The Romance of God

"He is the romance of  God."

WE ARE NOT arm-twisting God. He is not some Roman-esque statue. He is God who died for us. He is the Lord our Healer. No one forced Him to it. He willingly laid down His life because He loved us. Us = Whosoever. He looked beyond His sacrifice, what He would endure and have to give up, and saw our need. He saw our sorry state and lifted us up to His level. Love so great, He gave up being eternal, for a time, trusting the Father to return Him to it and, even greater, to bring mankind there with Him. He anticipated joy with us, joy from us, and unending laughter and bliss.

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2)

He desires to lift you to that place. He delights to do it. From where you lay, from the bottom of the valley, He set out all that was needed to walk us into places of glory beyond our thinking. He is the romance of God, drawing us toward Him, to be with Him. In a way we would not see it absent of Him. So that we would talk to Him, communicate with Him, far deeper than our current surface-level prayers. The church has painted Him in reverence, and He deserves it, desires it, but like the disciples who saw Him, heard Him, who handled Him (1 John 1:1), He wants us to be in that same place. It is not reserved for the especially called, is not only for those ordained for ministry. It is for every-day, all-day people, who take His hand and walk forward in His footsteps.

“Always be joyful; keep an open conversation with God and talk with him about everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-17, Remedy)

He brought the kingdom of God to earth so that it was accessible. Not to build a social order or to gather servants (slaves) to worship at His feet. But to make us whole from our spirit to our soul (mind, will, and emotions), to our body. We worship not because of guilt or law, but because the love that fuels Him fills us, and in His presence is fullness of joy, is complete healing, and any provision we need. If we would press into Him, we would see beyond the natural church and its services and prayers to a place of daily victory.

“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psalms 16:11)

Stop allowing the enemy to convince you, there has to be suffering in your life. The suffering of the Bible is that of obedience. Sickness, disease, and mental trauma are underneath Jesus’ shed blood. We don’t have to suffer those. And we are fully protected from every form of attack from the enemy. Anytime, I hear someone say to expect it, I firmly say NO. I don’t even have to be persecuted for my books, through false and unkind reviews, or by negative comments on social media. The Word promises me favor with God, which I delight in, and favor with men (Psalm 5:12; Proverbs 3:4; Luke 2:52). Minister Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, spoke a beautiful word about God’s favor. Only go where God sends you, he said. I wrote this long ago saying, “God is my salesman.” Minister Todd says the same. I post only what the Holy Spirit speaks to me to share, at whatever place He tells me, and in whatever way He gives me to do it. It’s such a relief to lay that burden at His feet and not carry it.

LISTEN TO Minister Michael Todd speak on favor.

I don’t leave home and worry about accidents or viruses or confrontations with people. Psalm 91 says I am safe in His presence. Psalm 139 says He compasses me on every side and knows every thought I have, every word I will speak. Psalm 121 promises me He never sleeps but is always watching over me. And Hebrews 13:5 says He will never leave me nor forsake me. 1 Corinthians 13:4 tells me He is patient and kind. I cannot stress this to you more. For there in the secret place where I suffered the enemy’s cruelty, He sat with me and spoke to me. Whenever the enemy got loud, God got louder. I knew I was not alone. I found out how much the church has pictured Him austere and demanding, when He is so very, very gentle. So incredibly faithful. No, I didn’t deserve it, but yes, I grasped hold of it with both hands and like the woman with the issue of blood, held onto His garment believing I would be whole. And I am whole. God did what medical science could not do.

The church is wrong on the size of the devil, and they are wrong on the size of God. The devil is but a vapor. God is an unending universe, stars that multiply and multiply and multiply still to this day. Oceans with depths men cannot enter, for they are too deep. The heat of the sun which no one can measure. You can’t outsize Him. The devil is a fool by comparison. An ex-angelic host who sinned and tried to take over. But God already had the solution. He would give of Himself, of His complete self, to do it. Nothing else fits Him. He isn’t selfish, and to promise to heal, to promise to forgive, to touch one person and not another, makes Him selfish. To have apostles and then remove them is not mercy, nor compassion, nor His goodness on display. Our thinking is so very wrong. For all I knew of Him, I fell in love with Him when I saw Him for who He is, and it cannot be removed from me.

“But I thought you were …” spilled from my lips, and a thousand words which followed. All things I’d heard in the church. None of which are true. He isn’t about greed, not in us or to us. But He meets our every financial or personal need. He’s generous like that, of such an unending generosity that we could never measure it. When we all get to heaven, it will be a glorious day, but He meant for us to have His glory today. In joy and in peace, the healing of our emotions, but also in the completeness of His eternal, everlasting life. It is not just inside us, but all around us. If we will trust Him and believe it. If we would only not let go.

He is the Shepherd who left the 99 to hunt the one, yet we continually think He leaves the one for the 99. No, He sees you individually. He knows your heart and holds your future and desires for you to see how big, how wonderful it is, with Him in it. Nothing we can come up with will ever match Him, and this needs to be in our thinking all the time. When it is, then we will not doubt. It will become foreign to us, as it is to me that anyone anywhere cannot be healed of anything. What God did for me, much of which I didn’t even ask Him to do, He will do for anyone. His love is that grand, that deep, that wide, that high.

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;” (Psalms 103:2-4)

“And I pray that you, rooted and transformed by love, will have your minds enabled (together with all the saints) to grasp how immense, and wide, and long, and deep, and high is the love of Christ.” (Ephesians 3:17-18, Remedy)

“Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.” (Ephesians 5:2 MSG)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
www.feelgoodromance.com