Year of Intimacy // Korea
What is it that you desire for yourself in 2016? What things do you want to accomplish, create, do, see, or learn? What breakthroughs are you contending for?
For me, 2015 was an incredible year marked by healing and stepping into my identity in Christ. I’m so thankful for the community that I’ve been a part of here and the relationships that have pointed me to the heart of the Father. As I prepare to leave Korea and gear up for the World Race in August, I’m eager to see where the Lord will take me in 2016. As I thought about where I’d like to be emotionally and spiritually at the end of the year, I decided to set this year aside as the Year of Intimacy.
We all desire to be known, to be loved and to feel worth. During my time in Korea, the Lord wrote a powerful testimony of breaking me free from finding my identity and worth in things other than in Him. It was through rejection, pain and brokenness that I encountered His real and perfect love and found my true identity as a child of the Most High King.
This year I declare that I want more. I’m not content with where I’m at now. The parameters that I’ve outlined God with are stubborn and confining. I want Him to shatter those parameters and reveal Himself in new ways as I hunger after Him. I want to know what is burning on His heart so that I can partner with Him in ministry. I want to see Him show up in ways written about in the gospels and more. I felt the Lord say that in order to do this, I need to draw close to Him more through prayer and digging deeper into the Word. In James 4:8 the Lord promises to draw near to us as we draw near to Him. Draw me into deeper intimacy with You, Lord!
“You have said, ‘Seek my face.’
My heart says to you,
’Your face, Lord, do I seek.’”
Psalm 27:8
What is this year for you? Praying that whatever it is, He will reveal himself with power and take you deeper into His great love.
Cheers to 2016!
