Open Heaven 12 November 2023 Topic: Becoming Intimate With God I
Memory Verse: LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. (Psalm 26:8)
Bible Reading: Psalm 119:97-112 (WEB)
97 How I love your law!
It is my meditation all day.
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98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
for your commandments are always with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the aged,
because I have kept your precepts.
101 I have kept my feet from every evil way,
that I might observe your word.
102 I have not turned away from your ordinances,
for you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts, I get understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet,
and a light for my path.
106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it,
that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
107 I am afflicted very much.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
109 My soul is continually in my hand,
yet I won’t forget your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
Also see; open-heaven-10-november-2023
111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,
even to the end.
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Today’s Open Heaven 12 November 2023
To become intimate with God, the major thing you will need to sacrifice is time.
The more time you spend with someone, the more you will become like that fellow.
God loves it when we spend quality time with Him, so much so that He prefers that you spend more of your time with Him than you do for Him.
The difference between spending your time for Him and with Him is in Luke 10:38-42.
Martha was spending her time serving Jesus and that is good, but He said Mary had chosen what was needful by sitting at His feet to hear His word.
The time you spend doing the work of God is good, but what is more needful is the time you spend at His feet, hearing His word.
There are many Church workers and pastors who only read and study their Bibles, pray or hear the word of God when they come to Church.
You cannot become intimate with God that way. God wants people who love spending quality time with Him, whether in Church or alone, just because they love Him.
As dutiful as David was, he just loved to spend time in the presence of God (Psalm 26:8).
That is why God said in 1 Samuel 13:14 that David was a man after His heart.
To become intimate with God, you must never be satisfied with how close you are to Him now.
You must constantly remain hungry for His word and His presence. Those who will be intimate with God will never be satisfied with how much of Him they know;
they will keep studying more, praying more, fasting more, all in a bid to know Him more. Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:10, “That I may know Him…”.
You begin to wonder, with all the revelations and encounters that Apostle Paul had gotten, he was still saying he wanted to know God.
Believe me honestly, the day you feel as if you already know enough of God is the day you begin to draw further from Him.
You will no longer know the things you thought you knew before. If you stop growing, you start dying.
If you decide not to get closer to God, you will start getting closer to the devil.
This is a racetrack you are on, not a highway with bus stops. Once you stop moving, you are taken off the racetrack.
Today’s Open Heaven 12 November 2023
Points: How much time you are willing to spend in fellowship with Christ will determine how intimate you will be with Him.
Hymn: Sweet Hour Of Prayer
Bible in one year: Acts 4, Acts 5