The Pleasure of God

Man thinks he should rearrange his church service to capture My heart. Does he know what captures My heart? If I am not displeased should Man seek to please Me? Should he take away what is old, and that which old people are accustomed to because he thinks I am bored? Or is it he, Man, who is bored?

Because Man senses that something is missing in church, he seeks out the replacement. Man should seek out My heart. There he would find that which brings joy to Me. I look upon a sin-torn world and carry its grief. No man could do this for Me. Yet there are daily occurrences in life that bring Me joy. A child’s smile; a father teaching his son how to build a fort; a mother holding her mother’s hand as they cross the street together; young people on their wedding day . . . Your heart sings as does Mine when I behold goodness in this dark and evil time.

Do I ask you to change your church service? No, I ask only for your love. I see your love in your songs of worship, in prayers for each other and meeting each other’s needs. I listen as you break the bread of Life, My Word. I am awed and show respect when that which is Spirit is yielded to; as a father smiles at his son who does his word, so do I.

A church glorifies its Head by being a body, healthy, and functioning with purpose. It is My Spirit which supplies both of these; health and function. If a man will love Me, he will love his brother, and the body will be built up by each joint supplying the needs of the body, as it has need. Each man, woman and child will be set in their place, doing what the Head says and purposes to do. Then I am come, in My fullness and glory. This is what I am looking for.

“What about the miracles, the power and glory of your presence?” you ask. Did My Son do anything of His own? Did He not follow Me, His Father, even as you follow Him? In following My Son Jesus, how can you be other than His image? How can you prophesy your own words, or build your own ministry? You cannot, except you walk independently of My Son. This is My grief, that some say My name yet do not follow Me. They go out ahead, and speak presumptuous words. But their words will fall to the ground and what they build will fall with them.

I want to be glorified in the sons I have begotten. They are brothers and sisters of My Son who went first, Jesus. You will see My sons as lights in a dark world. They give Me pleasure. They wait on Me and love My word, performing My words and acts. They seek Me and find Me acceptable, taking no offense with Me. Shall I not send power to confirm their words when they speak what they have heard from Me? Shall I not open their eyes to the works they were predestined to do? Would I not be less than a god, to expect Man to do mighty works under his own power? But I am more of a god than Man can imagine with his mind. I shall prove Myself to Man in his church and come in My glory, and he shall be undone. His joints will sigh and his heart grow faint within him. It will be a great contrast to the sensation he imagines My presence to bring. And yet I will not take Man’s breath away, for I love him.