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All that you are looking for you have found

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  • Jun 7, 2023
  • 7 min read

Updated: Mar 6

To be honest, my desire to see the kingdom would likely overwhelm me from the very beginning if it were to come to pass – with misunderstanding, fear, and a host of other feelings, likely dropping me to my knees and making me wonder why I requested such a thing. I am grateful for the protection of my being from the desires of my heart.

Yet, I believe in the possibility of seeing You without this fear; that it is possible to see You without having to hide behind a rock; that You would protect me from all things pure that I might move into purity as I am led in each moment. Why would that not be possible? Would awe and fear overwhelm love? Can love be overwhelmed, or does it overwhelm all? If so, is my love not of the form to overcome all?

I would wish to live as I am yet see and walk with God; is that not possible? Must all flesh die to be in Your presence? These are questions that I have answers for but admit I could be wrong on most. Yet, I think it a true desire. And are not all desires possible?



"You ask unknowing, yet I am overjoyed that you would want to be with Me. As with Moses I am always of the mind to meet the desires of the heart, for they are mine too. I would always be with you; it was My great sacrifice that I would make this so.

Yet there are things of our kingdom that are to be revealed that prevent many desires of the heart from happening in this moment but are removed in moments to come. For now, desire as you will for these desires are of Me, and I would see them fulfilled. They are not wrong; they are true and loving, and I honor them as I honor life.

It is not enough for Me to say have patience, for desire is impatient – it would have, would possess, for that is how it moves. It is never complete, never fulfilled in contentment, for there is always more to have – and I have given you all. It appears repetitive, but desire should never cease: your desire of the kingdom, of Me, is never to cease, never to be fulfilled, but would grow eternally.

It is a grand thing, this desire, that you would grow into the very essence of who you are and never be complete, yet knowing you are complete in Me. Even that thought is overwhelming for you – yet I know you have an understanding of its potential. You see it in all things: the thoughts of the kingdom are not linear in the way you would think ordinarily, and you are aware of this strangeness, yet welcome it. You seek this understanding, and in ways look for it in all you do with Me.

You are becoming part of the kingdom you possess in entirety. You are, and at once, becoming. You are beginning to posses all that you have; you are beginning to see all that would be seen; you are beginning to hear all that you have heard from the beginning; your awareness is opening to all that has always been before you. Keep searching, and desiring, for all that you are looking for you have found."



The Unknown Ask

This word He shares carries beauty and truth. It echoes the heart of God that is revealed throughout Scripture: He is not distant or reluctant, but deeply moved — and overjoyed — when we long for His presence, even if our asking feels imperfect or "unknowing."


The reference to Moses points to Exodus 33, where Moses pleads for God's presence to go with him and the people, and even bolder, to see God's glory. God responds: "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name." [Exodus 33.17] God grants what Moses desires because their hearts align — God's own longing is to dwell closely with His people.


That same desire pulses throughout the Bible: God wants to be with us. From the tabernacle in the wilderness to the incarnation ["the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" — John 1.14], to the promise of the Holy Spirit making His home in us [John 14.23], and ultimately to the new heaven and earth where "the dwelling place of God is with man" [Revelation 21.3]. His great sacrifice — the cross — was precisely so that nothing would separate us from Him anymore [Romans 8.38-39]

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And that pull in your heart to be near Him is not random or one-sided: when we delight in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our heart — often because those desires are shaped by Him and shared with Him. Proverbs 8.17 adds, "I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me diligently find Me." Your wanting Him brings Him joy.


Keep drawing near. He is already delighted in the pursuit, and He has made every provision for "always" to be true.



Keep Desiring — It's a Holy Thing

God honors the true desires of the heart when they align with His nature [as in Psalm 37.4 — delight in the Lord, and He gives the desires of your heart]. Yet their fulfillment isn't always immediately: there are often unseen purposes kingdom that must unfold first. Things are revealed — or removed — in due time, shifting obstacles out of the way for what is good and loving to come into being.


It's encouraging that His message explicitly calls these desires "not wrong; they are true and loving," and God says, "I honor them as I honor life." Desire is not the enemy; it's part of how we're made in His image... alive and yearning. His invitation to "desire as you will" is His permission to keep hoping and longing... yet, all the while resting in the assurance that He is for those desires when they are rooted in Him.


