Presence

Presence
By Peter Furler, Steve Taylor, Tim Hughes

Newsboys song clips. Click on discography

I lift up my voice
To The King, The King of glory
I hold out my hands
To The One who is worthy
I long for Your presence
I long, Lord, I need Your touch

Come, oh Lord, and fill up my life
With the light of Your presence
This is my heart's desire
Oh Father, come and let Your spirit abide
I long for Your presence
This is my heart's desire

I long to be washed
In the well of Your mercy
I long to be warmed
by the fire of Your glory
I long for Your presence
I long for Your healing touch

Come, oh Lord, and fill up my life
With the light of Your presence
This is my heart's desire
Oh Father, come and let Your spirit abide
I long for Your presence
This is my heart's desire

It's my desire

(I wanna feel Your presence)
Lord, it's my desire
(I wanna feel Your presence)
Lord, You're my desire
(I wanna feel Your presence)
I wanna feel Your presence
I wanna feel Your presence
I wanna feel Your presence, Jesus

Come, oh Lord, and fill up my life
With the light of Your presence
This is my heart's desire (this is my heart's desire, oh...)
Come and let Your spirit abide
I long for Your presence (presence...)
This is my heart's desire (this is my heart's desire, oh...)

It's my desire

Lord, You're my desire
Lord, You're my desire

Sung By Newsboys

Purpose Driven Life

I figured it out. For those of you who have read my blogs before and are intrested in reading more on the purpose driven life then click on the title of this blog and it will take you to the web site.

Day 14

So I am reading the book called Purpose Driven Life and was writing the journal entry for day 14 and thought I would share it:

Question to consider:How do I intend to stay focused on God even when He feels distant?

I went almost 4 years without really feeling that God was with me. During that time I yearned for a closeness to Him. I would pray and feel nothing and I would go to church and would not really come away with anything I didn't feel going in. I felt so far away from God and nothing I did was bring me closer.
I know look back on that time and think that God distanced Himself from me to show me or help me see what exactly I had and was now missing because I had put other things in front of him. I realized I was putting a physical relationship ahead of my relationship with God. I was placing my wants before what God wanted for me. Through the last year of this distant relationship I tried to remind myself of just how much I owed God for what He had done for me and was still doing for me. During my relationship with this guy I would only pray/turn to God when things were not going the way I thought or wanted them to go. Slowly I began to figure out that I was living for the wrong person and I needed to get back on the right path.
I began to just talk with God again and let him into my life again. I basically came to Him on my knees and asked Him to help me find my way back home. I began to feel Him little by little, day by day after that. God placed some amazing people in my life; and I have told them this; after I poured out my heart to Him. After that every sermon at church felt like God was speaking to me, it was what I needed to hear at that time. Some was hard to hear but I sat through it. I made a promise to trust in God and tell him everything that was on my heart. Even tho God knows all, I think it is good to tell Him yourself. It helps build a strong and intimate relationship when you feel you can tell someone every little thing about your life and I can with God. I am now on the path to a more intimate relationship with God then I ever had and I am finally content in everything I do because it is not about me anymore. Now if I feel distant from God, I remind myself that everything is a part of God and if I think I am alone I just look around me at everything He created and know that He surrounds me and would never leave me.