God wants intimate communication with His children. Intimacy happens when we know the Father’s thoughts, and He knows ours. We cannot have intimate communication with the Father without sharing our deepest feelings with Him. The Father also wants us to desire Him and to want to know His thoughts and His feelings. God wants to be known.
True intimacy occurs when there is no more resistance, or hesitancy, toward the work of the Holy Spirit within our hearts. True intimacy is to desire the Father’s will more than our own, no matter the cost. It is total surrender. Like any other relationship, true intimacy is not instantaneous, but takes place over time.
The Father is waiting for those who are willing to come away and spend time alone in His presence. It is only as we spend time in His presence, and are not distracted by the cares of this life, that God can impart revelatory understanding of His will and His ways, to us. It is very important that we allow the Father to share His perspective concerning our lives and the lives of His people, as we pray in agreement with His will for all of us.
As we listen to the Living Word and allow that Word to lead us, by yielding to the Holy Spirit’s gentle nudges and promptings, we will be led, then propelled by the Spirit into a new place of freedom and victory in Christ Jesus. As we listen, yield and are obedient to the Living Word, the Spirit of the Living God will shift us into greater dimensions of usefulness to Him and for His kingdom.
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