To Be...Passionate

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These two are passionate about the outdoors and the Lord!
June 19

“Nothing pleases God more than when we ask for what He wants to give.  When we spend time with Him and allow His priorities, passions and purposes to motivate us, we will ask for the things that are closest to His Heart.”  Bruce Wilkinson

"As you seek to hear God's voice and discover His plan, rest in His sovereignty.  Relax in His omniscient, preordained plan and journey for your life. He's a good architect. He has sketched a design with detailed attention to the nuts and bolts of your existence.  Your individual interests and passions can be expressed within His purposes for you, as part of His purposes for you.  Sticking to the framework of what He has created will ensure an outcome that will be beyond anything you can fathom." Priscilla Shirer

 Everything we have and experience is owned by God.  Offering all we have to the Lord is only possible because He already gave everything to us in the person of Jesus!

 God alone can more in our hearts and prompt our spirits to bring what we have an an offering to Him.  Have you been sitting in church, at a retreat/conference or worshiping on the mountain top and felt that prompting. It's exhilarating! It's God!  

 What stirs your heart and makes your affections passionate for the Lord?  For the church. 

 "All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the Lord." Exodus 35:21

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