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The desire of your expansion within Me

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  • Jun 5, 2023
  • 7 min read

Updated: Feb 4

My thoughts are easily swayed by experience: I see a movie about the explosion of Your presence and wonder why that has not happened again in the last 50 years. It seems a momentum builds for something sustainable only to fade away for another season. I wish for it again. Yet I know it may have – I’m just not around where it might be happening, or even aware that it is happening if it were.

But I am reminded continually to trust in You more than trusting in experience; trust that where I am with You is where I should be; trust that what You are revealing now is what I need to know; trust that what I am hearing is not to raise my position within Your presence but to trust the awareness of You within me as sufficient; trust that a walk with You is the culmination of everything I would hope for and not the praise of men; trust that the proof of God in my heart is for Me alone and not for the start of a movement to prove God to someone else. Is it not enough for me just to be with You?



You would think that the increased fulfillment of a walk with Me that you have desired to see for so long would be the greatest happiness for you, the culmination of a lifetime dream. Yet it sounds as if it is not sufficient. That is always an issue with men: having all and wanting more. But there is a difference in wanting all things and wanting Me. Having seen the kingdom in a small way, having seen Me as only just introduced, there is a natural desire for more.

That desire is within your heart, put there by Me. Wanting all of Me is wanting nothing else, yet receiving all of everything else as well. It is love; once felt love seeks for more. Go with this desire, feel free to seek more – for there is no end of possession in this place.

Love has a depth unknown by all, it is never ending, eternal. All other things of desire within My kingdom are the same: is there an end to Wisdom, even in knowing all of Me? Is there an end to Prosperity even though all things of prosperity have been given to you? Should your desire for the kingdom, for Me, ever end even though contentment abounds in the current place?

Eternity would say not. It is as seen within the universe: it expands into what? Is there an end to what it expands into, or is it eternal, as all of My creations? You desire more of Me, and you are beginning to see something else as well: that you desire more of a presence within Me. It is the desire of your expansion within Me and not so much the desire of My movement within the ways of men. I will move, and do move, that men may discover their way within Me. I am moving among men – would I not respond with all to meet this desire?

Wherever men seek to discover Me I will be found; whenever men desire to hear My voice I will be heard. And whenever men would wish to see Me move among them I will – for I always have; it is My great desire to do so. Be of confidence this is happening within your life as well, even if unseen. Your desires, as we have spoken many times, even just recently, are being met in ways you do not see and do not understand, yet have hoped to know for years. Trust that this will continue so that all of Me will always be your first desire. And that in having all of Me you will come to discover all of you within Me.

You would think that the increased fulfillment of a walk with Me that you have desired to see for so long would be the greatest happiness for you, the culmination of a lifetime dream. Yet it sounds as if it is not sufficient. That is always an issue with men: having all and wanting more. But there is a difference in wanting all things and wanting Me. Having seen the kingdom in a small way, having seen Me as only just introduced, there is a natural desire for more.
That desire is within your heart, put there by Me. Wanting all of Me is wanting nothing else, yet receiving all of everything else as well. It is love; once felt love seeks for more. Go with this desire, feel free to seek more – for there is no end of possession in this place.

God acknowledges the very real experience many believers have with Him: after years of longing within the "walk" there is finally an encounter with His presence... and yet, instead of total satisfaction, there is this pull for even more. It could seem almost ungrateful, but He reframes it beautifully:


that hunger isn't a flaw — it's God-placed, holy, and purposeful.


The key distinction it draws — "wanting all things" vs. "wanting Me" — cuts right to the core of spiritual maturity: when desire is centered on Him alone ["wanting all of Me is wanting nothing else"], everything else flows as the byproduct, not as the goal.


"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

— Matthew 6.33

Love has a depth unknown by all, it is never ending, eternal. All other things of desire within My kingdom are the same: is there an end to Wisdom, even in knowing all of Me? Is there an end to Prosperity even though all things of prosperity have been given to you? Should your desire for the kingdom, for Me, ever end even though contentment abounds in the current place?

God is sharing a profound truth: His nature — and everything that flows from His kingdom — is infinite, borderless, and inexhaustible. It is the heartbeat of eternity itself.


He says that love has "a depth unknown by all" because it originates in Him, who is love. Human love can reach a limit, but divine love expands forever. There is always more horizon.


Paul prayed for believers to "comprehend... what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge".

— Ephesians 3.18–19


We are invited to know what surpasses knowing. It's discovering, experiencing — and never arriving to a final destination.


The same infinite quality — the idea that there is always more horizon — applies to Wisdom [knowing God fully] and Prosperity [the abundance of His kingdom]. Even when we've been given "all things" in Christ there is no ceiling.


Wisdom isn't a finite database we exhaust — even beholding all of God reveals ever-new facets of His glory.


Prosperity in the kingdom isn't mere material accumulation; it's the overflowing life of God Himself, where provision — with joy, peace, and fruitfulness — multiply without depletion.


"He who did not spare his own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?"

— Romans 8.32




This is the paradox of walking with Him: contentment in His presence is real — yet fuels the hunger for more.


It's not a flaw.

It's by design.


It's an engine of growth, intimacy, and eternal progression into the fullness of the Kingdom... of Him.


Wanting all of Him means receiving everything else as an overflow of abundance, without end.


In His kingdom desire is never complete, and never diminishes...


it intensifies even more into an ever-richer bonding with Him.


"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end."

— Ecclesiastes 3:11

Wherever men seek to discover Me I will be found; whenever men desire to hear My voice I will be heard. And whenever men would wish to see Me move among them I will – for I always have; it is My great desire to do so. Be of confidence this is happening within your life as well, even if unseen. Your desires, as we have spoken many times, even just recently, are being met in ways you do not see and do not understand, yet have hoped to know for years. Trust that this will continue so that all of Me will always be your first desire. And that in having all of Me you will come to discover all of you within Me.

God is not distant or elusive, but eagerly responds to human seeking. Jeremiah 29.13 — "You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart."


Yet now He expands these words into a greater assurance: He more than responds to discovery or hearing — He is actively moving among people, to be visibly at work in their lives.


This should feel particularly comforting, for it acknowledges how often His activity seems hidden among the daily noise, doubt, and waiting of life. Yet it also seems to insist on confidence anyway, as if faith itself is the means that begins to make the invisible visible.


In a world of spiritual dryness and disconnection it should also feel deeply encouraging. It's not primarily about our effort in earning God's attention — it's about His eternal desire to meet our seeking. Wherever there is genuine hunger — whether for discovery, a clear word, or a tangible sign — He says, "It is My great desire to do so."


Our seeking meets His revealing desire. And even when we can't perceive it yet, we can trust it's unfolding..."for I always have."


"Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known."

— Jeremiah 33.3


 
 
 

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