Intimacy with God

Our God is a personal God who created us for Himself and is longing for an intimate relationship with us. Find meaning and purpose in life by prioritizing intimacy with God and experiencing His love and presence in your daily walk.

He wants us to live in a sincere love relationship with Him (Matthew 22:37-38).

He invites us to spend time alone with Him, enjoy fellowship with Him, communicate with Him, trust, and follow Him daily.

Walking in a close relationship with God gives meaning and purpose to our lives. We often allow the busyness of ministry and life to replace a real, personal walk with God. But, our primary calling is for an intimate walk with Him.  

What is our top priority in life and ministry? It should be to develop intimacy with God. Because out of that intimacy comes the life giving ministry that is sustaining to us and helpful to others.

Do we desire a deeper and closer relationship with God (Psalm 63:1-8)?

Do you know that prayer, fasting and meditating on His Word are very important parts of our walk with Him?  

Our souls will never experience satisfaction until we discover the joy of devotion (Psalm 63:5).

David’s passion even had a physical element to it: “My flesh yearns for you” (Psalm 63:1).

When intimacy with God becomes the best thing in our lives and takes priority over everything else. In fact, we begin to experience the fullness of knowing God in our lives (Psalm 63:3-4). Then all the possessions, power, pleasures, and prestige that this world offers become empty, and our lives are transformed completely. No one can have an intimate relationship with God and remain unchanged! 

There are many similarities between having a good marriage and having a good personal relationship with God. In the Bible, there is a lot of language that refers to marriage in describing our relationship with God. In Jeremiah 2:2, God says, “I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert.” And in Jeremiah 3:20, “But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me.” We are the bride of the lamb (2 Corinthians 11:2). 

Any genuine, intimate relationship requires full devotion and commitment to one another. The marriage relationship will not be very good if only one of the two is totally committed to the other. Therefore, as God is fully devoted & committed to us, we also need to be fully devoted and committed to Him. Our relationship with Him will not be very good if we are not as committed and devoted to Him as He is to us.  

What is hindering you from experiencing true intimacy with God? Ask Him to show you today. Then take a step towards Him. As the book of James says “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up”.

Intimacy with God is a lifelong process that requires a disciplined walk with God. We can explore our relationship with God through;

Intimacy with God is a privilege freely given to us by Christ in His sacrifice on the cross. In order to multiply Christ-like disciples, it is very important to understand the meaning and the process of intimacy with God. The image of the vine and the branch in John 15 is a very good picture of intimacy. Apart from Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5). Intimacy is not head knowledge but a heart experience of understanding, of sharing, and belonging.

Our fruitfulness as disciples depends on our familiarity with God. Without intimacy, we might work hard like the disciples trying to catch fish the whole night in vain (John 21:1-6). But as we follow in His footsteps, fruit is produced in our lives.  

We must immerse ourselves in the word of God and keep our spiritual ears attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit by living a life of worship. As we worship God in our whole being, we experience intimacy with Him because worship brings us into the presence of God. Only those who learn to hear God and are attentive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit are ready to represent God in this world.   

As we stand at the edge of the horizon of God’s glory being revealed upon the earth, the greatest need continues to be for workers in the harvest. It is through hearing and obeying the voice of God that we gather the harvest and expand the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit is speaking to His people (Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, and Revelation 2:29). For those who listen and obey, they are about to move forward into the greatest outpouring of God’s Spirit that the world has ever known.  

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