How do I find my purpose in life?

Why should we, whom God loves freely, make it so others have to earn our love?

If you do this or don't do that - then I will love you.   - conditional love.

Guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life.-proverbs 4

Instead of guarding and listening to our heart,
we have been told to silence it and listen to the call of sacrifice and duty.
Prayerfully pursue your passions.

So how do we discover our heart's desire?

Psalm 37   "Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

"Seek first the kingdom of God and all these other things will be added unto you.  

As we find our deepest delight in our personal relationship with God and allow His word to shape our thinking and plans,
the Lord promises to shape our desires as well.  
There is a connection between our delighting in God and discovering our hearts desires.  

If you want to know your life's purpose,
pursue the heart of God and you will have a head on collision with your calling.   The closer I get to Him, the more clearly I understand His purpose for my life.   God uses the desires of our hearts to narrow the focus of where He wants our lives to make a mark for eternity. -A Confident Heart.

Fill up the crevices of time with things that matter most.
Seek My face.

Walk with Him as with a visible companion all day!
Be faithful, not frantic. 
 Keep looking.

We must learn to walk with God alone and feed on His word.
Don't evade the slightest whisper of guidance that comes.

May God make us very sensitive and very obedient.

Do not fear. Take a new land.

Receive My words,
and Treasure up My commandments within you.
Make your ear attentive to skillful and Godly wisdom,
Incline and direct your heart and mind to understanding.
Apply all your power to the search for it.
If you search for wisdom the same way as you search for money,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of our God. -Proverbs 21

Be not wise in your own eyes, Worship God and turn away from evil.
It shall be health to your bones,nerves, marrow. -Proverbs 3

Do the next thing.
When you want to know what the right thing to do is.
Do the next thing.

Do the simple duties and you will find the path.

"We now have this light shining in our hearts,
but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this
great treasure.   This makes it clear that our great power is from God,
not from ourselves."  2 Cor. 4:7

"If we dare turn a deaf ear to the enemy and listen only to heaven's song,
we will take a new land.   We will grow bold in our faith.  We will go places we could never otherwise go.   We will be transformed as we go.   We will partake in loaves and fishes miracles." - Susie Larson

Do not fear.
Take a new land.

Do you antagonize or attract? -June 26

By what you do in the small things,
those around your are most often antagonized or attracted.

Please help me to be so close to You,
that, like a candle that gives off light naturally,
I cast Your light around me.

Weeping may endure for a night...

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."

Anticipate the morning.
Feel in the night of sorrow that underlying joy that tells of confident expectation... of the morning.

Lord I am ready for something new.
Please open the doors.

"The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart
and saves such as are crushed with sorrow."

"Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your family live in rest."

Saying goodbye to a beloved pet and friend. -June 24

Was struggling with the thought of having to euthanize our dog.
The worst part of it was that it was due to money, not necessarily her condition.

I felt lost in it all.

I asked God for help.  Please help me in the lost storm.  
Take this horrible agony from me and make the direction clear.

Until at the last moment the vet called and said she would do the needed surgery for half the price!   Thank you Lord!  A great weight was lifted from me.  I am thankful for that release of that extreme heart agony .

However, even so, I had a feeling we may not be bringing Roxie home.

The next day, when the vet got a new look at our dog,
she said the tumor had grown extensively in two short weeks.
She said it surely had invaded the bone, and most probably the lungs.

She said surgery would mean amputations, suffering and an ongoing battle.

We said good by to our beloved Roxie.  I was thankful that the last night at our home, I slept on the couch next to her, that she was not alone.

Thankful for peace in the storm.  

But of course there is still deep heart ache.
 

Feel like you are at a dead end? Hope restored.

Lord I feel like I am at a dead end.
Please open doors for me.

"Cling to Me.
When weary sit by the well.  Rest.
Rest and gain power and strength and the work too will come to you as it came to Me.  Rest until every care has gone and then let the tide of love and joy flow in."

  I don't want to be weak and ineffectual.  Lord, make me strong, full of power and annointing, proclaiming a risen lord and not a defeated weak human.  

"If my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then when they seek me I will be found."

I feel lost Lord.
I feel lost.
I feel paralyzed,
I feel lost.

"If you are in a season of refining ,
lean in,
trust the loving hand of your precious Lord and know that he will lead you to the other side.
humble yourself and seek to understand what the Lord is doing around you.   He will faithfully lead you and He will strengthen you as you go.   On the other side of this refining time is a fresh perspective and new mercies.   Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, in due time you will be lifted up and honored before a watching world."  -Susie Larson   

I couldn't finish my prayer time today because I was so lost about Roxie our dog.  Facing the prospect of euthanizing her.

The vetriniarian called and said she would do the surgery for half the price and I could absolutely pay in labor.

Hope restored. 

My heart has been lifted with hope.   Even if tomorrow the vet says Roxie's paw is hopeless, at least I know we didn't have to just give up.  
 

Woman you are healed of your sickness.

"If we have not learned to be stable during difficult circumstances, we will not be able to show stability with difficult people.   Stability must be worked in us as we go around and around the same mountains in life.   We finally learn not to let them upset us.   Then and only then can we show God's love to a needy world." -Joyce Meyers  

People need a relationship with God, not a religion.

Lord I hope you are saturating me.

"Your Red Sea will part."

Lord, don't talk to me in riddles!
As you said in Your word,
Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no. 

"Do not think about the Red Sea that lies ahead.   Be very sure that when you come to it the waters will part and you will pass over to your promised land of freedom. Just talk to Me."

No man can see the face of God and live,
yet that is what I seek.   Your face.
Open my eyes to the riches I already possess.

"Woman you are healed of your sickness."

Edify.
Guard your thoughts.
Take your thoughts and purposes and make them captive to God.

Offer them to Him.

Take away the pointing of the finger.
The whispering,
The inuendos.

If My people who are called by My name would humble themselves
and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways,
then they would find Me.
And I would heal them.