No matter what you may experience, the highs and the lows, Jesus knows.

Hey yall! I started back at Jesus School a couple weeks ago! This is my 3rd year and final year as a student. I know this is going to be the best year yet and it will allow me to grow even deeper in my relationship with Jesus. I wanted to share something that the Lord revealed to me. Recently I’ve noticed even more so that while I’m at school during worship I have been encountering the Holy Spirit so quickly and more intensely than ever before. I encounter the Lord daily while I’m alone in my room in the secret place and in my day to day, but there’s been an intensity growing in corporate worship. It’s like when Jesus comes, He makes His presence known so tangibly and comes so intimately in the room. Well during a Thursday morning worship set at school I was having encounter after encounter. I felt the Lord’s presence overwhelming me and He was giving me visions and showing me things from a spiritual lens. After a while I opened my eyes and saw that everyone in the room seemed to be in an encounter with the Lord or were experiencing His presence. I thought to the Lord, “Wow, I wish I could share with the person next to me what You are showing me right now. This is awesome!” Then I thought, “If I’m experiencing You like this, I wonder what this person is seeing.” I’m telling you, I felt as though I was in another dimension. Then immediately I heard the Lord say, “Isn’t it amazing that only you can see what I’m showing you? No one else can see or experience this with us. That is exactly how I intended it to be.” So many thoughts flooded my mind after that! That even if I tried to explain in a perfectly detailed description of what I was seeing in my mind, it wouldn’t come close to help anyone visualize what I actually experienced. It wouldn’t even scratch the surface. No one can experience what I experience with the Lord! Only God can have a peek into our thoughts, mind, visions, dreams, and encounters. Only He can see exactly what it is that we are thinking and only He can feel the emotions we are feeling. That’s how intimate He wants to be with us. That’s how intimately He created us. We were designed to share the one thing that’s so specific and personal to us only with the Lord. It blows my mind! The most joy filled pleasures down to the most painful experiences only God has access to. That’s how much He loves us. When He created us, He intentionally created a part of what makes us unique to be shared solely with Him.

I was reminded of Psalm 139. “O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!” The scripture further goes on in verse 13 to say, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” It’s so beautiful that He knows everything about us! He knows our thoughts and actions before we even think, speak or do anything. It’s exciting yet sobering to know that even our thoughts are not hidden from Him. You know how sometimes you think things you would never say aloud? Well, God hears those thoughts. Even Sarah was called out by God when she chuckled in her heart at the thought of giving birth to a child in her old age. See in Genesis 18:12-14 “So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?” Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”’ Also, when Jesus forgives and heals a paralyzed man, many teachers of the law said to themselves that what Jesus did was blasphemy. This is from Mark 2:8, “Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, ‘Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?’” Jesus knew what they were thinking about Him! Ok. I’ll share one more and let you chew on it, as it speaks to how much God desires intimacy with you and me. In Matthew 11:27 Jesus says, “My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Jesus is saying that no one knows Him like the Father knows Him in the same way that no one knows the Father like Jesus knows Him. Jesus can reveal the Father to those He chooses, but we can never truly know the Father like Jesus does. They’ve been together since before the creation of the world! One thing that still has my head spinning is the fact that God made us in His image. I gotta share this one. Genesis 1:26-27 “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Do you see where I’m going with this?? Let me explain a little further. Just like Jesus said that no one knows Him like the Father and vice versa, God created mankind in that image! The image of knowing each other truly in such a way that only they can fully know. God created us in that way! To be known fully and completely by Him. Let me say it again another way. Just like in a family where the father knows details about his son that no one else would ever know, God the Father knows the Son, Jesus in a way that only He has intimately known and experienced with Him. We were created in that same manner. For God to know us in a way that no one else could ever tap into, and for us to know God in a way that can only be experienced by our personal relationship with Him. Yes, I know. Go ahead and let that sink in. I love that about our Creator! No matter what you may experience, the highs and the lows, Jesus knows. You are truly never alone. In case you haven’t been told today, Jesus loves you <3