Teaching A Young Radical Generation - Part 1 — Joy Dawson

I am just desperately needing of you, Jesus. Without you I can do nothing. That equals zero to me. But with you, empowered by the Holy Spirit, I can do all things. I need your oncoming tonight. I need you to touch my back.

I need Jesus to be exalted and magnified and glorified. I submit to you the person of the Holy Spirit who alone can do it. But you do your job marvelously, Holy Spirit. I'm in awe of you. Father God, thank you for this immense privilege.

Thank you for fulfilling the desire of my heart as I used to cry out in my house alone with you and my darling husband. Get me to the radical 20 and 30-year-olds. I didn't know how you would answer that prayer.

But you put the desire there and I knew that. And you never give us a desire that you don't fulfill. So I thank you that this beautiful, wonderful audience that you've brought together, they think they're privileged.

But I'm a thousand times more privileged. I'm humbled by this opportunity that you've given me. And I thank you. I thank you. Now fulfill all that was on your heart when you put those deep desires that I would call out loud.

And it would sound insane. It would sound ridiculous. How could an 87-year-old ever get to 20 and 30-year-olds? But I have noticed you're not limited by anything other than our unbelief or disobedience.

When we have faith and when we obey you, you will open any door, anywhere, at any time. When we have one passion only, and that is that Jesus may be glorified. Teach us your ways tonight. Pause time to stand still in this church.

Like you did in that room a month ago when I spoke to the women. Eight hours. And time stood still. Pain lifted from our bodies. No one was thirsty. No one was tired. No one was hungry. We were in the manifest presence of the living Christ.

Do it again. Do it again. Do it again. Lift us into the... You'll have to give me the words to describe it. I can't describe it yet. Lift us into the awesome, awesome, manifest presence of the living Christ, who knows no time, no limit, limitless, timeless.

Desperate Praying and the Authority of Scripture

God, put us in that tonight. Thank you that you will. Amen. The message that God has laid upon my heart to bring to you tonight is about desperate praying. Do not put the word praying. That's not what it's about.

Desperate praying. Desperate praying comes from the hearts of people who know there's a desperate need and are desperate for God to meet that need. Isaiah 64, verse 7. Listen to God challenging us. Does anybody know this verse before I quote it?

Isaiah 64, 7. Anybody in the building? Listen to God's challenge. There is no one that calls upon your name that stirs himself to take hold of you. I've answered that challenge more times than I can remember or count.

And I've said to God, I read your challenge, but you can't say that anymore because here I am, ready to stir myself up to take hold of you in intercession. Desperate people pray with intensity. And we're going to see some of the ways in which that intensity is expressed in the word of God because everything I'm speaking about is coming from the word of God.

If I can't make a statement that can be backed by scripture, I don't make it. My authority is this book. Let's look at ways in which that intensity is expressed. You call out to God. You can weep. You can wrestle with God like Jacob did.

Only he was wrestling for personal change. We can wrestle for other people to be changed. We're going to see that it can be both tonight. Travail. Every woman knows who has had a child what the word travail means.

The men only hear about it and go, ho-hum. I've always said to God, if one man only gave birth to a child, the world would change. The world remains unchanged. The men haven't got a clue. Who's had a baby?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. About a dozen of us. Would you say amen? Thank you. This can include fasting. Now I want to say something here that I hope you never forget. Some people automatically link prayer and fasting together.

The Bible doesn't. What the Bible does teach is that there were people such as Moses, Ezra, Nehemiah, Jehoshaphat, Daniel, Paul, Esther, Hannah, David, the king, and the city of Nineveh all fasted and prayed with intensity, with great results.

But Jesus said, when you fast. What does that mean? The implication is there's going to be times when he clearly tells you to. That's what when means. Not all the time. You don't have to fast every time you pray.

You fast when the Holy Spirit prompts you to fast and pray. And by the way, if you think just fasting alone is going to do it, that is not what the Bible teaches. It's fasting and praying together when he tells you.

And if you are fasting and he has not told you to fast, and you wonder why you're going through agony, check in with God if it's presumption. And if you are fasting, if you are praying and not getting through, check in with God if he wanted you to fast with the prayer.

