He is knocking

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**The Following is a part of a series of posts on Blah Faith. Have you felt this way about your relationship with God? Follow this series and read the other posts here.

I’m afraid that I sometimes chase after a feeling. We can’t live on feelings alone and our relationship with the Lord won’t stand on feelings alone, either. It is during the times of blah faith or feelings of disconnect with Jesus that we must turn to Truth rather than what our flaky feelings say about where we stand with Him.

Truth: When I feel like I’m not connecting with the Lord, when I feel like the passion is missing, God is always initiating the relationship with me. God pursues that loving connection regardless of my feelings for Him at the moment.

Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

If we feel blah it is because something is keeping us from hearing that knock, that special invitation to join Him in abundant life and faith. Have you placed a do not disturb sign on your door with out realizing it?

Diagnosis: Ask yourself these questions…

~Have I lost the desire to hear His voice?

~Has something or someone distracted me from my desire to commune with God?

~What events led up to this blah state of faith…a sense of pride that I’ve got my life under control?

During this time of feeling disconnected it is only our perception that God abandoned us. We must stand firm in the truth of His Word when He says that He is waiting and knocking at the door — the knock might be a faint and quiet tap at the moment, one barely audible to the disconnected ear. Regardless to the perceived loudness or softness, He IS knocking…He IS pursuing a love relationship with you today.

What are your thoughts?

finding your flame

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The other day I wrote a post on accepting the Lord’s special invitation to personal and real worship. Check out that post — click here.

Then take a listen to this song by Will Reagan Help Me Find My Own Flame and the questions below to contemplate.

~Do you feel like you are just “dry bones” as the song describes? If so, what happened in your life to dampen your relationship with God?

~Have you seen other’s relationship with the Lord and desired that depth of communion with Him?

~Describe “the real thing” as it relates to a flaming passion for God.

Plain and simple worship between you and the Lord is what gets that flame going. The other day while reading my daily Psalms, a new passion for worship of Him arose when I read Psalm 8.

Psalm 8

O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

5Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Take a few moments with both the song/video and the Psalm above to sing and pour your heart out to the LORD. If you want more of His passion, more of His flame, more of the real thing, ASK Him for it in prayer!  What Father turns away a prayer like that?  Surely not our Heavenly Father!

permission to sweat

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This week I had the opportunity to write about my fitness journey for She Seeks.  I would love for you to go and check out my {inspirational entry} as well as my interview with my friend, Bridget, a fitness pro.  Bridgette created a special time saver workout for our She Seeks readers and it will kick your heiney –– in a good way!

As I mentioned on She Seeks, I have this weird obsession with workout videos.  You should see my shelf which is jammed packed with at least 30 DVDs and a large handful of old VHS workouts!  So, as promised below are my top three videos that I’m sweatin’ it out to these days.  What I love most is that they are all under 30 minutes AND cover a full body workout with strength moves and cardio moves.

Check it out:

Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred

Jillian Michaels Ripped In 30

Personal Training With Jackie: Xtreme Time Saver Training

So…do you have any workout videos that you just can’t live with out?  Share with us…