Pure Intimacy In The Body Of Christ

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by Michael King on March 27, 2017 at 5:25 pm
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The Spirit Of Our Love

God is all about pure intimacy, all forms of it.  When you truly unite with God and each other, you find that God is a sensuous experience.  This comes as a shock to many because they have been taught that God is prim and proper. For instance, most imagine the temple of God in heaven as white and antiseptic. However, the reality is that the temple of God is filled with green plants everywhere. Even the walls are warm and vibrate with life. In fact, literally everything is alive in Him.

Likewise, the Garden of Eden was a paradise of sensual delights because it represented the very nature of God. God is love and part of the manifestation of that love is pure intimacy.  As I thought about that, it dawned on me that the point of creation is not the marriage supper of the lamb, but what comes afterwards.  The church is likened to a bride because God intends to make love to us.  The act of intimacy on earth points to the fulfillment of that picture in pure intimacy between God and His wife.

That we may know Him in pure intimacy

Why is this important?  It is important because every woman expects to know her man intimately on their wedding night.  However chaste she may be before the wedding she still expects to be chaste no longer after her wedding.  In fact, most people who are in love kiss and caress more as their love grows. For many, waiting from their wedding night is almost unbearable. Likewise, if we are to be the bride of Christ we should expect that our love will express itself in pure intimacy with Jesus too.

The act of marriage, the way of a man with a maid, is the single greatest picture of what God desires to be to us. God designed everything to do with intimacy to demonstrate to humanity how much He wants to be one with us. Every movement, sound, and expression of love demonstrates the union God desires with man.  Even Jesus being born of a virgin demonstrated, in the most intimate way possible, the degree of oneness God envisions with each one of us.

Love one another

So far so good.  However, what I am about to share next is the crux of what The Holy Spirit is about to do. The way in which God loves the body of Christ with pure intimacy is through the Body of Christ. That is to say, the pure intimacy our bridegroom desires to have with us, is shown through Spiritual Connections among members of the church.  This is precisely why Paul says to greet one another with a holy kiss. It is why there is unity of the Spirit that proceeds the unity of the faith.  This is the origin of Love Feasts and the manifestation of 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

Satan brought about the Roman persecution of Christians in the first century because the church was beginning to enter into the Tabernacle Blessing.  Pure intimacy began to manifest in God’s people and they were about to become the embodiment of God’s love.  Fallen Lucifer could not let “oneness” happen and so she persecuted and killed believers, driving them underground into catacombs. However, even there we catch historical glimpses of the perfected church and pure intimacy.

Creation is an intimate act

The whole point of creation is Divine Union.  From the very beginning God said go forth be fruitful and multiply.  We were created naked and unashamed. God is the creator of that intimacy and since we are created in His image, were are pure intimacy.  You cannot even procreate without being intimate.

Satan fears a fully connected Body of Believers.  As long as we are separated in our hearts and minds we are easily controlled and weak. However, once we love one another as God loves us, the power of God reveals itself and we soar into the heavenlies.  This is what deals the death-wound to the beast and causes the church of Philadelphia to be caught up to God and to His throne.

But what does that mean?

People have little idea what this means because most have never experienced pure intimacy.  However, being as we all want to be the Bride of Christ, we should understand that our bridegroom wants to know us intimately.  God wants to express Himself to us – through each other.  Our creator wants to be free to love us in any way He desires.  As God inhabits His body of believers, He will manifest or “reveal himself” in pure intimacy.  This may be through holy kissing or through holding one another.  In some instances God will take intimacy all the way to marriage uniting us with one another physically. This is Divine Marriage.

To the pure all things are pure

The point of Spiritual Connections is God expressing His love for us through one another.  The manner of the outward manifestation of that inward love does not really matter.  As long as God is the author of our actions there can be no sin.  As Paul says, to the pure all things are pure.

Such a concept bothers natural minded people.  Many, out of insecurity, wish to control the Spirit for fear of what He may do.  Many preachers and teachers want to put boundaries around each and every christian so that they cannot possibly sin. However, no matter how many precepts they teach, if the heart is not pure, sin inevitably occurs. Instead, God wants to put His nature in us so that we do not want to sin in the first place. When our Father does that, our hearts become pure and we can love one another as God intended. In this state of innocence, we love selflessly. We find that rather than being restrictive, pure intimacy opens us up to serve others in ways we never thought possible.

A demonstration of pure intimacy: A holy kiss


On night, as I sat in church after a service, a sister in the Lord walked past me. Our eyes met and then she kissed me. It was not a peck on the cheek but a full on french kiss. The funny thing is that it did not startle me or make me feel uncomfortable. At the time it seemed totally appropriate and natural. It only happened once. I really never thought about her sexually then or afterwards either. I thought to myself, wow, “was that a holy kiss?”

