#Intimacy and Unity

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

Isaiah 55:1

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

John 5:39

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,

Mark 5:21–24

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

Deuteronomy 6:4

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

Deuteronomy 6:4

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.

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

Psalms 127:1

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