I've tapped into something lately that has exploded my freedom. I am a son in the Father's palace. Yea. Sounds simple, and truly it is. Until that revelation lands in your heart without logic and expands the story of a relationship with Christ that fills all things in every way. things like this sit in our minds and spirits for years and then with one vision key unlock and release a torrent of revelation of the Son of God. The catalyst? A love encounter with the Lord Jesus that breaks open what laid dormant and quiet. A love encounter? An encounter with the fire of HIS love. An encounter with Jesus Christ.
For years I've understood that the Father's presence was the very living reality of every good thing in HIS Kingdom. That HIS presence was the place to be in life. In HIS presence.... My heart is longing to be with HIM. Truly deep calls to deeper more compelling desire. I want to be lost in a love that cannot be satisfied except by more of HIS presence. Heaven is open and the beauty of the redemptive power of Christ is the very air we breathe. HIS presence is intoxicating. Christ is the most beautiful vision life can offer. He presence both manifest and hidden fills the highest heaven and the depths of earths darkest places. The opportunity of the Father is everywhere. The Kingdom of our Lord and Christ is everywhere.
I've lived in the place of longing and searching for my King while life's disappointments and bruising lingered in my heart, on my body, in my day to day. The enemy of my freedom seeks to oppress my passion with the seeming contradictions of HIS love in my life. The church has lost sight of an important truth. The love relationship with Christ is our inheritance and our place of rest. It is always ours in any and every circumstance. This love is not hindered by the brokenness of the world. In fact it laughs as the worlds empty offerings and attempts to quiet the BEAUTY. It is ours in weakness and strength. We can always run to the place of rest in our Savior, our Rock eternal. The hope of glory is Christ in us, living, informing, inviting us to deeper love and wider vision of a Kingdom that fills the universe with redemptive power and love. As nothing is impossible with God, so nothing is outside his authority, power and freedom. Matter itself along with trees, rocks, dirt, sing the praise of the ONE whose love cannot be quenched.
Just being in the Father's presence opens such an expansive view of the Kingdom and of the Father's heart; my wounds heal, my disappointments fade in light of the hope that cascades into your soul. Under the waterfall of hope we can laugh, celebrate, dance and drink overwhelmed by HIM.
I loved worshipping with the Church from the first days of knowing the Lord. I sensed and have seen so much of the incredible reality of all that the Kingdom is about - In HIS presence. But I did not see myself as a son. Adopted yes. Part of this Palace, yes. I did not see that this is my inheritance. That the Kingdom growing inside me and connecting with the reality of the heavenlies was finding a more tangible expressions in my life, heart, mind, will and emotions. His presence was spilling out into my every day. His love is the current of the wind I ride upon. I am seeing that the inheritance needs to be called down into my life. Captured in faith and understood with the key of Christ, I need to call into my heart and soul the truth of who I am in Jesus.
Now I can see farther, deeper into the inheritance of the Saints in Christ Jesus. The Prince of Peace, seated in opens heavens pours out His inheritance to us. The Palace of my Father is rich beyond compare. More than a wonder of the world, it is a wonder of the heavens and angels; filled with the majesty of the King who reigns over all.
It is time for the saints to let go of the worthless trappings of the world and gain the riches of the Kingdom of our God and King. To walk in the inheritance of the King. To ramble, run, dance, shout, celebrate in the vast palace of the presence of Christ Jesus.
Come away with me