The whole deal is obedience. Not the fasting. It can be, intensity can be expressed in silence. Total silence and yet an agony of intensity. It was so with Hannah. In 1 Samuel 1 verses 12 through 16, there's so much to get through tonight, believe me, that we can't possibly take the time to turn that up.

1 Samuel 1, 12 through 16, Hannah is in intense agony of soul to have a child. And not one word comes out of her mouth. She was terribly misjudged by the spiritual leader over her who was Eli. Thought she was a drunken woman and said so and rebuked her.

But do you know the amazing thing about Hannah? Her name means grace, by the way. The amazing thing was not so much the travail, which is a lesson for us tonight, but the way she handled the judgment of a spiritual leader over her who knew her character and knew better than to ever say what came out of his mouth.

You're a drunken woman. It was the way she responded to the spiritual leader above her who was totally out and doing and saying the wrong thing. She forgave him in her heart and she still honored him and spoke graciously to him as she told him the facts.

She did not say, well, if you were in tune with God, you would have known that I've had no alcohol whatsoever and I'm a woman of God travailing before God for a child. So how insensitive to the Holy Spirit can you be?

She could have easily said that. That's how some women react when spiritual leaders misjudge women. But her name means grace and she received the grace of God and she humbly just told him the facts, no more, and forgave him in her heart.

And then the big action took place but not before. That's when Eli came back in the spirit of God and said your petition is going to be answered and blessed her. How many women have lost the blessing from God over a spiritual leader that they criticized when he was wrong?

The Bible makes it very clear in the Psalms. Touch not the Lord's anointed and do my prophets no harm. That isn't a suggestion, it's a command. And if you read my book, Intimate Friendship with God, you will see a whole chapter I have devoted called Touch Not the Lord's Anointed and I tell some of the amazing dealings with God with me as a young woman that absolutely changed my life irrevocably in relation to this subject.

There isn't time to go there tonight, but it's in that book. Tell me, be honest before God, put up your hand, male or female, whether you've just learned something. Thank you. Praise to Jesus. I was sitting in a church one night in New Zealand, the very wonderful Baptist church that my husband was an elder in, and he and I were very, very involved.

Whenever the church was open, we were there. And it was a Sunday night, and a very close friend of ours, who was a great man of God and very anointed, was speaking. It was the only time he spoke was a Sunday evening in our church.

He was an international Bible teacher. And God had given him a very heavy subject in relation to heaven and hell with the understanding that he felt that there was going to be at least one or more in that church where God was showing them that it was the last opportunity that they had to receive the Lord because they had resisted him.

And this was their last chance. And he was feeling the weight of this message on him. And we were very close friends. And in my ministry of intercession, I felt the weight with him. And the person who qualified for the witness in his spirit was my dear husband Jim's business friend, a friend that he worked with in business and had invited to come to this meeting, definitely a non-Christian.

But we had this understanding that this was God's final opportunity for this man. Now, that's an awesome responsibility to be in, both from the preacher's and from the point of view of intercessors. Because the man was brought by Jim and me to the church as our friend, and he was sitting right beside Jim and me.

I think it was the front row. And I knew that every single minute without letting up for one moment that my role was to be interceding for that lost soul who was sitting right beside me. I think he was sitting in between Jim and me.

I couldn't let him hear one sound of intense travail. I had to be like Hannah. It says her lips moved. I don't think I moved my lips. And I sat right beside him, close. He never had a clue. Not one sound came from me.

No hand actions, head actions, nothing from me. I just sat absolutely, totally still, my eyes closed, and was in intense travail the entire time of the message. I know what this is about, but not a sound.

When the invitation was given, he walked straight forward immediately and came to Christ and fully surrendered himself and was gloriously born again. Hallelujah. Hallelujah to Jesus. So many preachers lack intercessors in the audience who will carry the burden with them.

It's an immense privilege. And don't tell me, any one of you in this building, if under those kind of circumstances where it is totally inappropriate to have any sound coming from you at all, if that's how God has shown it to be, and many times it is, if that's how God has shown it to be, then you shut up and do it God's way, quietly, so that nobody knows.

Why should anybody else know if you're doing it just for Jesus? And I've heard people say, they've said it to me, I don't swallow it for one minute, oh, I just had to let out that yell, or I had to let out that groan, or I just had to do that odd thing.

I say, do you want to hear what the Word of God says? Because it doesn't matter to me. It isn't my opinion. The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet, Bible. The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.

