To know God in Worship - Canticles 5 — Dan Biser

The Solemn Assembly in Joel

Know the scripture text, the call for a solemn assembly is based off of Joel chapter 1, chapter 2. I'm not going to take the time to read that. As I said, I hope other speakers will address that. But in this passages of scripture, chapter 1 of Joel is that God is declaring by the prophet is that there are circumstances that has happened to the nation.

There is the enemy has come in and invaded the land. There is natural calamity upon the land where there is a famine and a drought and they do not have the means to bring the sacrifices and the offerings to the altar of God and nor to sustain their own selves.

There's a famine and a drought in the land. Now these are physical droughts. We know in the book of Amos, it talks about a spiritual drought where thirsting and hungering after the word of God and men can't find it and men can't hear it.

And so again, they lose the presence of God and God says when these things happen in Joel chapter 1, in chapter 2, he gives the same commandment. When these things happen, calamities, natural disasters, pestilence, disease like we're seeing, he says the church, God's people are supposed to call for assembly and for people to gather and come before the Lord to address what's going on and why this is happening and to confess and to weep and to bring mourning for the sins of the nation, sins of the church, and my own personal sins.

So we're going to spend these two days doing exactly that, coming together via live stream, gathering ourselves together for 12 hours today, actually nine hours with three sessions. Tomorrow, it'll be from one o 'clock in the afternoon.

All these are eastern standard times from one o 'clock in the afternoon till nine o 'clock at night. So we'll have six hours tomorrow and the morning session for tomorrow from nine to 12, we're asking you that you would join your own church family.

We'll still be broadcasting for Fox's Hall and Kaiser Church on my, not on this channel, but on my personal channels on Facebook and YouTube and you're welcome to join us. But that morning session tomorrow is for you and your church family, but we will resume tomorrow at one o 'clock in the afternoon.

Okay. So be mindful of these things, come together, gather ourselves and let's call upon the name of the Lord because again, the scripture gives us a promise there in Joel chapter two, where he says, who knows if the Lord will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him.

And we are using these days to address the issue of what's going on and why this is happening and seeking the Lord so that he might hear us, be entreated with us, pleased with us, and that he would answer us.

Many are praying for a revival. Many are praying for an awakening across the nation. And those are wonderful. And this is our time to get before the Lord and to understand these things, what he has taught us and instructed us in the scriptures to do in such calamities and times that a nation faces or a people face and what we're supposed to do in our response.

And so our opportunity is right now. And I always like R .C. Sproul's statement and it's in the top of my prayer book, right now matters forever. And I love that phrase, right now matters forever. What you and I do today, right now, and these two days that are given to us is going to matter forever for the future, for the sake of our nation, the sake of our families, the sake of our, of the church.

And so we have the opportunity to draw before the throne of grace and to seek him and to call upon him for a great outpouring. And so here's our time right now to begin. Now, the other passage of scripture, and some of you should know these passages.

Confession and the Word in Ezra and Nehemiah

And again, we are referencing these things about why we're doing this is found in the book of Ezra and Nehemiah. Now the children of Israel had been destroyed by the Babylonians, carried off into captivity for numbers of 70 years.

And now they're coming back to Jerusalem. The temple is destroyed. They need to rebuild it. Nehemiah builds the walls and the gates. And they come before the Lord when, again, they see the plight that they're in.

They are in such a desperate plight. And they call for the spiritual leadership, bring the book of the law and read it to us. And so they spent a good portion of the day reading the word of God to the people of God.

And the people would spend a quarter of the day hearing the word of God. And then they would spend a quarter of the day confessing before the Lord. And so that is pretty much the pattern of what we're going to do.

Some will ask, where's the music and those kinds of things? You're not going to find it here. There are other channels for that. We're going to be bringing the word of God with instruction. And then we're going to be praying and seeking the Lord in that.

And when I say worship, as oftentimes people think is that music and a band is going to begin to play. We're going to speak worship as the psalmist did, as he declared in the scriptures. And so we're going to worship God and the things that he has given to us.

So it's time for us to begin. And I'm grateful for you to be on here and for those that have come alongside to pray and to promote over these last, this last month. This has been a work of progress for about a month.

The Lord spoke and said, do this. And so we began to set this into motion, trying to get all the pieces together with the speakers. And so whatever part you played in this to help us, I just want to extend my thanks to you for the time that you invested and put forth.

And to those of you that are joining us and that you have been invited by other ministries and other Christian brothers and sisters, welcome for this opportunity for us to seek the Lord. As that scripture says, it is time to seek the Lord and that's what we're going to do.

And so these two days is for us as the remnant to draw before the Lord for the sake of the nation, the sake of the church, and to hear from God and to obey him in whatever he instructs of us to do, because quite literally, as we see in this nation in the world today, we're out of time.

And the calamities that are happening are life and death. And again, even while we're on here for this day, we know that there are thousands of people that through this coronavirus are going to be brought out into eternity.

And many of them, the church didn't reach as successfully as they should. And so we want to be spirit-filled and empowered to finish the task that the Lord has given to the church today. So I want to open in prayer, and then I'm going to begin from my session to bring the word to you.

Opening Prayer and the Call to Know God

And I'm going to be speaking on a Psalm of Solomon chapter five, and then we'll be closing this session up to leading up to Brother Doug Small, who will have the second part of this morning's session at 1030.

And so Psalm of Solomon chapter five, if you have your Bibles, I'd like to turn over to that following with me as we read the word of God. And I want to open in prayer right now. Let's pray. Holy Father, we draw before you right now at the beginning of this two-day activity, Father, of worship, of confession, and of petition and supplications and intercessions.

We know, Father, is that again, is that you've told us in 2 Chronicles 16, that your eyes run to and fro throughout all the earth, and that your ears are listening to see if there are any that would call upon you, that would seek you, that you would be entreated with them.

And that again, Lord, for you to hear us and to answer us. Thank you for the mighty promises that you give us in your word. Teach us, bring us into remembrance of what you have declared about yourself in the word of God, and help us with an understanding this day, Lord, to know who you are.

Help us, oh God, that as we know you, that we know, Father, that you have declared that the things that we're going to ask for, petition you for, the sins that we're going to confess before you, is that you have promised us that you are faithful to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You are faithful, and you are omnipotent in your power, is that nothing that we ask is beyond you. You are able to do all things. Be glorified as your people draw before you today for this most holy time, this divine time.

You have called us to assemble, and Lord, we are coming before you with the burden and the weight of the nations, with the burden and the weight of our loved ones, and the burden and the weight, Father, of your church, to be exactly what you want it to be.

Move us, oh Holy Spirit, that we hear your voice ever so clearly, and that we in obedience, Father, rise up. And so again, Lord, help us this day. Help us in our feeble attempts, Lord, to worship and to pray and to move ourselves, Father, before you.

That again is that you would aid us and help us, Father. Our flesh fails, and we need you. We pray, Father, for that divine presence that would speak to those that are viewers, to those that are listening, to those that will hear this word, and move your body, the body of Christ, to the place that you would say, in you I am well pleased.

Spirit fill us, strip us, oh God, of self, strip us of humanism, strip us of the things, oh Lord, that has kept us so far from you, and forgive us, oh God, that we ever left you, that we ever diminished, Lord, the presence that we needed in such an hour as this, where the world is perishing, souls are dying, hell is rejoicing, and again, Father, your people are to be weeping and mourning for the sake of your name, your name, which is above all names, the name that we will glorify, the name that we will worship today, and that precious name, that holy name, the name above all names, the name of Jesus, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.

Song of Solomon 5 and the Beloved

Song of Solomon, the book of canticles, as Spurgeon refers to it, I grew up 15 years old, the Lord was beginning to deal with me, and my father, who was a pastor, encouraged us that particular year, in the fall, and he said, buy Spurgeon's morning and evening, and I think at that time I paid eight dollars for it, or something like that, and I had a track where I took that pledge, would you read the Bible through, and it was the first year that I read the Bible through, with that little track, and at the same time reading my Spurgeon's morning and evening, and for over 25 years, I've read other devotions than that, but I stayed with Spurgeon's, it is one of the best devotional books that I've ever come across, and I know that there are numerous others out there, like I said, but that one there has fed my soul, and so Spurgeon was so, throughout that year, 365 days, morning and evening, so double that, over 700 devotions, that how many I noticed, is that he would bring and preach out of the book of Canticles, the book of Psalm of Solomon, and it was unique for me, because again, when you read this, you're kind of thinking, as you first, a lot of times, people and Christians that read through the Bible, they'll say, that just is like a romance account, and not knowing the spiritual context of it, and so Psalm of Solomon, chapter five, is again, for us in our worship, as we begin this two-day activity, I hate to call it a conference, I hate to call it an event, it's an activity of God, a call for a solemn assembly, and I want us to worship the Lord here in this opening session, that we just have our minds fixed on the answer, the answer is not me, the answer is not in D .C., the answer is not in the CDC, the answer is not in anything else, the answer is in God, and that's where God's people need to come.

Anytime, again, back to the scriptures there, anytime that there was an issue, a calamity, we were supposed to run, run to God, and listen, and be instructed on what's going on, and why it's happening, and God would give the remedy, this is the solution, this is what you're supposed to do, and God's people were supposed to tell the heathen, God's people were supposed to go tell the nations, this is what's going on, this is what you're supposed to do, now their choice of whether they obeyed or not, was between them and the Lord, but the church is supposed to have a voice, and I don't hear the voice of the church on social media, and across the airways today, with a clear message, most, most that I have heard, and listened to, are scratching their heads saying, I don't know what's going on, we don't know what to do, but again, I, it seems two plus two is four, very elementary to me, and God's, God's going to speak that to us over these next two days, here's the answer, church, here's the answer, nations, come to me, and so in Song of Solomon, chapter five, this is an account here, and I want to begin in verse two, and read, I'll just read the whole chapter here, and again, my time is limited, so I want to speak fast, and address to these points, so that again, I've asked each of the speakers to bring the word, that the Lord lays upon them, instruct us, and then to take us into corporate prayer time, where again, you're praying with me, and I'm praying with you, because again of the promise, if two of you agree as touching anything here on earth, it shall be heard and done in heaven, and that's the accomplishment that we want today, so in Song of Solomon, chapter five, beginning in verse one, read with me, I am coming to my garden, my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh with my spikes, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk, eat, oh friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, oh beloved, now again, this verse, verse is set aside, and we begin with this scenario, between verse two and eight, and then the last section, nine through sixteen, is a description of the beloved, verse two, I sleep, but my heart wakes, it is the voice of my beloved, that knocks, saying, open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head, it is filled with dew, my locks, with the drops of the night, I put off my coat, how shall I put it on, I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them, my beloved, put in his hand, by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him, I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands, they drop with myrrh, my fingers, with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock, I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone, my soul failed when he spake, I sought him, but I could not find him, I called, but he gave me no answer, the watchmen that went about the city, they found me, they smoked me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walls, they took away my veil from me, I charge you, oh daughters of Jerusalem, that if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love, what is my beloved more than other beloved, oh thou fairest among women, what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us, my beloved is white and ruddy, the cheapest among ten thousands, his head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy and black as a raven, his eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set, his cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh, his hands are as gold rings set with the burl, his belly is as the bright ivory overlaid with sapphires, his legs are as pillars of marble set upon the sockets of fine gold, and his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars, his mouth is most sweet, yea he is altogether lovely, this is my beloved, this is my friend, oh daughters of Jerusalem.

Knowing God Through Worship

I bring that word to you out of Psalm of Solomon because when we begin this idea of solemn assembly, one of this thing of coming before God and asking the question, what is going on? And the church struggling for an answer is to say we don't know.

Well it backs up to this original question, do we know God? And the church again who has had every means of those which have come before us and studies and theology and doctrines and books, the scriptures that sell for us to glean, the petitions that are found in the word of God are given to us for that same petition of God's heart.

Jesus prayed for us, the church, and again I'm addressing, I believe is that for most that will be on this call, it is the remnant, it is those of you that are as burdened as I am for what you see happening in the nation, what you see happening in your homes, what you see going on in the churches today, and you understand the scriptures.

You are not alone in this. There is a remnant out there with the same heart cry. Every one of these speakers who I spoke to by phone and by FaceTiming with them, all expressed, not knowing the conversation that was held by the other ones, but all of them expressed the urgency of this hour for the church to get back to where it needs to be.

I just believe is that it all comes back to this one first principle of worshiping, is that we do not know who God is, and I have based this off of one of the statements, again I love to listen to Leonard Ravenhill's sermons and in those so often and in his books that he wrote, is that he made this declaration and others have made it.

I've heard Richard Olin Roberts make it. I've heard and read and A .W. Tozer write it, is that he said one of the issues in the church today, Henry Black could be made in early 2000s while Revival tarries, and they make this statement, is that we don't know who God is.

We don't know the word of God and we don't know the God of the word, and so again it is for us to come back to this, this searching for our beloved. Now again isn't it amazing that Jesus praying in John 17 for the church where he says to us that they may know you, Father.

Christ praying for us that we may know the Father and because of Christ there is a way made for us that we may come boldly into that throne room of grace and see him and worship him and learn of him. Paul writes over in the book of Philippians where he says that same petition, that same statement, he says that I may know you and throughout scriptures that is repeated over and over to know God.

Now somewhere along the line that again is that we're Christians and again it is not something that just happens overnight. It is a progression that we lose the intimacy with Christ, with God, in the secret closet, in the prayer closet.

We lose it in the worship services and over time we get away from the things that brought us and taught us of the things that we might know about him, learn about him. Peter writes that he said that you may grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now you see that same reference here in the song of Solomon, my beloved has come. Now again she's referencing as this story account and again isn't it amazing that in two books in the Bible that have no mention of God, there is no mention of God the Father, there is no mention of God the Son, Jesus Christ, there is no mention of God the Holy Spirit.

Two books in the Bible and this is one of them and so you would think well to know God what are you using this book then, this text, for such a message as that? God led me to this again to show us that again for us to get to God is that there is this searching, seeking that must take place again, that we must invest time to be alone with God in his word because in the word of God, God reveals who he is.

God teaches us what he has done, what he's going to do, what he is doing now. God teaches us and tells us his attributes, his descriptions of his power and his omnipotence and omnipresent and omniscience.

He teaches us his names and so most Christians that again the the sin in the church today is when you ask people who is God is that they don't know. Again you said well how is that possible and the answer is just as clear as again of what we're facing and what we need to do today that they have not been alone with God.

Hearing and Obeying God's Voice

Now you read here in verse two is that the beloved comes and and speaks, I hear the voice of my beloved so she knows her beloved's voice as he's speaking calling it's me open the door and she knows the voice, she knows the knock, she knows it's him, he reaches his hand in, she recognizes his hand and a child of God the more that they are alone with God they know his voice.

Now you remember the account in Samuel when Samuel was a young boy and God first spoke to him as a young teenager and he called him Samuel, Samuel, Samuel jumps up and he runs to Eli and we know that that happened several times and finally Eli picked up on what was going on and he gave him instruction and he said next time you hear your name called he said you answer speak Lord for your servant is listening and he did that and after that he didn't have to go to Eli anymore he knew the voice of God.

Do you know the voice of God? Do you know that voice which speaks truth, which speaks promises, which speaks power, the voice that speaks to you in the Holy Spirit that is in agreement with that that gives us the confidence which again is consistent with the word of God?

Now there are people today and again we have to be so careful of this because people who know the word of God who studied the Bible and that they hear God, they see what God has said in the scriptures and out of that then they add to that their experience, the things that they have gone through and again you have the word of God on one hand and they have their experiences on the other hand.

Those two things should never contradict, never. The only reason that there have been so many cults of the Mormons and the Jehovah Witness that have come out to the United States in our in the last 150 years in the United States all these cults have formed is because they took the word of God and their experiences and the more and more that they had an experience the less and less is that it agreed with the word of God.

These two never separate. If you have a vision, if you have a dream, if you have something that you hear from God in your prayers or in your quiet time, it is always in agreement with the word of God that you may know me.

It's always about God and anytime that it becomes self, now you're going down that path away from God of heresy, going down that path of blasphemy, going down that way of false doctrine. How is there so many denominations?

How is there so many other religions? How is there so many cults in this day? It's because they lost the intimacy with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. You cannot show me a dear brother or a dear sister that has got the word of God in this hand in their quiet time and they put the two together.

They know God, but when those things begin to diminish that you're not in the book as you used to be or you're not in the book as often as you should be and you're not in that prayer closet as you should be, other things have occupied your time.

You will hear, you will be much like this this beloved here. I heard his voice. I saw his hand. I was moved. I know that I should have got up, but I'm already in bed. I've already put my pajamas on. I've already washed my feet.

Do I have to get back up? This is the state of the church today. We've become so, so slothful, so lazy, so busy with our own schedules. And again, the thing of this time in our history is that God has stopped everything that was robbing us of time with him to give us this time that again that we might seek him, fall in love with him again, and come back to him.

And you said, well, this is Old Testament. This is Song of Solomon. This is this account of romance. Well, then let's go to Revelation chapter 3. Again, Old Testament always complements New Testament.

New Testament always complements Old Testament. They are one in the same. It is the word of God. And Christ speaks in Revelation 3, and he says, behold, I stand at the door and knock, and he that opens it, this is to the church.

This isn't to, we use it so often with invitations and evangelism, which again is the same thing of Christ inviting, but this is, Revelation 3 is to the church. I stand at the door and knock, and he that opens to me.

Open the door. This is your beloved. You hear his voice. You know he's knocking. You're left with a choice. Do I get up and meet him or do I stay in bed? Do you realize how much time has been wasted where we just stayed in bed and we didn't get up and meet the master?

Do you realize how much has been lost of our knowledge of God because we fell out of love with him because we weren't with him anymore? We let something else, an idol, something of this world occupy our minds, occupy our hearts, occupy our times, and we lost the intimacy with God, and we lost who he was.

And when that has happened for a couple days, it's one thing, but when it becomes weeks and months and years, and the church has lost the ability to get before the Lord and hear the word of God for a quarter of the day, to pray and confess a quarter of the day in prayer meetings, which used to be as we sing in the old hymn books, sweet hour of prayer, you can't hardly find an hour prayer meeting anymore.

Most of it's filled with music and entertainment. Most of it is filled with someone sharing the concerns and those things, which is all necessary, but the actual time spent in prayer of beseeching the Lord and speaking to him and letting him speak to us is a rare thing to find.

We sing sweet hour of prayer, but we can't remember the last time that we were 60 minutes in our prayer closet and stayed there and said, Lord, I'm not leaving until you bless me. You see, we are content to go without God, and that is part of the problem.

For us to get back, I stand at the door and knock, and he that opens with me. Look at this great invitation. I will come in and sup with him and he with me. A divine visitation, an intimacy of a meal together, a time of fellowship together.

Now, this woman in Song of Solomon chapter 5, she finally stirs herself up and says, it's my beloved. He's got the dew upon his hair. He's been out. He's come seeking me. You know, I ought to get up. And the time that she gets herself up and convinces herself to get up and go to the door, he has withdrawn himself and is gone.

And as she opens the door, she says, my beloved is gone. She throws a shawl on. She throws her nightcoat on and she runs out into the streets and she starts seeking for him. And how much is that found through scripture?

If you seek me, you shall find me when you search for me with all your heart. Ask and it shall be given. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened. How many times is instruction given to us to seek the Lord?

It is time to seek the Lord. Find back our love. Find back this need of our hour is to fill our minds and our hearts with who God is. Oh, that I might know you. Oh, that they would know you, Father. To speak of you, to speak of the deeds that you have done, to speak your names with reverence and holiness, to speak it with praise and honor and glory, and to worship him because of who he is and what he has done and what he declared about himself in our lives, in the scripture, in the lives of his church.

Returning to First Love

Blessed be the name of the Lord. Why would we ever not rise to meet him? It's because our mind, attention, and affections have been turned to something else. And it is time for us to set aside the Netflix.

It's time for us to set aside the video games. It's time for us to set aside sports and entertainment and family and everything else that has robbed us of the intimacy of Christ. She rose up and she sought him, but she never found him in this.

You go back to chapter three of Psalms, Solomon, this same issue has happened. She rose up and she went to the door, but he wasn't there. And she says, but I, I went out and I sought him whom my soul so long has loved.

I sought him and I found him. And she makes the vow. I will never let him go. Now, two chapters later, she's let him go. This is the state of the American church. Time and time again, God has been calling us.

And we come back to him for a very short, brief time. And so I say, Lord, I'm telling you, I'm going to serve you from this day forward. I'm not going to miss a day. I'm going to tell other people about Jesus.

I'm going to be in that book. I'm going to pray. I'm going to, no matter what you ask of me, God, I'm going to do. And I believe in the sincerity of their heart, the integrity of their heart. They mean what they're saying, but something, Satan, self leads them away.

And over time erodes from their intimacy with Christ. And they have forgotten who their beloved is. Tell him if you find him that I am sick of love. I am moved with such passion for you. And the church must fall in love again with the one who saved them and redeemed them.

Oh, father, you talk about a prayer. You talk about a petition because we're going to pray these next two days. This is one of them. You know, we go to the Revelation chapter two. I gave you the seventh church, Laodicea, in Revelation three about behold, I stand at the door.

But in the opening of that, where Christ speaks in Revelation two to the Ephesus church and he says, I have this against you. You left your first love. You left me. For the works, for the deeds, you become legalistic and you become routine.

And isn't this what has happened? We are so used to doing church, so successful at church with numerics and stats and in all those things is that we forgot that the one most important thing about the church is to know God.

It is to know God that you can't run church without God. If you run church without God, you're just a religion. You're just a church. You're just a cult. But those who are embracing of their love, their beloved, those who are intimate with the Lord, who have heard from him and he has heard us speak.

Speak, oh Lord, and I'm listening. Your servant is listening. And Lord, here's the desires of my heart. Here's what's on my mind. And that again, our hearts and our minds are linked. This is one of the things that we're talking about in prayer times is that you're not just praying your mind, your heart, your thoughts, your petitions.

You're praying God's. What does God see? What's on God's heart? What's on God's mind and his kingdom? It's his kingdom. It's his will that needs to be done. And this is what we're going to be seeking for.

The beloved, she rose up and she couldn't find him. And she went about searching and it is, is that again, for some is that again, it's time to get back. It's time to get back to where you find God. Go back and remember what it was that made you fall in love with him to begin with.

Remember that Bible verse that someone gave you that brought you to your salvation, that brought convictions to you. Some people you say, what was the Bible verse that you was saved with? And they'll say, oh, it was John 3, 16.

Some will say, well, no, it was Romans 10, 9, and 10. Others it'll be another passage of scripture. Do you remember the word of God that spoke to you and taught you and instructed you that you was a sinner and that you was in need of Christ?

And you heard his voice, come, come to me. All you that labor are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Come to me, you that are thirsty and you'll never thirst again. But you hear that beckoning call of the voice of the son of God, the savior of the world, come.

And you rose up and you came. And you're like, you're like Mary and Martha, that you just love him and you worship him and you adore him. And you said no matter what it takes, but again, the busyness of life, the hectic schedules, the routines, work, family duties, responsibilities, chores, all those things needful and necessary in a person's life.

But never, never when you get out of your priorities out of skew, never when you devote more things to the things of this earth or the things of your kingdom rather than the things of God's kingdom. We've got to learn once again, that again, to die to self, to take up our cross and to go follow the Lord.

No turn, you know, that old invitation song, I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back, I'll follow him. And a renewed vow, these two days to have a renewed vow at the close of tomorrow's sessions on Sunday evening, to close with that renewed vow, Lord, we are yours.

We are your people. We are your workers. We are your servants. We are your children. And we have entreated you, Father, for the sins and the abominations of the nation and of my family and of my own heart and of your church.

And you, Father, are faithful to hear us and to cleanse us and to forgive us and to renew this vow before you is that from this day forward till the day that you remove us from this earth, I will serve the Lord with all my heart, with all my mind and with all my soul.

And I will never, ever, ever keep you on the outside of the door when you come and speak and knock. I will open that door. I will be often supping with you and you with me. We will have intimacy day in and day out as Psalm 55, evening, morning, and at noon while I lift up my cry.

Daniel who bowed his knees and prayed three times a day and all the labors of this is that there is an intimacy in that secret closet and it cannot be forfeited for the television. It cannot be forfeited for a golf course.