Wilderness Betrothal - Part 2

It's All About A Wedding

Revelation 21:10
The City of Light
9-12 One of the Seven Angels who had carried the bowls filled with the seven final disasters spoke to me: “Come here. I’ll show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.” He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous, high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God, resplendent in the bright glory of God.

     Song: It's All About A Wedding by Julie Meyer

Wilderness Betrothal---part 2

Jeremiah 31:2

“Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness---Israel, when I went to give him rest.”

The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you. Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt

In the wilderness is where the people found grace and where the Lord went to give Israel rest.  In the wilderness, The Lord, with His Loving-kindness, drew Israel to Himself. 

The word Loving-kindness conveys that the Lord was covenanting His loyalty, love, and faithfulness to Israel.  He was betrothing the people to Himself while they were in the wilderness.

He brought them to the wilderness that they might find grace in Him, to marry them to Himself, and to give them rest.  He wanted to give them REST in the wilderness.

Once again, “He wanted to give them REST while in the wilderness.”

In Exodus 33:14, God and Moses carry on a conversation about Israel and God says to Moses, “…. My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Moreover, Moses says, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.  For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us?  So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face for the earth.”

The word rest is described as to “give rest” as is nu’ach in the Hebrew meaning to rest, settle down; to be soothed or quieted; to be secure; to be still; to dwell peacefully.

In Gen.8: 4 states that the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.  Nu’ach is also the verb that describes the Spirit of God resting upon the Messiah (Is. 11:2)

In the current reference, God’s presence will give rest to His people, that is, His presence soothes, comforts, settles, consoles, and quiets us.

This is what He is showing me. He brings us to the wilderness to betroth us to Himself, and we become His own bride. As we are His bride, His presence ‘Nu’ach’ ~ ‘Rests’ upon us.

 Experiencing Him being our husband in soothing us, comforting us, settling us, consoling and quieting our hearts and souls is the result and benefit of us being betrothed to Him.

He brings us out of bondage and into the wilderness to betroth us in loving kindness to Him.  In essence, our walk is similar to the experience of the Hebrew children as He brought them out of bondage from pharaohs and taskmasters and drew them into the wilderness for betrothal. 
We deal with the same type of spirits in this world who not only request but also require us to make bricks without the hay. Which is practically impossible?

I can hear the love of the Lord, saying, “Come away, come away with Me and let me give you rest.  Let Me rest upon your spirit, your soul, and your body.  Let Me be your husband, let Me sooth you and console you.  Let Me deliver you from the hand of the taskmasters, (The task masters of your flesh and the flesh of others).

Let Me draw you away into the wilderness alone where there is no other and where no other has walked before.  Come away with me to the secret place where I will betroth you and call you my own.  I will drench you and saturate you with my presence till your heart overflows with the goodness of my love for you.” 
 “Your souls shall be like a well-watered garden and you shall sorrow no more (Jer. 31:13) 

“I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.”(Jer.31: 14)

Ezekiel 16:1-14 speaks about God’s love for Jerusalem.  He watched over her from her birth as she grew as a child into a bride and Queen.

Verse 8 says, “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord God.”

When He talks about spreading His wing over us and covering our nakedness, He is talking about betrothal.  In reference to the story of Ruth in chapter 3 verse 9, “wing” is symbolic to “the corner of My garment.”

She says, “…’I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative.’”

The commentary says that “Under your wing” is literally “spread the corner of your garment over.”

 It says that the culture of the ancient Middle Eastern world involved the practice of the casting of a garment over one being claimed for marriage (see Ezek. 16:8).
This is the tradition to which Ruth clearly is referring to.”

I cannot help but to see that this was our Lord’s original intention when He brought the children of Israel into the wilderness.  He wanted to be their God and them His people. It was a time of building a deep committed relationship with His people…so that they would ‘intimately’ know HIM in such unity as a bride would ‘intimately’ know her husband.

While in the wilderness, they would grow to know Him and trust Him as their God as He revealed Himself to them through not only His covenant words but his intimate involvement in every detail of their lives.

As they walked with Him, it was through these events that He would continue to reveal Himself making known His Name (character and ways) and what His Names truly mean.

Yes, they sinned against Him, but the whole time His heart was breaking as a  husband’s heart would, yet he himself being the very life of ‘Everlasting Love,’ continued to demonstrate to them who He was through ‘faithfully’ walking with them, never leaving them.
  His purpose and motivation was to bring them into such an intimate relationship with Him that they would actually awaken to the reality that he is their faithful ‘Yehovah Ishi,’ ‘The LORD YHVH,’ their faithful husband.

