To Love The LORD.

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy(Samuel) ministered before the LORD under Eli the priest.

--TheSecretPlace--

This is truly amazing to me because even when the rest of Samuel's family went to Ramah He stayed before the LORD, and he served the LORD under Eli. When I read this verse I think about how the LORD is looking for people who, when everyone else leaves their side, they do not leave the LORD's side. He is looking for people, His people, to stand before Him day and night ministering to His heart, and sowing into the Spirit. He is extending an invitation to His chosen people to minister to Him, and to have an intimate relationship with Him. We have an invitation given to us by the King of Glory, El Shaddai, Adonai, El Ohim, and the invitation is to LOVE-With all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

God's love is the greatest love, and delight, and we have a personal invitation given to us by Love Himself to love. How could we not accept??

Though it is to me, and maybe you as well, unthinkable some push away this great love that the Father wants us to receive. Some don't want anything to do with Jesus. But this is one thing I know, and that is that the LORD takes so much pleasure in us, and even when we mess up, and even when things are going horrible, HE STILL LOVES US!!!! With all that He is He wants us to enter into right relationship with Him, and this love is worth all we are, and all we have to give.

Just as the LORD is, I want to encourage you in this invitation to holy love. To love Him with all of your heart soul mind and strength. To pursue Him, and minister to His heart even when you are the only one to do just that, and even if everyone who is close to you abandons you, I want to encourage you, and extend this very invitation to you to even in those times, SEEK HIS FACE, and stay before Him. We were created to love, and we were created for love.-For LOVE HIMSELF. Jesus Christ. The Holy and Risen One.

---Intercession---

Jesus I just want to thank You for extending this invitation to love wholeheartedly, and to love you even when we are the only ones loving You. I just want to thank You that we are able to be apart of what You are doing in the earth, and I just ask Father that You would strengthen, and empower us, Your people to be faithful to You, even unto death, let us take into our hearts the Words of Your mouth. I just ask in Jesus Name that You would make Yourself known Lord. You are good, and Your mercy endures forever. You are forever, and Your kingdom is forever! Lord, I look forward to spending eternity with You, and I just ask that You would set all of these things into our hearts, and that You would help us to love You wholeheartedly. I love You. In Jesus Name. Amen.