Brian Guerin emphasizes the profound importance of intimacy with Jesus in his sermon 'Discovering Deep Intimacy.' He shares personal experiences and revelations about how God communicates through various means, urging believers to overcome the fear of deception and instead focus on cultivating a close relationship with Christ. Guerin highlights that true transformation and understanding come from spending time in the secret place with God, where one can experience His presence and guidance. He encourages the congregation to embrace this intimacy, as it opens the door to deeper spiritual experiences and a more profound understanding of God's voice.

Yeah, I'm not going to keep us long. We'll just set it up. And like I warned you last night, I usually don't have the opportunity to go a certain direction. Sure enough, this morning, a wonder happened in the hotel room, too, of where we're going to go right now. But you always, at the end of the day, you want to just follow Jesus anyway. That's the most richest, potent deposit there's going to be. And actually, I'm so glad he did this because this is my favorite direction to go in. But on the trances, visions, seeing in that realm, those books open them up a great bit in your lives as well. But that deposit will probably push to tonight, if that's okay. Because I woke up this morning and an angel had moved my phone. This, again, it's just, and I tell you what, in the books, too, I'll go into greater depth of what are some of those chapter titles? I totally forget what I write about. But in God of Wonders, let me see this one. Yeah. So Angelic Wonders, chapter two, it's wonders that perform. But again, it's all trying to hear God's voice in it. Nature Wonders, which is what David was talking about. God will literally start performing like around your world. He'll take everything in like on a puppet string and start breaking it open in your life. And it gets crazy. And it's all scripturally based. We just don't see it often in scripture. We just read right by it. We don't realize these are in there. Like Laura said, it's often and we mean well, but the fear of deception typically causes us to miss out on God. You see, and we've got to have a reverential fear for the Holy Spirit more so than the fear of deception. And he'll protect us in the secret place and take. So you got to realize it's that which you fear by default, you naturally submit to. You hear that? So if you fear being deceived before you know it, you're walking in deception and the glory cloud of God is breaking out on earth and wonders and mysterious ways, and you're missing it because I don't want to be deceived. And it seems so right. But just be careful, because often that what you fear by default is what you're submitted to. So if you have a greater fear of being deceived, you're going to find yourself into deception. Does that make sense? But like Laura said, if we just love and are infatuated and guided by his voice alone and intimacy in Jesus, he he's not going to give you snakes and stones. He's going to protect you from deception. It's impossible to be deceived if you stay in the fire and intimacy and in and you're guided. So I go into a lot greater depth on these wonders, how they break out mysteries like I didn't realize a lot of people last night didn't understand the number correlations of how God speaks. That's a lot more in modern day mysticism. And the thing is, what's so precious is when God knows you understand he works like that, then he'll start flooding that world, that realm of your life. I liken it often to you remember back in the day we had pagers. At least back in my day, some of you may be too young. You run to the pay phone, pop a quarter and whatever. So if God thinks let's just act like we're in the old times. If God knows that the only way you think he can communicate with you is by a pager, he loves you so much. That's OK with him. He's not upset with you. He's just going to blow your page up as much as he can, hoping you're calling back. He loves you so much, you know. But if he realizes, too, that you know that God can get you through email and your pager, he's going to be hitting you on both. If he also knows that, you know, he can reach you on your house phone, you better believe it's going to be ringing. You know, they have a cell phone and they know I can reach that to cell phone. Oh, I can hit him direct message through Twitter, you know, whatever it may be. Basically, there's so many aspects and venues that God speaks through. And as you're enlightened through maturity and walking with him and realizing these lines of communication and he now knows you have it available, he's going to flood it. Does that make sense to you guys? Yeah. So a lot of this is mere alignment with heaven. It would blow your mind. Just this just the mere understanding, faith and expectancy and enlightenment on these dimensions. And then you open it up. So God just floods it. And so a lot of that is in there to help. But so I woke up this morning and these are the things I mentioned. I just have to watch and not just yield, because at the end of the day, we just want Jesus, you know, just want to follow him. And in an angel had taken my phone off the the. Bedside table had it plugged into the charger over there, and this will happen a lot with phones, it has to do with what God's calling you into, it's playing your call and calling you and with phones, he'll do all kind of things with different objects. But again, the wonder his voice is hidden within and it placed it under the bed, left it plugged in. Thank