Intimacy with You, The Desire of God’s Heart

00:00 I want to welcome you some of you are
00:03 new so we're coming in at session three
00:05 here my name is Norma my husband's name
00:08 is Michael Letinsky and we are Kingdom
00:10 partners ministry and this is how to
00:13 hear God's voice session number three
00:16 and tonight's topic is intimacy with you
00:19 is the desire of God's heart so I hope
00:21 you all have teaching notes okay we're
00:23 gonna get started I want to start with a
00:25 quick review what we've been covering
00:28 for the last couple of weeks the the
00:30 four keys to hearing God's voice are and
00:33 well let's do the hand motions see if
00:34 you remember them stillness vision
00:38 spontaneity and journaling okay we're
00:42 gonna do it one more time say it with me
00:44 okay
00:45 stillness vision spontaneity and
00:48 journaling right okay couple of little
00:50 tips on that for a stillness it really
00:54 helps you if you are in a place where
00:57 you're not don't have a lot of
00:58 distractions a little bit more on that
00:59 later
01:00 for vision you can actually I like to
01:03 just close my eyes and imagine that
01:04 Jesus is right there with me and I like
01:07 to put myself in a really nice place
01:08 like one of my favorite places to meet
01:11 with Jesus on the screen of my mind is
01:13 we are on a like a porch with with two
01:16 rocking chairs side-by-side and we're
01:18 looking out at a beautiful garden or
01:20 sometimes we go to the beach together
01:22 and sometimes we just hang out in the
01:24 bedroom or I have my quiet time so
01:26 that's just a way of using vision okay
01:30 the spontaneity you're going to be
01:32 tuning to the flow of spontaneous
01:34 thoughts and pictures that will just
01:36 come effortlessly into your mind and of
01:39 course the journaling is you're going to
01:41 write down what you hear are the
01:43 thoughts you're not going to hear it as
01:44 an audible voice very unlikely but
01:46 you're going to get a flow of thoughts
01:48 in your mind and possibly pictures okay
01:50 so those are the four keys last week we
01:52 talked about how to quiet your mind
01:54 which is usually a problem for people
01:57 and so we I gave you some very useful
02:00 hints on how to do that first of all you
02:03 want to remove the outer noise so you
02:05 want to get rid of distractions you want
02:07 to turn off your phone you want to put
02:09 yourself in a place where you're not
02:10 going to be disturbed by other
02:12 people and you also want to choose a
02:14 good time of day when you're awake and
02:16 alert but not usually morning usually
02:19 works for most people but it doesn't for
02:21 everybody so whatever works for you
02:22 remove the inner noise so sometimes you
02:25 know you have just those thoughts
02:27 popping in your head distracting
02:29 thoughts and what you want to do when
02:31 you're sitting down trying to have that
02:32 quiet time with the Lord it's just when
02:34 a thought comes to your mind that seems
02:36 like it's relevant or important maybe
02:38 something you have to do later in the
02:39 day just write it down and just move on
02:42 don't don't hang there you can sing you
02:45 can pray in tongues you can listen to
02:47 soaking music you can visualize Jesus
02:50 with you like I said in a very
02:51 comfortable place those are all nice
02:53 ways to remove the inner noise and then
02:56 we talked about testing what you hear so
02:58 what you want to do is you're just gonna
02:59 spontaneously write down the thoughts
03:01 and ideas that are coming into your mind
03:03 without judging remember you're gonna
03:06 write in childlike faith and then you
03:08 are going to go back and reread it and
03:10 try to decide does this really seem like
03:13 it was God speaking to me
03:15 and the way you do that is you analyze
03:18 what you have read or written rather and
03:21 you want to compare it with the
03:24 qualities of God's nature so does it
03:26 seem loving does it seem kind does it
03:29 seem forgiving does it seem affirming
03:32 not accusatory or condemning in any way
03:35 is it comforting is it edifying is it
03:38 revelatory those are just some of the
03:41 qualities that that of God's nature his
03:44 character and so what you write should
03:46 be should line up with that remember
03:48 it's not going to necessarily be found
03:50 specifically in in Scripture but it's
03:52 going to be consistent with the