That small demonstration of a holy kiss made me understand that, in the Spirit, you can do things physically that would be inappropriate in a natural context. That sister in the Lord allowed herself and God to say “I love you” in a very intimate, yet appropriate way. Though profound, there was nothing more to it than that.

Interesting too, that one kiss stands head and shoulders above most other kisses I have ever experienced. I don’t remember how it felt but I do remember how it made me feel: totally loved and accepted.

The truth is, when we try to control the Holy Spirit, we miss out on so much that God has for us. In these last days we need to allow our Father to love us so that we can stand strong together in His love. Spirit led pure intimacy will be key to our strength and unity.

The act of marriage

The act of marriage, The moment when a man and woman become truly one, pictures the perfect union that Christ wants with His church.  The marriage supper of the Lamb is but a prelude to an exquisite spiritual consummation with our God.  It is high time we stop letting fearful people keep us from laying hold of the destiny God plans for us.  Here is a truth,

“The great falling away, the apostasy, is primarily about people rejecting the sign of Tabernacles: pure intimacy.”

We have been set up by the Devil to think that pure intimacy within the Body of Christ is evil and that we must protect ourselves from it at all costs. Thus when Christ approaches us through one another in intimate ways we question His motives and actions.  However, without pure intimacy we cannot become the Bride of Christ, let alone His eternal wife.

In conclusion, it is time to embrace pure intimacy.  It is true that they shall know we are Christ’s disciples by our love one for another. However, this love has a profoundly intimate dimension that we cannot ignore.  Press in and learn about pure intimacy from the Holy Spirit.  Trust Him to lead and guide you into this truth. Allow God to love you through other as His Spirit leads.  Do not listen to those who refuse to love God as He desires. Become the Bride that Christ desires to unite with. Amen.

Spirit Of Our Love by Mahan Moin

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Broken Faith

Mar26
by Michael King on March 26, 2017 at 11:42 am
Posted In: faith

Does your faith feel broken?

Below is a letter a sister in the lord posted online.  Since I think it speaks to a situation a lot of people are in I want to share it with you (she gave permission).


Julie wrote,

“I have been seeing you post all these spiritual posts. I have a question, or sort of a problem if you would call it that. As a Christian, I was very involved in my Church in NY, moved here, got involved in my Church up here, as my kids grew we drifted from the Church, but I still had my faith.

Last year a good friend lost her young daughter in an accident, while her daughter was lying in a coma in the hospital everyday before we began work we formed a prayer circle and everyone prayed their hearts out. The little girl died anyway. So I began to feel what is all this for? Why pray? Why believe? All the prayers in the world did not save her. I feel like I lost my faith, i’m empty, I don’t know what to believe anymore. I feel like an Alien. Where was God when needed most? Sorry, guess I needed to vent. All my Christian friends try to explain it is not Gods fault, etc. Thank you for listening.”

As I read our sisters question I felt that her experience of broken faith is similar to many people’s questions about God and faith.  We all encounter difficult times when God seems far from us.  There are events that take place that just don’t make sense and cause us to question whether God loves us.  I felt moved by the honestly and vulnerability of her painful question. This is how I answered.

Dear Julie,

Death is unnatural any time. God never wanted that for any of us. That is why He sent His only begotten Son to die in our place so we would not have to. The death of a child, is perhaps the worst death of all, cursing us with a sense of loss like hardly anything else can. I cannot begin to imagine what you and the mother of that little girl went through. I pray that God strengthen you all.

Death is such a “wrong” thing that our minds, souls, and spirits reel from it. We instinctively know that dying is not how it should be. We believe in God and know that He can do all things, but when a child dies so senselessly we ask ourselves, “Why didn’t God help?”

God can do miracles

Obviously, from reading the scriptures Jesus raised the dead, specifically a little girl like the one you speak about. We think, “if God can do that then through Jesus why can’t He do that now through us?” We pray, believe, and hope against hope that God will perform a miracle and when that miracle does not happen we feel let down and abandoned. Like you said, “what is this all for?” Like I said, I can’t imagine the sorrow you and everyone else feels from such a loss, but I am going to try to answer your question the best I can. I pray that God brings some comfort to you and helps you to step back and see what is going on.

Why doesn’t God answer our need?

To begin with, sin is not God’s fault.  Our ancestors chose to disobey God and thus all this evil came upon us.  We’re essentially trapped in generations of sin and we grow up playing on the dangerous freeway of this world. Unfortunately, occasionally, one of us gets hit. Mostly it is older people who have lived a long time, but when a young person dies the loss is especially grievous. So, in the first place, death is not God’s will nor is He the author of it.

