I am pouring out my heart to him as Mary of Bethany poured out her ointment on the Lord's feet. With all my heart, soul and mind I desire to serve the Lord.
I know I am sharing a deep part of my life with the Lord but I feel as though it is necessary. I feel as though someone who doesn't believe in the Lord or doesn't know how serious the Lord is about offering our everything to him needs to know that there are people out there living and running hard for the Lord. I don't know if I'm the best example but this is my life and the real fact of all our lives is that we are not perfect.
My prayer for this post is that when someone reads it they would feel the conviction of the Lord to lay upon his altar that last part of their life the enemy has a stronghold on. Whatever it maybe, your love life, your addiction to food, internet, masturbation, pornography or whatever part the enemy still has a stronghold that when you read this you would feel the conviction of the Lord on your heart. That you would pour out your heart, soul, body and mind to the Lord and serve him with every inch of your entity.
I pray for each and everyone of you that read and I pray the Lord's grace upon each of your lives.
Amen.
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