Reach For Holiness

Can you sense the urgency of the hour? I wish I could convey in word what I feel in the very depths of my spirit. There is an incredible desperation - an urgent need for an intimate relationship with God. I can almost hear a moaning sounds - something is about to break and I can not say enough how urgent and important it is right now to wake-up and pay attention.

"Ugh, it's another wake-up message" then STOP HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON! DOn't give in to a false sense of security so you can sleep just five minutes longer!
I know that I am not the only one that can sense the shifting - the urgency. Practically every where I read or hear about has been the same cry. A church member was an additional confirmation this morning. She senses it and said the same thing I did -> it's a revelation so deep with in your being and you're a loss for words on description.

I don't know what it is, but lately the Word of God is becoming so incredibly clear. Before, just being honest, I much preferred the Word of God to accompany a devotional. I felt I needed a crutch to get into God's word. I felt I needed to get into it via devotionals to grasp an understanding; and that was a mistake. NOT because the devotionals were of no value, but because I was not seeking a personal revelation of Jesus and His word! See, again, another call to an intimate relationship.

I have been progressively getting better with boldness. I must tell you that I am generally a shy individual - I don't like to rock the boat or ruffle feathers - but this sense of urgent desperation and the revelations being birthed into my heart have begun to rapidly dissolve the protective boundaries I have in place.

I would like you to understands something. As ministers and teachers of the Gospel, it is our responsibility to share the truth for what it is and not water it down, not give you warm fuzzies. God loves you and me way too much to give us a temporal happy 'feeling' that will have no eternal impact in place of corrective, life defining, life changing truth that will save your soul from eternal darkness and torment. Does this mean God doesn't give encouraging words? NO! It doesn't mean that at all, encouragement is necessary, but it is only a portion of what you need to hear and understand. We need, we must have, we can NOT do without the entire complete message of the Gospel.

2 Cor 7:15
15 And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling. NIV

If God loves us too much to leave is in sin and deception ( deceived into believing that everything is ok because you did enough or you said 'the prayer' ) and a false sense of security, then I need to show love in the same manner.

1 John 4:20-21
20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. NIV

If I don't share what God has laid on my heart in fear of it being unpopular, in fear of ruffling feathers, then I am being selfish and there is no love in selfish gain, thus no love for my brother, only myself - then that can only conclude in being no love of God in my heart. When I write these blogs, I write them from my heart - not for personal gain, just to share what God has been revealing to me.


There is a cry in my spirit for holiness - an intimate relationship with Jesus and holiness go hand-in-hand. I mentioned before about sanctification being a process and it involving cooperation. How can we be in a process of sanctification leading to a life or including a life of holiness, if we are afraid to teach or receive words of correction? If my almost 13 month old could fully comprehend why I slap his hand and correct him before he touches an electrical outlet or a hot stove top - he would be grateful for the correction. God is saying to us that if we could fully comprehend why He gives us correction, then we would be so grateful for the correction... especially compared to its alternative.

Matt 19:16-22
16 Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" 17 "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments." 18 "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied, "'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'" 20 "All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?" 21 Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." 22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
(Also found in Mark 10:17-22 and Luke 18:18-23)

True salvation is laying down your life completely, not just those things you pick and choose. And living a life of holiness also requires to lay everything on the line. The process of sanctification? You guessed it, it is the cooperation of laying it all down.

Matt 19:24
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." NIV

So ask yourself - what is my wealth? Even if you are financially dirt poor - you still value some things and they are evident when you can't let them go.

The final tie-in of all the rabbit trails I chased... - you need to lay down absolutely everything in pursuit of holiness and sanctification in order to obtain the intimate relationship with Jesus and God the Father - and its urgent that we seek and pursue this.

I KNOW that this is a lot to digest and take in, so a suggestion... be prayerful and take your heart to God, asking Him to fill you with the revelation of His truth - you will understand what I mean that the sense of urgency and desire for intimacy is not something you can efficiently put into words!

Be blessed.

Kizzie