Sid: My guest Brian Lake is teaching on a subject the best way to understand the subject is to know the name of his book “Romancing the King, the Devine romance between God and man.” And he talks about the book of Esther, but he talks about having a heart for intimacy with God. Brian what came first, the chicken or the egg. In other words, does God call us into intimacy or do we push for it so that we have intimacy?
Brian: For me Sid, you know when I was a young boy, you know when I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior you know that intimacy with Him is always available to anybody no matter where they come from, what happened to them; it doesn’t matter He created us Sid for worship and for intimacy. He created us for someone to fellowship with and we don’t realize that the creator of the Universe desires our fellowship. And like I said, it doesn’t matter who we are or where we came from, it’s the Creator’s desire to fellowship with us, He wants us more than we realize; and once we realize that we can have such a blessed life that where our life is you know prospering you know in the natural and spiritually just because through that intimacy with Him. And I said earlier that as we press into Him instead of pressing into the things that we need, if we press into Him first, all those things that we need just begin to happened. And that’s what happened in my life.
Sid: What would you say to the person that says “Well, I work hard all day, I pray in the morning before I go to work and at night I just kind a like to relax and watch TV, not bad TV, but just just watch TV and unwind rather than spend time in intimacy with God. Is it wrong? What would you say?
Brian: Well, from my opinion from my experience I cannot afford not to spend time with Him, I have to lay TV down. I’ve been sitting watching TV for an example and God spoke to me during one of my favorite shows and says, “I want to spend time with you.” So it’s a test to me with Him, do I really want to have a relationship with Him or would I rather feed my natural man?
Sid: Well, it’s almost idolatry in a sense, anything that takes away from intimacy with the King.
Brian: Absolutely, and let me share this Sid, I had a vision sometime ago where Jesus appeared to me. I was actually sitting in my office, I was home alone by myself and had my little dog at my feet, he was setting there and I was playing on the computer and I felt this presence enter my office door and the dog felt it too because he jumped up and turned and looked. Now in the natural I didn’t see anything, but in my Spirit I’d seen a man standing there in a white robe. From that experience that week I had more visions actually, and Jesus appeared to me in this vision and the only way I could describe it was like it looked like a hotel room hallway where the walls were deteriorating, it smelled, it was old run down, the carpet was ugly, torn and He begins to lead me down this hallway. And later found out that He was showing me the rooms of the heart, what’s inside our heart; what’s really inside of us. And He took me down this hallway in this old building, opened the door of each one of these rooms and each one of these rooms was filled with something else. One room was filled with all these TV sets, you know entertainment, and you know a lot of people fill their hearts with entertainment, watching TV, you know unbalanced. And we went to another room and we opened the door and in that room was like a party atmosphere, people was you know drinking, and doing all these things and their just a party people, hollering and you know smoking and all this kind of stuff. And He took me down to another room, opened that room and that door to that room there was a guy sitting in there polishing his trophies, all these awards that he won in his life. He was you know all excited, but I remember one thing specifically, when we opened that door, Jesus opened that door, that guy turned and looked at Jesus opening that door and just smiled and grinned and turned back around and began to polish those trophies again. Jesus was at his door of his heart but he chose you know the things of the world. But the most profound thing that He showed me when we got at the end of the hallway after looking at all these rooms, Jesus looked at me with a tear running down His face and He said, “Brian, there’s no room in this heart for me.” I mean He was sad, and I believe that people have filled there hearts up with so many other things that there is no room for the King of kings, now what do we have in our heart? Do we have Jesus, I remember, actually when my son Jordan was just a young boy, probably four or five years old, he come running into my living room with a flashlight and he said, “Daddy, daddy” and he gave me the flashlight, he said, “Here look down my throat, can you see Jesus in my heart?”
Sid: Huh!
Brian: So it has to be that real to us that we have to put Him first. You know the Bible says, in Psalms 27 “One thing that I desire.” And so many people are desiring other things, and we need to desire Him first. And I know people are probably thinking, “Well, I enjoy doing this, or I like to doing this or that, you know it would take up my time.” But when you put Him first, He gives you those things, and they fit into your life, but we got to put Him first.