His intimate fellowship with them was thoughtful and purposeful as he desired his ‘bride’ to know him intimately, walk with his ‘heart,’ baring all their heart and soul to him as a bride; finding a resting place to bear all of her heart and soul to her husband; they would walk together as one heart in the cool of the evening as Adam and Eve walked with Father in the cool of the evening.

As a bride and groom become one in unity and fellowship through the intimate sharing of their hearts and souls, it is through experience that we come to know Him for who He is. 

He wanted them to experience Him as their husband leading them through the hard, waterless, and dark places of the wilderness; not to lead them to despair but so that through the scenarios and situations presented, they would know him for who he truly is.


 His desire was for them to know him as one who they could fully lean upon and trust in with all their heart, soul, and body. He desires us this day to know him as our all in all.
Just as he desired them to experience the depth of His commitment to them…the depth of his comforting love He desired for them to know him as the One who sooths and cares for them throughout difficult times, so does he today desire to reveal himself to us as the one who is committed beyond his own life to soothe us, comfort us, provide and protect us; to be our all in all.
Giving the Ten Commandments was out of a motivation of love for them. 
He gave those boundaries and laws that were as ‘seat belts’ representing ‘safety measures’ to them as they are to us today.  He lovingly gives us boundaries for our own good. 

From the beginning all He asked of them, “Will you let me be your God?”
“Will you let me Love you with all of my heart and life, and will you love me with all of your heart and life?’

Deuteronomy 6:24 ‘And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.”

Deuteronomy 7:6-9  “ For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 

The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt (the house of flesh),

Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;”

Deuteronomy 8 repeatedly says that He brought them through the wilderness to humble them and test them to see what was in their hearts.

He revealed to them through the wilderness experience that man shall not live by bread alone but that man lives by every Word (Spirit Word)  that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD (Ruach HaKodesh ~ Holy Spirit, Breath of YHVH).

Moreover, at the same time, He did not let their garments wear out nor did their feet swell for forty years. Yes, the LORD chastened them as we would our own son. He chastened them for their own good that they may keep the commandments of the LORD their God and to walk in all of His ways and to fear Him.

They needed to know the depth of their commitment in their relationship to Him, knowing him as the one who husband’s them, before He brought them into the land of Milk and Honey; the land flowing with brooks of water and of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills.

He wanted them to remember lest they fall away from Him as his own people and Bride.
.  He did not want His bride becoming a harlot and giving herself away to all who passed by her (Ezekiel 16:15). 

Here she is the Queen Bride and she trusts in her own beauty and plays the harlot because of her fame. She poured out her harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. 

My commentary says that this is not just adultery, but unbridled lust. She gave herself to everyone passing by. Instead of being paid for her services, she has paid her lovers. She took her Queenly Bridal garments, adorned multicolored high places for herself   and played the harlot on them. She took her beautiful jewelry of gold and silver which He gave to her and played the harlot with them.

She took his oil, incense, and set them before the embroidered garments that he had covered her with. She took all that He gave her and set them before the false gods. Then it finally came down to her taking her husband’s sons and daughters she birthed to HIM
and sacrificed them to be devoured by her husband’s enemies.

Can you imagine how much this grieved their God and Husband?

And then He says in verse 22, “And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.” 

This is the cry of a husband with a broken heart.  His heart is broken that she took His love and perverted it. Then she took all that He gave her and perverted it. She adulterated the beauty which He gave to her and made it to be abhorred. She offered herself to everyone who passed by and multiplied her acts of harlotry. She even committed harlotry with the Egyptians whom He delivered her from. She humiliated and disgraced her husband right before his face and in front of the faces of her husband’s enemies.

I often thought that it was the temptations of the world that led her into sin. It is true that we should run in the opposite direction when temptation comes, but with her, his bride, this is not so.  She became proud of her beauty and position as his queen; she acted as an exhibitionist revealing herself to the world for the pagans to come after her. Disgustingly and repulsively, she became so proud of herself that she opened up her garments to reveal herself to her husband’s enemies. She is the one who made proposals to them, not them to her; therefore adulterating and defiling herself.

This started when she trusted in her own beauty.  He says in Ezekiel 16:13-14, “ ..You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty.  Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,’ says the LORD.”

