{"id":3297,"date":"2014-08-10T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:16:02","slug":"focused-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/08\/10\/focused-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Focused Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018As the deer pants for the water brooks,\u2028So pants my soul for You, O God.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.\u2028When shall I come and appear before God?\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/114\/psa.42.1-2.nkjv\" target=\"_blank\">Ps.42:1-2 [NKJV].<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pursue intimacy with God regardless of where you are. Pursue intimacy with God. God said concerning David, \u201cI have found a man after My heart\u201d. What will God say about you? God said to Samuel, \u201cI have found a man that is passionately in love with Me\u201d. Sadly, a lot of people just want to use God because we have heard that the people that are God\u2019s friends, they do things and they get away with it. They say to God \u2018I am your friend\u2019 so that I can do things <!--more-->and they get away with it.. God cannot be mocked. How do you know you are God\u2019s friend? It is simple; you know that you are God\u2019s friend when how God feels about something is important to you. People say A is not a sin, it is not an issue whether it is a sin or not, the issue is will God be happy with me if I do this. Instead people will pressure you to show them in the Bible where it says they should not smoke. I may not be able to show you in the Bible but is God happy with you? David became a friend of God. The question to you is, does that really matter to you? Do you want to become a friend of God? Do you really want to become a friend of God? It is a question you need to ask yourself and answer. Some people are indifferent, friend of God why? But I believe most of us really want to become friends of God. And there are levels of relationships with God. The ultimate is to be His friend. The first level is to be a bondservant. The second level is to be a servant.\u00a0 Then third level is to be child, an heir of God. The fourth level is to be a son. Not every child is a son. You can be an heir and you can be a son, you are not entitled &#8211; you don\u2019t enter into the inheritance. But not every son is a friend. \u2018<em>What is man that You are mindful of him,\u2028And the son of man that You visit him?<\/em>\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/114\/psa.8.4.nkjv\" target=\"_blank\">Ps.8:4 [NKJV]<\/a>.\u201cWho am I that you are mindful of me that you hear me when I call?\u201d Do you know this song? You see friendship with God cannot be commanded. You cannot command that you are a friend of God and so shall it be. Let today\u2019s devotional leave you with a hunger to pursue real friendship with God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong> [song]: As the deer panteth for the water. So my soul longeth after thee. You alone are my hearts desire. And I long to worship thee\u2026 You alone are my hearts desire. And I long to worship thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018As the deer pants for the water brooks,\u2028So pants my soul for You, O God.\u00a0My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.\u2028When shall I come and appear before God?\u2019 Ps.42:1-2 [NKJV]. &nbsp; Pursue intimacy with God regardless of where you are. Pursue intimacy with God. 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