What Do You Want? (REALLY)

In the book WIDE AWAKE by Erwin McManus he is attempting to wake up the reader to embrace and live the extraordinary life GOD envisioned when He first conceived you in His thoughts before you took your first breath.  In the chapter DREAM he summarizes  our encounter with Jesus and life to this:  If you had Jesus right in front of you and he asked you, " What do you want?" what would you say to him?  What are you asking God for?  What is driving you?  If you were a blind man, you'd give the same answer he did.  You would start with your deepest longing - the dream that seems too good to be true, the dream  that seems too good to come true.

If we are all honest...dreams are the stuff that life is made out of.  I mean think about it...every great thing we have...was a dream first. Computers, automobiles, central air, fast food (o.k. maybe not so great), lasix surgery, even Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that is still a work in progress...but all born from dreams.    We have several examples of people in scripture  that had dreams or longings that once confronted with the reality & ability of JESUS began to ask Him to answer their dreams/longings.   You have blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10), you have the man at the pool of Siloam (John 9), but it's the request of a mother that really shows what it means to request your deepest longings....Matt. 20:20-21:   Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor.  “What is your request?” he asked.
   She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”

Here is a parent that wants sees the best in her sons.  Here's a mother who loves her sons, and desires to see them be great men, not bumps on a log.   But rather rulers alongside Jesus the CHRIST!   Of course this is lofty.  But who desires to see their kids as less, rather than more?  Who doesn't look into the eyes of that beautiful baby, and dream that they'd be homeless, or on drugs, or a total waste of a life.  No one!  But what about you?   Are you living a dream (your dream for your life), or is your dream more like a nightmare????   I submit to you Jesus Christ, is and has been asking you..."What Do You Want?  What is Your Request?"  His word tells us that whatever we ask (in line with His will, and His glory (emphasis mine) we will receive.  (John 15:7, Mark 11:24).

CHALLENGE as  you pray, fast ,or fast and pray today, Go before our risen LORD, and ask BOLDLY for what your deepest longings are for someone else ( a friend, a co-worker, a family member) first, then tell Him what your deepest longing is.  Trust that He will answer (according to His will and desire for you) and close that time with praising Him for listening to your prayer. LGLP