You can control it. You don't have to yell, weep, scream, holler, do something bizarre or anything, so don't bring that one to me. And I've been in audiences where somebody did, and I would just say, would you be quiet, please?

That is absolutely, what's the word? What's the word I want? Disruptive. Disruptive. Thank you, John. Just thank you, John. Just be in every service I'm in, darling, and help me. Absolutely disruptive to what God the Holy Spirit was doing at that time.

And I have seen Dr. Jack Hayford, who is the founding pastor of Church on the Way, where Jim and I have been forever. I don't know when we started. We're old. But we've been there forever, decades, from the earliest days when he started.

And I have seen people go give a prophetic word, supposedly, out, and Jack Hayford would just stop and say, excuse me, I don't know you, sir. Are you a member of this church? I don't think so. Have I ever met you before?

And the man would say no. So a total stranger come in. Would you just stop what you were doing? The man was starting to prophesy or something, supposedly. And would you just go to the elder that is now right at your side, and would you submit to him what you felt you were going to have to say?

And he will check it out, and he'll give me the signal if that's right. And I have seen that man. I watched it. Bristle, mad, angry. If you bristle and you're angry and you're mad, when a spiritual leader asks you to quietly submit to somebody else in authority, you are the problem because Jesus is looking for humility.

And if you've got a valid word from the Lord and you speak it out and somebody doesn't agree with you that that's right, then in humility you just submit to what the spiritual leadership says, even if you're right now.

And just say, oh, that's perfectly fine. I'm submitted to authority, and if you're not happy with that, I leave the responsibility with God. I leave you with God, and I leave me with God, and I let God work it all out even if I wait until the judgment seat.

And you smile, and you're as happy as a lark, and on you go. Humility. Put up your hand if you just learned something. Thank you, Jesus. I'm thanking him because to my best knowledge of my understanding, I'm getting in the month that I've been preparing for this, I thought this is what he told me to tell you, and he's just encouraged me, so I'm just thanking him.

Choosing Desperation and the Holy Spirit’s Help

We choose to be desperate, then call on the Lord. How do we get this desperate praying? We choose. It's an act of the will. You have to want it. Don't wait until the Holy Spirit zaps you and you're half out in the Spirit before you think, you know, just say to God, I want to get desperate.

Then call on the Lord to help you submit to the Holy Spirit in faith who then gives us the divine perspective on the object of our prayers. Does anybody want that sentence again? We choose to be desperate.

We call on the Lord. We then submit to the Holy Spirit in faith who then gives us the divine perspective on the object of our prayers. Romans 8 .26,. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought.

We don't know how to get desperate in prayer. Now God wants us to, but the Holy Spirit will do the work. God wants us to experience desperate praying in the following areas. Now this may surprise you.

It may not. It doesn't matter. We need the point anyway. For the fulfillment of our destinies. Are you and I desperate before God for the fulfillment of our destinies? I didn't say that you wanted your desires to be fulfilled.

I didn't say that. I said your destiny to be fulfilled. That can be a totally different thing. What's your name, darling? Yes, you. Yeah, what's your name? Joa? Joanne. Okay. Joy. Say mine is mine. How do you spell it?

J-O-A-E. I've never heard that in my life. Thank you for teaching me something. Joa. That it? Joa. Is that right? Have I got it? Joa. Joa. Oh, thank you, Johnny. There you go. Johnny, I always knew I needed you, darling.

I love you, Johnny. Yes, sweetheart, I will gladly. Do you know what he asked me? You haven't a clue, have you? Do you know what he said? With all the sincerity in his gorgeous blue eyes, would you be my grandma?

He said he doesn't have one. He has one now. Just call me Nan. That's what my grandchildren all call me. Just Nan. That be all right? Just Nan. Do you call me that, darling? Yeah, N-A-N. Because that's the name my grandchildren call me.

So if you're going to find people to be your grandma, you have to get the name. So God wants us to experience desperate praying for the fulfillment of our destinies. Do you know what our destinies are?

We've all got the same one. We all have the same destiny. It's found in Romans 8 .29. For him he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. That's our destiny. Nothing less.

I used to say, and it became part of Youth with a Mission, as part of the DNA. It's gone all over the world. From what I brought to it in, I met Lauren Cunningham in 1967. That seems like forever ago.