03:54 revelation of Scripture okay
03:56 so with that I will turn it over to
03:59 Michael
04:03 well last week we finished here we had a
04:07 German economy then we sent you often
04:09 encourage you the journal during the
04:11 week so my question to you is how many
04:14 of you had a breakthrough
04:16 your two-way journaling last week where
04:19 you really felt you were hearing from
04:20 God some of you did well if you're
04:30 feeling like you're having difficulty
04:32 the thing to do is take some time he's
04:40 more than going to do that because his
04:42 desire is for us so just ask him and the
04:48 most important is keep trying because
04:53 people sometimes for some people that
04:55 just comes really easily and for other
04:58 people it seems to take a while to kind
04:59 of get in the flow of the Holy Spirit's
05:03 and getting used as sensing spontaneous
05:07 spontaneous voice of God and so just
05:11 keep practicing and you will get it
05:15 remember God's promise jesus said this
05:17 my sheep well last week we had I don't
05:26 see her here tonight but there was a
05:27 woman who said that when she was trying
05:29 to journal she would close her eyes and
05:32 then she would get something in her mind
05:35 and then she would open her eyes to
05:36 write it and then she'd forget what it
05:38 was okay so there's a simple fix for
05:39 that I want you to think about it like
05:42 if you were going to if you were in a
05:44 lecture class and you were taking notes
05:45 you're taking notes simultaneously with
05:48 what you're hearing and you're not going
05:50 to be writing with your eyes closed are
05:51 you you want your eyes to be opened it's
05:53 like just think about if you were in
05:54 church and you're taking sermon notes
05:56 it's the same thing
05:57 okay the thoughts will come into your
05:59 mind just like they are right now you
06:00 should be thinking thoughts of hearing
06:03 what I'm saying and you just write down
06:04 what what you get okay without your eyes
06:06 closed okay so you can close your eyes
06:08 when you're just trying to settle
06:10 yourself and in quiet your mind but then
06:12 when you're actually writing your eyes
06:14 are gonna be open okay because you can
06:15 still see
06:16 you can actually see vision in your head
06:18 pictures and and and receive thoughts
06:21 with your eyes open I hope anyway I was
06:24 just concerned because it seemed like
06:26 some people when we were watching during
06:27 the the the exercise that we had at the
06:30 at the end of class when when you we had
06:33 to do the practice the two way
06:34 journaling some of you people were just
06:36 sitting there and it was obvious that
06:37 some people were struggling and not
06:39 everybody was doing really great so I
06:41 talked to the Lord about it and a couple
06:44 of days ago and this is what he said
06:45 I wrote here's my question because it's
06:47 always good to start with a question I
06:49 said Lord I'm concerned about the people
06:51 and how to hear God's voice who don't
06:53 seem to be getting it they're hearing
06:55 nothing apparently what can we say to
06:57 encourage them and so here's what he
06:59 said to me what I journal doubt he said
07:02 Norma my dear one remember he's gonna
07:04 speak to you in the first person he does
07:05 to me it's good that you are concerned
07:08 for you know how life-giving my words
07:10 are it really is all about practicing
07:13 learning to quiet the mind tuning to
07:16 flow and just writing the thoughts that
07:17 will effortlessly come my voice is soft
07:20 and gentle never harsh and demanding
07:23 striving will stop the flow so being in
07:25 a relaxed state of mind is needful
07:27 remind them that they can hear me it
07:30 just takes practice and the belief that
07:32 I do want to speak to them I do want to
07:35 encourage them and I do want to share my
07:37 love with them pray for the ones who are
07:39 still struggling to hear remind them
07:42 that I am a rewarder of those who
07:43 diligently seek me it will be a little
07:46 different for every person
07:47 some will hear me best by seeing others
07:50 through physical sensations that
07:52 validate my presence but all will hear
07:55 me speak to them no one is a
07:57 second-class citizen in my kingdom
07:59 I love all my children I am delighted
08:02 that so many are yearning to hear my
08:04 voice urge them to use the four keys and
