Have you ever tried being intimate with God and thought it impossible? David lived such a life. He said it himself in Psalm 119:164 that he praised God seven times a day. David made a conscious effort to seek the face of God. That’s desperation! That’s desire! Why do I say desperation? That’s because David was a man, a king in constant battle, but he also knew like some of us, if not most of us, that when we’re in trouble, we call on God. Even unbelievers know this fact.
When the planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11th, 2001, there was standing room only in almost every Church in the United States. People repented, turned back to God and cried out to Him for help for our nation and for themselves.
Yet intimacy is coming to God, seeking fellowship with Him even when things are going great in our lives. We need to spend time in God’s presence and develop a relationship with Him—not a one-time-deal or a once-in-a-while kind of affair, but a constant connection. Constant fellowship leads to intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father.
You may say that David was not as busy as you are, but let me remind you that David was driven, like a mad man, and on the go all the time. It was a hectic job being David and living his life . . . always on the run, hiding from his son, hiding from Saul and other Philistine kings. It wasn’t easy being David, yet he took the time to praise God every day, and go further to say, he praised God seven times a day.
Great men and women of God such as John G. Lake, Maria Woodworth Etter, and Robert Evans desired for God to totally consume them. After serving God and doing mighty wonders in His name for years, and giving up a multi-million dollar career in the 1800s to follow God, John G. Lake continuously cried out for more of God and to see more of God’s power and glory. Oh that you and I would cry to have more of God in our lives. Are you willing to wake up one hour early, go to bed an hour late, turn off the television, the cell phone and all today’s gadgets and technology just to be alone with God?
Where is your heart today? Are you willing to give up fame and fortune and the ‘American dream’ to follow His plan for your life? Are you willing to lay down your plans and take up God’s plans? Are you willing today to cry out, “consume me, Lord, consume me or else life is not worth living?” Oh to have a heart totally given to the Lord and His work. We as God’s people need to present ourselves as empty vessels before God, ready, waiting, and willing to be filled, and desiring to be filled by Him and Him only.
In His Name
~Arama Christiana
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