And I said, my vision, my destiny is to know God and make him known. And Lauren said, that's going to be the slogan for YWAM. And it's become it. I don't have that slogan today. That's the secondary thing.

I have found that by far the more important thing is what I've just given you. It's my destiny and yours is to be conformed to the image of Jesus. Now you may say, no way could I ever live like Jesus on earth.

Oh, so you're limiting the Holy Spirit. You better repent straight away. Because it's one of the Holy Spirit's biggest jobs is to make us like Jesus. Nearly every night of my life before I go to sleep, I say to my lover number one, Jesus, the lover of my soul, I say, Holy Spirit, come and do whatever is needed in me to conform me to the image of my beautiful lover, Jesus.

Thank you that you will. Night after night after night after night. I go to sleep on that one. Because it's the consuming longing of my heart. And I say, do whatever it takes. Don't shortchange me. And that means, if it means a lot more suffering, if it means stuff that I think I could never handle, you can handle anything, Holy Spirit.

But make me more like Jesus. Top prayer. Do we regularly pray earnestly about right priorities? You answer these questions. You're not answering me, you're answering the Holy Spirit who's in charge here tonight.

I'm doing whatever he tells me to do, moment by moment. Do you regularly pray earnestly about right priorities? In other words, do you say to God on a daily basis, oh, please show me anywhere at any time today if I have my priorities wrong according to your standard for my life?

Have you ever prayed that prayer once? Never mind as a way of life. It should be a way of life. Why? Because our choices determine our priorities, and our priorities determine our destinies. Your destiny will only be as fulfilled as you are making God's priorities the priorities for your life.

No other way. Jesus had to pray desperate prayers. Listen to this. I'd never heard this in my lifetime that I can remember. Jesus prayed desperate prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane that his destiny would be fulfilled.

You say, well, now you're completely out theologically. Okay, well, listen to this verse. Hebrews 5 verse 7. I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version. In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears.

This is Jesus, loud cries and tears. He's sobbing his heart out. He's speaking to his Father. He was in the Garden of Gethsemane. And I go on to quote. Loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him.

And the implication, the implied is premature death. And he was heard for his godly fear. So what was Jesus doing? Crying out to God the Father to keep him alive, that he would be able to go through physically and emotionally the agonies of crucifixion and separation from the Father who he'd been in unclouded communion with before time began, that he would physically, as son of man, be able to stay alive to cope with not only the 39 floggings on his back.

He was flogged 39 with a cat of nine tails ripping at his flesh. Before they, and up all night, flogged up all night, no sleep. It doesn't say that anybody gave him a drink or any food, and he went straight out the next day.

And they put a, how many pounds cross does Arthur Blessed carry? How many pounds does Arthur Blessed's cross? Nobody knows. I've heard it many times, but I didn't say something that's maybe off the charts.

A very heavy wooden cross. On his shoulders. Listen, his back was already lacerated and bleeding with raw flesh ripped out. He had had the thorn of crowns put into his brow. His head was bleeding. They had pulled his beard out.

His image was so marred, it was scarred like no other man. He was unrecognizable. He was nearly dead when they put the cross on him. No wonder he couldn't carry it. And Simon of Cyrene had to come along and tear his cross because physically he couldn't make it.

And Jesus was facing that in the Garden of Gethsemane. And then on top of that is crucifixion, hanging with nails in his hands and through his feet. And Jesus knew what was coming. And he says to the father, listen to it, in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death.

He was able to keep him alive. God, keep me alive, Father, so that I can go through the agonies of this physical and mental suffering. But his greatest suffering, by far, than all the horrendous physical suffering, was being made the accumulative sin, the filth of all the sins of the world from when time began, were heaped upon him.

He became sin. And then he was separated from the one he had been in unclouded communion with since before time began. The longer I live, the more, the more I pour out my heart to Jesus and say, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the incredible price you prayed just to save my soul.

So he knows what desperate prayer is all about. Isaiah 53 .11 confirms what I've just spoken from Hebrews 5 .7. Isaiah 53 .11, I'm reading from the King James Version. He, Jesus, shall see of the travail of his soul.

