INTIMACY WITH GOD
What sort of relationship do you have with God, a Filling station relationship, or an Intimate relationship?
God doesn’t want you to approach Him or take Him as a second option. You shouldn’t have a filing station relationship with God.
He doesn’t want you to come to Him just when you want to charge your Spirit or get filled up for say ministry or others.
He wants you to love Him with your being. Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment”. (Matt 22:37-38)
Intimacy with God must be our top priority other things may follow. For instance, it’s okay to walk or drive to work while in His presence, but if that’s the totality of your secret place, then you will lack the depth of connection in your intimacy with Jesus.
I want to wake up and turn to God first tell him “Good morning my Lover” and watch Him smile back at me. I want Him to be the first thing, the first love of my heart, my bridegroom.
I want to start my day by just loving Him. To tell Him “I’m here because I love you, you are the center of my universe.” Sometimes let your requests, supplications, petitions, and catching up with your daily quota of Bible study wait. Just love on Him.
God wants us to be addicted to the wine of his love. He wants us to be in passionate pursuit of His face. He wants us to be people of one thing. “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14)
“But few things are needed or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:42)
Guess what, our adversary will militate against your becoming a man/woman of one thing. Your to-do list will drastically increase, and circumstances around you will go haywire just to keep you away from becoming the person of one thing. He knows failure to fight you will result in you becoming a passionate FIREBRAND for God.
When Christ's love is pursued first, everything else is found.
This is an aspect that I’m discovering and walking on daily with God. The Holy Spirit has been helping and teaching me immensely. I’m excited just like Paul that I will keep going into a deeper intimate relationship with Him.
Some time ago, I asked my followers what they would want their next read to be about. One of them replied “Intimacy with God”. When today came to publicize the next post, God directed me towards writing about Intimacy with God. I am glad and I hope her need and request were met through this post. I’d also like you to leave in the comment section what topics you would want to read in subsequent publications.
Thank you for walking through this piece with me. I believe this will prompt you to become a man or woman of One Thing.
If you have the slightest desire to meet Jesus Christ and make Him Lord over your life, say this prayer aloud;
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for sending your Son, Jesus to atone for my sins, by shedding His blood through death on the cross. Today, I receive and confess Jesus as my personal, Lord and Saviour. I receive forgiveness and the gift of righteousness by my faith in Him. Thank You Father as I can now declare that I am born again in the name of Jesus. Amen!
You’re welcome to the family of God.
If you made this prayer, feel free to send me a mail at amakachi89@gmail.com
See you on Friday for the subsequent publication.
Greatly Amazing piece💞
Thank you so much Gen,you inspire me alot