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Reflections of Grace 77: Life Purpose Coaching 13 – Discontentment

Reflections of Grace 77: Life Purpose Coaching 13 – Discontentment

Last updated on: February 23, 2016 at 3:43 am by Christian Podcast Central

Reflections of Grace 77: Life Purpose Coaching 13 – Discontentment 2016-02-23T03:43:54-08:00 Christian Podcast Central

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From Certified Life Coach Dixie Diamanti, Author of Climbing Out of the Box and Fifty Ways to Meet Your Lover:

My prayer:

“I’ve been in a slump Lord and wondering why I feel bored with my life and finally realizing the One I miss is You. Interesting because I feel You with me all the time. But You are teaching me that if I don’t take the time to sit and listen to You, my intimate needs of connecting with you will wane. You are who I miss. It is You I need. When I can’t put my finger on what I’m lacking then I can always know it is You. Oh, for the body of Christ to learn this truth! There wouldn’t be so many needy people. So, here I am my Love. I long for You in the deepest places. In the depth of my soul. Fill my cup back up Lord. Fill me up and make me whole. Give me energy again, and health, and vitality. Hope and vision. Thank you for Your patience with me and your long-suffering. Thank you also for the vision of me as an uncut diamond that You are in process of chiseling away the dark coal–which is causing the light of Yourself to shoot off of me in so many ways.”

As I waited on Him, He replied,

“Yes, my love it is about your depletion of me. This is the next step of intimacy. You already know that I walk with you every moment, but now you must remember that when you are feeling lonely, sad, bored, and have a lack of vision it is me you are being called to connect with. Your reserves are depleted when you give out of yourself so much of the time and you get distracted. You forget to move all distractions out of the way and just sit with me, so I can fill you up. I am your very lifeline. Instead of turning to everything else, including connecting with people, you must turn to Me. If you do this, you will find your rest and peace and restored hope for the life I have called you too.

Yes, you are My diamond. The rays of My light shoot off of you as I have been chiseling away on everything that obscures my light. This will continue to manifest more and more as you walk on in the face of the chiseling. Your suffering for me has not gone unnoticed and your maturity in rising above the flesh in the many hardships you have faced has made Me delight over you with joy. Feel My smile, Dixie. Feel My love, Dixie. Feel My presence enveloping you, Dixie. I love you!”

Do you stop and just ask Him what it is you need at those confusing moments? Sometimes we just don’t even think about asking Him what our problem is. Jesus sees you as His precious treasure… and He longs to have a close relationship with you.

More than anything He wants you to have an intimate love relationship and friendship with Him. God wants you to spend time with Him and intimately communicate with Him, to enjoy fellowship with Him, to trust and follow Him, and to give your life meaning and purpose by giving you the privilege of joining Him in His life here on earth.

All of humanity can be defined as a vast, gaping need. Looking across the globe of this generation we witness men and women, young and old, throwing themselves into entertainment, recreation, technology, food, music, friends, and a host of things as they grope for the answer to the riddle of why they are alive and seek to silence the screaming voice of yearning in their souls.
And throw in these troubling times of terror and the unknown of what we will face before we are taken out of here is gripping people with fear…and distracting them from the very One who can give them peace when our world is seemingly falling apart.
No matter how much we buy, who we know, or what fleeting pleasures we experience, we find that none of it can quench the insatiable thirst in the depths of our being. So it is that day after day we go about panting and groaning for something that will satisfy the desires that dominate our inner man.

We all know that we want intimacy because, on some level, we believe that only God can fill that void in our hearts. Still, for most of us, we don’t know quite how to get it, and what it actually means when we’re referring to intimacy with God Himself.

We must realize that it is not just a certain way of speaking about God nor is it merely a feeling we experience.

Intimacy with God consists of relational knowledge – we are most intimate with those whom we know at the deepest levels. Jesus stands at the center of this pursuit because in His face we see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God and that is what intimacy is really all about.

One of the most common misperceptions relates to how He feels about you. From years of various and sundry teachings born out of our organizational churches, deep inside we think that Jesus is mostly unemotional and distant, except for how disappointed He is with us – that is the one feeling many of us are convinced He does actually feel.

Yet the truth is that His heart is full of love and desire for you. This isn’t just an idea or a sweet sentiment, but a reality that He put on display in every moment of His life.
In drinking in the wild beauty of this Man, your soul will at last find its rest. This is intimacy, and this is what you were created for – to enjoy and adore the splendor of His glory forever.

So forgetting what is behind, let us press on to know Him.

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