Satisfaction Guaranteed

     So I've been racking my brain for over a month now trying to figure out what to blog about next. I mean, I'm not in the field yet….so what could I say that would possibly intrigue someone to read this and feel as moved as I have felt when reading others blogs (some of these blogs just have me in tears by the end of it….joyful tears of course)? The blogs I read are so powerful, and moving, and motivating! Seeing God working in there lives country by country, day by day, and night by night. How do I go from here?

Then I got to thinking….

Which lead to more praying….

Which lead to listening to God speak.

When we listen carefully to the Lord, he speaks volumes about what it is that he wants us to do, say, and even what he wants us to blog about! 

     So earlier when I stated that I didn't know what to write about, because I wasn't in the field yet, couldn't have been a more inaccurate statement. I am CONSTANTLY in the field! Christ didn't politely ask us to go into the world and share about his love….he COMMANDED it! We are  ALL called to be HIS hands and feet! What an amazing gift we have recieved! 

   There was a point in my life when I was desensitized to the world, and far away from where my relationship with Christ should have been. I consumed my life with sex, drugs, and alcohol in order to try and fill the void and emptiness of where Jesus was meant to be. I mean, I was a Christian, I knew where I was going if I died…and I thought that was enough for me. But I never felt satisfied.

    Then I remember going to a women's conference in Birmingham, and Candace Burns (that's right, DJ Tanner from Full House) was the speaker for the evening. She spoke about always being on constant fire for God….like, a continuous thirst and desire to be closer to him. I thought she was crazy. It sounded all cool and whatnot, but that 24/7/365 on fire for Christ thing wasn't for me….I'd rather just get my spiritual high at the conference and be done with it. 

     Let me just say that after heeding Christ's calling, that feeling of not being satisfied has completely vanished! That constant thirst, drive, and fire for God and to be closer to him….I have it…ALL THE TIME! We can fill our lives and hearts with things of this world, and TRY to be satisfied, OR we can fill our lives and hearts with the love of Jesus Christ and have the ultimate satisfaction that is GUARANTEED to last FOR-EV-ER! I get all excited and ready to shout it from the mountains when I think about it! 

There's a song on one of the worship CDs I listen to thats words are so perfect for this, and the chorus goes like this:

"He is all we need
Savior to the lonely ones.
Better victory
Hope of the world.
He calls the darkness into light
He brings the dead to life.
He is all we need
He is all we need."