Clarity in my words!
God has really been stirring me in the areas of intimacy and fellowship. In many ways they are individual desires, but also they lived out by sharing these gifts with others. I have been so enlightened with the depths that God is desiring to take His Bride. I just got finished listening to the "The 7 Perils of the Bridegroom Fast", by Mike Bickle. What an inspiring, eye opening revelation about our hearts towards living a fasted lifestyle. I am so encouraged by what the Holy Spirit is doing throughout the earth. I am starting to see a people who are desiring to be a genuine representation of what Jesus has always desired. Of course, that goes along side of my very limited and immature understanding of Who He is. Thank you God for Your patient heart, and long suffering with me. Think about it, God created us to be in intimate fellowship with Him, and then to share that intimate fellowship with others (1st/2nd Commandment). I met this guy on PBR's blog, and his name is Thom. I don't know this guy at all, but I can tell you that I love him. Thom if you're reading, please know that my heart is genuine towards you. I really enjoyed the conversations that we had. What I see is that our current revelation of what is going on is defined by many factors. Some of those factors are: how we grew up, are social environment, school/work experiences, and even our past church experience (both positive and negative). Many times our differences really aren't a differing belief, but most of the time our differences are merely communcitaionally. The way we communicate our hearts is so important to God, and unfortunately he uses peoples personalities to bring those revelations through. We must desire to be more intimate with each other, we must strive to live in fellowship with each other. I need to learn to communicate better with other, not so much for my sake, but for theirs as well. I shouldn't expect everyone to think the way I think, or understand the way I put things all the time. There are some big differences even in locality, and ethnicity. Wow, if we could only commune together, so then we would know each others hearts. Thanks Thom, for keeping me accountable to bringing understanding to my words, because those who don't know my heart, might misrepresent it!
