Time to press into intimacy

II Timothy chapter 3 is a must read.  This chapter speaks of “perilous times” in the last days.  The Bible describes these times in a very specific and graphic manner.  We are created to love.  We are created to worship. In the last days men and women will be embracing a counterfeit love and a counterfeit intimacy.  God is a jealous lover of our hearts.  He will not be satisfied until He has ALL of what we have.  A song we sing at IHOP in Kansas City says  “You won’t relent until You have it all…my heart is yours”.  When the singers begin singing this chorus over and over my heart becomes gripped with this truth. Psalm 4 speaks of how we are “set apart” for Him.  II Timothy speaks of an anti-christ spirit in the last days that will begin an assault never before seen upon mankind.  Today pornography is more available than ever before in our history.  Movies, TV, the internet, billboards, shopping mall display cases all hurl porn at us.  Lust is the counterfeit of love.  Self-aborbtion and Idolitry is the counterfeit of intimacy.  We must not be decieved.  The enemy is as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.   Now is the time for men of God to rise and say “NO ” to pornography.  This spirit will come down when men rise and say “not in my life, my home, my city, or my nation”.  Fathers must come forth in the church and equip boys and young men to navigate through the mine fields and traps that would pull the heart away from true intimacy.  The Lord has been speaking to me how we as men must learn how to “love rightly”.  How we must learn how to move in true intimacy, and reject the tempation of porn and the counterfeit love the enemy is spewing out.  God desires our love and He will not relent until He has it all.   I encourage you to read II Timothy chapter 3 and ask the Lord to open your eyes to the age we are living in.  Ask Him to show you how to nurture and maintain a heart of intimacy with Him and the ones you love.  He will NOT relent until He has it all.