08:07 keep at it also encourage them that
08:09 simply being in my presence is
08:12 life-giving and transformational it's
08:14 not always necessary to hear something
08:17 I am communing with them spirit to
08:19 spirit not always in words but in their
08:22 hearts bringing hope and healing let me
08:25 be God I will touch my children as is
08:28 best for each one
08:29 so I hope that encouraged you so we've
08:35 been talking about journaling and the
08:41 question comes up is the stirlitz really
08:43 from God or is it influenced by our
08:47 feelings and we've been discussing
08:50 different ways you can hear from God you
08:52 can hear you hear the voice of your
08:54 flesh voice of the devil or the voice of
08:56 God and ways to test enormous mentions
09:01 but the kind of input we get from God
09:04 can also be influenced by our heart
09:07 because we filter what we hear through
09:13 our heart that means through our motions
09:15 our feelings our beliefs and what we
09:20 feel in our heart can affect it and Mark
09:25 Verkerk called this having an idol in
09:28 your heart and that's when our worries
09:30 or concerns those feelings and emotions
09:33 we have can actually color our journal
09:38 entries and so it's possible that
09:40 because of what's going on in our heart
09:42 it's hard to figure out what's going on
09:44 now I'm gonna give I want to read a
09:46 quote from a book by Timothy Keller and
09:48 that this book is called counterfeit
09:51 God's which is really interesting so
09:53 this is quote from Keller when most
09:56 people think of idols they have in mind
09:58 the dural statutes or the next pop star
10:01 anointed by Simon Cowell yet while
10:04 traditional idol worship still occurs in
10:06 many places internal idol worship within
10:09 the heart of his Universal in Ezekiel 14
10:13 3 God says about the elders of Israel
10:16 these men have set up their idols in
10:20 their hearts like us the elders must
10:23 have responded
10:24 idols what I done seen the idols God was
10:30 saying that the human heart takes good
10:32 things like a successful career love
10:36 material possessions even family and
10:39 turns them into ultimate things our our
10:42 hearts DFID them as a center of our
10:45 lives because we think they can give us
10:49 significance of security safety and
10:51 fulfillment if we attain me and he
10:55 finishes up with an idol is whatever you
10:57 look at and say in your heart of hearts
11:00 if I have that then I'll feel
11:03 significant insecure
11:05 now this idols in your heart is
11:09 important let me give you a biblical
11:10 example this from the story of Balak and
11:13 Balaam which is in number is 22 Balin is
11:16 king of Moab and he calls on Bailey
11:20 who's a prophet and says I want you to
11:23 come and go I want you to go and curses
11:26 so Balaam says well I'll have to pray
11:29 first so he goes to pray and he he goes
11:36 and he prays and we ask God what am I
11:38 supposed to do and God answered and very
11:40 clearly don't go don't curse so Balaam
11:44 stayed by the reason well Balak was
11:47 really upset because he wanted him to go
11:48 on curse so he sent his people to Balaam
11:52 and he said to them that that he would
11:59 promised Balaam a great reward if he
12:02 would just go and do what Balak wanted
12:04 and to curse the Israelis and he offered
12:07 him this big reward if he would do what
12:09 he said so Balaam answered I'll quote
12:11 this Balaam said even a ballot bail and
12:15 Allah gave me all the silver and gold in
12:19 his palace I could not do anything great
12:21 or small to go beyond the command of the
12:24 Lord my God which is exactly right he
12:26 wanted to go seek glory so Balaam goes
12:29 to seek the Lord a second time
12:31 but this time with all these thoughts of
12:34 money
12:35 and his heart he gets another answer
12:39 from God a different one this time God
12:41 says to him go which is different than
12:44 the time before we said go go and in
12:47 second Peter 2:15 it clearly says that
12:51 his idol was the money he was
12:53 contemplating so Balaam got two
12:57 contradictory words from the Lord the
13:00 first one was a pure word but the second
13:03 one because his heart was thinking of
13:06 money and greed was filtering the words
13:10 that the Lord said to him he got impure
13:13 therefore the easiest way to get a badge
13:18 early injury or to not get the answer
13:20 from the Lord that you really would like
