The Delight of Devotion w/ Eric Gilmour

I am Liz right welcome to live your best life the only thing that matters now is living by the power of this wonderful new creation life we're going to become an undefeatable force of radiating glory and we are rising up strong now in this hour this show is all about empowering you to rise up strong what does live your best life mean it obviously it means living is a new creation the very strength of your life being the power of Christ now residing within I believe though there are challenges all over the world right now and challenges in your life challenges nationally internationally we need Jesus like never before and my guest on the show today I am super excited about this I'm so honored the person that I'm going to be having a conversation with today is one of my favorite people on the planet he is my twin brother in many ways when we ministered together we both which you'll hear about him too we both tend to say the same he wouldn't say this about himself but I can tell you from driving in cars with him and speaking with him that he has a spirit of ore on him he really does have the fear of the Lord he has an aura about him in how he relates to God he had he has a purity and a holiness on his life that literally is contagious so I encourage as we as we dive into this conversation I really encourage you to just if you can wherever you're set back and just drink in the beauty of what drips from my brothers spirit because it's going to change your life so let's just dive in my guest today is the awesome Eric Gilmour I'm so honored welcome welcome so happy that you're on with me you know I'm such a big fan but I'm getting you on in the nations because of its it's not it's about who you are you know it's your authentic life is releasing the authentic Jesus and I think that's the moment we're in so I want to give maximum time obviously this is a conversation not an interview you know we're probably but it's really about you know everybody in the nations right now we're rising together it's not one or two we are all needed to shine the nature of Jesus in this hour so the nuggets you carry about intimacy with Jesus about the power that comes from a devoted life of sitting at his feet you have language I know you would never say this about myself it is so humble but many people like a new - aw Tozer you know I know you love him but there's a there's a gift of language of communication it's on you for the edification of the body in this hour that's essential we need who you are and so family just engage your spirits Eric whatever is in your heart please share it please share it sure well for me the route of a devoted life is love when I fell in love with my wife she captivated my heart and I surrendered to her my devotion my commitment and Jesus is that the same way when I fell in love with him I gladly surrendered the rights of my life to him just in response to the beauty of his nature character and person so to me devotion is far less of a discipline as it is a delight his beautiful face the sound of his voice his infinite charms they pulled me towards him he's enchanting in all all the ways that he reveals himself whatever facet of his being he shows me I see another glimpse of his beauty and each one of these things pull me towards him and fulfills me in a way that nothing else can so in that I define devotion being captivated by all that he is in in who he is and so for me a devoted life is a love centered it's his his beauty centered and I my heart breaks for people who have become like Christian drones who have just a language without love and and they are focused on calculations more than adoration it it's it's a sad thing because they miss the Bliss of life I often say when people ask me what's missing in Christianity because they feel incomplete I say what's missing is the kissing they don't have the sweet love exchange and this is has all kinds of negative effects in my life and in anybody else's life who doesn't have sweet intimate direct loving contact with him consistently I find that a lot of parts in me start dying when I stop touching him when there isn't a direct interactive exchange with him there's a lot of things that start becoming stale stale is a really good word because we can keep our language the same but it doesn't ring or taste the same as it used to and and I think you would agree with me that oh the danger of the intimacy movement is that a lot of people have only adopted the language of the intimacy movement and they have skipped going behind closed doors themselves and memorized a Christian vocabulary or a intimate vocabulary and have not this sweet intimate love exchange that you and I cherish so much without it we're finished yeah so that that's kind of what's what's been on my heart yeah and it's so essential you can and I'm sure you're feeling the same thing at the moment there's this yearning in Heart of Jesus that I'm feeling he's drawing us to himself he's longing for us to know his heart to understand reality as he sees it and tippi but it's it's like I'm feeling Jesus wanting to rest his head in our hearts to share this the deep things of his heart with us the look he's drawing us into a greater capacity to to be consumed by a relationship with him do are you feeling that yes very much so I'm finding people in different parts of the world that I've been going to are having the same sense a drawing a literal a pull towards him a magnet a magnetic pull towards his person yeah yeah yeah I'm really feeling that so it's so share if you would can we can we get inside your relationship with Jesus a bit sure and sort of how because obviously lots of the family listening right now they don't know many people I get asses when I'm on the road Lots you know half the how and you have so much rich teaching about this from what how Jesus has taught you directly and what you've learned from the Scriptures sitting with him it's the how-to how do I prioritize his presence how do I feel his presence so for you in this hour right now how are you leaning into him what does it look like for you to say to just sit at his feet and adore him newness of life yeah well there is a phrase that has been coming up in my heart recently and it's by Charles Spurgeon the the phrase is a question and it says how can a stone rise and this in and of itself has so much inside of it this statement because we know that a stone has no life I mean it cannot rise and I've never seen a stone walking around you know it's completely dead and unable to breathe or move or feel and I think what's urgent is saying is that the recognition of our personal independent inability to perform anything is the secret he follows a statement by saying o raise me Lord I'm saying this to say that I think that what a lot of people sabotage their prayer lives by going and trying to make something happen not realizing there's nothing you can do it's rest