God my phone wasn't dead this morning. But it was crazy because it was plugged in on that side wall. But the cord extended just long enough where you could tuck it under the bed. And I knew what this was. A lot of times I'll put it on my bed next to me. This is always with the bed. It's intimacy. And this is the most precious thing to me. To know him intimately, you know, like last if I have my wheelhouse choice of where I want to go, this is it right here. But I don't always like last night, I was just being obedient. I knew I had to go the angelic direction, which it's all good. Like Laura said, we just want God and his kingdom and his his ways. But I don't know if you notice in worship this morning, there was such an intimate slant to it, man. I was back there just weeping. I was like, no, don't do it, Brian, because I hate to get up and my eyes are all puffy and, you know, and you hear people weeping in here. And it was such it was rich, rich glory last night. But this morning there was this intimate slant to it, such a precious thing. And see, the thing is, if you own this realm, paraphrasing, you have everything. Everything is in intimately knowing him. You see, that's how I stumbled into all these things we're operating in now. And that's all I still have ever done all these years. I just love him. And man, he's everything. And so whoops. So I love when this realm comes because he's going to deposit it this morning. And I tell you, it's the strongest thing there is intimacy. If he can find a people that all they care about is being with him and knowing him, the whole kingdom's yours. They are twitching visions, trances. We'll do it later tonight, I promise you, because he won't let me off of it anyway. But it's all available and he'll deposit it. And I'm glad almost. It seems though that there's just as many people now. I guess more people came. But often the true hungry, the people that are truly hungry, God deposits this type of realm. Can I have some Kleenex? I'm sorry. Oh yeah, right in front of me. Thanks, man. What's your name? David. Yeah, you told me that last night. He was keeping count of the phones ringing and stuff. It's hilarious. But so. So anyway, I love when God does this because, again, he knows I don't really care. You just tell me you speak, Lord, and I'm going that way. You know, I just want to follow you at the end of the day is when I'm pleased. And and but the lowly under the bed, though, I've not seen this one yet. Usually it'll be next to me. There's I kid you not. There's one time the Apostle Paul was in bed next to me. Freaked me out. A lot of people don't, you know. But this is very scriptural. Well, that's not. But but you know what I'm saying? But but cloud of witnesses is very, very common in scripture. You see Jesus and he takes his three favorite with him as far as getting at the truly hungry. When you get deep, deep into intimacy with Jesus, the crowd gets thin. It really does. It goes from the twelve down to the three and he would in precious moments. And but Moses and Elijah came to Jesus in modern day mysticism. Yeah, touch on cloud of witnesses to Hebrews. It's very clear. Twelve were surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses and angelic beings. And and so it's nothing uncommon to the kingdom realm. And but the reason was because the apostle Paul knew the bridal realm better than anybody. A lot of us credit intimacy to John the Beloved. And so, I mean, rightfully so. My goodness, had his head upon the chest of Jesus. But there's a dynamic Paul knew of an intimacy and bridal union and the mystery of Ephesians 532. And it was this whole revelation of that. I mean, that's why we're bridal glory dot com. I don't have all the time to go into there, but bridal intimacy with Jesus and Paul and his writings and the celibate life he lived and what have you. But that was what was the bed. It speaks of intimacy. And when angels do these things. But it was a trip under my bed. It's tying into the Philippians two that God spoke so clearly to to bow of that lowliness he's calling us into. But it's going to come through intimacy. It's got to follow me under the bed through intimacy. That lowliness will be attainable of Philippians to becoming lowliness to the servant, servant. You can't attain it outside of that. Otherwise, you're going to be working in your flesh, trying to force it. It's going to be forceful. But that Sabbath rest, Valora mentioned, it just comes natural in the secret place. It's just it's like breathing. And so that's how I woke up. I'm trying to find my phone, what the world and I realized, oh, thank God, the angel plugged in at least. But the cord stretched all out and went under the bed. And it's just wonders they'll do linked with intimacy. But that lowliness is going to take us to only attained through intimacy, though it's going to be deposited this morning. And and then I was getting right when I was the second one that followed was. I was getting ready to, you know, had some worship going, getting ready to come down here and eleven thirty three on the dot, this glory white haze, which should have been in the room with me is beautiful, swept in the hotel room, start out to my right and swept through. That's six. That's awesome. Eight. Well, eight phone calls this morning so far in the meeting. David's keeping count. Who is that, ma'am? Is is your phone on silent? Oh, yeah, there it is. Praise God. No, it's wonderful. Were you here last night? OK, no, I'm glad it rang. Don't feel bad about it. It's something from last night, but that's so good. So so so