There is a great upswell in spiritual activity right now. God is moving through His Holy Spirit and things are happening. There seems to be a direct correlation between this move and the people of God drawing closer to Him; drawing closer and going deeper.
“Come close to God, and God will come close to you.” So says James 4:8 in the NLT. Other translations say “draw” rather than “come” and I believe it is in that drawing close to Him that is so close to Gods heart at this time. It seems to me that the closer His people get to Him, the more God moves through His Spirit.
There are one or two verses in scripture that encourage us. Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.” As we are still in His presence, so He comes close to us. Psalm 42:7 “Deep calls unto deep”. The deeper we go in God so the more deeply Holy Spirit can speak to us. Yet we actually don’t have to move that far. In the story of the Prodigal, we see that when Father saw His wayward son step closer to Him, so He picked up His robes, ran and caught His son in a joyful embrace. So it is with us going deeper with the Lord. The moment we take that step that takes us deeper with Him, so He ‘runs’ closer to us – steps deeper with us.
Ezekiel 47:1-12 describes this process allegorically. The further down river we go, the deeper we get, and the more reliant on Him we become. It’s the “dying to self” thing again.
God is seeking those who will go deeper with Him once, then deeper again, then deeper still. I believe that the deeper we go, the more He pours His Spirit upon us. The more He pours His Spirit on us the more we see the reality of His Kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven”. The more we see things on earth as they are in heaven, the more people we will see coming to salvation.
The more we see all of that – the closer we get to revival and to Jesus coming back for His Bride.
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