it's bankruptcy its dependency oh I need you to want you I need you to love you I need you to quicken me I'm I'm unable to manipulate you or make something happen myself for me this has been fresh in my own life when I come to be with the Lord and even throughout the day I've been recognizing Oh Lord how can a stone rise it cannot but raise me Lord I look to your spirit to quicken me to life that I might love you and that I might give you the attention that you deserve Lord so I to me I've been finding a secret fresh in my life is bankruptcy utter dependency I need you Lord I just read today in the Psalms where the scripture says he erases the poor and he lifts the needy and to me this is so beautiful the lifting of the Lord he grabs you and he picks you up when you're needy and poor he raises the poor I think there's a difference between being poor and needy being poor means I don't have anything needy is I not only do I recognize I don't have anything but I recognize I need you yeah and so for me these two things are very special it's how I'm lifted up but by the Lord into the Lord I need you Jesus ah I'm feeling the presence of the Lord is for you I just received I'm Leyna such a full life right now anointing it's the luring people into this place of humility actually of reality hmm I you when you were speaking Eric I kept that holy sprit just kept showing me the Shulamite in Song of Solomon II yes just realizing the wisdom of leaning you know we come out of the wilderness leaning we mustn't fear the weaknesses that we have and and the second that the difficulties of life you know Psalm 91 and you know and and there's life this the posture of the heart that if we would just say yes and let go right now and come back to his feet the glory is exquisite beliefs experience it's ahead of us that he's taking us into because like you said we can't get ourselves that right we're a spoon but it will just go yeah and let go he's gonna take us into the life of Leaning yeah would you agree with that yeah that way it sounds like that's where you'll ask well that's what I'm seeing to be it's almost a secret door that only the humble enough to be able to say lord I need you remember the two men that Jesus talked about who came to pray and the the first man says I thank you God that I'm not like these other people I fast twice a week I you know give money and the Lord is not happy with his prayer even though he's thanking the Lord and recognizing the things that he's doing it's all about him all about himself what he's doing for the Lord even his gratitude is tainted by a self-centeredness I thank you that I'm not like him but the second man he says oh Lord he beats his chest and he says oh lord have mercy upon me and he he won't even so much as lift his eyes up because he recognizes that God is so much greater than him the Lord is pleased with this men I'm not trying to say we should grovel on the ground but I think it's pointing to a recognition that I don't have anything here you have everything I think this is the secret of what Jesus is even saying about receiving spirit in Luke 11:13 he says if if a child asks a father for something specific he's not gonna give them something else right right and then he says but the father will give the Holy Spirit to all who ask and I think this word ask is very important because it means I don't I recognize that I don't have this in and of myself and that I need it from you yeah I think it's so small but it's so important because the Lord teaches the humble his way yeah it's a huge key that Eric I can feel the weightiness of the Lord on that so there's a grace of people to hear this at the moment as he's breathing fresh revelation into you guys out there right now just really hear that key the simplicity of asking and a posture of humility that you say of realizing that it's all him sure sure it's all him he's supposed to be a life of uninterrupted unhindered union with him right where he is our source of love and power of goodness purity holiness where he's filling us increasingly and ever-expanding you know in his nature as we enjoy him thank you in here you know through whoo-hoo I can feel you Jesus thank you he's just stripping away religion right now from people's hearts and simplifying us right do you see that and then like he's simplifying us back into this simple life of devotion like you said before you know just out of that busyness of a way to pray and ways to live a good Christian life where we're striving to be good people you know nuts it's a noble value it's not the highest way you know he what it's the life of surrender and I think for some people I know I get asked this you probably do as well people don't know how to let go for some people you know it's it's that sort of tension isn't it of between the abdication of responsibility and their relinquishment of control into the one who is continually in control so he becomes the source of our strength so it doesn't mean that we stop being responsible it like in life it means we flow from a different source of power and strength and wisdom and capacity and I think that's one of the things he's getting is to certainly through the message that you're carrying they're coming back you know if we'll be brave enough right now to just come back and say yes and and say okay I am going to sit at your feet Jesus I am going to hand the reins of my life to you and trust you that you will direct my part you will direct me and you will show up you know so this is I would just love you to speak into the house just like maybe either because I shall speak in air it was importation happening people oh I can feel it you guys are taking people from striving into rest yes I know how this just is a supernatural grace to move it doesn't need to be an intellectual process right it's an experience of the heart doctor faith ignites that grace floods through us and we schlepped posture internally back into rest and then his spirit starts to be the source of everything that we are that right what I'm feeling he's doing as you're speaking mm-hmm I totally agree with you okay I don't see anything more responsible than giving the responsibility to God it's like I recognize there are responsible he's given to me so I need to give them to you in order for them to get done so that it's from him to him through him yeah so one of the keys to that helps me enter into the sweetness of his presence even this morning as I sat there i I just went into what I like to call adoration I say adoration because when I say worship people immediately think music but I feel when you say adoration it's something deeper than sounds it's something deeper than even expression adoration to me is heart upon heart lord I I give over to you my emotions my mind my will I worship you to me worship is a major key to experiencing the presence of the Lord to quote CS Lewis he said God communicates his presence to men in the process of