This word is submitted by Sharon Fernandez (fernandez@winnet.com.au)

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                       Intimacy 

I am calling you my church into a depth of intimacy that will cost you. 
It will not cost you something -- it will cost you everthing. Are you 
willing to risk everthing for me? say's The Lord.  Not for what I can 
do or what I can bless you with  but for myself. For I am that I am. 

Intimacy comes with a price a high price beloved. Do you want it at the 
cost of you life? How precious is your life and lifestyle in comparison 
to intimacy with me? For I am your source, I am your strength, I am your 
power, I am your healing and I am your provision say's The Lord. All you 
will ever need is found in me. In me you will find all you need for I am 
your source. 

For years my church has prayed, "Lord visit us, come down in our midst. 
This where we are going, come with us Lord."  But I am telling you my 
church I want you to come up where I am. For I am high and lifted up and 
my train fills the temple. You want me to fill you to overflowing until 
my presence flows out to lives and nations as my train in the temple. 
Then you must come up to where I am. 

Do you desire to go higher, there is no higher place than the secret 
place, the Holy of Holies. Many worship me but few enter the Holy place 
for the cost is high. It will cot you your life, your family, your 
ministry all you have. All that you are must die in order to come up 
higher. I am removing the weights that so easily beset you. There must be 
no rival in your heart -- it belongs to me and me alone say's The Lord. 

But many hearts are not yeilded to me.  You cannot have my presence unless 
you are willing to loose your own.  For I am that I am. I am brining you 
my church to the place where I am your number one priority. All the issues 
of life must flow out from your intimacy with me. Your ministry must be 
an overflow of your ministry of worship and adoration for who I am. I 
will give you all you need if you will seek me my church for who I am. I 
must be your only desire. 

Beloved if you think there is anything greater than intimacy with me then 
you never had it to begin with. I fully satisfy and fill the hungry soul 
to long after me, to seek for me in this world where nothing can satisfy. 
When you eat at my table you will never be satisfied anywhere else say's 
The Lord. I am calling you my church to count everything loss to come up 
higher, to come up where I am. What I am doing in your hearts my people 
will enable you to do just this , for I see your hearts. I am and I will 
be Lord of your hearts. I will captivate your hearts beloved intimately 
in the Holy place. I am calling you. Will you come to where I am. This 
is my desire and my heart say's The Lord.