13:22 to hear but that would be from him is if
13:26 your heart is consumed with some emotion
13:30 or strong desire and so this is thanks
13:35 so let me give you some examples for
13:38 example when finances or health warnings
13:41 or family issues relationship problems
13:44 job concerns fear or anger when these
13:47 things fill our hearts it's hard to get
13:50 a clear answer from God if I'm upset for
13:54 example with someone who's hurt me or
13:55 offended me I do not trust what I get
13:59 from God when I pray about that
14:01 situation I have to go and repent and
14:03 get my heart clean before I'll trust
14:06 anything that I hear from God we knew
14:09 there was a couple of minutes number
14:11 years ago and we were elders in the
14:14 church and they came to us and all the
14:16 other elders because they wanted to make
14:18 a trip to Oregon they wanted to move to
14:20 Oregon and they were determined to go
14:22 well all of the elders independently
14:25 prayed and we felt this was not God but
14:28 they were determined to go
14:30 and they went and it turned out to be a
14:32 disaster and they ended up getting a
14:34 divorce or because their heart was
14:38 filled with this desire that was not
14:40 necessarily God's desire it was an
14:42 overwhelming desire to live in the first
14:45 another we know a woman who's divorced
14:48 we divorced a long time and she has this
14:50 thing in her heart that she can only
14:52 behold as she's married and because
14:55 she's not this is consuming and it's
14:59 really hindering even her walk with the
15:00 Lord because she is feeling that the
15:02 Lord has let her down by not to be her
15:05 husband so for me personally when I am
15:10 concerned about my medical issues and
15:13 I've had lots of medical issues over the
15:14 last 10 years lots of things going on
15:17 it's really hard for me to hear clearly
15:20 about me because these things are not
15:23 I'm worried about the answer I might get
15:25 what's really going on so our emotions
15:28 our feelings can affect or filter what
15:33 the Lord is saying to us so we have to
15:35 be aware of them sometimes you know we
15:40 want to pray you might want fact I
15:42 really recommend that you have spiritual
15:45 counselor or counselors who can test
15:48 your journaling because sometimes you're
15:51 concerned about whether you're really
15:52 here and clearly so you want someone to
15:55 help you that you trust that here's God
15:57 that can say this is yeah that's God no
15:59 I think that's filtered through your
16:01 heart and if it's good sometimes to get
16:05 people to pray with you when you're
16:07 making when you have to make major
16:08 decisions when there's major issues in
16:10 your life and we're gonna actually spend
16:12 some time later on in the class talking
16:15 about guidance which is another one
16:17 materials we have to make decisions
16:19 about guidance so if the problem is
16:23 seems so big if the problem seems so
16:25 overwhelming you probably are having a
16:28 doubt idol in your heart which makes it
16:30 hard for you to hear clearly so the idea
16:33 here is
16:35 that God loves us and to give those
16:38 emotions to him I think the bottom line
16:44 is if the problem seems bigger than
16:47 Jesus if it seems bigger to God in your
16:49 mind then your what bark burglar would
16:52 call praying through an idol okay so you
16:54 have to get to where God is the big one
16:56 and the problem is the little small
16:58 issue over here because nothing is too
17:00 difficult for God right and he really
17:02 does want to work in our lives he does
17:05 work everything for good and I would
17:07 also second emotion about the idea if
17:10 it's a major decision you know you don't
17:12 want to do that based on your feelings
17:14 you want to get good solid input and
17:16 confirmation from the Lord and we will
17:19 talk about that in a future future
17:21 course future class okay let's move on
17:24 to Roman numeral three in your notes and
17:28 this is really the crux of what we want
17:30 to talk about tonight and it is how God
17:33 wants to have an intimate relationship
17:36 with each one of us and my question is
17:42 to each one of us is the loving is the
17:45 loving relationship that father God has
17:48 for you that we all know about
17:49 intellectually is it a reality in your
17:52 life or is it just a concept you know it
17:55 has to get from the heart rather from
