Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Is Heaven our Earthly Treasure?

'We fail much more in desire, than in its outward expression. We retain the form, while the inner life fades and almost dies.

One might well ask, whether the feebleness of our desires for God, the Holy Spirit, and for all the fulness of Christ, is not the cause of our so little praying, and of our  languishing in the exercise of prayer?

Do we really feel these inward pantings of desire after heavenly treasures? Do the inbred groanings of desire stir our souls to mighty wrestlings?

Alas for us! The fire burns altogether too low.

The flaming heat of soul has been tempered down to a tepid lukewarmness.'

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Mat_6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mat_13:44  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Is HEAVEN our EARTHLY TREASURE?

How much do we contemplate our treasures?  Do you have an earthly treasure? What DO you spend most of your time thinking about? Before you say, 'nothing', think about it, you must think, right? What things in your life would you be devastated to lose?

I ask again, Is Heaven our Earthly Treasure?

Heaven is the only treasure that we cannot lose. Yet we keep making earthly things our treasures.

Do we live with the DESIRE for heaven in us? Is this desire a part of our real, every day lives? Do we LONG for heaven?  Honestly, we must have this desire real inside of us. A desire for the heavenly, not the earthly. A desire for Heaven's will to be done on earth, not our earthly will to be done in heaven.  All too often we are putting our earthly desires far in front of our heavenly, this has got to change! By the grace of God this has to change now! Heavenly desires begin here and now. Our Savior came to bring us the good news of our salvation, of His preparing a place for us IN HEAVEN.

Please, LORD, please create a desire for the heavenly in us! Please, LORD, make this desire something REAL, something that consumes us beyond any earthly treasure.

All BY YOUR GRACE let our prayers be filled with the desire for the heavenly, by faith believing in YOU for ALL things we need. Guide our prayers, fill our prayers with YOU, YOUR LOVE!

We need our earthly treasure here and now to be heaven!

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 15 from 2 days before)

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