Unlocking Mystical Communion With God - Psalm 63:9-11 Series

Christianity is all about mystical fellowship with the Trinity, which is always available as we realize and enjoy God’s actions upon us.

Draw near to God by joining Him at His side. 1) Delight in Your destiny with God so much that being en-route brings you joy (the trials are achieving the coming glory). 2) Enjoy the journey by joining God in His affections and work.

9 They who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. 10 They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. 11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God's name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

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Introduction

Throughout this study we have been learning ways to take greater delight in God and to have more intimate fellowship with Him. If you want to be close to God; if you want to walk with Him and keep in step with the Spirit and be nearby God; if you want to live in the most profound awareness and experience of His presence as possible; if you want Him to take the most possible delight in you so that at the end of this particular day when you lie down in bed His thoughts toward you are, “Well done my good and faithful servant;” if you want your joy and delight in God to be maximized to the highest possible extreme; if you want to have supernatural power at work through you in your life; and if you want to be right at the center of God’s will for you - all of that come through fellowship with Him.

And fellowship (communion) with God, is a mystical thing; that is, it is a direct experience with God. When you have a direct experience with the favorable presence of God, that is fellowship with Him. And it was for that purpose that God called you to be a Christian in the first place.

1 Cor.1:9 God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

So being a Christian is all about having fellowship with the Lord - not just fellowship with Christ, but fellowship with each member of the Trinity.

2 Cor.13:14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Php.2:1-2 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete

1 Jn.1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

So we are to have fellowship with each member of the Trinity, and Scripture does speak of fellowship with each of them in slightly different ways. There is a lot of overlap, but there are certain things that are emphasized with regard to communing with Jesus Christ, other things that are emphasized with regard to communing with the Father, and still other things with regard to the Spirit. Hopefully someday we will have a chance to do a study on that. But for now just realize that Christianity is all about fellowship with God.

And there are a lot of ways to do that. If you think the only time you can have direct, intimate fellowship with Him is during prayer and worship, you need to expand your understanding. You can have mystical communion with God – direct, relational experiences with the Lord Himself that increase your love for Him - at any time of the day every day because His presence is always near.

Jn.14:18 I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.

Mt.28:20 surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Ps.139:8-10 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

There are numerous ways to have a direct experience of God so you can enjoy fellowship with Him. The most obvious, of course, is prayer. However, not even prayer is automatically fellowship with God. Just because one is saying prayers does not necessarily mean she is having fellowship with God or enjoying His presence. But if, while saying a prayer, she is enjoying the experience of being listened to by God and enjoying being attended to and listened to by someone who is taking a keen, serious interest in what she is saying and feeling and desiring and who really cares about it; when she is aware that that is going on and she is enjoying the experience – at that moment she is having a direct encounter with God. She is having fellowship with Him.