A CALL INTO INTIMACY

Intimacy: Eternal life is not far. Eternal life doesn’t begin when one dies. Eternal life begins here.

 

It is a long-term relationship with God that starts in the soil of this Earth and continues uninterrupted into Heaven. (John 17:3)

 

In fact, it goes beyond this, because eternal life, contrary to what many of us have believed for so long, does not simply mean “living forever.” Eternal life means the very endless, timeless, indestructible life of God Himself. A life that has no beginning and no end. A life that cannot decay. A life that cannot be defeated. A life that flows straight from God’s own being.

 

So when God says He has given us eternal life, He is not merely promising us long days in Heaven; He is giving us Himself. He is pouring His own life into us. He is sharing His nature. He is inviting us into the fellowship of His heart.

 

Ah, what a mystery! What a joy! What a privilege!

 

So, if eternal life begins from here, it means, we need to watch it! Have you, my dear sister, started, really, to enjoy the eternal life? The very life of God Himself? Pause to honestly have a check into your life. Let it cut past your social media status and reputations; religious engagements etc. Those are zero. Focus on what the One before ‘whom you have to do!’ thinks of you! Hebrews 4:13

 

Be sincere, sis. Have you started eating the Lord? Check John 6:53-58.

 

Oh, Father, cause this mystery to burst out clear to Your daughter. Let her understand clearly what You are saying. Do not, my Father, speak to this daughter of Yours in parables in Jesus’ Name. 

 

Sisters, see, if a person is not intimate with God here, they cannot suddenly expect to blossom into intimacy over there! This is where I am going exactly. 

 

Heaven is not a place for strangers. Heaven is not a reunion with the God you never sought. (Matthew 7:21–23)

 

Heaven is the continuation of a relationship that was first planted, watered, and nurtured in time.

 

Christ has already brought Heaven near, and the one who leans on Him in eternity will simply be continuing the communion that began in the secret place here on earth!!! (Colossians 1:27; Psalm 91:1)

Also Read: The Meaning Of The Tabernacle

 

 

INTIMACY DOES NOT GROW ACCIDENTALLY

 

Nobody wakes up intimate with someone they never drew near to. (James 4:8)

 

Have you ever seen a husband and wife who are truly intimate? You can tell immediately. You see the closeness. You see the tenderness. You see the joy they share together. You see it in their prayers, in their laughter, in their private conversations, in the ease of their fellowship. You know when love is real. And you also know when it is not.

 

You know when a couple has been separated by interference, by bitterness, by family voices, by the poison of feminism, by lies that dismantle the home. It shows. Intimacy always shows, either by its presence or by its painful absence.

 

The same is true with God. If you see a Christian who truly fears God, you will see the fear, yet not the fear that sees God as a tyrant waiting to strike. Some people relate with God as though He is an unpredictable judge. (Exodus 20:20) Others relate with Him like He is Father Christmas, a cheerful giver who must respond whenever they appear with demands and tithes and offerings. Some treat God like a business partner in a 50–50 contract. I give You this, You give me that. That is not intimacy. That is not a relationship. That is negotiation, sis.

 

But when you meet a Christian whom the Holy Spirit has truly taught love, whose heart has tasted the sweetness of obedience, whose soul genuinely longs for the will of God, you know it. It shows. (Romans 5:5; Psalm 40:8)

 

Oh yes! Like pregnancy, intimacy has evidence. A woman cannot suddenly wake up pregnant if she has never been intimate with her husband. It does not jump on her. Intimacy requires approach. It requires nearness. It requires coming together. (Genesis 4:1) And then something is formed. That is exactly how it is with God.

 

You cannot keep using God for blessings, miracles, promotions, open doors, and protection, yet never desire Him as a Lover. (Psalm 27:4). 

 

Imagine marrying someone only for what they have in their hands, but refusing sexual intimacy, refusing closeness, refusing the exchange of love. Are you not a scammer? Are you not deceitful? You want everything they have, but you do not want them? This is how many believers treat God.

 

And unfortunately, it is yourself you are scamming. Or you think you can scam the Almighty? Nah, sis.

 

We say, “I gave my life to Christ,” but we still cling to that life with both hands. (Matthew 16:24–25) We claim to have surrendered, but we have not surrendered. That is why our prayers are weak. That is why our Christian walk is hollow. That is why the fire does not burn.

 

 

THE CONTENT OF YOUR PRAYER REVEALS YOUR DEPTH

We say we are prayer warriors in Nigeria. Yes, we pray. But what exactly are we praying? The content of your prayer will reveal the condition of your intimacy.

 

Many people pray, but their prayers revolve entirely around themselves. My child. My mother. My father. My siblings. My promotion. My desires. My problems. These are not wrong places to start, but they are wrong places to stay!!! (Philippians 2:4)

 

These are not wrong places to start, but they are wrong places to stay!!!

 

At some point, after God has blessed you repeatedly, you must pause and ask, “Who is this God? Why does He keep blessing me? Can I see Your face, Lord?” (Exodus 33:18)

 

Moses prayed this. He spoke to God again and again and again until his heart could no longer bear the distance. He cried, “Show me Your glory!” And God, in His mercy, allowed Moses to taste a tiny glimpse of eternity. A small portion of the back of God, just a shadow, just a whisper, transformed the very substance of a man.

 

Moses’ body was changed. His skin shone like the sun. (Exodus 34:29–30) He tasted a glimpse of eternity right on Earth.

