Total Abandon

I had been experiencing somewhat of a "dry" spell in my communication with God earlier this month. Yes, I know some of it is partly due to the fact that I have not been spending time with Him each day, and just giving all my days over to him. But something just recently struck me that could profoundly affect how we experience the power of God in our lives. I'm talking about total abandon. I'm talking about the kind of unashamed, unapologetic, who-cares-what-anyone-thinks, I'm giving everything to God total abandon in how we live our lives. Imagine what it would be like to live every single instance of our lives according to how God wanted us to live it out. What if we had a change of mindset that said Lord, today is YOUR day, please show me how you want me to live it. What if we had such total unabandoned praise and love for our Lord that we physically want to just prostrate ourselves on the floor in worship to Him.

I've been noticing the past few days, as I spend time with Him, that even when I start off by praying the typical things about my needs and the needs of those I know and love, that the Holy Spirit just prompts me to stop and praise and thank Him. My prayer life over the past couple days has turned from everything about me, to everything wonderful and glorious and awesome and good about Him. And how filling it is! Our church recently had a "girl time" for the women where we had dinner and then the pastor's wife spoke. What she spoke on is how we need to take time each day to just REST at the feet of Jesus. She said that even in our quiet times we can become consumed with what verses we must read, or how much we must journal, etc. When all God wants us to do is rest in His presence and experience how awesome He is.

I had kind of felt bad about not getting to my "checklist" of prayer requests, whether about me or someone else. Don't get me wrong, I still feel at times I should pray for a specific person or situation during the day. But at those special times that I set aside just FOR Him, I think He just wants for it to be ABOUT Him. And I'm really enjoying the company.