this glory like haze cloud thing sweeps through the room at eleven thirty three. And I check the time immediately because, again, these are signs and wonders and God doesn't do anything by happenstance. I go into greater depth in the God of Wonders books, experiencing his voice in signs and wonders. And so basically, like I said last night, anytime he moves and just it's all exactly pointed why, where it was, all that. And so I check the time immediately. And it was eleven thirty three, which this is the paramount verse eleven of Exodus thirty three. You don't need to turn there, but it's one of the most paramount, intimate verses in the world. And it's what's going to the secret place. It's a greater stamina to be with him. And man, I love this more than anything I'm telling you, because a lot of us, we mean well. And it's just a deposit that the Lord does. Men and women of God tap realms and then they just carry it. Thank God I've received so many from other powerful men of God. And it's just a greater ability. It's just an impartation deposit. And then there's this greater grace will come upon your life. And then you go back where we seem like you were plowing in the secret place. And we've all been there. We understand that. But it's this greater ease. It's like, man, 10 minutes used to seem like an hour. And now like hours are going by, just all I want to do. And you're just in the grocery store and you feel that hunger. I want to be with him. And I just want to. You used to want to be hanging out with your friends or not doing anything bad, but you just want to be with Jesus. This is Paul is going to come. The stamina I'm mentioning, it's a greater grace to be with him and everything's here. It may sound elementary, but just trust me, go with it and yield because it's a precious thing. I was in, um, this may have been Columbia, I forget, but I was getting ready to go speak in this meeting. And, uh, I went into a dream the night before and it was so cool because it tied in exactly to the 12th day that I was, because we're preaching all week. So sometimes I'll foresee things a week in advance and I know for the exact day with details, I have to watch. But if you look closely, when Elijah went to pass the mantle upon Elisha, he says there was a 12 oxen and Elisha was by the 12th one. And it's like, why did you mention that? But God's very specific, the apostolic and 12 governmental upon their life. And with, with the profit role they play, but he, he throws the mantle upon them. So I'm in this dream and I'm throwing mantles on the corner of this bed. Female, it was basically coats, like winter coats, but mantles, male coats, then a woman, one and then males. And there's one after the other on the corner of this bed come out of this dream. I was like, what was that about? And the Holy Spirit, uh, said, clear as day, those are mantles of intimacy. I want you to release in this meeting. And I was like, thank God, because often, you know, and we're all wanting, you know, people want the mantle of say, what was worth their power. We want all these things. And it's, it's awesome to press into that too. I'm into it all. But to me, the mantle of intimacy is the height of all of any of them. It trumps them all. Cause if you own that realm, everything else is available to intimately know him. And, uh, and we've seen it time and time again, where the secret place was a bit dull or just not alive, or the word of God waiting upon him is just such a grind. And then after these type meetings, such a grace comes upon his people to be with him. And all you do is you'll hear that still small voice and yield. And then it turns into just a life of this magnetic ecstasy of knowing him. Uh, I remember years ago, before I started many, many years ago, it was like, Oh, three year, 2004, I would fast a lot, but more three days, one, one off one, you know, all these never really extended fasts. And, uh, my head Shabda was in this conference. I don't know if you guys know who he is. It's real powerful out of Charlotte. And, uh, if you check his, his track record, he, uh, he used to fast like, I don't know how many 21 days a year and like three forties and wrote the book on fasting and just powerful ran under Derek Prince. So he, this is a, that type realm. He carries just an impartation for fasting because he broke it open in his own life. You follow me? And these are the same type meetings. And he has that ability to just release it into the meetings. And then this grace comes upon people to now do extended fast. So that's all this is. And again, they're not like I'm super spiritual or anything, but I just, that window where I really locked away with Jesus, it's just something we carry now, but I don't always get to release it. I love when he does this, it's not often. And, uh, and, uh, and, and again, it shows me just a depth with you guys and maturity. It's a precious thing. And, um, and it's the most valuable to me. Like I said, it's my wheelhouse. If, if I could choose it, usually if I've got something to one time with people to hammer something, unless it's by divine revelation, like is happening, I'll just hammer intimacy. That's it. We won't even go on the other directions because it's all there to know him, you know, and, uh, man, you know, and just walk and be sensitive into his presence and voice. And that's the only way you become like him. You cannot become like Jesus outside of being with him. I don't care what 12 step conferences books, and we're in one. I mean, these are God all day long. That's all I'm, you know, run to and from