Tag: divine love

517. Experiencing Heart to Heart Intimacy with God

Mike Parsons – 

Intimacy with God goes far beyond any physical union; it is the knowledge of the heart—cardiognosis—a deep knowing that is revealed through experience rather than intellect.

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On my journey, I encountered many moments that imparted this knowledge directly into my heart, often through simple acts of intimacy, like a heartfelt embrace. A hug can convey connection, or it can create distance, depending on how it is given. God invites us to embrace Him as Father, allowing Him to reveal the truth of our relationship so that we may know Him experientially.

I remember a moment when I became caught up in doing things for God—exploring what I could do in the heavenly realms, understanding my sonship and governmental authority. It was exhilarating, but it risked becoming my focus instead of the relationship itself. One day, during my daily engagement with God, I asked, “What are we doing today?” and there was no verbal response. Instead, He simply held me close, refusing to let go. In that embrace, He infused truth and knowledge into my heart, drawing me away from a works-based mentality and revealing the fragrance of intimacy with Him more powerfully than anything else I had experienced.

Relationship union with God transcends gender. Sonship and daughtership are spiritual realities, not defined by male or female. God looks at who we are at the core of our being, made in His image, which encompasses both masculine and feminine characteristics. First love restores our true identity in union—spirit, soul, and body—with Father, Son and Spirit at the very heart of who we are.

This journey of first love leads to consummation, a deepening of the relationship as we accept God’s love, embrace our identity and destiny as sons and daughters, and allow transformation to prepare us for face-to-face intimacy with Him. My path through the garden, the dance floor, the soaking room, and the bridal chamber brought me into a presence with God that was overwhelming at first, yet opened the door to ongoing experiences of dwelling heart to heart, mind to mind, spirit to spirit. Over the years, this intimacy became my dwelling place, just as God dwells in me, revealing His presence, perfection, love, joy, and peace in ways I could not have imagined at the beginning.

The process took over a decade, guiding me through experiences that expanded my understanding of God and myself, revealing multidimensional realities beyond time, space, or material limitations. Like a courtship or betrothal, the journey into first love deepens continually until soul, spirit and body are in union with God.

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513. Who Are You Really? Unpacking Identity

Mike Parsons –

I believe the world is beginning to experience a series of awakenings. A love awakening, a grace awakening, a joy awakening, a peace awakening. A true God awakening to the reality of who God really is. We are part of that awakening, helping people discover the truth as we discover the truth ourselves, and then share it and live it. It is important that we embrace these awakenings. As we do, we begin to carry and express them naturally.

For a long time, God kept asking me a simple but profound question: who are you? He asked it in various ways over a period of time. At first, my answers were always works-based, tied to what I was doing. Like many people, I identified myself by what I did rather than by who I was. My soul defined my identity, but God was seeking to reveal the true me. For that to happen, my soul had to accept it, and that was not an easy process.

All of us go through a process, and God reveals who we really are in different ways. At the same time, he exposes what hinders us from accepting that reality. Each of us carries things that God has to deal with. Our souls have constructed identities using the data collected throughout our lives: things that happened to us, information we received, and the programming we absorbed through culture, religion and family. Information flowed through our senses, shaping survival strategies that helped the soul cope and protect itself from harsh realities.

Those defence mechanisms, however, often become prisons. They falsely promise safety while preventing us from knowing who we really are. Until the soul surrenders control, we cannot fully trust God for protection, provision and direction. Letting go of control is difficult, especially when we have learned to do everything ourselves. Trusting God sounds simple, but it is not. I believed I trusted God implicitly until he began to challenge what trust really meant in my relationship with him.

So, who am I? That question sits at the core of most people’s inner life.

Imagine a scene. You are in a boat, adrift on a vast ocean. You do not know where you are, and you do not realise that this ocean is unconditional love. You have no sails and no oars. This is the position humanity often finds itself in, unaware of where it truly is and protecting itself from the very reality that surrounds it. This state of despair is an illusion, a deception that causes people to try to navigate the surface of an ocean of love through self-effort.

The answer is to get out of the boat and sink into the depths of unconditional love. There we discover who we really are and who God really is. We are never separated from God, because we exist within him. Acts 17:28 tells us that in him we live and move and have our being. Everything exists within God, who has created space within himself for relationship. Separation, therefore, is an illusion we have created through guilt and shame. That illusion keeps us from intimacy with God and traps us in a lost identity.

Getting out of the boat feels counterintuitive to the natural mind, which has been conditioned to follow an independent, self-directed path. Yet the question remains: who are you, and how will you find out? I would suggest that you will never truly know if you stay in the boat. Even when it feels safer to stay there, paddling with your hands requires constant effort and never brings you to truth.

Who do you think you are? Ten years ago, I would have answered differently than I would today. Five years ago, my answer would have changed again. Thirty years ago, it would have been completely different. Who do others think you are? That question matters, because if we allow it, the opinions of others can define us. Are you shaped by your past experiences, your circumstances, your parents, your friends, your boss or even your genetics?

The deeper question is this: who does love say you are?

Get out of the boat. Sink into the vast ocean of love. Surrender, be immersed and saturated in unconditional love. Return to first love, because it is there that we discover who we really are. God, who is love, defines us. He defines who you are.

So, who are you? I would suggest that we can only truly know through a restored, face-to-face love relationship with God as Father, Son and Spirit. It is that relationship which enables us to discover the truth and to live in it.

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