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Intimacy
I want to be one with you
One of my heart’s greatest cry as
a new Christian was, “I want to be
one with you.” It was my one line
prayer for so long. I yearned for
this intimacy with God. Once I
started to read the Bible and renew
my mind by His word, I learnt that I
was already one with Him. He had
answered my prayer, even before
I had asked, even before I knew I
would have a need for this intimacy
with Him.
We Were Created For
Intimacy With God
Paul, the Apostle, expressed this
need for intimacy saying, “That I
may know him…” Philippians 3:10.
Jesus expressed this intimacy and
oneness with the Father, when He
said, “The Father and I are one.”
John 10:30
God did not only
create us for intimacy with Himself,
but for intimacy with one another.
The Christian life is to be lived from
this position of intimacy with Him.
Our communion and fellowship
with God and one another is
birthed out of intimacy.
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“…That all of them may be one, as
You, Father, are in Me, and I am in
You. May they also be in Us, so that
the world may believe that You sent
Me.” John 17:21
He Is The God Who Knows
Me
No one knows you like God does,
He knows your most intimate
thoughts, He knows your deepest
desires, He knows your past, your
present, your future, He knows you
more than anyone else knows you;
even more than you know yourself.
“You have searched me, Lord, and
you know me. You know when I sit
and when I rise; you perceive my
thoughts from afar. You discern my
going out and my lying down; you
are familiar with all my ways.” Psalm
139:1-3 NIV
I love God, because He knows
how to reach me when no one else
does. People may come across
harshly when they want me to
change my heart or mind but He
knows my love language and He
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knows what delights my heart.
I love that Scripture that says,
“Delight yourself in the Lord and
he will give you the desires of your
heart.” Psalm 37:4
As we spend times of intimacy with
Him, He takes the desires of His
heart and makes them the desires
of our heart. He then expects us
to live out of the overflow of His
nature at work in our hearts. Not by
our feelings or by circumstances.
He Is The God Who Speaks
To Me In My Sleep
I love to sleep. I meet God in my
sleep. As I drift in and out of sleep,
He tells me the solutions to life’s
difficult problems. I enter into
dreamland and dream; I wake up
and document my dream. This
dream per se, had three scenes
etc... I lie still on my bed, pondering
the dream and what it means. A
Scripture floats into my mind. I
make a mental note to look it up, if
not I will forget. Later on, I wander
back into the bedroom to make
the bed, the Scripture floats across
my mind once again. I grab my