I guess my summary would be, take your time in the wilderness learning all that He wants you to learn.  Take your time developing the depth of the relationship you need and He desires. Take your time in the secret places getting to know him as your groom and husband.  In addition, enjoy the fellowship of our Husband, build the firm foundation of that relationship before jumping into the place of conquering foreign lands full of pagans, and on into the place of inheritance, walking before all as His Royal Queen, lest you grieve the heart of our Husband who is the Lover of your soul and heart.. 
Take your time in letting the roots of your love for Him grow deep into the rock of his life, become richly established in Him lest you bring ruin upon yourself  by not being so deeply committed to Him as your one and only Lover.  Do not forget Him and his sacrificial faithful love for you lest you begin looking to the world for affection, attention thus exposing the secret treasures of your heart and his heart deposited within you.
He has richly invested his life within you.
Finally keep looking to Him as your sole source of significance lest you come to the place where you begin looking to the world for your significance, approval and intimate needs your spirit and soul thirst for.

He Says, “Do Not Forget Me”

Deuteronomy 8:15 says, “Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—then you…. you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”

Forgive me if I am simple minded in this, but I have heard plenty of teachings on the children of Israel and about their failures, lack of faith, and their sin, and their idolatry.  I have also heard that we stay in this wilderness until we get it right so that we can go on

into the land of milk and Honey.

It is almost as though there is a message that says to us, ‘shame on you for going around the mountain one more time, let’s get on over the rough parts and get into the inheritance part.’

I would say that yes we need to learn all the lessons in the wilderness, such as not grumbling and complaining.
But I would like to caution the church, as well as myself included, we  CAN NOT  learn our lessons and begin to walk our life with him  through a semblance of holiness through legalistic routines.
It becomes a dangerous legalistic routine when we do not see God’s heart and forget His heart’s purpose for bringing us there in the first place; His heart’s motivation towards us is always LOVE, for GOD – YHVH is the very breath and life of Agape LOVE.

He brings us into the wilderness to draw us close to Him and betroth us to Himself IN LOVE, mercy, kindness, and faithfulness. 

He wants us to see through our experiences there that it is Him and Him alone we come to know as he reveals His Life to us throughout intimate interactions with one another.
In  this place, we come to know who he is as each need, issue, challenge, obstacle presents itself, is  him being our sole source of provision in every given situation, allowing each even to be his platform for him to reveal himself as the True and Faithful, Just and Merciful One ~ that he is ~ our Husband, King and YAH.

We come to know him as being as intimately close and one with us that we awaken to know him as our very breath we breathe.

Desperate times lead to the end of ourselves and our own strength leaving only room for Him to birth within us Himself, ‘The Resurrection Life’ living through our vessels.

It is even being at a place of our last breath and only being able to breathe out to Him in desperation for help.  Just as Hannah was at a place of desperation so much so that she could not eat or drink, and her words weren’t even getting out of her mouth.  It was at that point that the Word that brought relief was THE WORD of the Lord spoken to her “Be it unto you as the Lord wills.”

It will be His timing and His purpose that will come forth during times like these.  In other word, it is His baby, not our ‘fleshly production’ that comes out of our own strength and timing. 

It will be something that only the Father of the fathers can produce. 
 He alone will be able to receive all the Glory for it. 

In the wilderness is where God births the depth of relationship into His people so that they would KNOW HIM and TRUST HIM as their God.  He also wanted them to know what was in their Heart.
He tested their hearts to expose, reveal to ‘themselves’ their level of love and commitment for Him.

There was a need to see what was in the heart and reveal what level commitment they were going to have to their God and to their Husband before moving on to a land; their promised land. It was theirs but it was a place that was full of idolaters and foreign gods that needed to be conquered. He wanted to know if their soul really belonged to Him in total commitment.

They needed to see if they were ready for it. He may even prolong your time with Him in the wilderness because He knows your heart and that you are not quite ready for the battle to come in conquering the land; and ruling in royalty with integrity and honor.

Moreover, I can hear Him repeatedly saying, ”Do not forget me, do not forget Me, the one who was there for you…when no one else was there for (you) then. Do not forget me the one who brought you up out of bondage. Yes, you went through the difficulties in the wilderness and it was a place where no others were there with you; a place where I have drawn you so that you could get to know me and I know you.”

I would dare say that all of us need this wilderness experience with our God.

I would also dare to say to others to not try to hurry this experience up nor try to skip over it.  It is the perfect place to get to know Him as the one who feeds us with manna, which no group or other person can feed us.  Only our God and our Husband can provide for us the depths of what we need in our souls and hearts.

And it is so often in these times in the wilderness that we come to know Him as the ONLY one who can satisfy our deepest yearnings and needs in the depths of our hearts.  And He wants to.  He wants to be your Husband, the one who spreads His wings out over you to cover you and to give you the rest that you greatly need. 

