6.3 Sharing Life with God

Sixteen years ago, Jesus carried me inside Himself into the Most Devoted place that I might know Him as my only life. Thirteen years ago, Jesus began the ever so gentle process of turning me around. Over the next four years, He caused me to know what that really means, that I share Hheart with God.

It was only two and a half years ago, now, that the Father came to me inside of Jesus and showed me such wondrous Joy, that God my Father shares every next step with me as age-unfolding life, that the Father shares my life with me and that I share His life with Him. I know the Father, and I know Jesus, and I know that their same Desire includes you, dear reader, utterly in it’s embrace.

Life Itself Is My Way. Here are the words that I wrote, in April of 2022, out from John 14:20, words that changed my life forever. ~ Living inside of Jesus is my Way to connect with the Father sharing my life with me. Jesus living inside of me is the Father’s Way to connect with me sharing His life with Him, that God might enter creation through me. Life itself is my Way, moment by moment and step by step, not ‘to’ something, but rather life-unfolding, the living and dynamic expression of God-with-me unveiled new every morning forever. ~

In the remainder of this lesson, I want to show you the meaning of such a wondrous way of living as I have come to know it thus far. We could say that “99%” of being just like Jesus is this personal sharing of life with the Father.

Love Knows No Evil. In the last chapter, we looked at the greatest evil thought cast into Christian thinking, the accusation against God that He “knows” evil. This is followed by the second greatest evil in Christian thinking, that God’s Word, the Covenant, becomes True only as humans make it true by their performance. And we saw how these horrific ideas have permeated all our thoughts concerning God and salvation with tiny tendrils of ideas rooted all through everything.

You have just hit an impassible barrier in your desire to know the Lord, and you are stopped in your tracks. God alone removes all those wicked “Christian” thoughts coming out from your accusation against Him that He knows evil, and you alone must contend with Him to do so.

My Great Travail. Sixteen years ago, when Jesus carried me inside Himself into the Most Devoted, I became aware of a deep, deep need inside myself to engage with God until He had removed from my understanding every evil thought concerning God. For sixteen years, I have wept inside of God over this very task. Three-and-a-half years into this travail, in the midst of great agony, I made the firm and final decision that I would know God my Father in one way only.

I determined to see God only through His only image, a man on his face in the mud under a cross he could not carry, and GOD inside of that man, carrying him, carrying me, through a way neither I nor Jesus could go, through the passage out from death into LIFE.

Engage with God Yourself. A year-and-a-half later, as I spoke a prayer I had written into audio, “Sealed in the Midst of the Storm,” God, by His own power and doing, sealed my mind into Himself. From that moment until today, I have not rebelled against my God in imagining that He was separated from me, that God my Father was not sharing this moment, this circumstance, this interaction entirely and utterly with me, sharing all with me and I with Him, even the agony of His own Heart.

Knowing the one True God, Father with you in all, is LIFE. If you would live, then engage with God Yourself, forehead to Forehead, personally and True, that He would remove from your thinking any idea that He “knows evil,” that His Word is not True, or that He is split-apart (as death) from you.

Until You Know. God is a consuming Fire, and we connect with Him only through Jesus and in no other way. But when we do, we discover the most amazing thing, that we were made for one purpose only, to share Life with this incredible Being, to be His form together inside of creation.

Soon after I determined to see God only through Jesus, I began to speak to myself, over and over, especially in the night watches, “God, my Father, You fill me with all that You are.” I spoke this until I actually believed it, and then continued until I KNEW it was True. What changed in April of 2022 was that I now know that every next moment, circumstance, and interaction comes only out from the Life Father and I share together.

The Manna of Grace. The hidden manna that Moses placed into the Ark of the Covenant is this very sharing of life with God in continuous and sweet fellowship, turning the agony of our shared travail into goodness for the sake of others. This manna is known only by those who would know the Father, the only thing they want, and who place the Father’s Heart and purpose as their only goal. This is also the True meaning of Grace in the Gospel. Grace is not “something from” God. Grace is the gift of God Himself.

I want to share with you now five “Graces,” which are God sharing Himself with you and you with Him, the Grace of desire, of purpose, of person, of enablement, and of belonging.

The Grace of Desire – Father at Home. “I am your Father. I have loved you with an everlasting Love. Your heart is My dwelling place; I make My Home with you, in intimate participation together. I share your heart with you and you share My Heart with Me. I am and have always been your desire to rule, to subdue, to be victorious, to bring forth abundance. This is Gospel Grace, that I am your exceedingly great Reward. Life shared with Me fulfills all your desire.

