Friday’s Faith Feature|Resonating Thoughts on I Want God by Lisa Whittle (5/5)

A Word from Kim: I Want God – three words that should be recited daily. We should never forget this message. These are honest words. They are healing words. They are words that can direct our hearts to the path that was always meant for us. In truth, I believe in this message so much that I am desirous of blessing someone’s life with a copy of Lisa’s book. If you would like to see what wanting God is all about, please submit your name and a brief response as to why you want God on this post. One random winner will be selected on 9/26/14.

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Friday’s Faith Feature|Resonating Thoughts from I Want God by Lisa Whittle (4/5)

“We may not be trying to be famous, but we, the everyday people, still want to be popular. We still want attention and kudos and accolades. We still want significance and for people to know our names. That all seems harmless, but those desires so easily slide into an unhealthy place where we ask people to give us things to make us feel worthy. And it gets in the way of wanting God, because other people’s attention suddenly takes center stage instead of Him. When we give ourselves away to other people, we can never fully give our whole selves to God.

God didn’t create people to become other people’s gods. He knows that when we become other people’s gods we will not fight the same, love the same, risk the same. He knows we won’t preach the same. He knows we will settle more and become watered down people. He knows we will have to consider our image above everything else and that will extinguish passion flames and truth-telling and free speech. He knows it will make us dilute bitter-tasting truth so people can swallow it better.”

– Lisa Whittle

A Word from Kim: No level of attention or fame is worth compromising our relationship with God. So often, we tend to get caught up. Caught up in compliments. Caught up in celebrity. Even caught up in notoriety in extreme cases. But in truth, all those things can easily cloud the waters, making our faith walk murky and unclear. Ultimately, we drown in our own selfish desire to be known. And while that happens to us, many others are led down a path of idolatrous destruction. With all of this said and with all of the aforementioned in mind, it would behoove us to place God in the position He is best suited for over and in our lives, that of the Most High.#IWantGod 

Friday’s Faith Feature|Resonating Thoughts from I Want God by Lisa Whittle (3/5)

“The reason we do not have more of God is that we make our immediate need for comfort the priority…We want immediate relief from the empty existence we have created for ourselves and will comfort ourselves in any way that will make it possible. We will comfort ourselves with shopping. We will comfort ourselves with food. We will comfort ourselves with sex. We will comfort ourselves with porn. We will comfort ourselves with prescription drugs. We will comfort ourselves with TV. We will comfort ourselves with self-help conferences and keeping our calendar all booked up. Band-Aids that solve nothing and cannot heal our deep hurt. We diminish the depth of the wound, applying topical solutions to deep-down things that need attention. …our desire to comfort ourselves has been the problem all along.”

– Lisa Whittle

A Word from Kim: No truer words have been spoken. Look deeply inside of yourself and figure out where you stand. Ask yourself the hard questions. Have “Band Aid comforts” become your idols? Does your need for a pacifier of relief rule you or can you honestly say that you are all God’s? #IWantGod 

Friday’s Faith Feature|Resonating Thoughts from I Want God by Lisa Whittle (2/5)

“We can’t want our life and want God at the same time.”

– Lisa Whittle

A Word from Kim: Isn’t this the heart of the matter? Isn’t this at the root of everything? We cannot want anything else more than God. We cannot love anything else more than God. We cannot desire, pursue, crave, long for, or partake of anything more than God. I think the struggle that many of us face stems from this – this wanting life or the riches of life more than God. Can there be any satisfaction, any completion, any peace, any joy, any thing that fulfills us more than God? Certainly not! There will never be anything that comes even remotely close. God knows this. Shouldn’t we learn this lesson once and for all? #IWantGod

Friday’s Faith Feature|Resonating Thoughts from I Want God by Lisa Whittle (1/5)

 

“Since you are reading I Want God, I imagine one of four things to be true of you. Either you are in a place of lack – the starving, desperate, need-God-to-consume-you-more-than-what-is-currently-consuming-your-life-place; you are in a place of plenty but it is not satisfying and you still want more; you are spiritually dead and have no clue how to change it; or you are on a search for what you think may be the missing piece of your life. It doesn’t matter which. Your soul is in need of revival.”

