I'm speaking this morning as Tom said on intimacy and unity.
There is a war over your intimacy with Christ because
everything flows from that place of unity.
It's the place where most truly alive, but it is also a costly
Place. Isaiah 55 verse 1 probably come
up on the screen in a minute. Hopefully it stays this come.
All you who are thirsty. Come to the waters and you who
have no money. Come buy and eat.
Come buy wine. And milk without money and
without cost. Why spend money on what is not
bread and your labor and what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me and eat what is good and you will
Delight in the richest of fare if ear and come to me, listen
that you may live. I was confused when I was
reading that a while ago because it says there's no cost, come
buy, wine and milk without money without cost and our site Lord.
But we're here all the time as the cost to following you and I
can personally testify to that. So I was asking Lord, what's the
quiet? You know, what is the cost?
And the Amplified version answers that question.
I'll read it in the Amplified wait and listen everyone who is
thirsty, come to the waters and he who has no money, come buy
and eat. Yes.
Come buy Priceless, spiritual wine and milk without money.
And without price bracket, simply for the self-surrender.
That accepts the blessing simply for the self-surrender that
accepts the blessing. That's the cost, that's the
price self-surrender but we don't want to surrender.
We like to sit on the throne of our own lives.
We don't like not being in control.
Even when being in control means being in control of our fears,
Surrendering to God is offensive to our flesh.
It sometimes terrifies our pledge.
But surrender is a necessary precursor to intimacy.
Intimacy with God, has been a struggle for me and major battle
for me. I'm probably not the only one is
anybody else identify with that in the room?
Thank you. Why is intimacy with God?
A struggle. I think there are lots of
reasons for this, but I've noted three and I think there might
have here, they're not working this so it is working good.
Number one relationship with our own parents.
I think in particular fathers but possibly mothers as well.
If our own parents mothers, All fathers were absent emotionally
distant, or abusive will have difficulty believing that God is
loving and kind and near and deeply relational.
Number two, knowledge thinking it's enough to learn about
Jesus, instead of coming to him. I'm guilty of that one.
I like learning things, but knowing about Jesus is not the
same as knowing him. And I think the western church
Has been a church in pursuit of knowledge.
We're drowning in knowledge but it has not made us any wiser.
John 5:39 240 says this you search the scriptures because
you think that in them you have eternal life and it is they that
bear witness about me and yet you refuse to come to me that
you may have life Bad point. Trust do I really trust God?
God. Do I really trust you?
if I abandon myself to you, when you let me down in that place of
vulnerability, and I think often our lack of trust comes from
comes from places of trauma. Shame rejection, unhealed,
wounds broken places within us where we work.
So hard to protect ourselves and we'd rather keep those places
hidden and make ourselves vulnerable to Jesus.
And to other people last year, I had about six weeks of
counseling and one of the weeks I had confessed to my counselor
that I really struggled Bray. And she said it's not just
words. He said God looks at your heart
too and I said that's the problem.
My heart is numb and she looked at me and she said that's
trauma. I thought really, I just thought
I was cold hearted my husband's husband's laughing.
I mean that is what Satan wanted me to think you accuse her.
Oh you just didn't you just that you never be there to never be
there. You're not a proper Christian.
Not like all of them it can name any Etc.
So I went away did a bit of research bought the books
because I like to learn things. What some books on trauma and I
thought, gosh, she's right and the lord gave me a picture and
it was a picture of a scar. It was sitting over my soul, a
big fat cigar and it was numb, and I knew that it was badly
healed trauma where things had not been addressed they had just
been stuffed down. and at the beginning of this year, Nina had
a word for me. Many of you will know Nina burn
she and Marie Hughes Poli. The attic company with me.
So anyway, Nina had had a word for me at the beginning of the
year and she said, Jesus is saying to you talitha koum me.
