Waking Up Early Never Felt So Good

This morning I walked into the prayer room and they were singing this refrain:

"Won't you let me love you more
this is my deepest hearts desire
Won't you let me love you more
this is all that I require"

So picture this, it's 6 AM and I just started my day - so singing these words with any kind of conviction first thing in the morning kind of feels like a stretch. I mean, give me 20 minutes of "warm-up" or something so that I can get my heart to this place! None the less, I find a seat and decide to dive right in. I get through the chorus one time and suddenly the whole thing dawns on me - I'm not singing this to Jesus, He's singing it to me!

"Won't you let me love you more? This is My hearts desire!
Won't you let Me love you more! This is ALL that I require"

Suddenly my heart when from 0 - 60. I could feel the affections of Jesus and His desire for me all over. IT WAS AWESOME!!

It got me thinking about so many of the songs I sing at church like "Hungry", "More" or even my own song "I'd Do Anything" (songs that I file in my worship folder under "heart cry" songs). So often it is a struggle to try and return to the place of heart felt passion and longing as I sing them. There have been times when the words seem so real to me, but other times it feels almost hypocritical to be singing words like "I love you more than anything", or "I'm falling on my knees, offering all of me".

Today my heart was opened up to a totally different paradigm. I can turn the focus of these songs around and sing them as a confession of Christ's desire for me. Not only that, I can sing them with the knowledge that it will always be true and that He is feeling it deeply - singing it over me with His heart felt emotions!

Can you hear Jesus singing this over you in the garden of Gethsemane:

I'm falling on My knees, Offering all of Me
(insert your name here) You're all this heart is longing for!"

Or at the creation of the world, were Jesus spoke the word and the morning stars sang:


  More than a word could ever say
  More than a song could ever convey
  I love you more than all of these things
  (your name), I love you more!"

I don't know about you, but just reading that rocks my world BIG TIME!!! Now sing it out loud over yourself over and over again, IT'S AMAZING!!!!! (I can't put enough exclamation points behind this statement).

So be blessed today in the knowledge that Jesus is singing these words over you even now.

Jon