17:58 the head this is really my head not my
18:00 heart
18:00 why because to get from your head to
18:02 your heart and sometimes it's really
18:05 difficult to get it that the love of God
18:08 and the love that he has for each one of
18:10 us really cemented and solid in our
18:12 lives and I want to assure you that
18:15 2-way journaling from our experience and
18:18 from the experience of most of the other
18:20 people that we have talked to that we
18:22 have taught this method to in the past
18:24 it's gonna definitely enable you to draw
18:26 closer to God and receive his
18:29 life-giving
18:30 affirming loving words there's nothing
18:33 like it that I've ever experienced in
18:35 terms of being able to get that kind of
18:36 loving communication from him okay now
18:39 when you think of somebody and think of
18:41 somebody in the Bible that seemed to
18:43 have a really good relationship with God
18:45 who do you think of
18:47 David okay who else Abraham Samuel Moses
18:57 anybody else it's all Paul yeah
19:02 Elijah yeah okay those are all good
19:05 answers let's talk about some of them
19:07 okay remember David King David was
19:10 called a man after God's own heart what
19:13 a compliment it's so amazing to me and I
19:15 can saw him 18 he says I love you O Lord
19:18 my strength and in many of the Psalms
19:21 when you read them you'll see he's just
19:22 so real about his emotions he pours that
19:25 his heart to the God and he doesn't try
19:27 to hold anything back he can be angry he
19:30 can be discouraged he can be upset he
19:32 can be very fearful I mean all these
19:35 emotions come out and as you read the
19:37 Psalms and of course he also is very
19:40 positive and talking about God and very
19:42 excited about the Lord that's okay it
19:48 happens anyway what you'll see when you
19:51 read the Psalms II like it sometimes
19:53 I'll start out like being really like I
19:55 said raw and emotional and then suddenly
19:58 there'll be a shift and then it's like
20:00 he tunes into the Holy Spirit and then
20:03 he starts praising God and thanking him
20:05 and recalling his deliverance and the
20:08 amazing things that God has done and so
20:11 to me it's I think you can think of the
20:13 Psalms as David's 2-way journaling set
20:16 to music because it really is like that
20:19 you know because he's getting the input
20:21 from the Holy Spirit and you can just
20:22 see just settles right down and he
20:25 receives the reassurance that God has
20:27 for him I think another really good
20:29 example of someone that has a really
20:32 close relationship with God is Mary from
20:35 Mary and Martha in the New Testament you
20:37 know how Jesus didn't really rebuke her
20:40 Martha who was running around doing all
20:42 the housekeeping chores but he said mary
20:44 has chosen the good part and the good
20:47 part was just sitting with him hanging
20:49 out with him listening learning sharing
20:52 love with him and it was like she
20:54 couldn't get enough of his presence and
20:56 that's really what God wants for each
20:57 one of us he wants us to enjoy him
21:00 and not have to work at it I think some
21:03 of us feel like we have to work at it we
21:05 have to read so many chapters of the
21:07 Bible we have to pray so many prayers we
21:09 have to do this we have to do that
21:11 and I think a lot of times God just
21:13 wants to hang out with us
21:14 and just he wants us just to enjoy his
21:16 company and so your time with him should
21:19 be pleasurable okay it shouldn't be a
21:21 chore Paul I think is a great example of
21:25 someone that knew the love of God and I
21:27 think he would have to really have such
21:29 a deep relationship with God to go
21:31 through all the persecution and the
21:34 trials that he experienced and so he
21:36 writes about the love of God and how
21:38 it's far greater than we can even even
21:40 think or imagine and I've given you a
21:42 few scriptures there that in your
21:44 handouts Romans 5:5
21:46 now hope does not disappoint because the
21:48 love of God has been poured out in our
21:51 hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given
21:52 for us to us Romans 8:39 I'm persuaded
21:57 that neither life nor death sorry death
21:59 nor life nor Angels nor principalities
22:01 nor powers nor things present nor things
22:04 to come nor height nor depth nor any
22:06 other created thing shall be able to
22:09 separate us from the love of God which
