Just about a week ago I was at a late night prayer meeting. I walked in a little late and the first thing I heard was the leader (Matt Timmermeyer) say that he wanted us to leave different then we came in. He wanted us to have an unreal experience with God that night and he expected God to do great things during that prayer meeting that night. I was expecting it too, I just didn’t know what to do. As I lay on my face crying out to God, 20 minutes later, singing a completely epic version of Phil Wickham’s “You’re Beautiful”, I began to wonder what it took. What it took to go deeper. To know more. To experience God on this deeper level. I looked to where any Christian should look for all answers, the very words of God.
The first Scripture I went to was 2 Peter 1:3, “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” Basically, just like it says, we have all power in Christ to get everything we need for life and godliness. That is found in the knowledge of God. Great. So to go deeper, we need to have knowledge of God. The mysteries of God need to be revealed to us. Makes sense. I mean, how can you grow closer to someone you don’t know that much about. The more you know about a person, the closer you grow. It just works out that way sometimes. It says in Proverbs 19:2, “It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.” So really, we need to have some form of knowledge about God before we get all lovey-dovey on him and others. We can have all the passion in the world, but if we don’t have knowledge first, we’ll fall on our faces. So that made sense, but then God threw 1 Corithians 13 in my face, specifically verse 2.
“If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” Um… ok. So I can have all the knowledge in the world, but if I haven’t love, I’m nothing. Great. But it makes sense. I need to have love before I can have knowledge, because anything done that is now out of love is not of God. It says that three things will last: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Ephesians 3:17-19 says: “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” This love is a love that surpasses all knowledge. So that, in a sense, makes love greater than knowledge. So I need more love. Ok cool. Right?
1 John 4:16, “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” So God is love. So to get more love we need more God. God is love. God is 1 Cor. 13. God is knowledge. God is zeal and passion and fervor. God is it. Alpha and Omega. So more God is the answer. Then in Colossians 2:6-7 it says, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” and then in Luke 9:23-25, “Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?“. These verses are talking about receiving God into our lives and then daily taking up our crosses and dying to ourselves. “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” So to choose God and get more of him, we must choose him everyday and daily take up my cross. I much die to myself and deny my flesh in order to get more of God.
Then in 1 Corithians 9:26-27 Paul says: “Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.” That we beat our bodies. Which is a way of dying to ourselves. When we make our body our slave then it has no control over us. We are the ones in control, because we are the master and our body is the slave.
All of that being said just to say this, we find more God by finding his heart. We find his love and try to harness it, even though we will never understand his love for us. It’s way way way too big. And in love will be God. When we see God and are face to face with him we search his face and begin to ask questions and read in order learn more about him. We learn more so we are never caught with our pants down. It’s insane how this stuff was all things that I already know, but God had to reinforce it in me. So I would say that I left that prayer meeting pretty changed. I was going crazy that night. I guess after I left, the Holy Spirit totally fell on that place and moved in a mighty way. I’m going to have to stay longer next time. But God really did a work in my heart in reestablishing some things in my heart. I love that there is so much to God, yet sometimes, it is so simple.
Mind = Blown,
Morgan
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalms 62:1-2
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