| When God draws near, everything changes! Your agenda changes. your program changes. Your opinion changes. And most importantly, your heart changes. When God draws near, your hunger and quest for greater intimacy with God is forever changed! You desperately need God's manifest presence. Do you desire His presence more than anything else is this life? It is often stated that His presence with you is His greatest present to you! In this season of giving and receiving of gifts, I can shout a loud "Amen" to that statement! "Here's the one thing I crave from Yahweh, the one thing I seek above all else: I want to live with him every moment in his house, beholding the marvelous beauty of Yahweh, filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace. I want to contemplate in his temple." (Psalm 27:4 TPT) The Quest for Greater Intimacy!  You cannot fully achieve true intimacy with God until you learn how to come before him in quietness of spirit, mind, and body.
An atmosphere of stillness is absolutely essential for us if you wish to experience deep, loving communion with your Lord. David the psalmist wrote, "I am standing in absolute stillness, silent before the one I love, waiting as long as it takes for him to rescue me" (Psalm 62:5). The prophet Habakkuk proclaimed, "But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him" (2:20 NASB). When Elijah listened for the counsel of God, he heard the Lord not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in "a still small voice" (see 1 Kings 19:11–13 NKJV). In Psalm 46 the Lord calls on us to "Be still and realize that I am God" (v. 10). This "realizing" goes far beyond mere informational knowledge. The Hebrew word yada is used for all types of knowledge, including the most intimate relationships. It is the same word used in the phrase "And Adam knew Eve his wife." To know God in this sense means to have his Spirit infilling you, his breath inspiring you, and his heart invigorating you. Knowing God means to be brought into vital, personal union with Jesus Christ your Lord. That's the kind of intimacy he seeks with you, but entering into it requires quietness of spirit on your part. Unfortunately, society does not encourage or prepare you for quietness. You are surrounded daily by a bedlam of competing voices—both good and evil—that constantly clamor for your attention. If you don't know how to listen, the "still small voice" of God can easily be drowned in the din. Identifying the Hindrances In your quest for intimacy with God, you face two primary hindrances… | 
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