So before I carry on, I'm just going to read the scripture or
context. Their Mark 5 verses 21 to 24,
verses 35:43 when Jesus had again crossed over by boat to
the other side of the lake. A large crowd gathered around
him while he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue
Leaders name gyrus. Okay.
My, when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.
He pleaded earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying,
please come and put your hands on her so that she will be
healed. And then they Jesus went with
him picking up at verse 35. So the interim was the healing
of the woman with the issue of blood but he makes it to gyrus
his house while Jesus was still speaking.
Some people came from the house of gyrus to synagogue leader.
Your daughter is dead. And they said, why bother the
teacher any more overhearing, what they said, Jesus told him,
don't be afraid, just believe he did not.
Let anyone follow him, except Peter James and John.
The brother of James when they came to the home of the
synagogue leader, Jesus thought a commotion with people crying
and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them.
Why all this commotion and wailing?
The child is not dead, but asleep, but they laughed at him
other translations. Inside.
I did, they mocked him after? He put them all out.
He took the child's father and mother and the disciples who
were with him and went in where the child was.
He took her by the hand and he said to her, tell Leaf economy.
Which means little girl, I say to you get up immediately, the
girl stood up and began to walk around.
She was 12 years old at this, they were completely astonished,
he gave strict orders not to let anyone know about About this and
he told them to give her something to eat and Nina said
to me, Jesus is going to minister to you as a little
girl. Well things have died and not
being able to grow up. He is saying, Charlie / who me?
And this word resonated so deeply with me and I immediately
saw that scar again. But this time I saw that it was
sitting on top of a burial mound, but I've been buried
underneath badly healed trauma. In shame.
Now, you know when when the Lord begins to move things, don't
always happen instantaneously and we'd like them to, that's
not often the way how it works. He invites us into a process and
a journey with him and he holds our hand as we walk.
So, in this place now, armed with imagery and an
understanding of what the Holy Spirit was doing in my life.
I began to cry out for intimacy, but I would know his presence
where before there had just been numbness.
And as time went on, I got specific, I said, Lord, I want
the gift of intimacy for my birthday.
She can do that. You can ask Jesus for a birthday
present. And I know we could, you know,
possibly debate the Theology of the gift of intimacy.
You won't find it in the Charisma gifts, but I was what I
was asking for was just to know, Jesus more deeply in those numb
places of my soul and my heart. Anyway, my birthday came and
went beginning of April, had an amazing day two.
Amazing days with my family because birthdays can't just
last for one day anymore. Absolutely family, really
spoiled me. But no gift from the Lord, but I
knew exactly why I wanted the gift of intimacy.
But I was too busy with birthday things to really get before the
Lord. I wanted the blessing but I
didn't make time to do the self-surrender that accepts the
blessing. The two days after my birthday,
I went for a long walk with Jesus.
And I repented for my business and I asked him about my gear,
and he's so gracious. Jesus, it doesn't say well, you
weren't there on your birthday. So that's it.
You know, he came to me and he handed me a beautiful box, and I
opened it up, and it was a pressure and it was shimmering
that almost translucent with this holographic.
Quality to it, like, like, it was just a woven into this
fabric where Deep truths and unrevealed Mysteries, such a
beautiful thing. And I remember thinking ah, this
what intimacy looks interesting Some of you will probably know
that the Hebrew word for brash. All this Talent, literally means
little tent. So when I got home, I put on my
prayer, shawl in the spirit, under my little tent, and I had
the most beautiful time in prayer, such deep connection.
And in that place, I was reminded of something, my friend
Sally had told me that, the permanent of talent is Talisa I
told you last time disclaimer, I might cry.
So one way to interpret. Jesus's words tell he's the COO
me, his little girl, under the pressure on the rise.
He was calling me out of the burial place of numbness into
felt intimacy with him. I always find it.
So beautiful, how the Lord joins up, our little pieces of
Revelation and one glorious narrative.
