There is nothing you can do to make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is unconditional, impartial, everlasting, infinite, perfect! God is love! – Amy Carmichael
~”Take me past the outer courts, into the holy place, past the brazen altar, Lord I want to see your face.” I am in the midst of the crowd standing outside the tabernacle, where I once was content along with most of the Christians of today. I’m near God’s presence and comfortable there, but then God gives me a glimpse of Himself and I am suddenly desperate for more! I start pushing through the crowd, past everything that stands between myself and the presence of the Lord…I need to know Him, to see Him, to touch Him, to hear His voice!
~I closed my eyes and found myself running along a beach- skipping, twirling, heart full of joy and a huge smile on my face. People are staring at me wondering where the freedom and love in my heart comes from. I don’t notice anyone else around me, my eyes look down at the ring on my finger and my thoughts are consumed with the lover of my soul.
~A wedding banquet and dance- he delights in me! We dance and laugh and spin- both wearing dazzling white garments.
Intimacy…to really know Him! This has been the word and, more than that, the desperation the Lord has put on my heart this month! He recently gave me the 3 visions above to show me that He wants to be more to me than Lord and Father, He also wants to be the
lover of my soul! I have been so blessed to know about God my entire life and have never had any reason to rebel against or betray Him. He has shown me nothing but love and grace and goodness. God is
LOVE!! How many times I have heard this, yet not fully grasped that I am his bride- whom He delights in and adores! What a freeing and overwhelming realization! I believe that He gave me the visions related to marriage because that is a deep longing of my heart, and I can understand the desires and emotions of my heart that accompany that. He has been telling me that He is jealous for me, for my heart, and for those desires that He has given me to be directed toward Him.
He is not sitting up in heaven on His throne forcing us to bow and worship Him, to follow a bunch of rules just because He says so, or to be forced in to labor as slaves. He is standing with His arms wide open- saying “Come to me! Let me embrace you! Wipe away your tears, dance with you, love you!” Everything that happens to us, the Lord uses to draw us nearer to Him! He doesn’t need us, but is longing for our love! We were created not to worship Him, but out of the overflow of His love that He wants to share with us!
“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” – Rev 21:9 We’ve been chosen by Him. We are the object of His love.
“You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes.” Song of Songs 4:9
Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feeling. The sun shines as lcearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds. – Blaise Pascal