 

What about Aaron? His rod budded before the Ark of the Covenant. A dead rod, left in the presence of God, life entered it and it blossomed! Ayaa…. (Numbers 17:8)

 

Moses’ body budded under glory in the presence of God. And this happened before Christ came, sis. Before the Holy Spirit made His home inside men, Moses tasted a little bit of Heaven. That was why he could journey there for days and nights without food! (Exodus 34:28)

 

Moses tasted a future we now have full access to. (2 Corinthians 3:18) His body was so saturated with divine life that when it was time for him to die at 120, he climbed the mountain by himself. His eyes were not dim. His strength was not abated. (Deuteronomy 34:7) Nothing in him suggested age. God had to instruct him to die because life had seeped into him in unquantifiable dimensions. So, Moses died ‘according to the Word of God’. (Deuteronomy 34:5)

 

If Moses tasted that much from the outside, what then shall we experience now that God lives inside us? (1 Corinthians 6:19)

 

 

 

THE RIVER WITHIN YOU IS WAITING

 

God lives in you now. Not beside you. Not near you. In you. (John 14:17) The Spirit of God broods within your spirit like a river capable of drowning the whole world. (John 7:38–39) But do you give Him attention? Do you sit with Him? Do you let Him flow?

 

Many believers never sit long enough for that river to rise but sis, intimacy requires lingering. It requires stillness. (Psalm 46:10) It requires silence. It requires time. Do you ever sit alone and just pray in the Spirit, unrushed, unhurried, uncounted, without checking the clock, without trying to sound spiritual, just enjoying God because He is God, like a child before her father?

 

If you do, He will suck you in. He will draw you deeper. He will captivate your soul. He will pull love out of you like water from a well. (Isaiah 12:3) You will fall in love with Him over and over and over again.

 

Intimacy begins here.

 

 

INTIMACY ALWAYS BEARS FRUIT

 

And do not forget this, sis, there is no way you will be intimate with God and not bring souls to Him. (John 15:5) Intimacy is the secret to genuine soul-winning. Not fear-mongering. Not condemnation. Not standing on the street shouting, “You will go to hell!” That is counterproductive. The fear of men cannot produce the righteousness of God. (James 1:20) That is not love. Many people preach like that because they have not seen God. When a person truly sees God, they fall in love with Him so deeply that they cannot bear the thought of others missing Him. Joy begins to flow from them. A fragrance, a warmth, a pull, a glow, so beautiful that it draws souls. (2 Corinthians 2:14–15)

 

So, sis, you will not win souls by frowning ‘sanctimoniously’. You win souls by overflowing. And overflow comes from intimacy.

 

 

INTIMACY GROWS IN PRAYER

 

Also Read: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR: HEAVEN OR JESUS?

 

Intimacy grows in prayer. Robust, living, heart-unveiling prayer. (Jude 1:20; Romans 8:26–27)

 

So, sis, are you praying?

 

Not the ordinary prayers we rush through daily. Not the petitions for visas, promotions, open doors, healing, or family safety.

 

I am speaking of that prayer where your soul becomes bare before Him, where you stand like a bright, dustless glow under His gaze, where His beauty quiets you and His light washes over you like dawn.

 

That prayer where your heart begins to respond to His heartbeat, where His burdens suddenly become your burdens, where you find yourself weeping over the nations because He is weeping, where you lie at His feet not for what He will give but for who He is.

 

This is the prayer that births eternity inside you!

 

This is where Heaven begins to take root, where the soul starts to mirror the Divine. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

 

This is the kind of prayer that continues beyond time’s boundary. The type stored in the Golden Vails! (Revelation 5:8)

 

Jesus Christ said,

 

“This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3

 

Eternal life is knowing Him. Not knowing about Him, but knowing Him, the way a husband knows his wife and a wife knows her husband. (Genesis 4:1; Hosea 6:3) The kind of knowing that marks the Song of Solomon, where the husband studies his bride with adoration, naming her beauty part by part, and the bride looks back at him with longing, delighting in his voice, his strength, his masculinity, his presence.

 

This is covenant knowing!

 

This is intimacy!

 

This is union!

 

This should be our daily goal!

 

But imagine a bride who does not desire her husband’s presence, who does not care where he is, who has no longing for his voice. Such a union is empty.

 

And many believers unknowingly live like this with God: no desire, no longing, no pursuit. (Revelation 2:4)

 

So I ask you again with all seriousness: Do you enjoy God? Do you desire Him at all? Do you trust Him?

 

You say you are lonely. You say your heart aches. You say the world around you feels heavy. Then turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full into His beautiful face, and watch the things of this earth fade into dimness beneath the radiance of His glory and grace. (Hebrews 12:2)

 

The cure for a weary soul is not distractions of social media, career, ‘false purpose’ etc. The cure is revelation.

 

And revelation does not fall upon those who are scattered across a thousand pursuits. Revelation comes to the one who is shut in with God. (Jeremiah 33:3) The one who lingers. The one who waits. The one who stays in the Holy of Holies until the only light shining upon their soul is the Shekinah itself! Ayaaaa…..

 

That is where the fatherhood of God becomes real. That is where the humanhood of Christ becomes personal. That is where the Scriptures transform from words into revelation.

 

So sis, I speak to your spirit in the Name of the Lord Jesus, get into prayer!!!

 

Get into that deep, longing, soul-changing prayer where you are stripped of pretence and filled with Presence.

 

Get into that place where your spirit begins to know God, not theoretically but intimately.

 

Get into that space where eternity opens inside you like a blooming flower.

 

Because, dear sis, that is where intimacy starts!

 

That is where communion grows!

 

That is where Heaven begins its work within mortal flesh.

 

And if this kind of prayer has already begun in you, ah, my sister, then eternity has already begun in you.