"Jesus Lives" by Sarah Young
INTIMACY WITH HIM
YOUR SOUL CAN GRASP MATTERS THAT ARE TOO DEEP FOR YOUR MIND'S UNDERSTANDING. One of these deep truths is My Father's perfect Love for you–the very Love He has for Me. I came to live on your planet so I could make this indescribable Love real to you.
Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. Therefore, as you get to know Me better, you simultaneously come to know the Father more fully. The better you know Us, the more abundantly His sacred Love dwells within you.
My Love and My Presence are inseparable: I Myself live in you! Thus, there are no limits to the depth of intimacy you and I can experience. I know everything about you–including your deepest desires and darkest secrets. I understand perfectly things about you which you have yet to discover. However, My knowledge of you is not clinical or detached: I view you through the eyes of a passionate Lover! I invite you to open your heart and soul fully to Me; this will increase our intimacy, enabling you to experience more of My boundless Love. For now you know in part (imperfectly), but in heaven you will know and understand fully—even as you have been fully, clearly known.
I have made you known to them, and will continue to
make you known in order that the love you have for me may
be in them and that I myself may be in them.
JOHN 17:26
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have
been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has
seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?"
JOHN 14:9
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
PSALM 42:7
For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim
(blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then
[when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face!
Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and
understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have
been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].
1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 AMP
Since my return home from Tennessee, I have been waking up at least 30 minutes earlier, even when that means waking up at 5AM. Beginning each morning in a sword fight. Yes, I said sword fight, my sword (your's too) is the Word of God. Asking God that He would open my mind to understand all that He desires me to know. Asking that I might have ears to hear and eyes to see all that He has written down in His Word. I stand steadfastly in prayer as I pray on the battle armor of God, because "Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand firm." ~Ephesians 6:12-13. God desires to protect us, but we must enter into His presence prepared. Yes, God still loves us and He protects us even when we don't pray, but we must do our part. Our desire needs to be that we pursue Him more than anything, nothing else will give us greater pleasure. Trials and tribulations will come and they aren't good, but God makes them good. He makes living, worth living!
God is moving! God is living! The more of Him we have, the more will crave! God gives the words to speak, the words to pray, the confidence and peace to walk in all that He has for us. We have but to ask and share in intimacy with Him, that He so richly desires. I am asking this week that God will give me constant reminders of His Presence and an ability to recognize them and embrace them. It is in these reminders that we are able to approach and deal with all circumstances because of His assurance, His Presence.
Below, is a song from Training Camp that broke down walls. I pray that as you hear and read these words that you will recognize His desire for intimacy with you. He wants us to ask, to call upon His Name, so that He might lavish His love on us. He loves us and desires to protect us and does.
"Intimacy" by Jonathan David Helser
These hands You made, to hold Yours my love
These feet You shaped, to walk with You in our garden
These eyes You placed, to gaze upon Your face
These lips You formed, to kiss my Beloved
I was made, I was made for intimacy
Easier You've made, to hear Your rhythms of love
And this voice You've placed, to sing You songs of grace
And this hair You wove, You've numbered every strand
And this gaze You love, it captures You with one glance
Intimacy is what I need, intimacy is calling me
