PASSIONATE PURSUIT...AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART

 ISAIAH 22:22
AND THE KEY OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID WILL I LAY UPON HIS SHOULDER: SO HE SHALL OPEN, AND NONE SHALL SHUT; AND HE SHALL SHUT AND NONE SHALL OPEN.

REV 3:7

AND TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA WRITE; THESE THINGS SAITH HE THAT IS HOLY, HE THAT IS TRUE, HE THAT HATH THE KEY OF DAVID, HE THAT OPENETH, AND NO MAN SHUTTETH; AND SHUTTETH, AND NO MAN OPENETH.

I KNOW THY WORKS: BEHOLD, I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE AN OPEN DOOR, AND NO MAN CAN SHUT IT: FOR THOU HAST A LITTLE STRENGTH, AND HAST KEPT MY WORD, AND HAST NOT DENIED MY NAME.

Teach me o’ Lord to lay down my life. Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for a friend. It is easy enough to say with our mouths that we love you O’ Lord. However, the desire to please you with my whole heart is ever so present. Your word does state to present myself a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable. I know it is my reasonable servoce and you are more than worthy of my complete surrender. Teach me to love you more than my own flesh. You said that you had the power to lay down your life and you had the power to pick it up again. Strengthen me to do the same, that you may be glorified in me. I recognize that you obtained the keys through laying down your life completely and allowing the flesh to die. Teach me to do the same that I may overcome.