You don’t have those kinds of experiences while sitting in a pew at church, because you’re too busy learning about God. That’s school time. Church is where you learn about God so you can do His will, His commandments and His statutes on earth. Throne time is not church time. Often, people mistakenly think just because they went to church or attended a special meeting, they have spent quality time with God. No, they spent time with a teacher of God—not one-on-one time with God Himself. Of course, you may feel God’s presence in a church service, and I hope you do. You may run and holler and shout in church, but that still doesn’t qualify as throne time.
When you first met your best friend, you started learning all about him or her. As time passed, you began to know them better. The same is true in your relationship with God. As you get closer to Him, you begin to know Him in a whole new way.
God Wants to Fellowship With You
Living out the will of God on earth requires throne time, otherwise known as fellowshiping with the Father. First John 1:3 says: “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” John, the beloved disciple, fellowshiped with Jesus. He rode donkeys with Him. He ate dinner with Him. He even slept in the same house as Jesus. You would think John truly knew the Lord. But, there are so many dimensions of the Lord that we will never know them all.
Notice the expression of his writing when he is on the Isle of Patmos. John writes in Revelation 1:10-11, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last….”
John says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day,” because he had never seen or heard Jesus like that before. He says he saw Him high and lifted up and His train filled the Temple. John was fellowshiping with Jesus on that Lord’s day. It wasn’t school time; it was John and Jesus time.
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