schools, whatever you do, no thing can transform you into his likeness outside of being with him. So let's just picture Jesus right here. Every day, you just step into him and abide in him in life. Just turns into like a pop-up book. It comes alive. It really, really does. And then the more you lean into him in that secret place, you come out and you just wonder why there's a lot less mistakes in your life. You're not producing Ishmael's all the time. You're just nailing Isaac's the word of God. You're very pointed and you don't realize it. Like we said last night, you used to be in that Martha spirit, a lot of just good deeds and efforts, and you feel like you're doing, doing, doing, but you're kind of wore out. And you're just like Mary. You're just sitting at his feet, kind of like the tortoise and the hare race. You guys don't know that, that maybe I'm still too old for some of the younger ones, but the tortoises stay. He was like, Mary, I like him too. The hare is like Martha running all over the place and loses the race way faster. But Mary to sit at his feet and know him, you come out of the secret place and you take one step and it's like just major acceleration. It was so effortless. It was just one. Whereas before the people that don't abide, you're doing a lot. Look, that was 30 steps. Yeah, but you went like two inches. And the enemy doesn't fear people that don't abide either a whole lot. There's not much ground you carry. And then sometimes the religious spirit will say, look, you just took one step and it's like, yeah, but why are you so far behind me? You follow me? And you'll wonder why people that have been walking with the Lord for decades are still walking around the mountain or their destiny and the impact in life is just a bit mute, so to speak. And people just got born again a year and love Jesus and abide in the secret place or just flying by him like a rocket accelerating and destiny. He's breaking off. And so that's what it does for you. So my head shabda, I thought I forgot. And I promise you, he was over in Texas, some conferences, Lord told me to go to. He goes, look, extended fast. He says, you can do you can just pick what do you want to do? You can do a 21 day fast or a three week fast. And I'm like, I was like, it's the same thing. I start looking around and everybody else is acting normal. Like he said something normal. And I'm like, hey, that's the same thing. Like, what are you talking about? The three week 21. And to this day, I don't know if God's supernaturally made the words come out of his mouth to me different because everybody else was so normal. And I'm like, who did not just catch that? You know what I mean? I'm looking around and I knew God was telling me, like, basically, you have no options. You can do a 21 day fast or a three week after this, like you're doing a Daniel, you know, 21 days. And so I left. I think that was the craziest thing. So I jumped into this fast, but he had imparted like what we're doing. And this is just the dynamic, dynamic, dynamic of fasting. And this will be intimacy and you'll notice a difference. I love like the verse the Lord read, we strive. Sometimes you strive to enter that rest. And. But once you get there, I like in the secret place often to flying a kite. I love just easy childlike analogies where a five year old can understand or 80 year old and a kite. Typically, you take off running with it and you're trying to catch that wind of the spirit. Right. And it's hard at first is rough and it looks very ugly and horrible. It's not elegant at all. And you're running, trying to catch some wind. Often the secret places this way. That's it. Striving to enter that rest. And once it hits that window and it's up there, you're not doing anything. You're just kind of holding the string. And it's fair. And that's where everything breaks wide open. Transformation, impartation, deliverance. That's another thing about the secret place. Bondages, addictions, they can't stay. The deeper glory you get into darkness just falls off of you. It's automatic deliverance being with him. One glaze of his eyes towards you just transforms everything. Just one one aspect of his voice, his presence sweeping through the room in anything. Darkness can't stay. You just you know, it transforms everything about you. And. What we got going on back there? It's all good. Just did good on a second offering, didn't he? Give him a hand. He did also. But. So, yes, so the you know, the Lord didn't really give me any options whether the words are supernatural or not. So I jumped into this 21 day fast and then extended fast have been just a common thing ever since. And there was a great grace on it, right? And impartation. And if you want to come with the music, if you don't mind, sorry, and we'll go ahead and set it up. I'm not going to keep you long. But that song, his gaze when I see his gaze in his face or something like that. Yeah. If you don't mind, that was that's where I was losing it, man. I was like, no, no, no. I don't want to wait. But but intimacy, you know, it's just around we cracked again just by loving him. And it's an availability that will come upon you. And I'll read the verse. This is what the glory cloud came through the room to to bring emphasis upon. You don't need to turn there for the sake of time. But you back up to verse nine. And that's where that because also, too, you got to watch the form of wonder that manifest so many different wonders, lights, feathers, gold, different kind of dust from the stones of heaven, angels appearing manna. We've seen that before. I