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In years past I was very religious, legalisitic, very busy doing things for a God that seemed far off. I believed he loved me basically because he was a good God and loved man kind. I had difficulty accepting that he loved me personally...me...Heather. One day the Lord spoke to my heart and told me I'm going to teach you how much I love you and I'm going to show you how to receive my love. He also showed me in a vision the exchange of hearts that had happened between us. I was blown away and true to His word he has spent the last 6 years teaching me all about His love for me. However, I started to sense that even though now I was secure in His love that I had come to a place where I saw him as a loving Father, but the wonder and the awe that should constantly be there was not. Oh wonder about his amazing Love, but a small vision of His Majesty, His awesome power. I started to pray...Lord I want to see you as Isaiah did, Like John did in Revelation in your glory...I want to behold you in your glory, I want to see you as you really are., I want to speak your name with such reverance and wonder and awe. I want to know what it means to "fear the Lord". I had become so comfortable with Him as friend and abba, I felt I was not seeing Him as "Most High God as well. I have looked around Christendom and see such a lack of reverance and wonder. If we don't have that sense of Who he is as most High God I think we tend to suit ourselves. God loves me, I'll do this or I won't do that, God will love me anyway. However, if we see Him as the Most High God due all honour and respect, I think that combined with a true understanding and intimacy in his love will cause us to throw ourselves away, and to lay all at his feet. Really understanding that he is not only friend, Savior, and lover of our souls, but Lord, Master, and King of Kings, Creator of Heaven and earth, the Almighty, The I Am that is head over everything...that nothing short of total obedience will do. Lord I pray this day...that I might truly receive wisdom and revelation of you as the Most High God. I pray that I might be like that Lady who cried out...I want nothing for myself, but I want everything for Jesus. Lord Help me to live an authentic life before you, living a life of deep and humble reverence in You. Let my life be authentic not just a bunch of of pious sounding words. Test me and try me O Lord and lead me in your ways. I love you and thank you and praise you. You are indeed the Most High God, you are everywhere, and in everything and its only in you that it all holds together. Enlarge my view this day I pray. amen. Thank you Father for the people on this forum for their thoughtful replys that have blessed me and challenged me to grow in you. Please draw near to them, and help us all to see You as you really are. Heather

In simple language both Abraham and Melchizidek believed that when it came to gods....there was only "One" true God period! He was due all honour and all glory. blessings, Heather

King of Glory, Most High God loves me. Boggles the mind. I keep thinking about the elders around the throne throwing there crowns at the Lords feet. Seems to me as more and more we see Him, as He really is, The King of Glory, the Most High God, the more we exalt Him and joy in His presence and glory. We've seen glimpses and when you see it, in that moment when you behold Him, you stand in His presence and realize it. Its like the world just falls away, the scales fall from your eyes, and joy fills your heart. I see these elders litterly standing in the presence of the Lord and their response is to fall to their knees in worship, reverence and to cast their crowns at his feet. Its like the crowns represent everything we strive for in this world, all our material desires, our good deeds, our hopes, our dreams, everything...in the face of the King of Glory it doesn't even compare. Because He is that wonderful everything pales in comparison, and they throw their crowns at his feet, because He is their glory, their joy, their highest hope, their most wonderful dream. I think they are so undone by Him and His glory they just want to give Him everything, to honour him with all that they have, because His very presence is their life, their very breath all they want. I think of sweet moments with the Lord even here where I see and know only in part, and in those moments all my heart can cry is "All I want is you...your so beutiful...you are everything". Everything eles just falls away, insignificant in comparision to just being in His presence. Father you alone are God, You are the Most High God, the King of Glory, help me to walk each day in view of these great and glorious truths about you. Rend my heart Father, open my eyes to see you in all your majesty and glory, so that my life may reflect you, and honour you. You alone are worthy of my praise. I thank you Lord for your presence in my life, I do have a crown and its You. amen.

Good Day Pastor Ralph and All you beutiful people. My name is Heather and I live in Nova Scotia with my husband of 20 years and my three children, and opinionated but often right shih tzu Mieko. I happened upon the Joyful heart website this morning and saw the Name of the Lord study and decided to go for it. I love the Lord, He is so beutiful and kind to me, I cannot say enough about Him. However, as I looked around mainstream christianity it seemed somehow we had taken hold of some aspects of our Lords Character, His kindness, mercy, His love and faithfulness...and yet there still seemed to be a lacking in profound wonder, amazement and reverence of Him. I love knowing that He is my beloved friend and Savior, but He is also Yaweh, Captin of the Angel Armies, the Great I am, The Alpha and the Omega...I want to behold Him as Isaiah did...I believe by seeing Him more fully...I will become even more yielded to Him. Reading a book by Watchman Nee entitled "the Normal Christian Life"., I was struck by this elderly Chinese Lady he knew... she made this statement..."I want nothing for myself, but I want everything for Jesus. My prayer ever since has been Lord Help me to get to that place where I could say the same thing, and it be absolutly true. I have to get to work...I work at a local hotel here as a front desk agent. Bless you all I look forward to getting to know you, and growing together in the word. Shalom, Heather