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And once we
know how, we may touch Him immediately and constantly."
This message sparked a flood of questions, asking: "How do we touch Him
immediately and constantly?" To those who hunger and thirst for Him,
here is the reply, although the answer is still not going to satisfy
those looking for a method. May God grant us revelation.
"And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from
Him and healed them all" (Luke 6:19).
"And now, little children, abide in Him" (I John 2:28a).
This is the way many church services operate. We go here and there
hoping to touch something of the power of God, or the presence of
God. Many times we do in fact touch something or receive something
from the Lord - not because of the meeting, but in spite of the
meeting. Even so, that touch does not last for very long. It is a
touch, it is not the Living Christ. Soon we begin checking the
calendar for the next meeting, gathering, conference, or church
service so we can go back and get another touch. This represents
something lacking in our walk.
I have been in many meetings where the worship leaders spent a great
deal of time and energy trying to get people to "enter in" to worship
or "enter in" to the presence of God. Sometimes, it can be very frustrating for the
Worship Team. Perhaps they enter in; perhaps they do not enter in. Either way, this
struggle to "enter in" only proves one thing: neither the worship leaders nor the
worshippers are abiding in Christ.
"He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God,
and he shall go out no more" (Revelation 3:12a). Overcomers do not
go to church to enter in to God; they do not require worship leaders
to get them in the mood; they do not follow the multitudes around
hoping to get a touch from the Lord. Overcomers are pillars in the
Church that Jesus is building. They are permanent fixtures in the
temple and they do not go out and in. They simply abide in Him.
I need Him as much today as I ever have. How about you? Apart from
Him I can do nothing. Is this your experience also, or do you still
think there are many things you can do without Him? I am still in
need of His Life, and Love, and Grace, and Mercy in order to live.
Are you that much different from me? I think not. We all approach
Him the same way.
To touch the living Christ we must first believe that He is, in fact,
the living Christ. He is not dead. He is not a historical figure
from two thousand years ago. He is not a mystical presence dwelling
somewhere in the far reaches of the universe. He is not a system of
theology or a doctrinal statement. He is not something I enter in to
when I go to religious meetings, and something I leave when I go
home. He is the Living Lord Who lives in me now, Who lives through
me now, Who is with me everywhere I go.