I’m just blown away by how cool God is sometimes! Lately God
has really been speaking to my heart about intimacy and closeness with him. I
even made the semester theme for the small group that I lead. He has been
showing me that there is so much more of himself that he has to give me. There is so much closer to him that I can
become. My heart’s cry these past few weeks is that God would make himself so
real to me that I sense his presence all the time and never feel alone because
I know that he is with me. My goal for this semester is to become more aware of
God’s presence. I want to develop a deeper and more intimate relationship with
God. So this theme of intimacy and closeness with God has been heavy on my mind
and heart.
This will seem irrelevant, but bear with me. I had a little
extra time to get ready yesterday. I had done my hair nicely, I was wearing
nicer clothes, and was wearing more make-up than usual. I had several of my
girls teasingly ask me where I was going, assuming I was going out with
someone. They kept saying that I was going on a date. All day yesterday, they
kept saying, “Lindsey’s going on a date!” I just laughed at them. The only
plans I had for the night was to go to a church service with some friends.
So I went to the service last night and after the service is
over, the people typically go to the front and just start praying over each
other. God used me to prophesy over some of my friends that I went with, and
that was really cool. But then people started praying and prophesying over me.
It quickly became very clear that God wanted to speak to me about closeness and
intimacy with him as well. I hadn’t really told anyone there how God had been
speaking to me about that before. But people began prophesying over me saying
things like, “Lindsey, God is going to use your quiet times in the small gray
rooms and use it to give you life and paint your community of grey with all
sorts of colors. And that’s all going to spring from the quiet times when you’re
growing closer to God. God is going to be closer than your skin.” Or another
one prayed, “Lindsey, I see your passion for God and for serving him. God just
give her more of you. Bring her closer to you.” Another prayed that I would be
close to God and talked about, “Taking God out for a slice of pizza” or taking
time to “sit at the feet of Jesus.” And still another prophesied that, “God
want(ed) to take me on a metaphorical date” and be close to me. People probably
prayed over me for a solid ten or fifteen minutes and the theme of everyone’s
prayers was intimacy and closeness with God.
Turns out I was going on a date, a date with my savior and
king and close friend, my God. It was so cool how God tied everything together
last night. And it confirmed that God really does want to bring me so much
closer to him! I cannot wait to see what God does with the semester as I strive
to be closer to him. I can’t wait to see what blooms out of a close and
intimate relationship with God. I’m so excited to see what awesome and radical
and amazing things God does! I’m sure it’s more than I can even imagine right
now! But I can’t wait for that time to come so I can experience it! I can’t
wait to be so close to God that it is like having another person in the room
all the time.
“I don’t wanna talk about you, like you’re not in the room.
I wanna look right at you, I wanna sing right to you.” –You Won’t Relent, Jesus
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