Word of the Day
I have come to you My garden and I gather your engaging words of love (Song of Songs 4:16). And like the sweetest perfume, like the most aromatic spices, I inhale them. As I breathe in your very essence it causes drops of honey to be extracted from My inner most being and I am releasing them. I am dropping them one by one like precious capsules of life giving nourishment over your soul, into your spirit, in this very day and hour. Moments by moment life giving drops of honey are exuding from Me and will not, cannot stop, for you are ever before Me.
O’ how I love you, how I am consumed with you. I know, yes I know, when you drink of the honey I offer your heart will be so captivated, so enthralled, a faint love will overtake you. My essence will emanate like wafts of healing, wooing anointing and flow into the highways and byways of life around you, causing all to be attracted to Me. Ah yes…causing My banqueting table to be full.
My heart aches as I see the abundance of My table and yet there are empty chairs. Every empty chair is an aborted plan, an aborted destiny, a missing piece of My heart. So many lose the simple truth of what it is all about. It is about love flowing like honey from the Rock, from My heart. It is all about love…all about love….all about love. O’ may I remind you, it is all about love? Yes, it gives Me pleasure to say you are one I can remind, for it is your desire too.
Therefore, eat My Word, be strengthened and never forget. Absorb your times of encountering Me into every fiber of your being. Be like a sponge in the depths of the sea, drawing, sucking in life giving nutrients from the all encompassing immensity surrounding it-lost in the bigness of it all but vital to the cycles of life taking place there. What is the sea without a sponge and what is a sponge without the sea? What are you without Me? What am I without you? Selah.
“But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” (Psalms 81:6 NASB)
Prayer
The words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart are acceptable in Your sight, my lover King. The thoughts and intents of my heart emanate an essence which attracts You, attracts Heaven to my side. Your love is permeating me to the deepest portions of my being causing my heart to ache like Your aches for the lost. I ache like You for the highway and byway ones who are meant to sit at Your banqueting table…
I eat Your Word that I might not ever forget one desire of Your heart for me or for others. Even this moment I sense your presence and I absorb You in all Your fullness. Like a sponge is in the sea and the sea is in a sponge, I am in You and You are in me. I encounter You and You encounter me. I am the sponge and You are the Sea.
Reflect and Journal:
1. Reflect visually on honey dripping from His heart as He sees you, thinks about you, hears you, smells your essence. How does or should this change your life and view of yourself?
2. Reflect on the analogy of the Sea and a sponge in relation to you and your lover King. Each is vital to one another. What does this say about you in specific ways?
3. Do you have His aching heart for the lost? If not, ask for it. It is yours for the taking.
1. Honey is sweet and if in His essence I am part of that sweetness, that love, I am elated and truly want to be all that I can be…for Him. He is my ALL.
2.The sea surrounds the sponge lying on the bottom of the ocean. It soaks up the waters of the sea and speaks to me of living waters. God surrounds me constantly and I can turn towards Him any time to soak up the living waters he has to offer me. He is the reason for my being….
3. Yes, I do and had a demonstration years ago with my Mother. I had been “saved” at a Oral Roberts Seminar…a spiritual experience and visited my Mother afterwards. I prayed for her, as I wasn’t sure she had been saved though she went to church and had Christian friends. I had my answer, as my Mother with no prompting from me, all of sudden said to me,”You know I don’t know if I am saved but my friends said I was. I do believe….”
She, also, said she had her best night of sleep….I had been praying and even had prayers said for her. Wow! I was amazed and God had answered me…
So as you see, I do pray for the unsaved and feel it is the only way to go…to be a believer…Christ died in agony for us sinners. I don’t want His death to be in vain.