Some of you may know that I'm completing a book project about spiritual desire that will be released soon. I'm also going to be teaching a class tomorrow at A Beautiful woman in Christ retreat in Oakland called "When Desire Leaves Your Workplace". Tonight in my quiet time, I was reminded once again about the importance of maintaining your desire. When your desire is off in one area of your life, it will spill into other areas as well.
Some may consider the times in which we live to be challenging and difficult. Getting up and making it happen may seem as difficult as climbing to the top of a mountain. Yet, I am coming to learn that if you allow God to move in your life and surrender yourself to him, your desire to be faithful in spite of it all will remain in tact. No weapons formed against you will become a living banner that you carry daily.
If your desire is waning in any kind of way, it's time to do a check in with God. Align every part of your life with him and weed out the unnecessary. Take the remaining part of this year to renew and refresh yourself in Christ. When I was a child, my grandmother would spend the last part of the year cleaning and purging the house to ensure that the unnecessary did not transfer to the next year.
The time that you have on this earth is so critical. You can't afford to allow the unnecessary to go into another one of your days. I pray that you will stop what you are doing even at this very moment and give some time to the Lord.
Be blessed!
Gina
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