I always think that it is funny how we renew our dating relationships with people who may have forgotten to appreciate us, or they may have stepped out on us. We renew our wedding vows or renew our insurance policies, but we neglect the importance of renewing the most important relationship of all.
I attended the Full Gospel Regional Summit this weekend and they were having intercessory prayer. It looked like an amazing experience; it looked like an amazing experience, but I wasn't there. It seemed that in the middle of prayer and the praise, I was a blank canvas or an unrehearsed actor. This was probably the lowest point for me in my journey to find my way back to God. I was actually jealous of how one with God my fellow (I'm in tears writing this) my fellow worshippers were in praying and giving God glory. I just never felt this far away from Him. I know He's right there waiting for me, but I know this time mere words won't do it.
A good friend of mine, with the uncanny gift to keep it real and bring conviction without judgment; anyway she said in Sunday school, "There is no time for excuses," she said this and she is absolutely right. I have made enough excuses in my life and these past two years of being spiritually depressed, "sinning". unhappy with the church, displeased with church folk, and having no inimate time with the Lord; there is no time for excuses.
I'm at a road block, but I can't continue my life this way. Anybody ever felt this way? Please be real with me! I need to encounter God in a great way and I need to renew my relationship with Him. I need to really pray to see God's face and to meet the Lord where I first found Him; humbled, repented, and in need of a Lord and Savior.
I'm confident that I will find a way to Him and I will Renew my relationship with God. I believe that I'm being confident in this very thing that He that has begun a good work in me will perform until the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6).
I also believe that although I've let all the church hurts and my falling into temptation has brought me to this place, but I know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28).
I Need To Encounter God and Renew My Relationship with Him
By JoeI Need To Encounter God and Renew My Relationship with Him
Joseph is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker in the Washington, DC area. Joseph is the author of the forthcoming book “Love Me Right or Not at All”, A Quick Guide to Loving Yourself and Others the Healthy Way. This book seeks to assist everyone who reads it to love with balance and give love to the right people. Joseph is striving to become an expert in the practice of relationship empowerment. He strives to build healthy, powerful, and well-balanced relationships in the lives of everyone who seeks after the knowledge, values, and skills Joseph has honed over the last ten years. Joseph is an aspiring Marriage and Family Therapist, but to also travel around the nation and hopefully the world, to spread the message that relationships can be simple, yet amazing if you put in the work. Relationships are vital to the human experience and often shape our mindsets, our personalities, and our environments. Knowing this, Joseph works to encourage not only those who believe in his skills, but also works passionately to build his knowledge and skills in the area of relationships to present the best of who he is both personally and professionally.
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