Cultivating Intimacy With the Lord

We want your life to be in Us.  What does that mean?  How can you be “in Us?” In Us means in Our kingdom, in Our Presence and in fellowship with Us.  It looks like being in constant communication with Us while snuggling together in peace and tranquility.  How do you live in a constant state of intimate companionship with Us? How do you remain constantly in Our Kingdom while on earth at the same time?  How can you live in Our Secret Garden while functioning in human society?  How can you remain in your interior with Us without ever leaving? When you are seeking interior life with Us, you must realize that you are entering a different and new world.  It is an entire world or kingdom and nothing like the world on earth.  The interior world with Us is Our kingdom.  It belongs entirely to Us and is ruled entirely by Us.  No one can enter this kingdom without Our permission.  You must be cleansed before you can enter into Our true kingdom.  Others may think they have access but they have only found a counterfeit kingdom of strangers. In Our kingdom the principles of operation are quite different from the principles or methods of operation you use on earth.  On earth, the methods you use to function won’t work in the interior world of Our kingdom. Actually, they will only hamper you or impede your progress as you seek to enter through the gates. Your interior has several names.  This is the inner chamber or the Holy of Holies of the temple I built within you.  Your body became the exterior of Our temple when you first gave yourself to Us.  Just as there were different areas which served different purposes in the physical temple of the Hebrews, as described in the Old Testament, there are different areas of My temple that We reproduced within you currently today. The original or very first temple which I built was the Garden of Eden.  A temple is a place where I meet with and have intimate fellowship with those We love and who love Us.  Therefore, the Garden of Eden was Our very first temple.  There We met with Adam and Eve.  When We removed them from the garden, We met with them wherever they built an altar of sacrifice. When We formed the nation of Israel, We designed a building that physically housed Our Presence.  The Hebrews traveled there to meet with Us.  The building had different rooms that served various purposes.  Each area took them from one level of intimacy with Us to another.  The Holy of Holies was the inner chamber reserved for the most intimate fellowship and experience or “knowing” of Us at that time. Your temple can be compared to your house.  Many homes have rooms that are for various levels of relational intimacy.  A man and a woman who have entered into the covenant of marriage and live together in their house, have freedom to be in any room of that house no matter what level of intimacy that room requires. The yard and porch are areas of the house where those who are visitors and unmet strangers may come.  There the outsiders can speak with the couple and state their business.  If the couple gives the outsiders permission, then they may enter into one of the gathering rooms.  Only friends are given permission to enter.  Enemies are not allowed into a gathering room.  Friends of varying degrees of intimacy may come into the gathering room.  There they can enjoy a certain level of fellowship and even share a meal together.  They can remain surface-level acquaintances or enter into a deeper relationship in the gathering room. Those who have a deeper level of intimacy with the owner of the house are invited into more inner rooms than others.  They are allowed into the kitchen and more private gathering areas. In the kitchen, the intimate friends can participate in the inner work of the household.  There the friends and family members share bonds of deeper fellowship while they work together for a common cause.  The work may be lengthy and vigorous, but the joy of their intimacy makes the burden they share light. Finally, there is the most intimate area in the house.  This would be the room that belongs only to the married man and woman.  Their relationship is exclusive and reserved only for them.  Therefore, their bedroom is reserved for them and occasionally their children.  Strangers and those with whom they have only surface-level or casual relationships are not allowed to enter. Your body is Our temple, Sweet Pearl.  Within your body resides your spirit.  Your spirit has the most intimate room.  The other rooms for casual meetings with Us are there as well.  For example, the rituals, routines and works that look like intimacy, but are only symbolic of intimacy, can be performed with your body, your mind, and your senses.  You and We can have a limited, surface level fellowship in these areas.  You also have fellowship that is limited with strangers and friends in these areas.  You can use your brain, senses, and emotions to walk with them and communicate. Our Pearl, the Holy of Holies is deep within you.  This area is only to be opened to Us.  It is the most exclusive and significant part of Our temple within you.  The only Ones allowed into the Holy of Holies are you and Us.  Our Presence resides within the Holy of Holies.  It is within your spirit.  That is Our Secret Place. No one else is allowed to enter.  A stranger cannot come into Our Holy of Holies.  It is reserved for you, Sweet Pearl, and Us. Therefore, do not look for intimacy with Us in your physical body.  You won’t find true intimacy with Us in your emotions, either.  You also will never be able to enjoy or know us in your mind or intellect.  Those