I was driving along a country road one day with a heavy spirit. It seemed hard for me to articulate to the Lord what I was feeling. You know those days when you just want to say to Him,
“Lord just hear my heart.”
I began to sing to Him what I was feeling and I kept singing this chorus over and over….
“Lord, do You see me? Do you hear my heart?”
From the depths of my pain.
After about 30 minutes of singing to the Lord I felt the urge to sing new words. So, I just yielded myself to it.
To my amazement I began to sing His words back to my own spirit, right there in the car.
Yes, that is correct. He began to sing to me through my own voice. Yet, to me it was directly from Him. It is hard to explain but definitely a supernatural experience.
He sang back to me,
“My child, I see you. Dixie, my child I love you. I will never leave you. I will perform and deliver. You will see.”
I can’t even describe how penetrating His love became to me as His words were delivered to my spirit.
I felt buoyed up and exhilarated, full of joy and hope, and overcome with a love that saturated my very being from the inside to out.
He is our Bridegroom with desire for us and who pursues us relentlessly.
He is our King with power, and He gives us the power to love as He loves. Imagine it! We cannot love the unlovely without His anointing to see them through His eyes. He sees the heart. In our own power, we cannot.
Did you know He pursues us far more than we pursue Him. Yet we still struggle with making the time to meet Him. I don’t know how many times I have known He is sitting at my place of pondering, prayer, and meditation, waiting for me, and yet, I find a hundred other things I must do first. The whole day passes and I have put Him off again.
I pray my days of walking past Him grow less and less as I continue to realize that my strength to walk with Him and to fight the battles of my warfare only come from Him and Him alone.
No area of Jesus’ supremacy and power and authority is expressed or experienced more than when His love is manifest in us. It fills us to capacity and changes us from the inside out!
Jesus Himself announced that God loves us in the way that God the Father loves God the Son. The Father feels the same intensity of love for us that He feels for Jesus.
Wrap your mind around that fact!
The God of the universe longs for relationship with you. He wants to walk and talk with you as He did with Adam and Eve when He created them.
That is so hard to imagine in our finite minds, but true none the less.
The ultimate statement about our worth and value is that Jesus has the same measure of love and affection towards us that His Father has towards Him.
It gives us all the right to view ourselves as “God’s favorite”.
This is a gold mine of truth that deserves our focused attention continuously.
At the last supper, Jesus emphasized this truth to His disciples just before their failures in denying Him.
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love…These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” (Jn. 15:9-11)
Did you realize He said this to the disciples while already knowing they would fail Him? His love for me and you does not depend on how ‘good’ we are….anymore than your love for your child changes when they are not ‘good’ kids. He loves you because you are His child. And you have accepted Jesus which means your unrighteousness has been exchanged for the righteousness of Jesus and He sees you as His precious child.
How do we find this place of divine love and stay there?
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Abide:
Stay focused on God’s love. By abiding, beholding Him, and living in this truth, we position ourselves to experience it more. Don’t be distracted from this truth.
Go deep in it…… Surrender to it without resisting or negotiating with God about it.
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us. (1 Jn. 3:1)
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord… (Jude 21)
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Joy:
This is wonderful. It is so compelling and compassionate. Your first few paragraphs reflect exactly how i felt the other day. God hears our hearts, and I’m so glad!
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Thank you for your heart April!! Our love song with our King will never end!
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The Bridegroom’s message of love is sometimes too much to bear and I must simply collapse at His feet and let Him pour out on me. We are vessels and carriers and Dixie you have so beautifully worded the depth of love and truth He has spoken to your heart. Keep singing His lovesong!
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There is a song that says when I sit in His presence I am ‘undone’….exactly how I feel when I am in His presence. Thank you Jeannie!
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Thanks for sharing! -m-
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your welcome Mark!!
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I believe it’s true that Hepursues us more than we pursue Him. Thank you for the reminder of the importance of seeking intimacy with Him.
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Reblogged this on Ramblings Of A Zealot ~ and commented:
So beautifully spoken. I was touched in my spirit and moved in my heart. This was a much needed balm to an aching heart so wanting to do His will ….
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He knows the cries of your heart and will meet that desire, my friend.
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God bless you sis ❤
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So beautifully spoken. This was a healing balm for an aching soul. Thank you sis. May God bless you abundantly ….
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