Intimacy with God (learning by doing)

Foreword
At the 24th of September seminary has started again at New Life Seminary. That means that I as well go to school again day by day. We didn’t have the the same well ordered days that we are used to, because of some important events we had to prepare together with the ministers and coworkers of the New Life Missionscenter. Finally on the 3rd of October the great day began. We had many guests and I was working in the bookstore and selled a lot of books and other stuff. Beforehand I had to arrange the books anew and have a look over the condition of our store. Had to clean some stuff and put the new books on the presentation table. I also had to do 7 hours of service at the reception desk on Monday the 2nd of October. So this was a lot of work altogether.

Time with God
But in this whole time it became very important to me to take or seperate some extra time for my heavenly Daddy and me. Really just Him and me. Nobody else was allowed to my room and near me. I laid down in His presence, relaxed and enjoyed Him. I talked to Him, listened to Him and read in His word. To be honest I invested just a little bit of time, but I never rued this investment, cause I didn’t miss out even one minute of my schedule. Short after I began these special times with God I discovered, that my relationship with Him became a lot more intimate. And that is not the first time I discovered that. And right now I am happy that my own christian life is not that “rollercoaster type” anymore. Well, not as extrem as it used to be. But still the depth of my relationship to God was variable during the past few months.

The example of Jesus
Then I had a look on the behaviour of Jesus as it is described in the gospels and discovered very soon, that the personal time with His Fathers was one of the most, not to say the most important thing for Jesus. And He went into a lonely place to be with His father, even in situations where it seems not “proper” for the traditional reader of the bible. This time with God really was number one on Jesus “priority list” (if He had such a thing). And as you can read in the gospels, this intimate relationship with the Father always bore good fruit. New desciples, healing of the sick, deliverance, multiplication of food and much more. Sure Jesus has been persecuted and He told us, that we will not be taken out of that. But do I have to walk around depressiv because persecution could meet me someday or because I experienced a little persecution here and there? Do I really have to distract myself with other stuff just to prevent me from coming to close to following Jesus the hardcore way? No! Not anymore. The times with my heavenly Daddy is to precious to give them up.

Inspired by a message from Heidi Baker
During one of the past days I downloaded some videos from the TACF website. They recently had the “Soaking in God’s Glory Conference” going on there and I wanted to have those sessions on my computer. Heidi Baker was invited to speak, as well as other ministers. But I was most interested in her sermons, cause they always caused major changes in my life in the past. On of the things she said really confirmed my own opinion on one subject: I do not have to be a balanced christian. Christians do not need to be balanced. Not at all. I don’t have to keep the golden mean for every weird religious discussion or christian topic. I am not a buddhist, I am a child of the heavenly King. That means, I am in the condition in which God wants to use me and in which He continues to change me and my opinion and I tell you: I rebuke the weird behaviour to always think about what others could think about me and my actions. And when other will tell me, that I am out of my mind in some situations, then I can only say yes to that. I have the mind of Christ and I develop the mind of Christ at the same time. So I am out of my mind and God choose to dwell inside of me and use me as His temple. I try to recognize and discern what the Father is doing right now and to to the same as I “see” Him doing. That is an area where I am still learning and discover more and more insights. Sometimes I received those things very slowly. But I came to the conclusion, that I am allowed to act the same way as Jesus did. That doesn’t really work with being balanced.

What matters the most?
I think the highest priority here is the intimacy in the relationship and communication with God I already talked about in this post. Being close to Him (not a hard thing to do, when He lives inside of you), to listen to what He says, His Presence and His works among us and in my life and my own approval to some of these things. That is what I mean by being intimate with Him. More or less often I discover that God gives me duties, opens doors for me and friendly causes me to take over responsibility. Everything has its own time and season and of course their are special times where I have and want to set aside times to be together with God and only Him. And there are also times where it is simply important to intecrate the intimacy with God in my daily living, but it really has to be an integral part of it. That means, it is not enough to discover during your sunday service that you really wanted to take some time for God in the past week, but you didn’t make it.

Okay, you still don’t have to do that. But I challenge you (and myself) to do so, cause that will bear only good fruit in our lifes! So it is a good start to seperate some time for God. But then you should go over to being accustomed to God being the most important being in your everyday life and to ask for His advice in every little decision. Do discover, that I need to practice to communicate with Him and let Him talk to me. That I learn to wait for His answer (which sometimes comes during you walk on by faith) and then act upon His advice. That I learn to be connected with Him inside of me every second of my life.

That is what I had on my heart to tell you guys. I used a lot of words to explain it, but my heart is just full of it right now, that I wasn’t able to use less words describing it. I’d love to read your comments on this!

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