Moments when you just can't carry on a conversation with God...

I remember when the House of Prayer was located in the Bible House building. We did not have many verses on the wall. Probably only one, I think...

Psalm 27:4

One thing I have desired of the Lord,

That will I seek:

That I may dwell in the house of the Lord

All the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the Lord,

And to inquire in His temple.

I remember one day, I was meditating upon this verse in the House of Prayer and decided to talk to God using this verse. From the bottom of my heart, while the devotional worship was going on in the background, I told God, "You are my one thing...".

Then I paused and before I wanted to say it again... I thought I heard God saying to me, "You are my one thing...". I kind of shrugged off the voice, as thought I might be dreaming or hearing things... So I opened my mouth and was about to continue talking to God. But He did not allow me to continue...

"You are my one thing... You... You are my one thing..."

Tears welled up in my eyes...

These are moments I could not carry on a conversation with God...

More than five years on, with all its ups and downs, north and south winds... this verse still moves my heart... for every time when I attempt to say that to Him, I hear Him saying the same thing back to me...

It is the name that God has given us as a House... to remind us that above all, to keep Him as the 'one thing' - the very priority, love and pursuit in our lives...crowd or no crowd, glory or no glory, to remember our name... for this is who we are - a People of One Thing..

Praise be to God for His undying love and abundant grace in my life... O how He loves us so.. I want to know Him more... and run with Him...

2Cor 11:3 ~ "For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."

Deut. 4:24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.