Holy Desire

Hi Everyone,

I am excited about Sunday's message as I talk about holy desire.  We should have a holy deisre for God.  One of the illustrations I am using is to think back to that moment of your first "puppy love".  For most of us it was a paradox of emotions: eixcitment and anticipation; yet, fear and heartache.  For me there was a powerful yearning within me that craved for the attention of the one for whom I was afflicted.  It was totally unrealistic for sure.

This type of love has the power to make someone do the most unreasonable things and act in the most irrational ways.  In one of the areas where I have served a 14 year old girl was so afflicted by puppy love that she ran away from home to be with the boy whom she loved; only to find out that he really didn't care for her at all.  Such is the power of puppy love.

Holy desire consists of much of the same feelings when it comes to love for God.  It may seem unreasonable and irrational to many around us that we might give up everything in order to follow Jesus; but that is the power of His love.  It creates a holy desire within you to be obedient to the will of God for your life.

This Sunday I will be explaining the Characteristics of a Holy Desire by unsing the five physical senses of desire - smell, taste, hear, see and touch - to explain the spiritual phenomona that happens inside of you when filled with God's overpowering love.

To prepare, why not look up these portions of scripture, all from the Song of Songs: 1:3; 2:3; 2:14; and 2:6.

Blessings and have a great weekend.

-Pastor Leo