However, when something tragic happens, and everyone comes together and prays, why doesn’t God come to our rescue? He loves us, right? He wants the best for us, right? Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead and we are told that we can, in Him, do the same. So, what gives?

Your broken faith and the Body of Christ

The reason why the girl passed away rather than being healed is that the Body of Christ is fragmented and broken. This is why many are sick among us and some even sleep. While a church may have a common belief system the true unity that it takes to have God’s power manifest in and through us is missing. The first church was of one heart and one soul and that is why you saw miracles happen.

When we pray, and have things in our hearts against one another, God does not hear our prayers. Without the unity of the Spirit we cannot manifest the power of God. God is love, and when we do not truly love one another, God is not present. This is why you feel God during worship service. When we praise God that is when we have unity and that is when God meets us.

Lonely Christians

We can say that we love one another but we really don’t. Christians are some of the loneliest people in the world, because even when they sit next to each other in a pew, they rarely open up and become vulnerable to one another. Without transparency Jesus cannot flow through us.

We must be open in order for God to flow through us

Essentially, while God was ready and willing to answer your prayers, the people praying and asking God to heal that little girl were not in a place to allow God to flow through them. Sometimes, God overlooks such things and performs the miracle anyway, but most of the time, when the love and union with Him are not present, His power does not flow.

This is a hard-saying Julie. I get that and I am sorry to have to answer you in such a straight forward way. I can understand if you are angry or cannot accept what I am saying. The truth is, Julie, the love that everyone needs is the very nature of God shed abroad in our hearts. Divine love given from above is what will unite the Body of Christ and that union of God and men will bring forth the miracles that we seek. This is what I write about on www.thefinalfeast.com

I know that broken faith is very difficult

I am very sorry that your faith has been broken because of this tragic loss. Mine would have too and I have experienced other similar things in my life like that. When you do not understand, you must simply trust in who He is. I know this is very difficult.

In conclusion, instead of allowing your faith to be broken, re-examine your faith and see if perhaps what you have believed in the past was not all you thought it to be. This can be a time of deep self-examination and reflection that can, if you are open to the Holy Spirit, bring about good fruit out of a tragic circumstance.

I hope this helps a little.

Admittedly, this was very difficult to write to someone who experienced such pain and anguish when the little girl died.  However, I felt that her question was an honest one and deserved an honest answer.  She replied thus,

“Thank you for your very insightful and frank answer, what you said about the people in the prayer circle not truly loving one another is so true, this was at work and these woman would fight among each other and talk badly about one another before this tragedy occurred, so I see what you are saying about that, I still thought when all get together in prayer (the leader in our work group is a minister) that God would hear our prayers. A group of close friends even went to her hospital bed to pray, I could not bear to see her like that, I did not go.”

So many things have happened

“Yes, the loss of a child is more than anyone can bear. I have lost my home to fire twice, lost relatives, my mom is paralyzed, been evicted with a young child with no place to go, been lost to drugs, but never lost my faith in the Lord. This was just the most unimaginable thing. It happens to other people, not in our circle of friends. We read about it every day, see it on the news.”


“Again thank you, I am trying to get back to my faith. Because of what you said about the fakeness in the pews of church I switched from Catholic to Christian and was more comfortable with my church, but after my kids grew I drifted from the “building” itself but continued to have faith the Lord would still be beside me and carry me (like the footprints in the sand) when things went bad (like losing everything with 3 young children in a fire) it was all just material things, my kids were all fine they are all that matters and 2nd fire my grandkids were not here that night, they are all that matters, everything in life is just material. My father passed, he was old, that is the natural way of things, my mom is paralyzed from a stroke, still the natural way things go. I know the death of my friend’s daughter will slowly pass and life goes on. But yes, it has shaken my faith to the core.”

“Again thank you for listening, maybe I just needed someone who knows the Lord to vent to.”

In conclusion, everyone encounters broken faith at times where we question God and our belief in Him. The thing I think Julie did right is that she reached out, even in her pain and disillusionment, to find an answer.  WE NEED EACH other when we hurt and it is the willingness to be vulnerable that allowed God to answer her through a fellow saint.

Finally, if you are hurting and feel like you are experiencing broken faith, don’t allow the Devil to keep you isolated. Even when it is hard, reach out and give God a chance to answer even the most deep and painful questions you have. The truth is that God is waiting for you to do that and will answer your step of faith and trust.

Losing My Daughter by Steven Curtis Chapman

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