He was travailing in his soul for God to keep him alive, to go through with what he had to do and shall be satisfied. Next point. Desperate praying to know God's character and ways. I have a booklet that's available.

I brought it with me. It's called Knowing God, that little green one with the cerise color red on it. It's available out there. It's $3. If you get nothing else of my books, if you just got this and really absorbed it into your spiritual bloodstream and went after God in the pursuit that I speak about here, how he would reveal himself to you.

The price is high. I don't lower the price. Every word I speak is backed with scripture. This little booklet was taken by Thomas Nelson Publishers when they compiled that amazing little book called The Women of Destiny Bible.

Put up your hand in this audience if you've heard of or better still read The Women of Destiny Bible. No wonder you're so sharp, Johnny. He had too. Isn't it amazing? Your mother had it. Well, she must have been a woman of God.

Right? Is she not with the Lord or she's alive? She's alive. Okay, congratulate her for me for reading that book, will you? Tell her she was really sharp. Right at the very front, before you have anything else in the Bible, they have put that little booklet word for word at the beginning of The Women of Destiny Bible.

That's the importance that Thomas Nelson felt about the message that's contained. You can get it for $3. I can't go into it. It's a whole subject on its own. To know God's character and ways. That is the purpose of knowing God.

Knowing God’s Character and Ways

Moses prayed a prayer in Exodus 33, 13. Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in your sight, show me now your way that I may know you and that I might find grace, in other words, more grace in your sight.

And then verse 18, he goes deeper and he says, I pray, show me your glory. Now, this morning, before I ever started in the notes that were in my notebook, we had a whole move of God on the glory of God, didn't we?

And what it meant, and I read you two incredible stories of mighty men of God, one who had fasted and prayed for a whole month, and when the glory came, couldn't take it and asked to be delivered. It was so intense.

And then we had the story of Smith Wigglesworth. When everybody else couldn't take it, he was alone standing, basking in it. And we were ruined for the ordinary this morning, weren't we? Show me your glory.

What does it mean to show? What was behind Moses' prayer? It's something like this. Moses wanted to know what made God tick. He wanted to have an intimate relationship with God that he would find out why God did what he did, why he said what he said.

Moses wanted to see beyond God's personality and awesome power. That wasn't enough for him. He wanted to know and understand God's character. Only those who have been up close to us over long periods of time ever know our characters.

You can see my personality. You can easily see that and you can easily define it. Whether you like it or not is your business, but you've got to put up with it anyway. But that doesn't mean you know me.

Only those who have been close beside me over long periods of time and have seen my actions and reactions in times of pressure and stress, they're the ones who know me. Moses was so desperate for this close relationship with God.

Listen to this. He was willing to go without food and water and climb Mount Sinai three times alone to be with God and remain there for protracted lengths of time. Moses kept pressing the point with God as an intercessor and wanting to be God's friend.

He wanted God's favor as well as an understanding of his ways. Now let me stop there for a minute. I hear on Christian networks in television constantly these words, God just loves you unconditionally.

He's never mad with you. He just, I've heard several say, he's absolutely ravingly excited about you. And I sit there listening, watching the TV and thinking, so where have you been lately in the word?

Yes, God loves us all unconditionally. No question. No question about that. But listen, God isn't excitedly jumping up and down over you if you're in disobedience and you're in unbelief and you don't know his ways and you're mouthing out stuff about him and you don't know him, therefore you're giving a distorted view of his character.

Yes, he unconditionally loves you, but listen, there's a vast difference between God's unconditional love, which is to everybody, and God's favor, and that's what I want. I want that more than anything else.

I'm not content to know that he unconditionally loves me. I want his favor, his favor, his favor. And he only gives his favor to intimate, close friends who've taken the time to pursue, to understand what makes him tick.

If you're an employer and you want the best employee, you want that employee to know what are the things most important to you as the employer, correct? And not only to know what they are, but to live accordingly under that employer's authority.

You want them to make what is important to you important to them. And who does the employer give favor to? The ones who make the most important to the employer important to them. God's no different. He's the ultimate employer.

Are you desperate to understand what makes God tick? Why does he do this? Why does he say that? What's his character like? I have spent a lifetime, I'm 87, a lifetime studying the character and the ways of God.

I have to correct that. I've spent 55 years of my 80s, 57 years, 57 years of my 87 years desperately seeking to know the character and the ways of God. And it wasn't until I did that that my spiritual life started to take off.

