Ps Marlene Oestlund: Final lap - Intimacy with God

Good morning Lord. Thank you father for

this wonderful opportunity Lord as we

sit over here gathered prepared to just

receive Lord. Lord I pray that you open

up our spiritual eyes, our spiritual

ears. Lord that you open up our hearts

and our minds to your understanding.

Holy Spirit, we invite you into this

class, Lord. You are the ultimate

teacher. You are the ultimate guide.

Lord, you are our ultimate one and true

mentor. Lord, I pray that deep

revelation will be revealed to us, Lord,

on a personal level. And that not only

that that is spoken regarding the

classes material will be opened up,

Lord, but as that opens up, Lord,

questions and just wonderful things in

our hearts, Lord, will also open up and

that we will gain understanding today.

Thank you, Lord, that we can receive

this class in love. And thank you Lord

that we can gather together united under

one cause and that is Jesus Christ of

Nazareth to build the kingdom of heaven

here on earth. Thank you Lord. Amen.

>> Amen. Thank you very much. All right. So

this morning we have the wonderful

privilege of welcoming um Pastor Marlene

all the way from Namibia. I'm sure many

of you have heard her teach and have

seen her and know her. We are very

thankful this morning for you gracing us

with your time and I know that you pray

and you put in a lot of effort and you

hear from the Lord to go and and

minister to us for the next three weeks

teaching us biblical studies. Thank you

for your honor you and we are very

thankful and we look forward to learning

from you. So I'm going to hand over to

you and then whenever you are ready you

can start.

>> Thank you very much. Um, Lady Melindy, I

appreciate it. I am looking forward to

and I um my heart is always I don't want

to just function. I just want to that

you have a module that you go and tick

it off. Um I'm praying that it will have

a impact

impact in your lives. Not because of me

but because of the Holy Spirit. I'm

trusting him to do the teaching work.

I'm just going to be the vessel. So I'm

looking forward to a time and you can

anytime you have a question or you don't

understand you can interrupt me anytime.

So I'm just want to ask I'm so sorry I

see he has a RHTL college. I don't have

your name. Sorry what is your name?

>> Good morning post Marlene. My name is

Barbara.

>> Okay Barbara.

>> Okay I've got you. I've got you. All

right. Thank you so much. Okay. So, um

if you can show us please Lady Melindi

the first slide. So, basically I'm going

to be for the next three weeks and um

the title is going to be the following.

If you can just put that slide is it

possible?

Okay. So the first SL what the title is

going to be regarding what we're going

to teach or I'm going to teach is the

final lap. And so the first lesson is

all going to be you know when I'm sure

you people can recall when you were

doing in school athletics or maybe

you're still involved with athletics but

then you had the um you can just uh take

um you would have standing in your

racing tracks and it will be ready. Can

you guys still remember? Ready, steady,

go. So that's how the lesson is going to

be. One, two, and three accumulating to

go because uh we are in a race. Um

postits are wonderful. And we need to

run this race. You can remove the slides

again please. Lady Melanie,

we are in this race not just to

participate but

we are running it to win it. So um yeah

you can just completely just shut first

for me down the slides please. I just

want to come back just to see your

faces. Thank you so much. So

I truly believe that we the Lord is I I

prayed and I asked Lord what is it you

want to speak? What is it you want to

put attention on? What is it that we

need to be trained in? And I just keep

getting this be ready. And I know this

is the topic is like so worn out you

know be ready. be ready.

But I think what happens is is that

initially we get this and I actually

want to I want to ask you the following.

Would you mind just closing your eyes

and the reason for it? I just want you

to shut down everything and Holy Spirit

I just come in the name of Jesus Christ

and I just speak your supernatural

stillness over every mind now every

heart and that it is now not about that

I write everything correctly down and

that I gain all thing that I can perform

it good but this is about hearing you

hearing you like you would be in the

mountain hearing you when you were at

the B boat and you were teach you were

teaching your children Lord that we will

just now be receptive and I just want

you to leave your eyes closed please

because I really want to to speak into

your hearts. You know long long ago you

were asked by the King of Kings and the

Lord of Lords

if you would be prepared if you would

want to marry him.

And some of you have experienced it and

some are going to still experience it.

But I'm sure you've seen it that if some

if a man proposes to a woman, he waits

just for an answer.

So all Jesus asks from us is a simple

word.

Yes.

Not that moment to go in a place of

performance. is not in a place of trying

to earn. He already decided, he already

desires you. He already wants to go in a

deeper intimate relationship.

It's just like this. And so he says,

"But I need to go now and I need to

prepare a place for us."

And so you are still full of vibrancy

and passion. But then time goes, another

week goes, another month goes, and as

time passes,

the worldly concern and distraction tuck

at our hearts. And we are naturally

inclined

to be immediate satisfaction.

And so suddenly our heart that was just

so full of him becomes full of so many

other things.

And so slowly and subly we spent less

time in preparation and waiting for the

bridegroom Jesus Christ.

And now suddenly we have actually other

likes and other boyfriends if I may call

or girlfriends. and no longer is he the

full center of your heart. And so I'm

asking this question,

are you still preparing for the coming

of Jesus Christ?

Or have you fallen into a routine of

outwardly preparation,

doing things, doing church,

or are you still waiting? I was still

waiting in anticipation for him.

And then I want to ask you,

what was your motivation

to say yes?

Was it yes because I don't want to go to

hell?

Was that yes because

out of he provides and he protects? And

in this world, if I have him on my side,

I'm rest assured.

Was that your motives?

Will your motives that you are so in awe

of him?

That there's nothing more matters to you

than being in his presence. Those who

have been in love or will fall in love,

you know it. You are so consumed with

that person.

You you don't you don't matter about

every anything in the background. You

don't care what is happening with war.

It can be shooting. All that matters is

that you are in that presence.

And that is what I want to ask you. Is

that still there? And then I want to ask

you a picture.

If you if your yes was because your

parents have walked before you this road

or maybe a friend or maybe a group or

maybe that's just the way to do you know