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Greetings,
We had a wonderful day yesterday at Alife. Pastor Jonathan invited us all to have a prophetic encounter with God. It was rich and full to hear the response of people as God spoke to them and through them. Everyone in the room was participating in some way. Life happened! Most people stayed at the end for a long time. They didn’t seem to want to leave. God was in the house. God was in His family and His family was in Him.
God wants us to know Him in a deep and intimate way. When we approach God as a power, we often miss God as a person. When we look to Him as our savior, our healer, our deliverer, our promiser, or any other attribute of His power, we tend to miss discovering Him in a more intimate way. Without realizing it, we exchange a relationship with Him for a relationship with what He can do.
Our journey in life is about growing in knowing God. Life is not measured in what we can accomplish in life. It is measured by our relationship with God. Our relationship with God is testified by the life that we bring to our world for knowing Him. We must grow in knowing God.
Knowing God comes by our desire to know Him. He is not far from any of us, and He desires to be found in every day and every aspect of our lives. How do we cultivate our desire to know God? How do we position ourselves to experience God in our lives? What is the secret to seeking for and finding God in a greater fullness in our lives? I believe the answer to these questions is seen in the focus of our hearts. Whatever we set our hearts to find, we will find. We set our hearts to find what we consider to be valuable in our lives.
1 Peter 2:7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,” 8 and “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”
The apostle Peter declared in these verses that Jesus is precious to those who believe, but He is a chief cornerstone to those who don’t believe. Those who don’t see Him as precious can only see Him for what He is and their preconceived ideas of what that should be trips them up to be offended by what He appears to be. God is a person and as a person, we must know how precious our relationship is with Him. This same principle is meant to be true in our human relationships in life but even that is first of all dependent upon our relationship with God.
When something is precious, we value it above other things. When something is precious to us, we know we cannot live without it. Air is precious to me. I can hold my breath for a bit, but by body will gasp for air if it is not allowed air for long. Water is precious to me. I can go for a while without water, but even in one day my body will start to cry out for water. In just a few days my body will shut down for lack of water. A secret to growing in knowing God is to get a revelation of how precious He is to, and in, our lives. We cannot live without Him!
God is not a power. His power simply testifies of Him. God is a person. He is our Father, He revealed His love to us through His only begotten Son, and He comes to us by His ever-present Holy Spirit. God is a trinity, but He is revealed to us through three distinct persons in His being. Without Jesus, we cannot fully know God as our Father, because it is only through the embodiment of a son that we can grow in knowing God as our Father. Without Holy Spirit, we cannot know the Father or the Son, because no one can come to God but by the Spirit of God. To be spiritual people we must embrace a relationship with God as the Spirit, God as the Son, and God as our Father. To know Jesus the Son, we must also embrace knowing God our Father. To know God our Father we must embrace knowing Jesus the Son. To Know God the Son and God the Father, we must know God the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is God and He has been sent to us by God our Father in the name of Jesus, God’s Son. To fellowship with Holy Spirit is a fellowship with the Son.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Holy Spirit in us, and with us is precious. We need to grow in knowing how much we need Him, not just for what He can do but for who He is. Partnership with Holy Spirit is a partnership with our heavenly Father. It is a partnership with Jesus God’s Son. Our connection to Holy Spirit in our own spirit is the key to growing in knowing God in our lives. We must have a revelation of how precious our connection to Holy Spirit in our hearts is.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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