Hi Saints
Please read this:
"If you give up all those things that provoke your curiosity and set your mind spinning, you will have more than enough time to spend with God and to attend to your business. Living your life prayerfully will make you clear-headed and calm no matter what happens. Your self-nature is overactive, impulsive and always striving for something just outside you reach."
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Did you relate to that little paragraph at all?
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Here is a little more from Fenelon: But God, working within your spirit, produces a calm and faithful heart that the world cannot touch. I really want you take an adequate amount of time to spend with God so that you might refresh your spirit. All your busyness surely drains you. (Fenelon gives this example) Jesus took His disciples aside to be alone, and interrupted their most urgent business. Sometimes He would even leave people who had come from afar to see Him in order to come to His Father. I suggest the same to you . It is not enough to give out--you must learn to receive from God, too.
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Now, Fenelon is not talking about belly button inspecting, he talking about time alone with the Lord to be encouraged. Do we believe that we have to be constantly drawn to the Lord. Wooed by his love. Sometimes we can’t because we are too busy and self absorbed.
Please be persuaded by the Lord that he is your best friend. No friend of yours or mine, no matter how much you care about them and they care about you. They have not said to you let me come and live inside of you and live my life through you. No one said that you and I but the Lord. He as graciously come to live in us. Not for us to have more things in our lives, not for us to be pious and self righteous. But for us to live from his life knowing fully and convinced that he love us.
That he as the highest interest by coming to live in our life. To rob us of being self absorb so that we may be free. Free to soar with him.
Love in Him!
Please read this:
At last, my Lord I have heard Your voice
It is all I hear, Oh, my heart rejoice!
You bid me come, now I follow You,
It matters not where You may take me.
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At last, my Lord I have heard Your voice
Here a few reasons why we don't hear the voice of the Lord.
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This comes straight from Fenelon book "The Seeking Heart. It is all I hear, Oh, my heart rejoice!
You bid me come, now I follow You,
It matters not where You may take me.
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At last, my Lord I have heard Your voice
Here a few reasons why we don't hear the voice of the Lord.
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"If you give up all those things that provoke your curiosity and set your mind spinning, you will have more than enough time to spend with God and to attend to your business. Living your life prayerfully will make you clear-headed and calm no matter what happens. Your self-nature is overactive, impulsive and always striving for something just outside you reach."
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Did you relate to that little paragraph at all?
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Here is a little more from Fenelon: But God, working within your spirit, produces a calm and faithful heart that the world cannot touch. I really want you take an adequate amount of time to spend with God so that you might refresh your spirit. All your busyness surely drains you. (Fenelon gives this example) Jesus took His disciples aside to be alone, and interrupted their most urgent business. Sometimes He would even leave people who had come from afar to see Him in order to come to His Father. I suggest the same to you . It is not enough to give out--you must learn to receive from God, too.
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Now, Fenelon is not talking about belly button inspecting, he talking about time alone with the Lord to be encouraged. Do we believe that we have to be constantly drawn to the Lord. Wooed by his love. Sometimes we can’t because we are too busy and self absorbed.
Please be persuaded by the Lord that he is your best friend. No friend of yours or mine, no matter how much you care about them and they care about you. They have not said to you let me come and live inside of you and live my life through you. No one said that you and I but the Lord. He as graciously come to live in us. Not for us to have more things in our lives, not for us to be pious and self righteous. But for us to live from his life knowing fully and convinced that he love us.
That he as the highest interest by coming to live in our life. To rob us of being self absorb so that we may be free. Free to soar with him.
Love in Him!