22:11 is in Christ Jesus our Lord and then
22:15 finally in Ephesians 3 I think you may
22:17 have a typo there it's verses 18 to 19
22:20 he prays for us that we would know the
22:22 love of Christ which passes knowledge
22:24 that you may be filled to all the
22:27 fullness of God and of course Jesus is
22:30 the perfect example of someone that had
22:33 a loving intimate relationship with the
22:35 father now in John 17 the high priestly
22:39 prayer that he prays for his disciples
22:41 and that includes all of us he prays I
22:44 in them and you and me that they may be
22:46 made perfect in one and that the world
22:49 may know that you have sent me and have
22:51 loved them as you have loved me and I
22:53 have declared to them your name and I
22:56 will declare it that the love with which
22:58 you loved me may be in them and I in
23:01 them now that is a really mind-blowing
23:04 statement he is actually asking the
23:07 Father to bestow upon us the same level
23:12 and extent of love that
23:14 the father has for Jesus and if we are
23:17 in union with him through the Holy
23:18 Spirit we have that capacity to receive
23:22 that level of love from God but do we
23:25 that's the problem we have to learn how
23:28 to receive God's love and so if you're
23:30 anything like me you're probably wonder
23:33 if God really loves me that much because
23:36 after all we know ourselves right we
23:38 know the things we've done that we're
23:40 not particularly happy about
23:42 we know the thoughts in our mind that
23:44 aren't always loving you know all that
23:45 sort of thing and so a lot of times I
23:49 think we feel unworthy of his love but
23:52 God wants to break through that he
23:53 really does he wants us to understand
23:55 how much he loves us and then he looks
23:58 at us with and he his love is
24:01 unconditional is something with which
24:03 most of us I don't think have
24:05 experienced I know I didn't growing up
24:07 this whole idea of unconditional love
24:09 was a whole new concept to me but God
24:12 wants to break through and let us
24:14 experience his love and that's what
24:16 we're going to be working on tonight not
24:17 working out so I'm going to be
24:18 experiencing I just said we're not
24:20 working we're we're gonna experience his
24:22 love tonight that's our prayer and I
24:25 assure you that as you get comfortable
24:27 with to comfortable with to way
24:29 journaling the Lord is gonna start
24:32 speaking to you about how much he loves
24:34 you
24:34 and he's going to keep saying it over
24:36 and over and over until it gets from
24:39 here to here okay Wes could you come on
24:42 up
24:46 his first job
24:48 [Music]
24:55 father has lavished on
25:00 and we should be called the children of
25:04 God
25:08 [Music]
25:23 based on us
25:26 we should be called the children of God
25:32 [Music]
25:43 the world
25:48 No
25:52 dear friends
25:58 [Music]
26:05 we shall be
26:11 we shall see
26:13 [Music]
26:34 should be called
26:40 [Music]
26:49 is
26:53 [Music]
27:08 okay now here's what I want you to do
27:10 it's not a wonderful song I love that
27:12 song we're gonna write a two-way love
27:15 letter to Jesus tonight okay so what I
27:18 want you to do is write in your journal
27:20 the sentence Lord here's why I love you
27:24 so much
27:32 Lord here's why I love you so much and
27:35 then we're gonna give you just a couple
27:37 of minutes to write because we really
27:40 want it to be more from him responding
27:43 to you we don't want to give you 20
27:44 minutes to write about how much you love
27:46 God because if you probably could
27:48 so just jot down a few ideas yes I want
28:02 you to tell the Lord why you love him
28:04 first just a few sentences you're
28:06 writing him a letter yeah I'll tell you
28:12 what to do okay worries just write to
28:17 him a little bit tell him what you love
28:24 about him
28:24 okay so stop and I want you to skip a
28:28 line and now you're going to it Jesus
28:33 respond back to you so what I want you
28:36 to do is to write in childlike faith
28:39 without judging just write the ideas
28:42 that spontaneously come into your mind
28:47 without judging okay stop right there
28:53 finish the thought
28:57 okay now where you read what you wrote
29:27 okay look up at me when you're done okay
29:31 how many of you felt like you heard you
29:33 got something from the Lord that you
29:35 heard something from him okay how many
