Trusting for Answers

I am struck today by the answers to prayer that have come to me from prayers that I begun long ago. Just the other day I received a surprise in the mail that came from a very unexpected place. When I researched it, I see that it had traveled to me from far away, and had gone through many crazy twists and turns to actually get to me. Though it was sent the very month I began praying for this specific blessing, I didn't get it for 4 months.

It reminds me of the story in Daniel when the angel says to him...

"Since the first day that you sent your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your Words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian Kingdom resisted me twenty-one days." Dan 10:12-13

Sometimes when we pray our answers are delayed, but God hears us when we set our mind on gaining His understanding. When we seek HIM first and HIS understanding then the answers come. Even if they are long in coming we must ALWAYS trust him. He is so faithful. Oh how I love that about him.

Amy Carmichael says it best...

  "...Do not forget that the answer to many prayers is, 'wait', or Sometimes, 'No, not that, but something else, which, when you see ME, you will know was a far better thing."

Oh I love that, don't you? When we see Him we will know that everything was worth it, and that what he chose for us was a far better thing that the ease we would choose for ourselves. It all comes down to trusting. Trusting even when we feel we are being bound and placed upon the alter for sacrifice

Thank you Lord, remind me of your trustworthiness often. I know I can trust you. you are good to me!

What are you trusting the Lord for today?

Are You Thirsty?

I was reading AW Tozers "the pursuit of God" the other day. It is Exactly what I need right now. The prayer at the end of Chapter 1 summarizes so well the prayer in my heart. Perhaps it is your prayer too.

"O, God, I have tasted your goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. i am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the triune God, I want to want you; I long to be filled with longing, I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me your glory, I pray, so that I may know you indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love with in me. Say to my soul, 'rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.' Then give me grace to rise and follow you up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus name, Amen" 

~A.W. Tozer "The Pursuit of God"

I don't know about you, but this prayer is right where I am at. I am so in love with my savior, but that love makes me thirsty for more of him.

I want to stay thirsty, how about you?

I think when we stop being thirsty for him, it is a sign we've been wandering in the "misty lowlands" too long.


I want to want more of him. 
He is so good. 
He is so Holy. 
He is so loving.


Stay thirsty with me today! 

Eternity in Our Hearts ~ Longing For Home

Have you ever longed for home? Have you ever been struck with the thought that you belong somewhere else? My very soul longs to be where we were made to be. Oh how I long to see with my eyes the fullness of my faith, to touch with my hands those things I have only imagined. It is a longing that is deep with in me. I can identify with Paul when he says in Phil 1  “…I desire to depart and be with Christ”.

Revelation 21: 1-4 "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

I long to see the completion of what God is doing. God is not just making us a new home, he is completing the work that our very soul longs to see completed! The essence of eternity is this … “after every Omega there is a new Alpha. Your end is another beginning.’ (Beth Moore). 

I long to see all the things that are wrong be put right. Not just be punished or rewarded but be put right. That is what Christ promises… that every pain, every tear, every hurt, every frustration that we have felt here on this earth will be made right.  That is one amazing promise.

God has put eternity in our hearts. The truth is you were made for something bigger then what this world gives. You were made for eternity. You are made for perfection. You are made to be with the author and the creator of life. God is bringing all things full circle. What he began in the Garden of Eden he finishes in the book of Revelation and it's all a love story! It’s bringing us: you and me, his bride, his beloved creation, back to the Garden of Eden back to walking with him. Oh how I long to be home.

Blessings!

Kari