Your Father Waits for You - The Watch Letter

Do you still desire Jesus? This is a sobering question.

Often, we can confuse believing in Jesus with desiring him.

Often, our version of faith can fail us. We can get weary, we can doubt and lose patience with the promise. But it is our desire for Jesus that will keep us clinging to him and staying before him so that our faith can be restrengthened and sustained.

• To desire means to have a thirst, hunger, or passion for someone or something, and to long and hope to be with a person.

• To believe means to accept something or someone as true, genuine, or real and to have confidence in someone or something's capability.

You can believe someone is good at something, but that belief is not always enough to make you want to draw close to them. You may find yourself just wanting to benefit from their ability versus wanting to get to know them.

This is why desiring Jesus is so important. We can believe in what he can do because it benefits us, but we must search our hearts to see if we want more than what he can do and instead want who he is and to draw close to who he is.

Recently during a series of messages, titled "God's worm," which was about recovering at your lowest point and God seeing you when everyone else overlooks you, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn said the key to recovery is when we still desire Jesus no matter what we have been through.

He said, if you still desire Jesus when you feel broken and forsaken, you can still overcome and win.

So, a lot of times the reason we struggle to get back up again and stand on the victory God promised no matter the odds against us is because we have lost or put down our desire for Jesus. 

When we desire Jesus, we want to take him at his word, we want to be around him and get to know him through his word and prayer and waiting before him. Chief Apostle Gunn taught us that in getting to know him,  we will find sustainable strength, hope, and encouragement.

Chief Apostle Gunn also reminded us of the scripture, "he giveth power to the faint" (Isaiah 40:29-31). He said God can increase our strength because he is the maker of strength, but if we don't have a desire or a mind to draw close to him, how can he give us that strength?

He said we can become weary, but when we wait on the Lord, we can be renewed. But waiting on the Lord involves drawing close to him.

He said when we rejoin and reconnect with Jesus, we can get another grip on our lives, and come off the ground where we have fallen and be elevated.

One of the most powerful things Chief Apostle Gunn taught that is echoing in my heart was: Your father waits for you. He waits for you (to come to him) so he can restore you.

Psalm 22:19: But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Listen to "God's Worm" from a recent FORREAL RADIO BROADCAST with Chief Apostle Gunn here: https://www.thebodyofchristinc.com/listen-in?wix-music-track-id=2696989316443329&wix-music-comp-id=comp-lrczxokb.

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