29:38 it's on how many of you felt like you
29:41 really heard something from God okay
29:44 raise your hands high so we can see
29:45 awesome look at that okay
29:48 was it laughing was it surprisingly
29:51 loving yes okay I think we can agree
29:55 that you probably heard from God all
29:58 right he really wants to tell you how he
30:00 feels about you and it's much better
30:02 than you think most of the time okay
30:04 we're gonna do a couple of other
30:05 exercises now okay gift from the Lord to
30:22 you demonstrates his love I don't know
30:29 so ask and then just write the thoughts
30:34 that come into your mind it will most
30:39 likely be a picture that's how it
30:40 usually is when I do this so dad just
30:45 write the love gift that he's giving you
30:48 okay finish up in the next 5-10 seconds
30:54 now I want you to visualize yourself
31:00 giving a love gift to God so give a love
31:06 gift to God and try to visualize that
31:11 gift to Jesus okay let's just wrap it up
31:17 what we would like to do how many of you
31:20 saw Jesus giving you a gift interesting
31:26 we would love to know what they are well
31:27 we'll ask in a minute
31:28 if anybody's willing to share and how
31:32 many of you saw yourself giving him a
31:34 gift all right very good
31:38 okay would anybody like to share
31:40 either what you journaled or the gift
31:43 that Jesus gave you and I'll volunteer
31:48 at once now okay can he come up is it
31:54 okay if I just take it here okay he gave
31:57 me the gift of peace calmness yes no but
32:08 that's what I wrote when I said when you
32:10 said give a gift to Jesus okay that
32:14 works I'm just curious if you were able
32:16 to visualize it that's good okay anybody
32:18 else yeah at first I didn't think I saw
32:27 anything but I think I saw a rainbow but
32:29 I but I heard my presence is my gift to
32:32 you my presence and my promise be joyful
32:35 and receive my eternal promises to you
32:37 and I'm with you always and every good
32:39 and perfect gift is from me you think
32:42 that sounded like God yeah absolutely
32:44 okay anybody else
32:58 he gave me courage
33:00 cuz I've been asking for that for awhile
33:02 and uh wisdom and he spoke to me very
33:06 clearly on writing back it's kind of
33:10 long but maybe he said my child I love
33:15 you so much I'm always watching you and
33:17 I am proud of you I see your faith and
33:19 love for me and I want you to know that
33:21 I love they have plans for you
33:24 and I'm happy to see you your patience
33:26 and perseverance I see that you are my
33:29 child and that is why I have given you
33:32 up your heart you will do great and
33:34 mighty things in my name as I said just
33:36 believe as you have done be patient
33:38 you're the in the right track keep
33:41 reading you think that sounded like God
33:46 you notice how personal it was that's
33:49 what happens relationship it's very very
33:56 encouraging he knows you he knows all
34:00 about you he loves you and that's really
34:03 the message that he wants to communicate
34:05 to you anybody else want to share we got
34:07 a couple of minutes before we wrap it up
34:11 okay I was reminded how do I love thee
34:23 let me count the ways and I thought of
34:27 all of the blessings that the Lord has
34:30 given me innumerable and unable to be
34:35 numbered however the most precious gift
34:39 I have is the salvation that he was
34:42 given me and that's my precious gift
34:45 thank you that's very nice okay you know
34:51 everyone is unique everyone has
34:53 different inputs the way the Lord speaks
34:56 was always unique and personal to us so
35:00 you just want to practice sitting in his
35:03 presence and talking to them as if
35:05 you're having a relationship and you
35:07 notice you would never make up the
35:10 things in your own mind that you say
35:12 about yourself you're never that kind to
35:15 yourself so when you get things like
35:17 that that are really encouraging
35:19 uplifting loving and comforting you know
35:24 that's coming so we just want to
35:27 encourage you to keep practicing keep
35:30 spending time with the Lord keep talking
35:32 to him
35:33 and keep letting him talk to you that's
35:35 the most important thing okay don't
35:37 monopolize the conversation let him
35:40 share what is on his heart for each one
35:43 of you okay god bless you all have a
35:46 wonderful week and we hope to see you
35:47 back next week and