But, you know something else struck me in that place of
prayer, I was so aware that I was under my prayer shawl, but I
was also, I became also really aware that at the same time that
I was under my pressure. But I was also under a tiny
piece of Jesus pressure that he has spread over all believers.
And the Lord took me to the prayer of Jesus in John 17,
where he prays for all other believers and are we this
portion? I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message, but all of them may be
one. Father, just as you are in me
and I am in. You may they also be in us so
that the world may believe that you have sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me that they may be
one. As we are one i in them and you
in me so that they may be brought to complete Unity.
Then the world will know that you sent me and loved me and
loved them. Even as you have loved me,
father, I want those, you have given me to be with me where I
am and to see my glory, the glory, you have given me Because
You Loved Me. Before the creation of the
world. This is amazing in these five
short verses where Jesus prays for all believers.
As many things you could have prayed for, but what does he
praying for Oneness and unity over and over he prays for it
and it is clearly very important.
And I saw in this moment of Revelation the degree to which
intimacy and unity are intrinsically connected.
And I knew that even as I was uniquely held in, Seen and known
under my personal prayer shawl. I was also joined with every
other believer in Christ Jesus in their position of intimacy.
Windex. And I saw how vital intimacy.
I saw how vital Unity is but all of them, maybe one but they may
be brought to complete Unity. Then then the world will believe
you have sent me. Then the world will know that
you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Unity is a sign to an unbelieving world.
But what is Unity? Well I can tell you what.
It isn't. It isn't intellectual agreement.
It isn't tolerance masquerading as love.
It isn't interface or all paths, lead to God.
There are many counterfeits to genuine unity in this day.
The Hebrew word for Unity has occurred, ecch ad?
It does not mean intellectual assent.
It means Oneness with God, in spirit, The word echoed is
really interesting. It means one, but made up of
more than one part. A compound Unity.
There is another word for want in the Bible.
Yeah, khed why ACH ID, which means one and only Deuteronomy
6:4, the Shema hear o Israel. The Lord our God is one God.
You would think that word 411 guard would be.
Yeah, khed. He is the one and only there is
no one like him, but it isn't. It's occurred, he is one but he
has separate parts joined in total and complete Oneness.
Father, son, Holy Spirit, the Triune God and it strikes me as
more than a little bit mind-blowing that we are invited
into this Oneness. We are invited to put our feet,
On the soil of Deuteronomy 6:4, you know, when I'd read that
scripture, previously, I'd always thought God is other.
He's over there somewhere, he's distant.
But he's inviting us to come and abide with him.
In that scripture, he's inviting us into that Oneness.
The Lord, our God is one, God were invited into that Wonders
that all of them may be one, even as we are one and that they
may be in US. So when the Bible speaks about
Oneness and unity, it is, first and foremost, me as an
individual coming into Oneness and unity with God.
It's you coming into Oneness and unity with God, it is vertical.
Before it is horizontal, we try and do the horizontal bit, don't
we try to rub along together, you know?
But this is more than a Community Club of like-minded
people. We're not here to just gather
around. Common interests are not here.
Being an echo chamber of ideologies.
Who remembers it? Wasn't long ago, couple of
months ago, Revival Sunday. What I was, what we call it in
our house. It was a Sunday before we went
to Services, where church just went on, it was amazing.
I'm sure quite a few of you were here and all my husband on the
way home. He said to me he said I just
felt so intimately connected with everybody around me and we
were laughing cause we were like, that's not you, then
probably pull his an introvert. He doesn't you're not going to
find him at the door hugging all the People, that's not who he
is. So we knew we knew this is this
is Supernatural. I've got a friend called Colleen
who I can only describe as a stupa CO a series of prophet who
sees into the spirit realm and she sees incredibly clear than
Veil for her is very thin. And she has done an enormous
amount of biblical study, and research to make sense of what
she sees. And the prophetic company had a
zoom call with her. So she could teach us about
angels. I don't know.