“I have given all authority to Jesus who is your life. Inside of Jesus, whom I have sent into you, I energeo all your desire. Yet I share with you all constraint and agony of travail to shape our shared desire to bring forth Life, so that the power flowing through your human vessel might be entirely of Me, so that you are My Compassion everywhere you go.”
 
The Grace of a Shared Purpose. “God, my Father, Your Word, the Lord Jesus, is written by our shared and Devoted Spirit all through the pathways of my heart. Your Word defines me, every Gospel Word. I know You, Father, and I know myself by the Word we share together, the Lord Jesus, and by His Spirit now part of me.

“Father, You have placed Your Word inside my heart and in my mouth that I might speak Christ everywhere I go, that I might call You into creation as all Life and Goodness. By Your Word, Father, I know who I am. By Your Word, I know what I do. I come every moment from the Words of Your thoughts spoken by Jesus inside of me by our Devoted Spirit.

“Father, I know our shared Purpose, for I am always about Your business. I live for You, Father, that You might be known as You really are by all.”

The Grace of Self – for the Sake of Others. “My son, My daughter, you are personal inside yourself because I am Personal inside of you. I am utterly with you inside your innermost being, inside the very person of your heart. I never violate you, for you are always free. Yet I share your joy and your sorrow, for I am your essence. You are an expression of Me, for I give My own Person freely to you.

“Because I mark the boundaries of your person inside your center, because you know that I share even your privacy with you, you are free, My dear one, to look beyond yourself, to see and to know that all these people around you are also an expression of Me. They are My image and likeness out from their human weakness, in joy and in sorrow. You and I love them together. You and I give ourselves to one another for their sake, that they also might know their LIFE inside of Me.”

The Grace of Enablement. “Father, I love You, because You first Love me. I am devoted to You, because You first are Devoted to me. Inside of this Devoted Love, we share sweet communion together, the Fellowship of Father and Son.

God, my Father, Your Grace, Your presence with me inside myself, enables me in all things. You give all that You are freely to me as Grace outpoured, that You and I together might give the same freely to others. We give all, Father, all that You are mixed with all that I am so that all might know You inside the same Joy we share together.

“Father, all You give of Yourself to me, I give freely to others, in full confidence of Faith, always expecting a return. In this way Life is known and has its way in all. In this way, Rivers of Living Water flow forth, setting creation free.”

The Grace of Belonging – A Glorious Church. “I am Your Father. I belong to you, just as you belong to Me. As I am at Home inside of you, so you are at Home inside of Me. We share Home together. Here is the Secret of our Belonging, My dear one, as we share every next step, circumstance, and interaction together, so we create a home for others, a place of belonging inside of which all can dwell safely.

“I am your Love for your brothers and sisters, and I am their Love for you. I am the Essence and the Energeia of the life you share together as the revelation of My Son, the Lord Jesus. You together are a Glorious Church, My dwelling place forever. As you love one another, My Presence in all Grace among you, so the world knows that I am God, and that all things belong to Me and I to them. This Grace I give always to you.”

Summarizing Our Rescue. The Grace in which we live, the Joy of knowing Father with us in all Completion, is made most precious to us by the incredible rescue God engineered towards us, the rescue of our lives. As we remember our Glorious Rescue, in all the ages to come, so we sink ever further into “no sufficiency in ourselves” and “all sufficiency inside of God.”

God placed us inside of His fulness when we asked Jesus into our hearts, but we did not know what that meant. Our ignorance was then riddled with all sorts of thoughts about God that were not True, and our souls became confusion. It was JESUS, our Savior in all weakness, carrying us, carried by Father, who took us all the way through all the horrors of death into this Glorious Salvation in which we now live.

The Remainder of the Book. We are now halfway through this account of Our Glorious Salvation. We have completed our investigation of the Biblical view of our emergency rescue out from insanity into knowing God here and now. The remainder of this text is a description of some of the wonders of that Glorious Salvation in which we presently live. As such, I have set myself to include no mention of any shadow, for none exists. It is very hard to write without exposing the false as the too-present counter-part of the Truth in the minds of many. Nonetheless, let the absence of the lies stand as their severest condemnation. – For we know them no more forever.

Before we do that, however, let’s place the contention of God before our eyes once more.