Ah, Intimacy!

""God wants to bring us to the understanding that we weren't saved to do something for God. We were saved so that we might know Him in intimate daily fellowship. Do good works have a place in the Christian life? Of Course! But they are an overflow of our relationship with Him, an evidence of His life being expressed through us." STEVE MCVEY

"You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he commits himself to you, and hopes confidently in you." ISAIAH 26:3

"I have learned that the same thing is true of God's love that is true of His presence. If we never meditate on His love for us, we will not experience it." JOYCE MEYER

"For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away what is promised." HEBREWS 10:36

"We cannot entertain demons of self-pity and also walk in the power of God." JOYCE MEYER

"Opening yourself up to the gifts of God means trusting that he loves you and will provide for you...It means believing in the character of God even more than you believe in your desired outcome." HENRY CLOUD

"And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong and firm and steadfast." 1 PETER 5:10

"To be an eikon [image] is to be given the capacity to enter into the perichoresis - the mutual indwelling of love of the three persons of the Trinity - and to learn to love." SCOT MCKNIGHT

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's might hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." 1 PETER 5:6-7

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing  of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good and pleasing and perfect will." ROMANS 12:1-2

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." HEBREWS 7:19

" Lord Jesus, I am abiding in You and You in me. Express Your Life through me in any way You desire."