It seemed cool. She spoke about the off and them
brains Angels. Many scholars believe they are
indeed a separate class of angels.
You got the seraphim cherubim or phanom.
They are angels who help guard the Throne of God.
Indeed, Angels, who possibly are responsible to move the Throne
of God. They're the wheels of his
Chariot and they're described as Wheels within wheels will often
m is Hebrew for wheel. It'll come up on the screen.
I'm not going to read it. But Colleen said that, what
these angels look like to her in the spirit.
She saw Wheels within Wheels. Moving over a particular
congregation and she said they were spinning and moving but it
was like parts of them were coming down and descending and
resting on people and she said it looked at her like feathers
were coming to rest on people and then they would ask send
again and these wheels within Wheels would carry on moving.
But she said, what that did the act of that in the congregation
was this incredible sense of Oneness and unity and intimacy.
I believe that that was what Paul is experiencing and I don't
believe he was the only one. I know where I mentioned at am
wherever you said. The same thing.
I think others were experiencing the same thing too.
And I believe this is a foretaste of what we are.
The day is that we're stepping into.
Little bit of context around the feathers because if people are
seeing feathers in church, particularly actual feathers, I
know, you know, I've heard stories, I'm always like, where
is that in the word of God? I want to know where it is, in
the word, in numbers 15 God. Gave Moses instructions on how
to make prayer shawls numbers. 1538 speak to the Israelites and
say to them throughout the generations to come, you are to
make tassels on the corners of your garments with a blue.
On each tassel Corners in that scripture Hebrew is Canna
translated Edge or Corner about 10 times Through the Bible,
translators Wings, 58 times, Psalm 91.
He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings,
you will find Refuge Malachi 4:2.
It says, but unto you that fear, my name shall the sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
AIDS and it's understood by Bible scholars, and Jewish
people that were feathers. And wings are a reference to the
fringes and tassels of presh the talent, The we are covered with
Jesus intercession for us. We covered with his pressure
were covered with his wings and feathers, and we are brought
into Oneness with the Triune God, and with each other and it
is Supernatural, is not obvious realm.
You can't manufacture this Intimacy Unity Oneness and
belonging. This is the atmosphere of
Heaven. This is the atmosphere of the
throne room. And I believe that those Thrones
angels that Colleen saw all felt that Tam felt other people here
may have seen that, too. I believe that they are living
symbols of this one knows where we're covered under the wings
and the feathers of Jesus. And as such healing in, this
basement has protection refuge and rest in this place of
intimacy. My one must have got.
Yovan. This is how true Unity is
creative. It's how we become one together.
It is one of the ways Jesus builds his church, who our
individual and corporate pressing into Unity knowing him
better. We are the building blocks of
the church livingstone's fit together so that the atmosphere
of the throne room, the atmosphere of Heaven can be
manifested in the Earth. I mentioned in my last talk, but
for too long, the church has been building with the wrong
materials. We've looked to the world for
inspiration and we've ended up creating babbles building
structures that elevate, man. But glorified religion, politics
and cultural ideologies. And we've been through
tremendous shaking, haven't we? I think we can all say yes.
Been through tremendous shaking individually and corporately and
as a result of all that shaking things are falling down and the
things are falling apart. Barely a week goes by, but you
don't hear of another church that is under scrutiny or
crumbling. Golden your Roth remember
Massey? God is dismantling Bibles in
this day and he's building his church in his way.
Psalm 127, verse 1. Unless the Lord builds the
house, they who Labour labor in vain, and He is building with
you. And I, he is building with the
fabric of our intimacy. God is tearing down structures
that do not bring glory to his name and I'm not pointing
fingers. I've got structures on the
inside of me that need to come down structures, created with
the worldly fabric of self-righteousness, Pride doubt,
and fear structures that keep me from intimacy with Jesus and
from Oneness with him, we have built babbles within us.
Structures and Towers. But we strive to attain God
likeness without bar and it's Rebellion.
