It is the cry of my heart!

I love that song, "It is the cry of my heart to follow You...It is the cry of my heart to know You..." I can't remember the rest but I guess that is the important part of the song.
I have been longing to get back to my "God time!" I mean that with complete sincerity and not as religious time reading to "feel" good. It has taken me awhile but I over the last month I have begun again to sacrifice my sleep and become committed to getting up early during the week, before my boys get up to have a quiet time. Not only to spend with the Lord but to have a LITERAL QUIET before the troops arise. It has been such a necessity. I have already noticed a peace enveloping me more and more throughout my day. Obviously not perfect, I still lose it occassionally. I know hard to imagine....LOL

I can remember times in my life where I woke up and could hardly wait to read the word of God. Which takes me to another song, it is a woman, "Where did the passion go..." Again that is all I remember.....my brain has all but been fried with 4 children. Anyway, I love that song because it is such a reminder that we have seasons in our life where we truly desire Him and Long for His presence and then seasons where we abide so we do not die on the vine. I am so in Love with Him and He surrounds my thoughts and invades my life in every area, but I can't say that every morning I long to read His word. I love communing with Him through prayer and often I read words that jump out at me and sit throughout the day.....but what about the longing to just sit and read His word....
Junior High and High school age...yep about 5 years ago hahah...I remember my Dad sharing with me that the Bible is like a puzzle. It all connects....I began to find great pleasure in connecting the dots. Reading a scripture in one part and realizing how it coincided with another one. That is when the bible became alive to me. Since that time when I go through droughts I always think back to then. I know I can always find His pleasure again.

I have been crying out to the Lord, it has been a delight reading His word, but I wanted more....I wanted LONGING again. Today I asked the Lord for the thousandth time..."to make me a student of His word." It is amazing how when you pray His will He answers!

I am reading through Corinthians, and I read a psalm and proverb each day.
Proverbs 2:21-22
"For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it."

WOW, yesterday if I had read that I probably would have just seen how God blesses the righteous and cuts off the wicked...yet today I immediately saw it as history! When has God shown that to be true? It would take me an entire day to list every example...but here are a few...
1. Noah was upright and he inhabited the land, but those who were wicked were washed away in the flood, they were uprooted.
2. The tower of Babel they were uprooted and scattered across the earth....
3. The Israelites were given the land time and again from their enemies even though the enemy was much stronger;
4. Of course we know that one day the righteous will rain and the wisked will be uprooted forever

Oh I could probably go on and on....here is why this was so powerful to me....besides the fact that it is God's word.
I am the prayer coordinator for MOPS, and I was asked to give a short talk on praying God's word. Many people do not understand the importance or even think about doing that.
I was praying about that event this morning writing down some things I wanted to share, such as.....
Instead of the question behind the question...what is the prayer behind the prayer...?
When you ask for your children to have wisdom and knowledge, do you know "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge"?
Proverbs 28:14
Proverbs 19:23
Psalms 111:10
Proverbs 1:7
Psalms 128:1

Pray that you and your family will have the fear of the Lord

When you ask for safety remember, "The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runs into and they are saved"
"The children of Your servants shall dwell secure, their offspring shall be established before You." Ps 102:28

Pray you and your family will know the name of the Lord, and you will become His servants

Prayer to succed or prosper in your way..(not to be confused with getting rich) ""How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates day and night, and he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither and whatever he does he prospers." Psalms 1

Pray you will seek Godly counsel, delight and meditate in God's word.

Prayer over sin in you or your family; ""How can a young many keep his way pure? by keeping it according to Gods word" Ps 119:9
"Your word I have hidden in my heart so I might not sin against You."

Pray you and your family will walk according to God's word, delighting in it and hiding it in your heart.

It also hit me because I am teaching my children, I have the sole responsibility to teach my kids everything from their ABC's, math, laundry, cooking, as well as God's word. I am constantly asking God how I am going to teach them everything.....HAHA like I will accomplish the EVERYTHING! But you know what I mean, there is so much......but if they learn nothing else I want them to know God's word. When we study history I want them to know why a country failed, why their religion failed, why our ccomplishments without Christ are for nothing....
That verse was one more LOVE note from God, a personal history lesson to share with my boys when we study the fall of Rome, and every other country that has failed because the wicked ruled.
Okay, okay.....that is it! I know long enough! What a beautiful morning ~ it was such a joy to "stumble" upon that word from the Lord!