– Lisa Whittle

A Word from Kim: The entire introduction of Lisa’s book is a beacon. It speaks in a way that is hard to put into words. I feel strongly that it shares a message that will resonate with many. Lisa, quite frankly, sends out a call to those who are or who have been faith-challenged, faith-filled, frustrated or just plain fried.

What’s Next for the Phone Tree? (August 2014)

The Sunday Series:

– Gideon: Your Weakness. God’s Strength. by Priscilla Shirer

Starts: Sunday, August 10, 2014

About the Study: “When we hear the name Gideon, most of us think about his 300 soldiers or the fleece he laid out under the evening sky. But Gideon’s story is so much bigger than that. It is bigger than any one man and his mark on Israel’s history. Like everything else in the Bible, this is a story about God and His people. His love for them, as well as His strength operating in spite of their weakness, even through their weakness. And because God’s people includes you and me, Gideon’s story is also about us – our lives, our doubts, our struggles, and our possibilities as believers. From a state of fear, weakness, and insecurity, Gideon emerged as Israel’s hero, filled with God’s presence and His passion for deliverance.

This study will encourage you to recognize your weakness as the key that the Lord gives you to unlock the full experience of His strength in your life. Instead of ignoring, neglecting, or trying to escape your weaknesses, see them as the gifts that they are, given specifically and strategically by God to unlock the door of God’s strength.”

Table Talk Tuesdays (Book Club Chat Series):

– Charis: God’s Scandalous Grace for Us by Preston Sprinkle

Starts: Tuesday, August 5, 2014

About the Book: “A Look at Grace from a Most Surprising Perspective – The Old Testament Grace. We want to domesticate it, calm it down, and stuff it into a blue blazer and a pair of khakis. But biblical grace – or charis – doesn’t like to settle down. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book.

Charis flows from the Preston Sprinkle’s half dozen years teaching the Old Testament to college students. You might think that would produce a book about judgment – but no way. He shows how every character, every event, every single page from the Old Testament bleeds with grace. Take a journey into Charis – where harlots are hugged, enemies are enjoyed, and really bad people receive really good things from a Creator who stubbornly delights in undelightful people … like us.”

A Special Friday Feature (Quotes & Other Inspiring Words):

I Want God: Forever Changed by the Revival of Your Soul by Lisa Whittle

About the Book: “It is in the heart of every person to want God, but life gets loud and we forget Him. We get consumed by our problems, our desires, ourselves. We forget our first encounter with the Savior and how much we once wanted Him… the way we believed He could use our life…the fulfillment He provides that everyday life cannot.

A guidebook, a teacher and a resource, all in one, I Want God brings rich simplicity to life-altering principles. With her signature boldness and raw authenticity, author and speaker Lisa Whittle inspires with bottom line truth about what happens when life gets off track and how to find our way back to the God we want most.”

Coming Soon| I Want God by Lisa Whittle

I Want God: Forever Changed by the Revival of Your Soul

About the Book: “It is in the heart of every woman to want God, but sometimes life gets noisy and you can easily forget Him. You forget your first encounter with the Savior and how you were moved by the thought of Someone bigger than yourself. You forget the way you once believed He could use your life. You forget the fulfillment He provides that everyday life cannot.

This is why you must remember. You must remember how powerful He is, how purposeful He made us, how easy it is for Him to move radically within your heart.

I Want God is the guidebook for every woman who wants God to use her loud and big. With her signature boldness and raw authenticity, beloved author and speaker Lisa Whittle inspires women to run after the only relationship that can ever fill them up. Learn the simple but life-altering lessons that will spur a soul-revival.” – Amazon.com

Publisher: Harvest House

Release Date: October 2014

Learn more about Lisa: LisaWhittle.com

Other Books by Lisa Whittle: Lisa’s books