I was going through my notes yesterday and came across these raw words of mine typed out a few weeks ago. Fun fact: When my mind gets loud + my heart heavy I write notes to God. No formalities. I just let the pen glide or the fingers type across the keyboard and lay it all bare. So here I am inviting you into my notes with the hope + expectation that you’re spurred on. I have this feeling you too want what I want, have been where I was and desire to be moving forward + closer to Jesus with every breath you take.
What I want:
I want to know you more, Lord. Not the intellectual kinda know but the deep-down-in-my-soul-I-feel-restless-for-You kind of knowing. I want to be fully satisfied in You alone. I want to enjoy YOU MORE and hate sin more. I want to wake up first thing in the morning and my thoughts be Yours and when my head hits the pillow in the evening…those moments are reserved for You too. I want to walk away from my time with You changed a bit more each day. I want to invite You into all the moments of my day and not have You boxed into a “chair time.”
I want it to be easy to see that I have been with You. For the good of others and all the Glory is Yours.
Where I have been:
And yet despite all this holy wanting there’s a constant pulling under. A move against the current of this world that can leave one feeling alone and tired. Before I know it I have been caught up in it. Distracted. Forgetful. Self-serving. Heart + mind cluttered with worldly things. My true citizenship forgotten. But God. You beckon me from this.
I cry out in response to the Garden of Eden question that you still ask “where are you?” The light breaks through and suddenly I am awake. Pulling away from the world and running towards You.
How I move forward:
I draw near to you alone Lord. My heart is wide open ready to be searched fully. Confessing that which does not belong there. Repenting over the sin and imagining the heartbreak and feeling the weight of it all. Your grace abounds and I delight in your Presence and pursuit of me. I meditate on your WORD inviting your promised Spirit to do the holy work with my all in heart. I am still and quiet. Ready to receive + move as a Child of God + Citizen of Heaven. While the work in my heart here doesn't end on this side of eternity your promises compel me to keep coming back to Jesus. And so I will. With praise on my lips + holy expectation in my heart. I am Yours.
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My hope is you feel a little less alone + a whole lot spurred on for MORE time with Jesus. Because it is our absolute delight. AMEN?!
Let’s end with this prayer by A.W. Tozer:
O God, quicken to life every power within me, that I may lay hold on eternal things. Open my eyes that I may see; give me acute spiritual perception; enable me to taste Thee and know that Thou art good. Make heaven more real to me than any earthly thing has ever been.
Amen.
EnJOY a day + everyday thereafter close to Jesus!
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Apr 22, 2024 • Posted by Elijah Smith
God it’s nobody again,what lies in the hearth of men,some it’s very foul,others it’s pure evil,and haterth,it’s very few good hearted people out here,minus the mistakes for others it’s to blame others doing all the wrong,when nothing going on wrong who’s to blame,what’s to say when it’s nothing to say,where is God when you need him when world is full of evil and wrong doing,where is the love he promised somebody else that didn’t have to be in this mess,where is god
Feb 26, 2024 • Posted by Nobody
Well God it’s nobody again,today’s story is how not to play somebody else fool,with all this talk me alone,maybe I’m the only person in the world that understands that I’m just a wacky nobody I would have said black,but in today’s world your skin is not your seen more like French we we fe fe but talking leads to more problems through a lot of actions,hey let’s try ted Bundy are Jeffery Durham ain’t nobody watching who’s going to tell ,are couple of fetishes
Feb 21, 2024 • Posted by Elijah Smith
Well God it’s nobody again,I been at work at ready mix for the last six years I just got a new job it might workout are it might not I hope it last a year,wish I could’ve made it home 3 years are year and half ago,but that’s another story in a ill mind,I guess I just take one day at a time,I don’t know who won the Superbowl and guess I think about it next year
Feb 13, 2024 • Posted by Nobody
I’m need of prayers,talking done got the best of me again been alone for 15 years ,I’m really not the next stranger problem when we don’t even need to know each my problem is I can’t get back home,are I can’t sitting back wood to get myself straight,alone,I really don’t want to think it’s mess for the rest of my life because I was push away from home and being different for the rest of minds from 15 years caught the joke yesterday that became very for real when they let me stay at home,as the rest had to work 30 straight years to keep them from laying on the ground ,seen it in yesterday at least I don’t have anybody to take me in because they pay there own rent and mortgage oh well thought enough,sad as hell talking away I guess it really whaten free unless somebody else paid for
Feb 07, 2024 • Posted by Nobody
Have I really been fooling myself for the last 3 years now that I have no place to stay when I don’t work,not living off somebody else income ,and no one to help me along,look at kidnapped somebody else grandma,stole somebody else car and I cant make a descent living 9 to 5 to 65 ,and I cant work talking away everyday and alone, foreclosure,evicted couldn’t pay my rent and probably can’t get to the homeless shelter that’s over crowded,just living a dream,
Feb 04, 2024 • Posted by Alone
Well, GOD it’s nobody again it’s been a long 15 years and finally they got me away from home 3 years ago ,I guess I can say it’s not alright being the only thing different in the world ,with the help of the family keeping me away from home,playing these other people they wouldn’t even know,what’s life in a world full of crime talking away and acting everyday,what would I be saying if I was still at home these 3 years,who I’m fooling
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Jun 16, 2023 • Posted by Maya
Dear God pleased bless Maya alys carswell about sweet 🧁🎂 food so she wants eat it Jesus Christ lord I save in Lord blessed Maya alys carswell mind Brain sleep good night 😴 don’t make no sense at all so Jesus Christ so sorry what happened yesterday and you forget me yes or no reason for Maya alys carswell praise will strong good Jesus Christ name Amen
Jun 16, 2023 • Posted by Maya
Dear God bless us start over again soon finish heaven and hell then start back again 1990years to 2000 year and yes then please let me don’t cry sad and trouble and fight and hurt hit and pulling hair out and calling people by there name in nasty thing and killed people bad things and yes then let me be skinny tall strong people darkness skin tone female forever and nice sweet and yes then comment scene and yes be pill and yes Lord Jesus Christ name Amen
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