Aug. 10, 2007 - This one's for the girls...
I was strolling along online and I came across The Burning Candle. Girls, I recommend you take a look. Even if you're not struggling, it's really encouraging. 
Once upon a time, I had a list something like this one. Experiencing God's responses is overwhelming... Being content in Christ is lovely. (for lack of beautiful, flowery, intelligent speech.)
I want to be loved.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love..." Jeremiah 31:3
I want someone to adore me.
The King has brought me into his chambers to adore me. (Song 1:4)
I want someone to hold my hand.
"I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." (Is. 41:10)
I want to be accepted and valued.
I am accepted in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6. KJV)
I want a place, a nesting place that is my own to create and use.
We can rest in the shadow of the Almighty. (Ps. 91:1)
I want help in my days of trouble.
"And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you..." (Ps. 50:15)
I want to share my life - the joys and the struggles - with one person.
God will share with me the treasures of darkness and hidden riches. (Is. 45:3)
I want a champion of my causes - one who is willing to fight for me.
The Lord will fight for you. (Ex. 14:14)
I want someone to meet my needs.
God is meeting all my needs. (Phil. 4:19)
I want intimacy.
The Lord is intimate with the upright. (Ps. 140:13)
I want someone to help me in my life.
There is no one like God who rides the heavens to help you. (Deut. 33:26)
I want to walk through life sustained and carried. I don't want the whole load of life.
Even to my old age, God will sustain me, carry me, and rescue me. (Is. 46:4)
I want a companion for this life.
God invites us to humbly walk with Him. (Mic. 6:8)
I desire children.
God gives us spiritual children like the numberless grains of sand if we invest in lives. (Is. 48:19)
Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone, to have a deep soul relationship with another,
to be loved thoroughly and exclusively.
But God says to the Christian, "No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled, and content with being loved
by Me alone. Not until you have given yourself totally unreservedly to Me, until you have an intensely personal and unique relationship with Me alone.
Not until you have discovered that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found.
Then will you be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you.
You will never be united with another until you are united with Me,
exclusive of anyone or anything else,
exclusive of any other desires or longings.
I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing,
one that you cannot imagine.
I want you to have the best. Please allow Me to bring it to you.
Just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things.
Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I Am.
Keep listening & learning the things I tell you.
You just wait,
that's all.
Have a good weekend!
~Princess Caitlin
