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T.O.D.A.Y.'S ENCOURAGEMENT for July 18, 2006
T.O.D.A.Y.
Ministries
14745 Merrilltown #1611 Austin TX 78728
Good
Morning!
It
is The Lord's desire for His children to "grow and mature"! It
is most definitly His desire for us to become more and more
"intimate" with Him! He created us to have a close and
intimate relationship with Him. You know what? You can know who
someone is, and you might even be personally acquainted with them, and you may
even know what some of their "likes and dislikes" are...but that
does not mean that you have an "intimate" relationship with
them!
Many people
know who Jesus is, and some of them know Him as their personal Savior, and
some have taken time to read His Word and have found out what some of His
"likes and dislikes" are. However, not all of them have the
kind of "intimacy" with Him that He desires! Let me ask
you something.....have you ever been "head over heels" in love
with someone? Just stop and think about it! Come on now, you can
remember.
 All you had on your
mind was that person! You wanted to "talk" about them all the
time....you wanted to "think" about them all the time...you
were "writing" their name down everywhere you could write
it....you "dreamed" about them....you just wanted to be
"with" them 24/7....you had "chill bumps" come all
over you when they touched you or spoke to you....just being in the same room
with them was like"heaven on earth! Okay! I could go on, but
I think you are getting the "picture"! Jesus wants us to fall
"head over heels" in love with Him!
That is what happened to
me about twenty-eight years ago when Jesus baptized me in The Holy Spirit.
I was already a Christian, I knew Jesus as my personal Savior. I
"loved" Jesus, but I had not "fallen in love"
with Him! I am sure that a lot of you have had this same
"experience", so you can understand what I am talking about.
It is one thing to "love" someone, but quite another thing to be
"in love" with them. So, when that happened to me, I did
"all of the above"! In fact, I still do!!
This is a very unusual
thing for me to talk about my own personal testimony, but The Lord has let
me know that it is time for me to do so! The only purpose for anyone's
"testimony" is to bless others! God is no
"respecter" of persons, what He has done for one, He will do for
others!
There is someone reading
this today that is feeling the gentle "tugging" on their heart to
desire a more "intimate" relationship with Jesus.....My prayer for
you is that you will say, "Yes, Lord"!
Have
a Blessed Day!! (It is time to "grow and
glow")! In His Love, Luanne
www.todayministries.org
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