mean, blood signs that's in scriptures and Joel to just endless with the wonders, but also the way in which he performs the wonder that even that the dynamic it comes in is often a hidden mystery of what he's speaking pertaining to. Does that make sense? Even with encounter, the form of encounter that you're birthed by your call, like the blinding light with Paul on his eyes and then the scales fall off. And here he is, a full blown prophet, you know, an apostle to a people. But the form of wonder. And that's why it was in the form of a cloud in the room, the haze. When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud and floor was touching on this earlier, how much Joshua was an addiction, you know, addicted to his presence. And I'm telling you, maybe tonight we'll see where it goes. We're definitely deposit the the visionary realm of eyes to see and impartation. But even if we have time for Q&A, I'm not sure because those are really good and they get fun. They get really interesting. Go deeper into this. The secret places that I'm talking about practical things. When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent. The Lord would speak with Moses, says when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, people rise up, worship. Here's verse 11, where the cloud swept through the room just about an hour and a half ago. Thus, the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as he would with a friend. Man, and and you see, I think it's Hebrews or whatever it says we're in a greater covenant. So this is available for us. I personally don't know anybody yet tapping into that, but I believe it's available. And it says to the prophets and parables and but to Moses face to face as a friend. And one day I was like, God, what is man? Because whether it's the father, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, I just love him so much, you know, and I just want them to everything to do to me is just mind boggling. And so I was like, man, what gives with Moses? This is a little side note. Like how did you know what was different about him? He's the only man we haven't recorded history that spoke to God face to face as a friend daily. And God reminded me that he was the meekest man in all the earth. That meek aspect of him could handle the weight of it. And that was what set him apart. The main thing that sets Moses apart from the rest of scripture is the meekest man upon all the earth. And God could speak to him face to face. But here it goes against his all secret place. When Moses turned again into the camp, see, he would be at the tent in the clouds, speaking face to face with God, getting the commandments, the commission, whatever it may be, he'd go back to the camp. But Joshua, the son of none, a young man would not depart from the tent. He would abide and lock away in the secret place. And that's what's going to hit us this morning. A great grace. It's not all over the place. To not even go back to the camp to abide in that pillar of cloud in the tent of intimacy and abiding and hours will go by. Like I said, I took that window of God allows you to I advise take it. But I was like nine to 12 to 16 hours a day for like a year and a half. And but it doesn't have to be whatever works with your schedule. But from this meeting for there's going to be a grace upon you to be with him. And that's where all life flows. Everything you've ever wanted is in him and to know him and the maturity will go from there. And you may feel inadequate. I totally was that when I went in to that tent abiding like Joshua, so to speak, before that year and a half, I only knew the word of God, how to connect with God, to read the Bible, pray in tongues and worship. That's all I knew. And that may be all we know some of us in here. And that's OK. Like I said last night, the good thing about God, if you're just hungry and pursue him, the hungry shall be filled. He'll pull you higher for I know what I'm into, like full blown traveling in the spirit, out of body experience, encounters, angelic kingdom, I mean, everything. And and we'll go probably further in that into that tonight. You know, it's available for all of us. You see. But, yeah, we're going to pray and we're good on time. And how many of that that you feel that in your spirit just tugging upon you to to. OK, yeah. Praise God. The intimate place, you know, sometimes we want the wow. And I mean, that's the direction I had to go to last night. But this is the height of all of that right here. That's the thing. Yeah, man, just receiving. I'm telling you, there's no thing that matches intimately knowing him. This is the highest way of life. The priority of everything is to know him. And I remember when I was in that place locked away, just focus on him. Uh, I was just I was tapping into realms of Jesus that I just couldn't. I mean, literally, his presence is so ecstatic and addicting. I didn't even want to go out to use the restroom. I didn't want to move. He was just so strong. There's natural things in life you got to do it. I remember thinking as you started to call me out to ministry, my greatest desire that would hit an override importation into a people would be a hunger to know him in intimacy. And it's one of the most dominant things we see and how that looks as many different facets during visions, because it's communication, it's intimacy, his voice through wonders. But it all goes back to intimacy. That's the point of to know him, like Laura said, follow him on point and direct, you know. So, uh, yeah. So thank you, Jesus, so much for intimacy, the secret place.