Intimacy with Jesus

Breaking News!!

I got married and entered into a covenant relationship with Jesus this week. Reception and the whole bit! :) It was great. I have come to the reality that words are no longer enough, I need to have substance in my heart of the man Jesus. I want to be fixated, facinated, and obsessed with Him. The spiritual lethargy in the church needs to be broken because God is something to be excited about! God designed Eden and created man to walk with unbroken friendship and relationship with him and since the fall of man God is just a "whenever, where ever". I WANT EDEN BACK! I long for more Christ on the inside because I have tasted the real food and I now recognize that hunger.


To the degree you believe the gospel is to the degree you walk in freedom. Our circumstances don't have to control us believe it or not. It's time to redefine "the norm" and pioneer a new way. Andy Byrd is a dreamer and these were some what if's that really hit home to me. Dream with me...what if you didn't care what people thought of you? How would your life look? What's holding you back from that? What lies have you believed, and what would your life look like with no insecurity, no hurt? Become undone with Jesus and understand that living that way is truely possible. I'm challenging myself to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and thank God for who he created me to be, free of insecurity and comparison.

Revival of the Heart-->Reformation of Lifestyle-->

Revival of the Bride-->Reformation of the Church

-->Revival of the World-->Reformation of the World

"We can't just dance in the light of Christianity and proclaim his lordship yet run to lesser lovers or idols. We need to have a full on pursuit of Jesus."

I will choose to be convinced of his love and operate in it all day long. This is not easy but I'm letting his love be my motivator. I'm also learning the power of an attitude of gratitude and thankfulness. It completely flips the table on every circumstance. It makes me enjoy the privilage of loving him. Through our pain, and trials we get to choose to follow and trust him. The deepest intimacy with God is to rest with no inhabitations and have peace from the revelation of love we can trust him. When you're in the presence of someone you love and you know loves you, you understand how to rest and to "just be".

A full revelation of this will automatically cause a natural change in the way you live. He's too good to do the things I used to do. True Christianity and kingdom culture is a disease and it's contagious, it's difficult to catch but once you do, it will fully consume you. However, there is a lot to compete with. Every day it's a battle for our affections and our attention. When you have a revival of the heart you express the reality and character of Jesus and it will awaken and revive and reform the church as a whole. 

I gave God Lordship of my life to be the captain of my ship, on the throne of my heart. I am surrendered, submitted and nothing is better. Some things are easier than others to give up and it's definately a process but I feel that nothing is a sacrafice. NOTHING can compare to the joy I find in the Lord or the riches in heaven. I'm living on the kingdom's economy.

"Let truth be the engine of my train and make emotions and feelings the caboose."-Andy Byrd

"Intimacy without surrender always leads to adultry; the greatest injustice in human history is that the creatures God breathed life into turn their backs on Him."-Andy Byrd