How Desperate Are You For God?

This article is for those who are desperate for the presence of God in your life? Are you growing in your relationship with God or have you lost Him along the way?  If you have lost a sense of the presence of God in your life or if you don't have a desire for the things of God such as reading your bible daily or praying or attending church you must go back to where you lost interest and find it again. If you don't you will stay a miserable person. At this point of going back and revisiting the past, find where you lost interest in God and then develop a new desire for God that will change your life. Desire means-a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment: 
The writer of Psalm 42 had this desire for God.

Psalms 42:1-4 (NKJV) 1.  As the deer pants for the water brooks,So pants my soul for You, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
³ My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"

⁴ When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went
with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

David here is in the wilderness running for his life and he misses the times he had with God when he could go and worship in the temple of God. In those days the Temple was considered the only place to worship God and be assured your prayers would be answered.
He remembered what good times he had in God's presence. Today we can experience the presence of God where ever we are.
Nothing will fill your longings and cravings like the fullness of God's Spirit. If you have been born again by the Spirit of God, His presence is within you. But it could be you have quenched God's Spirit by sin in your life, or through neglect of reading His word, or through the lack of prayer and church attendance or all of these things. God word says He wants to richly bless you. But you must be desiring -(longing-craving) God as the most important thing in your life. Have you ever stopped and thought about how much of the things of God you are missing out on and what you could have if you had a close relationship with Him? Our relationship with God is like a marriage in the respect that it can either be a good or bad relationship determined by how much both love and desire to be with each other. A good marriage is one where both desire the best relationship they could possibly have. God desires a very intimate relationship with you. The question is, do you have that same desire for Him? So how do we have this intimate relationship with God as He desires for us? The word of God has the answer!
James 4:8 (NKJV) ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts,
you double-minded.
We are to draw close to God first as it says here by cleansing ourselves of sin or in other words, stop sinning.
We are to purify our hearts by not having a divided loyalty to the world and God. We must give up the things of the world that take our attention away from God and the things that pertain to Him. We are to give God first place in our lives. He must come before anything else. We must stop changing our minds about our relationship to God and it's importance. We must stop this one minute we want God, next minute we want the worldly things.
When we make up our minds to do these things, we are in for the blessings of God and the sweetness of His presence in our lives. I have been a Christian follower of God for a long time and I can honestly say there is nothing to compare to a very intimate relationship with God. I ask you to truly consider where you stand with God at this point in your life.
If you are not a born again follower of Jesus Christ, you will never have the peace and blessings of God on your life, but you can change that right now by asking Jesus to forgive your sins against a Holy God. Tell Jesus you are sorry for your sins and you invite Him to live in you and take charge of you. Then be baptized in His name and begin to live for God and watch your life change. You will become a new creation in Jesus Christ and you will begin to desire more of God in your life.
Christian, if you truly belong to the Lord why would you not want to draw as close to Him as you can. I pray you have a desire for God like you have never had before and you will seek Him with all your heart. He says in His word that if you seek Him you will find Him.Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) ¹³ And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. We truly need God in our lives like never before to face the challenges of today. My pray is for you to experience the presence of God in your life every day as you draw close to Him.