Hearing the Heartbeat

Hearing the Heartbeat, Leicester Trinity Life Church - 20th June 2009

Today I went a women's conference with Cheryl and Andie. We had some great worship and lots of opportunity to respond to God in our worship, listen to him and reach out to him. It’s been great and so refreshing.

I responded at the end to the call for prayer to “realign” ourselves to God/our relationship with God. I feel my response is a continuation of something God has been doing in my life for the last year or so. Last week he called me back to his Word, with a specific challenge at Rotherham New Life Centre, to read the bible every day...because I WANT to not because I HAVE to. He gave me a new desire and hunger to read his word. It’s been a more natural thing for me to just pick up the Word and read it for 10 mins here and there throughout the day, so not just the obligatory once off to feel better about myself. I actually love reading it and hearing God :o) Today’s response was an extension of that and what God started doing in me last year (year before?) through God TV and the Lakeland, Florida Revival aired on there. God called me back to worship through that and has been calling me back to prayer through that and other things. I believe God has used today to start bringing it all together into a more meaningful relationship with my God and Father. My relationship with Him is becoming a very precious thing to me. I don’t want anything or anyone in the way of that.

I wondered whether today would bring a new direction for my life, whether God might tell me I have to start doing something new or go somewhere new, but in fact it seems he's just telling me to carry on what I’m doing; work wise, home, college, church...all of it.

I have decided I need to start looking to him for direction at church though. I’m not sure whether I’ll be ‘doing’ much for a while, given that I struggle to do what I have to do for work and home right now. But things don’t always start off immediately when we seek Him and pray about stuff, it can be a progression over a period of time. I’m going to start seeking Him for my purpose at church and see where that takes me. If he wants me involved somewhere with something I’m not already doing I’ll ask him to help me fit things in. I need to trust him for whatever he’s got next. I guess if I release myself into his care daily, he’ll keep me on the right path and show me what’s next, where and when.