God was impressed with this man who wanted God's favor as well as an understanding of his ways because Moses wanted to know, as I've said, what were the things important to God that were important to him.

Exodus 33 .13 is the reference to that. God was so impressed that he says, Moses is the only one where the Bible says these words. Nobody else. He talked to God face to face as a man talks to his friend.

Exodus 33 .11. So do you look at Moses and read that verse like I did 55 years ago and say, well, that's Moses? Or do you say, look, Moses was flesh and blood like I was, like I am. If he could do that, I can do it.

I'm going to pursue God like that. Absolutely, with my whole being, I'm going to pursue him. Day after day, I'll be in his word crying out, show me now your ways that I may know you. Show me your glory.

I'll obey you instantly, joyfully, and wholly, no matter what it is. God says, ah, I see that little person down there. He's serious. I'll start revealing myself. I would pick up my Bible, and so much revelation of truth would pour on me year after year, decade after decade, that my problem was getting time enough to be able to get the notes, get the revelation of the truth in note form to teach it out.

Revelation would just pour, pour, pour, pour, favor. Psalm 63 .1 -2. Oh God, you are my God. Early will I seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

So I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory. Paul's prayer, Philippians 3 .10. Oh, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings.

And here comes the real key, being conformed to his death. What does that mean? That means death to everything of self in us. What we might want doesn't mean a thing. What does he want? I think that's what I think doesn't mean a thing.

What does he think? Search the word. There is an answer in the word of God for every single thing we will ever need to have or go through. There's nothing that you can need an answer for in this life that's not in here.

Nothing. I have a lifetime to prove it. With the wildest of stories of God speaking to me through his word, I was asking God, we had a flood in our home a couple of years ago. In fact, we've had three floods in our home in about the last three years.

Interesting. I didn't say there were problems. I said it was interesting. I said to God on one occasion, what in the world is the purpose for this enormous mess and inconvenience? The answer came back, I want you to witness to the men who are going to have to come in and do the work and clean up the mess.

Oh, I said, that's great. Let's go. That's no problem. I don't care about the mess. Not for one more minute. And in would come, I think there were eight workmen that all had to come in in different stages to paint or clean up or put new carpet down, and I'm flat out witnessing to the whole lot of them.

And I could write a small book on the wonder of the joy and the fulfillment of those days and weeks and months before it was all cleaned up. But the witnessing, oh, wouldn't swap it for anything. Ask the Holy Spirit what's the purpose.

Don't get mad with him. Don't complain. Proverbs 4 verse 7 says, whatever you get, get insight. Interesting verse. Whatever you get, get insight. Insight must be terribly important. Well, what's insight?

Go to the word. Proverbs 9 verse 10 says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding or insight. So whatever you get, get the knowledge of the character of God.

Proverbs 2 verse 3 to 5, yes, if you cry out for discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, see, this is desperate praying. If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Do you search to know the knowledge of God as you do when you lose money? Come on, let's get real. Anybody lost money at any time? Anybody not lost money? That would be easy. How did you go for it? Were you casual?

Of course you weren't. You diligently went on and on and prayed and went on and on and more to get that money, right? And God says, listen, if you do this, this is the intensity that I want you to come after me to know my character and my ways.

And then you'll find you'll understand the fear of the Lord. Then you'll find the knowledge of God. Isaiah 26, verse 9, with my soul, Isaiah 26, 9, with my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek you early.

For when your judgments, oh, this is a terribly insignificant verse, for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. We could talk a lot about that verse in the ways of God.

That's one of the most controversial verses in the Bible because there are many, many Bible teachers that don't believe that verse at all. What did it say? When your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

It's so controversial I didn't go anywhere. I just leave you with the word. But this is coming up over and over again. I hear it on Christian television, all the time, around this. And this is the answer.

Intimacy with Jesus Through the Song of Solomon

Three, this is intensity for a closer lover relationship with Jesus. Now, the word of God gets very intimate and very interesting. Song of Solomon, chapter 5, verses 2 to 6. We see that the whole point of the Song of Solomon, with the king and his lover, and some of the detailed interactions, which include physically with one to another, the whole purpose of the book is for us to see that it is a type of our love relationship with Jesus.