Pursuit

As I heard this song and read this post about Jesus, God is calling me deeper. This year is about going deeper into Jesus. To KNOW Him intimately. I want to be in His presence. It is all I want. I am not sure why I suffered physically over the last year, but I know it has increased my hunger to know God more. The song below verbalized how I feel......

Blessings,
Tammy

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Strip everything away
'Til all I have is You
Undo the veils
So all I see is You

I will pursue You
I will pursue Your presence
I will pursue You
I will pursue Your presence

Open my eyes
Search me inside
I can't live without Your presence
I can't live without Your presence

I'm pressing into You
So do not pass me by
I'm breaking through the boundaries
I will not be denied

I can't live without Your presence
I can't live without Your presence

I will pursue
I will pursue
I will pursue
I will pursue You
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Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

The records of Christ are written so you can experience him as they did, this intimate connection with the Father and the Son. John says that you can enjoy the same friendship with Jesus that he knew. For this Jesus came.

So, if you do not know Jesus as a person, know his remarkable personality—playful, cunning, fierce, impatient with all that is religious, kind, creative, irreverent, funny—you have been cheated.

If you do not experience Jesus intimately, daily, in these very ways, if you do not know the comfort of his actual presence, do not hear his voice speaking to you personally—you have been robbed.

If you do not know the power of his indwelling life in you, shaping your personality, healing your brokenness, enabling you to live as he did—you have been plundered.
This is why we pray,

Jesus, show me who you really are. I pray for the true you. I want the real you. I ask you for you. Spirit of God, free me in every way to know Jesus as he really is. Open my eyes to see him. Deliver me from everything false about Jesus and bring me what is true.

(Beautiful Outlaw, 21-23) by John Eldridge