A few years ago now, I found myself praying over and over the
same prayer every day, it would just come up.
I prayed it so often I gave a name, I called her, The
Architects prayer and I would say Lord, I give you permission
to come and restructure me on the inside.
I come and give you permission to knock down walls song.
We sang. Break our balls down.
I'd say, open up the rooms Lord that are filled with old stuff,
do a loft conversion, open up the windows, do an extension,
repaint, the walls or do whatever you have to do on the
inside of me so that your glory can come and really.
What I was saying was Lord wherever Babel exists within me,
tear it down. And as I was praying, this
prayer the Lord began to speak to me about the Tabernacle in
the wilderness where Moses was given specific instructions to
build this resting place for God in the Earth at specific period
of Jewish history. Everything was exact
measurements colors materials designs, who was to make it,
Everything was exact, why did it have to be so specific?
Because what Moses created in the desert was an exact copy of
the Heavenly reality, it was made to a Heavenly plan,
Heavenly blueprint it was the opposite of Babel.
You also are a tabernacle, you are every single one.
If you belong to Jesus, you are a tabernacle, a little tent in
the wilderness with a holy of holies within you.
He's as Tabernacles with you in this place and it is from this
place of intimacy and abiding with him that he will build his
church in you and through you. In accordance with the Heavenly
blueprint for your life. A desire of my heart.
A deep desire of my heart is that my walk, my
accomplishments, my life, will mirror the Heavenly blueprint,
but what I build with my life will last for eternity and not
be burned up like, straw, and Chad, I don't want to build my
own stuff. I want to build what he has
given me to build in the other want to carry my portion of the
revelation of Jesus Christ in the earth.
And we all have one And for us to walk in our calling and our
destiny. It's not just for us it's not
just that I get to live my best life.
I do believe God wants us to live our best life.
He has plans for us purposes for us, good plans, plans to
prosperous and not to harm us. The give us a hope and a future,
but we don't get there without the self-surrender, accept the
blessing. We don't find our lives in him
unless we first prepared to lose that.
So the Lord is dismantling structures within us and in The
Wider body and he is rebuilding. Is it uncomfortable?
Yes I've put that in capitals with an exclamation mark Mark
said a couple of weeks ago if you're not uncomfortable in your
Christian walk you're probably not doing it right?
And the, ultimate aim of this is that we walk in our god-given
identity and its first and foremost, a place of being.
It's not a place where we get busy doing things for god
without ever coming to him. It's a place of being so one
with crimes. So United with him individually
and corporately, but we become Christ in the Earth where he
lives through us So that together we can host the glory
of God and the seen realm and so the world will know who Jesus is
and that he's been sent by his father.
Worship team. Could you please make the way
back? And I'd like to ask.
If you could all stand, please. I want to go back to talitha
koum e in finishing. It is a great interest and
importance but the little girl in question was 12 years old.
It was the age when Jewish boys and girls were considered to
become adults in the story. Jesus says, to those near give
her something to eat. Not drink, if her something to
eat because solid food is for the mature.
And the word Nina gave me was not just a me it was also a
prophetic word for the church. It's a call to rise up into
maturity into ruling and reigning.
And there was on that world media were laughing.
And jeering and mocking the church in this day, just like in
the story gyrus is daughter. So the church is irrelevant
churches obsolete, churches dead.
Jesus is know. she's, And he say, no.
Totally forgot, who me? Beloved under the pressure.
All stand. All Rise.
Yes, Fred his Paschal. He covers you with his wings and
feathers. he intercedes for you continually at the right hand of
the father and I call you out every place you've been buried
The trauma shame, I call you out.
From Anger, from apathy, and pride, and rejection from
bitterness, from unforgiveness from addictions.
I call you out this morning. I called you back into life,
come to him. That you may have life.
Beloved of Jesus under the pressure rise. intimacy with him
and Oneness with all the saints. So that the world will know that