Sometimes I am sent private emails... I was sent the following email (with reference to the writings found at www.EnterRest.com) and strongly sense I am to post it with my response here for others who may have a similar desire as myself and this brother: Hello Sister,
Please tell me,how can i know the Lord as you do ?How can i communicate with him in these deeper spiritual way.
I WANT TO KNOW HIM
your brother
Thank You Lord for bringing our brother to this spiritual place and state of Being according to Your timing and will!
Bro... Father has a eternal plan which is unfolding for all of us from generation to generation it seems ... and HE has brought you to this place in your present reality and imparted this desire you speak of in you... and thus Jesus being the initiator and finisher of our faith... will perform this for you! HE will do this for you... is doing this... according to HIS timing and unfolding plan! Listen..... you will hear His voice from deep within and He will confirm! Thank YOU Lord!!!
Bro... each of us is unique... a unique aspect of the Spirit of the Lord... and each of us has a unique intimate relationship with HIM... one HE has ordained since the foundations of the world, according to HIS intentions, so I can only speak from a place of my own spiritual reality with HIM... and offer that which I have been given... and pray HE impart that which HE desires in the doing.
Like you... HE brought me to the place where with ALL my heart... I desired to communicate with HIM on a deep level, to KNOW HIM... as much as it is possible in this lifetime and beyond... and to become who I am created to be as one of His spiritual descendants (a child of God) ... when this took place, I found myself pouring out my whole heart/being to HIM... I surrendered my ALL and asked for HIS ALL... in relationship to what HE desired for my life... and for His Kingdom sake... I thought I no longer had a desire for Satan/sin to rule over me in any way.... and was grieved when I was convicted otherwise.... when I saw the power my flesh nature still had over me. I hated being powerless over sin, and wanted to be an overcomer... I wanted to know HIS truth... to know HIM most of all... to glorify HIM through being who HE created me to Be! I had been brought to the place deep within where I wanted HIS will alone... and asked HIM to overcome my flesh nature when it resisted... as the deepest part of me desired what HE desired.
It was then... through HIS Sovereignty... HE revealed to me... through my union with HIS Holy Spirit awakened within... this would come into being... thus I asked for His Holy Spirit to overtake me. With a heart now FILLED with a great desire to know HIS truth... and HIM most of all ... and for the fullness of HIS will to come into being... with a great desire for HIS overcoming/transformative power, I reached out to Father God with the essence of my entire Being... and opened myself completely up to HIM to receive ALL HE desired. I desired to be emptied out... to become a new creation in and through Christ... as my Lord! I had been brought to the place where I had a desire to love as He loves...
Thus I was inspired to ask for the continual purifying power of HIS indwelling Holy Spirit... and for the fruit of HIS Spirit to be made evident from within and in my life... beginning with the fruit of love... the fruit of His Spirit. I was given a desire to ask for a nature change... in that I desired to be given the power to overcome sin through our union... via a born of HIS Holy and Righteous Spirit experience. I was inspired to ask for HIS promises to us, spoken of through HIS son... Jesus Christ, to come to pass in our now ... I heard myself asking for HIS Holy Spirit to lead me into all truth, to teach me, guide me, transforms me... and gave Him complete power over my life/will to do as HE wishes. I did not desire wealth... natural blessings... that was not in my mind, evn in the least bit... I desired HIS ALL... spiritually speaking.... and I surrendered my ALL for HIS will.... HIS truth... so I could KNOW HIM according to HIS purpose in my spiritual life, His intention for my eternal life... His desire for His Kingdom sake... that He be glorified in the process.
He responded... and changed me (via an impartation of HIS Spiritual DNA?) ... my inner and outer life has never been the same... my whole inner being was transformed... and daily I have been empowered to walk out my salvation with fear/awe and trembling/the power of HIS Presence and the inner knowing/His faith brings forth. He is leading me/those who have surrendered to HIM and I find I am leaning on HIM... drawing on HIM, within and in my life... and seek to receive that which HE offers through the power of His Spirit in our brethern, the best I am enabled, from moment to moment... resisting condemnation... lies/deceptions, for I know, with an ever increasing inner knowing, it is no longer I who lives from deep within... but the Spirit of Christ, (through our union)... Jesus being the firstborn from the dead... the firstborn of the family of God our Father. I talk to, commune with HIM daily ... an awareness of the Spirit of the Lord revealing our Father is in my mind continually, I find... it is as if we are never apart.... we are becoming one through our union... moment to moment, by HIS power... Father having ordained such through HIS Son! The Spirit of the Lord does this, I am aware... as Father raises me in the way I am to go ... I find I am empowered to trust and abide in HIM with the gift of faith and revelation knowledge ... to think upon HIM and to know HIM and HE proves HimSelf to me... .as indicated in the writings at the website Father led me to create... www.EnterRest.com . Thank you for considering it and for writing with regard to it with your requests and further questions.
