I am going to talk to you tonight out of the Song of Solomon. We have had some very powerful messages this week. I have very much enjoyed listening to my brothers as they have ministered the Word to us, and I have gained from them.

The Lord has been speaking to us prophetically. He has been encouraging us to not stand idle, to progress against satanic powers, to raise up our banners and to move forward, and He has called us into intimacy and into purity. But this morning when I was awake praying for you, He spoke to me said, “The purpose of this convention was to call My people into Me and I do not want that purpose thwarted.”

So, I want you to switch gears tonight in a very good way, because He told me what to minister. It is wonderful to know that we can warfare, but I want to tell you, if that is all your Christian life consists of, you are missing the whole point. It is wonderful to lead people to the Lord. I love to see people get saved, do you? But if that is all your Christian life consists of, you are missing the whole point. It is wonderful to know about the end-times and the things that are about to transpire. No one wants to know that information more than me, but if all your Christian life consists of is knowledge about end-times, you are missing the whole point.

The Bible tells us what the point is, do you remember? It says, “And this is eternal life, to know you, the one true God, in Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3)

That is what your life is all about, my dear brothers and sisters. To know Him. And if you are not headed in that direction, again, you have missed the whole point about why He went to the cross. So, come with me please, to Chapter 8 of the Song of Solomon.

Prayer: We love you Lord. We know that You are aware of our shortcomings and our lacking in so many areas. And we are so thankful that Your love and Your grace is there to cover, or else, how would we stand? How would we ever stand before Your presence? We are so thankful, so very thankful that You have called us and that you continue calling us. And Lord, I want to thank You for the way You are going to call us tonight. We desire that no man be lifted up in this place tonight, but You only, You alone. For you are what it is all about, Lord. We want our eyes focused on You, and You alone. Help us to see You tonight; help us to see You with the eyes of our heart. Help us to long for You as You long for us. Help us to see the call and give us the strength to run the race. In Your precious Name, amen.

Do you know what the office of the prophet is for? Do you know why God created the office of the prophet? Not so that we could come up on the platform and say, “Oh boy, look what I see and look what I have seen.” And it is not just to tell you about the future things, or to even share with you heavenly things. The office of the prophet, the song of the prophet, is the friend of the Bridegroom, calling the Bride into the Beloved. When all prophetic words are done, if your heart is not stirred to go deep in God, then the work is not done. So, tonight we are going to call you deep into God.

Verse 5 says (and I am reading out of the Amplified Bible tonight):

“Who is this who comes up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved?” {And as they sighted the home of her childhood, the bride said} Under the apple tree I awaken you; there your mother gave you birth, there she was in travail and bore you. Set me like seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard and cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame, the very flame of the Lord! Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man were to offer all the goods of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned and despised.

Gathered with her family and wedding guests in her mother’s cottage, the bride said to her stepbrothers, When I was a little girl you said, ‘We have a little sister and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for in marriage? If she is a wall, discreet and womanly, we will build upon her a dowry of silver, but if she is a door bold and flirtatious, we will enclose her with her boards of cedar.’ Well, I am a wall, with battlements, and my breasts were like the towers of it. Then was I, in the king’s eyes, as one to be respected and to be allowed to find peace.” (Song of Solomon 8:5-10 AMP)

Who is this that comes up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved? There is a people, a remnant if you will, who are hearing the Spirit of God, calling them deep into God; their heart had been stirred for love. Their heart has been stirred to know Him. They have been led out into the wilderness where they have found the aridity of the world and the aridity of all things outside of God. They have heard the call and they went willingly. They have learned that there is no comfort in the love of man, they have learned that there is no comfort in the pride or the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh. They have learned that in the world there is only aridity—dryness, desert, parched land.

And the more arid their climate has become, the deeper their heart has yearned for God. Yearned for the secret place, yearned for that secret face, yearned for the beauty and the glory, yearned for the intimacy that is beheld in His bosom. There is a company of people who find that no fires are too great to endure to know Him. No amount of rejection from the Church is too great to endure to go deeper in God. They are tired of the superficial teachings that are in the Body of Christ. They are tired of milk and being babies and they want to be matured and to go deep in God.

They stood at the crest of the ocean and they looked out at the vastness of the wonders of His person and they have determined that they will walk past any desert to enter into the deepest places of the sea of the vastness of God. If I were to give one scripture that depicts my life, it would be out of Philippians, wherein Paul said, “And this is my one goal….”

My one determined purpose is that I might know Him and the wonders of His person, the panorama of God, the wonderful and many faces of my Beloved. My quest, my zeal, my hunger is to know Him! To scan the many-sided facets of God. And when I have drunk and I feel that I can drink no more I will be enlarged that I might drink all the more. I have been ruined for Christ sake. I have been emptied, for Christ’s sake. For what is there, my brothers and sisters, outside of Christ?

He is completeness, unlike anything on this temporal plane. He came to me in the early 80s when I was hurting very badly. I felt like my heart had been shattered into a million pieces and I did not know how to pick it up and put it back together. I was sitting, crying to Him to come and heal my heart when He appeared to me and I saw in His eyes such profound, liquid love. Such compassion, such passion! His eyes are blue, sea blue, and when you look into His eyes it is like looking into the eternities of the eternities—all you will find is liquid love. And as I gazed upon Him, I saw that He is completeness and outside of Him there was nothing. There was no completeness in anything outside of Him.

There is a day of us coming up out of the wilderness, but not until we have learned that He is all in all.

To be continued next week…

In Him,
Nita Johnson