being worshipped there's David again Eric that's powerful God communicates his presence to men in the process of being worshipped there there seems to be like a receptivity that opens when the soul adores Jesus once the soul gets its eyes off of itself and looks unto the Lord there seems to be an opening up of perceptibility or receptivity of the presence of Jesus and so for me this is very key I practice this every day not just in my times of prayer but also throughout the day living in prayer I'm just continually letting my heart go up unto Him sneaking away for a moment to just give sweet nothings to him lord I I just love you I long for you I enjoy your presents and be with me help me with these little things so that even if you're making spaghetti for the kids or or if you're washing dishes yeah these little love flares going up to him fill our souls with empowerment and sweetness it's almost as if you maintain the sweet sense of his presence by continually looking unto his beauty throughout the day and when you're away from everybody else so I would I would really say that adoration is a how-to for me it's a go-to for me because I see its subjectivity adoration is me taking my proper place and giving him his proper place you are worthy of all Lord Jesus it's just this is a life-changing key for people many people right now because this is the true walk of the bride isn't it you know Jesus died to bring forth a new creation that would look exactly like him that's who we are this is our best light this is the new creation reality and we're learning in this hour how to live like this and I love your language Eric and the simplicity of your walk so this is how you protect your connection your experiential connection in your interior life a secret place of your heart our commune with God this is how you do it every day yes very much so in the midst of sharing that oh you you're welcome it's so precious to me I know it's very pretty changing everywhere I can feel it I can feel it the Lord is so happy like he's so happy right now I'm going down oh I'm gonna cry I can move his heart he's like you saying thank you but sharing thanks cuz this is the whole point this was what was in his heart when he was on the cross yes we were the joy the hope that was set before him the vision that he had before the foundation of the earth right was us this we are the point of all of creation our relationship with it's him it's Jesus getting the design part which was a people that work Oh Raymond in forever and this is how we grow in this reality isn't it how we transform with every unfolding revelations point through our heart in this place you're describing Erik as we close this this time together can you just do your relationship with Jesus withers and just take us into this place like however the Lord leads you to pray for us just to facilitate this experience because I can feel family Jesus is on this moment I'm sure you can feel this he's on this moment to change your life no matter how intimately you've already connected to Jesus or if you have never felt his presence he's gonna bring you out of striving and struggle and fear and pain and feeling desensitized and disconnected into this sweet bliss that you're talking of merit that is the purpose of the cross that we would know is love and be able to release that voluntary love back to him right which is the reward of his sufferings are voluntary long it's true authentic love that releases power in the earth we don't do it to release permeate that's just going to be a byproduct right of our intimacy because he's God and he's leaking out of our life as we just look at him it's the most intelligent thing we'll ever do with our life and it's the most glorious and it's our honor and privilege so well you just well you just be Eric and with Jesus right now and just help us to go there sure I I did this with a woman the other day she was asking me about how to experience the presence of the Lord so I just told her I said just close your eyes right right there do this right now yeah yeah just close your eyes right where you are just take a deep breath in to relax just breathe in and breathe out just sit here for a second now just ask the Holy Spirit to take you above all your concerns just say Holy Spirit take me above all of these concerns I say this with me say Holy Spirit take me above my responsibilities say Holy Spirit take me above my fears take me above my questions take me above my need for explanations take me above all these things that have been taught to me and let me see Jesus and then right here just with your own words just begin to say how much you love him how grateful you are to him oh Jesus how much I love you I worship you you are worthy there is no one like you I worship you and in prayer this right here you're hitting the bull's eye this is the mark just sustaining the sweet sense of his presence no matter how slight it may be just holding it dear cherishing it that he is with you this is also what will open your ears to hear him this is also will open up your ability to perceive visions or whatever he may want to bring you into it is also here that the Word of God comes alive just lingering with him and enjoying the sweetness father thank you for every person watching and I pray that you would lift them up into the sweetness of your presence that they would find you in personal experience lifted into joy and peace that is promised to us in the holy spirit precious Holy Spirit I'm asking you that you would open our eyes the eyes of our inner man to see the Lamb of God and be blinded by his light rays bring us all into a deeper enjoyment of your person a deeper love for your presence in your voice in your mighty name family I just encourage you as you as we close out today's show just take this moment this is your moment to stay with Jesus when you're finished with him for this little bit of time for now just just anybody that you know that needs the content of this show that needs strengthening right now we're all rising together in this hour we're closing rank around each other we're coming forth of shining ones in this hour just begin to rate review subscribe share and your social media the cut this program just get it out because we are coming for this really is our finest hour where we're coming back to the Fiji is everything that eric has said others this is God's heart for us in this moment we don't need to yeah we are from another realm we're learning to live in Christ from heaven into the earth to release his reign and yeah to just drip God everywhere we go he's gonna take care of us he's faithful and true and he's very good at being God so character thank you thank you so much for being with me we love you love to the family and yeah and thank you everybody for being with us supporter being you with you next I'm glad [Music]

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Published: Mon May 11 2020