This echoes the stretching seen in Scripture between a present longing and a future fulfillment: His ways and timings are higher, and often involve mysteries yet to be unveiled [Deuteronomy 29.29 — "The secret things belong to the Lord our God"].


Still, He invites us to persist in asking, in seeking, and in knocking — knowing that a good Father delights in giving good gifts. Earthly fulfillments may need to wait or shift, but the deeper hunger — for God Himself — continues to fuel ongoing pursuit, and is satisfied in increasing measure.



An Ever-Unfolding Adventure

At its heart the thought He has shared carries a profound paradox, and even if unseen, it is etched deeply in Christian mystical and theological tradition. He reframes desire not as something to be quenched or suppressed, but as an eternal, ever-increasing hunger that aligns with His own nature... and our created purpose.


On the surface, human desire is restless and unsatisfied — it grasps at things, possesses them, consumes them, and always reaches for more of them. No finite thing can ever fully satisfy the soul.

Yet God overturns that restlessness into something divine: “I have given you all.” In Christ the kingdom is already ours in fullness.


There is no lack in what He provides.


Because the Gift is infinite — as God Himself is infinite — our desire for Him and His kingdom can never reach a constant “enough.” It must eternally grow, deepen, and expand.


This is not frustration or lack — it is the very nature of love and union with Christ. The more we know Him, the more we discover there is to know... so desire intensifies rather than diminishes.


This aligns with classic spiritual insights:

The psalmist's cry: "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God" [Psalm 42.1] — a thirst that never says "I've drunk enough."


Jesus' beatitude: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" [Matthew 5.6]. The filling doesn't end the hunger; it sustains and enlarges it.


Let your desires become pure. Redirect them from the impatient grasping of things that do not bring contentment and serve only to breed anxiety with circumstances. Instead, send them toward the ceaseless, joyful yearning for God and His kingdom... and allow Him to bring them about.


It's a beautiful, freeing reminder that patience is not lack of action. It's endurance. Your impatience is not a flaw that needs fixing. When restlessness is aimed at Him, it becomes the engine of eternal growth in the unfolding adventure of knowing and desiring more of the One who is endlessly fulfilling desire.



The Rhythm of Eternity Breaking Into Time

God's thought is an articulation of one of the most profound paradoxes in the Christian life: being fully complete in God right now, while simultaneously being drawn into an eternal, ever-deepening growth toward becoming who we truly are in Him.


The message captures that divine tension so well: "grow into the very essence of who you are and never be complete, yet knowing you are complete in Me." It's overwhelming because our minds tend to think linearly — finish line, arrival, we're done. But the kingdom operates in a different dimension, where fullness and endless unfolding coexist without contradiction.

This echoes Scripture closely. We're told we are already "complete in Him" [Colossians 2.10], filled with the fullness of God through Christ [Ephesians 3.19], yet we're also urged to press on, to grow up into Him in every way [Ephesians 4.15], to work out our salvation with fear and trembling because God is at work in us [Philippians 2.12–13].

It's as if God is saying: "You already possess all of Me — now let Me unfold more of Myself in you and through you, forever." That "strangeness" is the rhythm of eternity breaking into time: it's possession and pursuit, arrival and journey, wholeness and hunger, all held together in union with Christ.


The fact that this stirs something within — at the recognition of its potential — means the Spirit is already awakening you to live in this reality more fully. Keep welcoming it in all you do with Him; it will lead you deeper into the essence of completeness within.



The Seeking Is The Discovery

At its heart, His word captures the dynamic between "already" and "not yet" that runs through so much of biblical wisdom. You are part of the kingdom, yet you are becoming it more fully — your possession of it is awakening. It's not a distant future, but a deepening realization of what has always been yours.


Jesus phrases it best in Luke 17.21: "The kingdom of God is within you". It's not something to chase externally; it's already present... and internal. Yet the journey involves growing eyes to see it, ears to hear it, and a heart to receive it in its entirety.


The closing line — "Keep searching, and desiring, for all that you are looking for you have found"— beautifully resolves the paradox. It recalls Matthew 7.7 "Keep on seeking, and you will find" and Jeremiah 29.13 "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart".


The seeking doesn't end when the discovery happens; the seeking is the discovery... when sustained by desire.

What you're pursuing has already met you.

 
 
 

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