You shall love the Lord your God

I have never prayed as intensely and studied the bible as rigorously as I have the past two days. At IHOP (International House of Prayer) - Kansas City, which I think is the headquarters, there is a 24/7 Prayer Room. It's a place just designated for people to worship and praise the Lord in any way they want. There's a constant praise team on stage singing and praising the Lord day and night. There's a space in the back for people who want to express by dancing. Rooms bordering the main portion of the prayer room for different things.

Every 2 hours is a different session. One session will be intercessory prayer for people across the world, another session will be worship through singing. And all the time there is a group of believers always praising the Lord. An amazing sight really.

Over the past 2 days, I've just come to see how beautiful God really is. He is our maker, our lover, and our bridegroom.

36"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. -Matthew 22:36-38

Just read it again. People go lengths and miles and distances to find a purpose to their life, but it's written in the very word we believe in. Our sole purpose as Man, created by God, is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind".

The Lord wants to be with us. 1/3 of the angels fell and betrayed God, yet Jesus did not go after them. But the very moment man sinned:

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day - Genesis 3:8

God came down to Adam and Eve. HE WALKED in the cool of the day.

He chased after man for he loved us. He sent down prophet after prophet to direct us the right way, but men didn't listen. He eventually sent his own son down and we still did not listen. (Jesus tells us this in a parable. Mark 12:1-12) Yet God still waits for us today. He gave us the chance, and it's there for our taking.

I have learned so much and yet it is only Day 2. If I were to write everything that I wrote it would be too long for any of you to read.

God is starting to work wonders in my inner being. He is changing me on the inside without expecting external results. I just hope I'll be broken to serve by the end of this month and I can bring the fire that I have caught on here in Kansas City back to Los Angeles. I have realized I have been in the darkness for so long, and I don't know how I could have not noticed the love of God. Once you experience it, and then believe it, It is amazing, it really is. I just want to continue to learn and eat till my hunger for him is filled, which I hope will be never; however, the opposition continues to attack me by tiring me, bringing sleep upon me during prayer, and continually making me conscious of my bodily needs as I try to break away from my needy connections to earth.