deep calls to
Deep calls to deep. We’ve seen a lot of shallowness multiplying itself, but there is no question that hunger awakens hunger, thirst awakens thirst; true depth produces more depth.
God gave me a vision last night where I was sleeping in the basement of a house where a man of God lived. I woke up early before sunrise and sat up. The man didn’t know I was there, so he came down the stairs and went into a room next to where I was sitting. He began praying, crying out to God out of the depths of his spirit. Immediately I felt an intense peace, even though the man was being totally and disturbingly desperate with God.
I was shaken. Immediately I was crying out to God asking to be able to know him deeper. I was encountering my Creator at a level I had never known was possible. I could feel all these emotions flowing out of me that I knew had always been there, and I was embarassed that I had never allowed that depth of worship and prayer before. I was feeling ecstatic communion and a big simultaneous “DUH” all in the same moment.
Just then the man walked out and saw me there. He was smiling, beaming. I wanted to apologize or something, but I couldn’t really talk and there was no point to it anyway. I had the same grin he had although my face was soaked. We basically just grinned and nodded at each other, and then he walked up the stairs.
bro thank you much for sharing this with us. something happened to me last night as well but i wont go into detail. obviously Jesus is moving within His people, His body. I pray we continue to abide in Christ. Taking only from the Head. Christ. In this realm there are no limits as opposed to the natural way. The fences are down in the Head and I pray all be increased with Jesus. Again, thank you very much for sharing this with us homes.
Thankful.
Man oh man….thirst awakens thirst. Nuts, just nuts. How high are His ways?
beef, right on man.
Oh so thankful.
The call to go deeper resonates, I hear it. Glen, I appreciate the way you encourage the family in our relationship with God. I’ve been in Luke lately and felt like God spoke something that goes with this.
Luke 5: One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there.
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish.”
The phrase “Go out where it is deeper” grabbed my attention and God was saying to go deeper in Faith, in my relationship with Him, deeper in communion, and whatever else it means to go deeper with God. Then I immediately thought of this post and realized there was a connection here, so I thought I would share it. And now as I’m typing this, I see a correlation to the one who listens to Jesus’ Words and puts them into practice like a man who builds on a solid foundation = the man who obeys when Jesus says to put out into deeper water (opposed to those who stay put on the shore and just listen). And I post this with a prayer to obey; knowing my own need for more of Him.
Exactly. Which is why later when you see Jesus walking on the water toward the disciples, it’s in a realm where natural man is in WAY over his head. You’ll find the same progression in the description of Ezekiel’s river (in Ezekiel 47). We start sticking our toes in the water, but if we keep hearing the Spirit calling us deeper, we end up in hopelessly over our heads…an uncrossable river, waters to swim in.
We hear passages like in Romans 11.33-35 and Isaiah 40.28 where God’s telling us there is no searching out his understanding, that no one has known the mind of the Lord - and so often we pull back…thinking “ahh, I see..that’s a forbidden (or impossible) realm.” In reality it’s like Father is revealing this practically unexplored and totally inexhaustible frontier in which every good and perfect thing is to be found. It’s really a challenge to jump in and lose your life over, just like you read in Jeremiah 30.21 “and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD.”