For HIS glory and Kingdom sake, HE keeps me in His faith/His abiding Presence... and reveals to me the firey trials we go through are a gift... as they expose and burn off that which is of the old nature and purifies that which is of the new, causing it/Him to shine with HIS ever increasing light, truth and the glory of HIS abiding Presence .... He has proven HimSelf to be faithful and true... and promises to do such for all of HIS Own. HE will do this... HE is bringing it to pass in our now... according to HIS plan and timing for each of us! We can rest and rejoice in that/Him!!! May we ever be open.... and ready to be filled/inspired afresh!
Through His inspiration, I find am praying for you bro and others like us ... and am more than delighted to be given the opportunity to be there for you in spirit and truth... as you continue on in your spiritual journey of faith with and through HIM.... as you rest in HIM, in the KNOWING... HE gives you/us, as we become united in HIM as ONE new Man, if that be in HIS plan ... He having crossed our path.
Below you will find a Word of Encouragement I received from HIM for us... (In case you have not yet seen it, I was led to publish it at www.EnterRest.com). May that which HE intended in giving it come into being for us all....
`Yes, You can rest in My love. in My goodness... in My eternal plan
for My Own... My Family.
Yes ...You can rest... in the Knowing... I make fully alive within
You.
Yes, rest in Knowing... it is I Who makes Known ... the Spiritual
Life begins through Me and the continual increase of My unfolding is
part of My eternal plan and Your Spiritual regeneration ...
Spiritual evolution empowering You to become Who I created You to
Be through our union.
Rest in Knowing .... it is I Who makes Known ... the offer of My
Life in exchange for your own... that We might become One through
Our union .... Life from life.... love through love.... holiness as
holiness... truth, the is that it is.
Rest in Knowing... I Am causing Our minds and wills to become One,
through My Spirit of love, truth, holiness ... the eternal fruits of
My Spirit ...Your having sought such.... through My having drawn
You, empowering You to surrender with inner joy and peace,
regenerated through the faith I offer... faith in an awareness of My
eternal goodness... in the intentions of My kindness towards You and
Yours.... all I love.
Rest in Knowing... when You were lost... I sought You out and made
You aware of My love, of My way, having birthed You through My
firstborn ... Jesus ... at the foundations of the world.
Rest in Knowing... that which I began, was accomplished.... is Being
revealed.
Rest in Knowing... You are walking out the plan designed for You, to
expose the lies which once held You captive.... You've been
empowered to walk free of illusion ... delusion . in Spirit and in
truth ... through Our union.
Rest in Knowing... You are experiencing release from your
intellectual and emotional core beliefs ~ inherited through natural
DNA and intimacies of life ... to Be reconditioned through the life
of the Spirit You are encountering through Our union as a new creation ~ revealing My thoughts... My emotions... My intents to Your mind ... within Your
heart ... awakening aspects of Who You are as My inheritance.. as
the mind of Christ perfected in each of You.
Rest in Knowing... although the transformation is not always
comfortable, You have never been alone, nor left powerless to
overcome. I Am with You ... within You, offering life and it more
abundantly from eternal now to eternal now. Draw upon Me.
Rest in Knowing... I have spoken ... You hear. I have revealed ...
You understand. I empower You to choose to walk with My wisdom and
power in the way I place before You as a co-Creator. You are redeemed.
Rest in Knowing... My words come to You in the form of spiritual
seed which I plant and tend with loving care and eternal knowledge
and wisdom, that it return not to Me void of My intention.
Rest in Knowing... when You seek I make known.
Rest in the Knowing.
Rest in ME.
Yes, the season of Our rest in now.
Rest.'
www.EnterRest.com I pray this is helpful... please let me know if I can serve you again... and do stay in touch, Lord willing. Please know... I receive great pleasure and encouragement in reading testimonies of HIS workings in and through each of our lives and would be delighted to read of your/other's reality with HIM too! May HE ever be gloried in such.... bren
Do add your own unique testimony below if you are so inspired.... fulfilling Psalm 66:16 to the glory of our Father... and His Son/Family.... Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
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