What will we do when it's time for souls to be condemned to hell? What will it be like to stand there and watch as people are thrown into the lake of fire forever? Will we think, Did I know any of them? Could I have done anything that would have kept them from going there?

That question has become much more important to me than natural questions, such as whether or not the dog gets a bath this week.

I've discovered that when you become truly hungry for God and revival comes to your heart, one thing that happens to you is that you become more aware of heaven than you are of earth. Everything on the other side of the veil becomes very, very real to you.

As you pray, you learn to move from this earthly realm into the realm of the Spirit, where you begin to see with the eyes of your heart "the city foursquare," in all of its light and glory (Rev. 21).

Such experiences make you more and more hungry for God. They cause your mind to think less about natural things than you think about eternal things - including the destiny of lost souls.

You see, it's true that the Bible says our thoughts are not God's thoughts and our ways are not God's ways (Isa. 55:8). But it's also true that once we get saved, we can begin to learn to think the way God thinks and live according to His ways.

You can have God's thoughts. You can be delivered from the perils of the beggarly elements of this earth, including selfish, carnal thinking. God will help you do that. He will give you His desire to see all men saved.

Just continue to delight yourself in Him. Keep your heart wide open to His Spirit. And above all, stay hungry for more of Him!

Source: When God Invades The Earth by Lynne Hammond.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers