How to Pray the Scriptures: Experiencing Deep Union With Christ

I’m going to read this. I live in Your presence. I live in the hope of Your coming. You live in my presence. I’m coming to get you. Father, she lives in My presence just the way I live in your presence, and she looks forward to My physical return. Father, I thank You for Your Son who died for me and brought me into His presence. Now, if you can get practiced at this just enough to understand what I have said, and you will not read, and you’ll not spend a lot of time staring at those verses, and glance at them, and then turn your just take your spirit and open the door and let it fly out, you will. And if you, one morning, if you can find a brother or sister to meet with who will do this with you, you will forget you ever prayed, and you’ll probably say something like Carisia said, “I never do pray.”

Now, when the two of you get together, you can both be the bride; it’s alright. One of you is a hand, one of you is another hand. Or you can be two different people. That one is, I’m not even going to tell you what that’s like, but you need a little practice to sneak up on these things, or they may not be real to you. If you’ll live with everything I’ve said here today, and I told you, you have to pay attention to every sentence, I said, because much of this I refuse to amplify, because it’s for you to experience, not to judge. It’s for you to experience; it’s not for you to understand. And there is glory. Unfathomable.

Now, if it happens that a body of believers does this, and they all come back and on Saturday night get together, and they bring their experience with Christ, you just may have a good meeting. If you happen to be a visitor that night, you might, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you might walk out and say, “That’s an interesting bunch of people. All they ever talked about was the Lord.” And therein I take my stand. Who was this brother who so falsely accused me? I’ve heard Gene talk about other things besides the Lord. Thank you, brother. Thank you. I am here not only to speak the word centered on Christ, but also to bring you to a personal, daily, experiential encounter with Him in the church, and I have kept my word. Now, if you were a church, we would be at this for quite a long time, but unfortunately, we have only one night together. So, what am I asking you to do? I’m asking you to take your pencil, go through a column or two, rewrite these passages as you feel them and see them. Yes, do it with your mind, although I really encourage you not to keep doing that, or it will become totally meaningless. You’ve been in your mind long enough. It’d be nice to get down where your spirit is.

Then I would ask you to practice that in Galatians and then go to the first page of 1st Thessalonians. That’s the part that I came here to speak to you about this weekend. The weekend is getting a little short. I will do my best to bring one message on 1st Thessalonians from the viewpoint of the beautiful girl. And if you’re not aware of this, at the last conference, I brought one message from the perspective of the girl in Galatians. If we had more time, we’d go to 2nd Thessalonians. If we had more time, we’d go to 1st Corinthians. That’s the books in their chronological order. I always stay in chronological order because I don’t stick with verses. I stick with the whole panoramic scene. You and I could spend a lot of time together. We would get up in the mornings together, touch the Lord together, and come back to share. And it would be better than going to a Baptist church on Sunday morning. That’s the only guarantee I’ll give you.

Now, I am saying to the brothers and sisters in Denver, that’s exactly what I’m asking you to do in the weeks to come. Do you get it? You just got your assignment. By the way, I’m going to ask brothers and sisters in Denver and hit the mark on this. Be straight. Did you learn anything this evening, or were you pretty much in touch with all of this? Denver, pretty much clear on all of this. Okay, thank you. I won’t ask Atlanta because I would be embarrassed. Don from Rochester. Warrior Chief, thank you. I appreciate that there are two of them. This could not have all been familiar to you. Okay, just go ahead and lie to me. Tell me it wasn’t all familiar. It wasn’t all familiar. For the rest of you, we only have this weekend together, but I hope you will never forget this evening and that your heart will lead you to pursue these things. Quite frankly, I’ll tell you what I wish you would do. I wish you would sell your home and move to Rochester, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia, or Orlando. Last of all, Atlanta, and I never heard of Raleigh, North Carolina, and I never heard of you, and I don’t know who you are. You go hold your own conferences. Then I leave them out. Atlanta and Denver, you scrub for yourselves.

Now then, I hate to tell you this, but I’m not going to be able to speak on…I’m not going to be able to bring you the beautiful girl here tonight. We’re going to have to do that tomorrow night. Tomorrow morning, brother Tim speaks, and if I were to bring that message and then the saints were to give this presentation, you wouldn’t be getting to bed till after midnight, and I don’t want to do that to Tim tomorrow. Tomorrow night…it’s worth waiting for. I’m going to ask you to do this. Before this conference ends, I’m asking you to pair up with one other person. You two decide who you are, and you can be anybody it’s on your heart to be, just as long as it’s not you. You take your place in Christ, and in Christ, you will find the girl, and you will find, of course, Christ. And you will find the Father. And you’ve got all eternity. We didn’t even get into that. You can be anywhere in eternity. You don’t have to be here now. Isn’t that wonderful?

Fellowshipping with Jesus Christ outside of time and space. Now, sister, is that possible? You sure you’re not lying to me? And all those wonderful things you told me are real in your life, and you’re comfortable with them. They’re just really at home to you. They’re your heritage, sister. You know why? It’s because, and this may be my other favorite verse of Scripture in the New Testament, you have been given all the riches in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. So, head into Christ Jesus, and you might find all the riches of eternity there. The riches: I didn’t say the negatives, I said the riches. That’s a promise. He didn’t say you’re going to have that someday. He said you have already been given all the riches. They’re in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

I expect you to have your house up for sale within the week. Before this weekend is over, you will pair off with someone, and we’ll have a meeting Monday night, and you’re going to report. No, a lot of you are staying. How many of you are staying through Monday night? And you’ll be in a meeting at home. Well, raise your hand. Not the church. Then, when will the rest of you do it? We will have a meeting at nine o’clock on Monday morning for everyone who will not be here on Monday night. Okay? And you can share whatever has happened to you in your time together with someone else. That probably wasn’t clear. We’ll talk about it again tomorrow. Okay. You are going to have a partner. You’re going to do this before you leave this place. I’m going to be standing out in the driveway saying, “Did you do it?”