Sid: Is it a matter of just willing to do it, I mean sometimes these habits are very strong and they’re hard to break like watching TV till you fall asleep.
Brian: Yeah, I mean you have to have to want Him, sometimes, you know there is sometimes Sid that I just physically don’t feel like you know going to my prayer closet, so I may go in there and begin to worship Him by faith. But it comes to a place that it breaks through, you know He’ll stand back sometimes but the bible says you know if we’ll draw near to Him He’ll draw near to us. So sometimes we have to begin to draw near to Him and He’ll draw near to us.
Sid: You told me about vision of Jesus that changed your life forever, tell me about that.
Brian: Yeah, well the rooms of the heart was one of those visions that changed my life, because when He spoke to me and showed me that when we got to the end of that hall, when He was crying with a tear running down His face I realized how important it was for Him to have our hearts. And when I go to different places I tell the people and I see it so much that peoples’ lives are consumed with other things in this world and that’s how the devil lures us in you know he creates all these things and temps us with this stuff and you know all this stuff. And a lot of times we take that, but He’s wanting us because I really believe you know the end times are coming sooner than we realize, and I believe through that relationship and times that we’re living in right now we have to have that intimacy with Him, we have to spend time with Him fellowshipping, create success in our life.
Sid: But I have to ask you a question how in the world are you a father, you travel with your family, you do ministry, you don’t take any money for it and you run some businesses, how do you have time to worship God.
Brian: Well, the more time I sow into God the more time He gives me, if that makes sense.
Sid: It certainly makes sense to me, you know that’s worth repeating again, would you do that?
Brian: Well, the more time I sow with Him the more time he actually gives me. See what we’re trying to do is, we’re trying to build all of our schedule through the day you know and try to fit God in here when we should be you know spending time with Him, building our schedule around that. Putting Him first it goes back to putting Him first.
Sid: If I forced you to give us, your whole book is filled with keys for intimacy with God, what is the primary key for intimacy with God?
Brian: It’s setting that time aside with Him, basically I call going on a date with God. You know because when I was dating my wife years ago you know I would set everything else aside so I could be with her. The same thing with God, we have to set everything else aside, even when we don’t feel like it Sid, to spend time with Him and I believe there’s healing…
Sid: Now when you think about it, if you really believe that Jesus was coming to your house, what house could be close to wanting to do beyond a date with Jesus?
Brian: Absolute, yeah and one of the things that I do is that I try to create an atmosphere in my home to attack the presence of God, because the Holy Spirit is grieved when we’re when our family’s are cussing in their home, hollering or fighting or different things like that it grieves the Holy Spirit. So in my home, 24 hours a day seven days a week we play worship music creating an atmosphere that a tracks God and attracts angels to come into our home because we want this atmosphere to attract Him.
Sid: What kind of feedback are you getting from people that are reading your book “Romancing the King?”
Brian: We are having awesome testimonies, people loving it. Actually for an example we are getting out book translated into Spanish in Guatemala. It’s taking longer than we expected because the translators are reading the book as they translate it and are getting messed up, they are crying, they are weeping, and it’s changing their life. So we are actually a couple months behind because of that.
Sid: Well, that’s a good reason to be behind. You also say from this deep intimacy there’s going to be a great breakthrough of healings.
Brian: Yeah, I’ll give you a good example, what happened to me through healing. I had, I hurt my back actually really bad and I usually don’t get hurt, but I hurt my back so bad that I couldn’t even drive, I was just in agony, it took be about fifteen, twenty minutes to get out of bed. But I remember one night I got up out of bed, it took me about fifteen twenty minutes, 3:00 in the morning, I made my way down to my prayer closet in my office actually. And I didn’t ask God, I didn’t say “God heal me.” I didn’t tell Him anything about my back because He already knew.
Sid: Bottom line, did He heal you?
Brian: Absolutely, I began to worship Him.
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