Mission Statement:
Raising a generation of true God-lovers that live to destroy God’s loneliness.
What do you mean by “Living To destroy God’s Loneliness”?
Did you know that in the Bible God talked about being heartbroken by the unfaithfulness of His bride? Or that He expressed feelings of loneliness as He was forgot about by His chosen people?
I believe God’s original and ultimate purpose for mankind was to provide a family for Himself and a Bride for Christ. In Ephesians 1:4-5 we see that even before the foundations of the earth were laid God had already chose us to be the focus of His love and to be adopted into His family. By choosing to make us the focus of His love, God, in His sovereignty, chose to enter into a vulnerable love relationship with us. Thus making Himself susceptible to rejection and all the emotions that come with it. Lack of understanding of God’s emotional heart and His intense desire has led to a mass abandonment of the divine intimate relationships we were created for. Therefore, this message is an effort to awaken a generation to the depth of heart level relationship we are intended to share with God.
This fresh revelation will open your eyes to view God in a way you never have before. You will gain insight into the emotional side of God that experiences sadness, hurt, and loneliness caused by the rejection of His beloved creation, as well as the ecstasy, joy, and rapture caused by our extravagant love towards Him. The truth of our impact on God’s heart will train you to be a student of His emotions as you come to understand our position to be either God’s greatest joy, or His greatest pain.
This is your invitation to intimacy. Will you join the battle to destroy God’s loneliness?
How It Began:
In 2007 country music legend Ricky Skaggs prophesied that I was to be a communicator for the kingdom of God. Operating in the gift of prophecy he told me to communicate the things that God tells me and not to doubt. Minutes later another prophetess, not hearing what Ricky had previously said, also prophesied over me that I was going to receive words and messages from God. This prophetess prayed that I would have a pen and pad when the messages came, and likened me to a scribe with a feather quill pen documenting and recording the holy messages and words from God. And again, for a third time all in one night, another minister told me he received the words “profound evangelism” for my life. He told me that I would receive profound messages “so from God that they would cause people to be taken aback and overcome.” None of these prophets had heard what the others had said. That night I received three similar prophecies from three separate sources all within a single hour.
And sure enough these messages from God began to come. In such a way I completely understood the words of Jeremiah when he said, “…his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot” (Jeremiah 20:9). These messages from God began to consume my thoughts to the point that it was difficult for me to sleep at night until I found a way to release them to others. So I began to write and preach. And as I shared these messages began to be heard, read and spread by thousands. My materials were sent by others to church groups, used in Bible studies, and even inspired the work of published authors. I started receiving emails from people literally all across the world telling me how the things I had shared had dramatically changed their lives. Yet I believe it was not until I began to publish this message of “living to destroy God’s loneliness” that the prophecies I received in 2007 fully came to pass.
The original inspiration for the concept of this message was not my own personal intellect, but rather was the result of a series of personal intimate encounters that I shared with the Lord. The implications of what the Lord said to me during these encounters left my mind reeling as I began to catch a glimpse of the quality and depth of relationship we were created to share with God. I was overwhelmed by many of the concepts now parading through my mind as a result of our conversations. It seemed unfathomable and to good to be true. I had never heard anyone preach on or even allude to the ideas that now threatened to altar the entire paradigm through which I viewed God. I wanted to believe what He was showing me, but I was having difficulty wrapping my mind around this idea of an intimate, relational and emotional God. If I was going to believe something so radical and life changing than I was going to have to see Biblical proof first. So I began to humbly plead with God, “Lord, everything you’ve said resonates with me deep in my heart, but if I’m going to preach this message than I’m going to need you to show me the proof of it in your Word. If I don’t have strong scriptural backing and support than I can’t accept these things as truth.” The Holy Spirit gladly responded to my request. He began to gently guide me through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation giving me the scriptural foundation that I needed in order to have confidence in this message.
Living to destroy God’s loneliness: for the past 5 years this phrase has been my life’s (and ministry’s) motto. It has caused many a people to ponder this idea of God’s loneliness. The World English Dictionary defines loneliness as, “unhappy as a result of being without the companionship of others: a lonely man.” Now according to that definition is God lonely? Well the seemingly obvious answer would be no. He has the other members of the God head, not to mention all the saints already in Heaven, and of course those of us still on earth that have chosen an intimate relationship with Him. He is not alone. He is a self sufficient, all encompassing, omnipotent God. He is His own Trinitarian Community (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), and it is not a lonely community. However, I think the error occurs when people mistakenly assume that since God is omnipotent that He must not have any desires, wants or emotions. That is not at all the image the Bible paints of God.
The Bible says that God yearns for us. The word yearn means to “long for intensely.” In His sovereignty God chose to make us the focus of His love, thus making himself susceptible to rejection and all of the emotions that accompany it. In the Bible God even went so far as to describe Himself as being heart broken due to a failure to experience the quality of relationship that He desired to share with His bride. And the term “heart broken” is not a paraphrase of mine, the literal translation from the original text is exactly that: heart broken. Yes, the self sufficient, all encompassing, omnipotent God of the universe experiences heartbreak. Furthermore, He experiences heartbreak due to a lack of intimacy with us.
God purposely chose to make it so that we have the ability to directly affect His heart and emotions. He purposely chose to make us the focus of His love and the apple of His eye. He purposely chose to make us His bride. In fact, it’s why we were created in the first place and natural history culminates there. As His bride we have the ability to be either His greatest joy, or His greatest pain. Again, because He purposely chose to make it that way. So if we take the definition of loneliness and focus it to say “unhappy as a result of being without the companionship of your bride: a lonely groom.” Then that definition would be an accurate description of our bridegroom God that is so often forced to live without the intimacy of His deeply desired bride (us). The loneliness that we have all experienced in our desire for committed love is but a pale reflection of the searing longing He feels for intimacy with us. Not out of His need, for He has no need, but out of His passionate desire.
I believe many people understand God as Father, and that many understand the Holy Spirit as our teacher, counselor, and friend. But unfortunately many people have neglected and rejected knowing Jesus as husband. Maybe not consciously, but their lifestyles reveal a failure to acknowledge the emotions of Christ, and a lack of understanding of the personality of Jesus. I don’t believe it is intentional, but rather a lack of knowledge on the subject. Whenever some people, especially men, hear the term “bride of Christ” it makes them uncomfortable. They can’t wrap their minds around the concept of being a male and being a bride. And since they don’t understand it they just ignore it. And so this fulfilling, life changing revelation gets thrown to the wayside. That’s why I preach what I preach: to explain in simple, easy to understand language the emotional heart of God, the original and eternal purposes for mankind, God’s relentless pursuit and undying desire for us, and what it means and practically looks like to live as the bride of Christ.
It is not coincidence that you are reading these words. God is wooing you and desiring to speak to your heart. Hosea 2:14 says, “Behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.” God is wanting to speak to you like a man speaks to his lady when they walk away from the party into the garden. He is drawing you to a place where He can speak to you intimately. Go with Him into the wilderness and listen with your heart. God is giving you an invitation to intimacy with Him.
The message of this ministry is ultimately a call to action and will radically change the way you live your life. So prepare for your heart to ignite into a brazen passion as we set sail into the battle to destroy God’s loneliness!