He is the one who rests upon you, overflowing you as you experience Him as Your Rest. 

He brings His rest to you while in the wilderness.  As you are betrothed to Him, and He is your God and your are His people, you will experience the benefits of His wings covering you bringing you rest, and bringing you shade by day and fire by night as you travel side by side as His bride and Him as your Husband.

Deuteronomy 32:10-12

“He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.  As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the LORD alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

What He is interested in producing in us is found in Revelations 21:2, “Then I John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”

And in 2 Corinthians 11:2,“For I am jealous (zeal, intense desire, passionate commitment, and eagerness) for you with godly jealousy.  For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste (pure, clean, modest, undefiled, morally faultless, and without blemish) virgin to Christ.

You are the Apple of HIS eye. He watched over you from the time of your conception, your childhood, and trained you in the wilderness.   His wing is spread over you. You are betrothed to Him.  You are His special treasure.  You are His bride and He is your Husband. 

As in the Song of Solomon, “I am His and He is mine.”

Remember HIM,

Carrie Rebecca Love Grace

I have added below sections of the article “2000” from Bob Jones prophetic site. I added today because it is bringing further confirmation to me and to His bride for what He is doing. And I think he said it better than what I could. If you would like to check, this site out for yourself go the site and then click on Shepherd’s Rod 2000.

www.bobjones.org.  

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who watches his way preserves his life.  (Prov. 16:17)

 

A voice is calling, "Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.  "Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rugged terrain a broad valley; Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all flesh will see {it} together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."   (Isa. 40:3-5)

 

Go through, go through the gates, clear the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.  Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, "Lo, your salvation comes; behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him."  And they will call them, "The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD"; and you will be called, "Sought out, a city not forsaken."   (Isa 62:10-12)

 

"For My people have forgotten me, they burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, not on a highway, To make their land a desolation, {an object of} perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.   (Jer 18:15-16)

 

A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The term “Highway” is derived from the language used by the prophet signifying the return of the Jews from captivity. The idea is there would be easy and uninterrupted access to their own land.  According to scholars, “Highway” refers more particularly to a RAISED way and would be expressed by our word "causeway" or "turnpike." It was such a way as was usually made for the march of armies by removing obstructions, filling valleys, and removing hills and other obstructions.   It is used to portray the way of access to the blessings of the Messiah's reign allowing the unimpeded flow of the Spirit to the Church.  No impure person is to travel this route, mandating access to it through Holiness.  This is the High calling of God to which the idolater is not allowed nor shall anyone be admitted, save the pure worshiper of God.  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.    (Phil 3:14)

 

The Lord's Divine nature and Holy Character is the only foundation upon which lasting ministry can be built.  Each of these stones represents aspects of the Lord's nature and character upon which His Tabernacle must be assembled.  Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.  For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of {the} divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.  (2 Pet 1:3-4)

 

Every provision for Life and Godliness is ours, provided we are willing to pay the price through the Spirit’s refining work to share in His divine nature and escape the corruption that is in this world according to its lusts.  This provision is not merely necessary to allow powerful ministry, more importantly, it is necessary to walk closely with the Lord to see Him with an unveiled face being transformed into His very image.  Without the foundation of Holiness, we will not be able to enter the intimate chambers reserved for the bride. 

 

This is the foundation spoken of in Matthew 7:21-27.  “Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.  "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'  "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'  "Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.  "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and {yet} it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.  "And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.  "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and burst against that house; and it fell,

 

It is the revelation of Jesus Christ and His divine nature and radiant character that is the rock upon which His everlasting Church must be grounded.  Any other foundation is sinking sand.  Many powerful ministries and anointed leaders have fallen in times past because they did not build upon this foundation.  Being anointed with powerful gifts and knowing the Lord intimately are two separate and distinct issues.  There is the possibility of great deception if this differentiation is not clearly recognized.  Many can have powerful ministry gifts attracting large audiences and yet never even know the Lord intimately nor His thoughts and ways.  In fact, Matthew 7:21-23 tells us that many can have tremendous success in ministry and not even know the Lord. 

 

Conversely, there can be others who rarely if ever publicly minister, who nevertheless walk so intimately with the Lord  they even know his "heartbeat" and most intimate secrets.  We need and must function in both to become the Bride of Christ and the victorious army prophesied in scripture.  To walk closely with Him and go deep into the things of God should be our greatest desire, even more so than the gifts of the Spirit, as wonderful as they may be.  As splendid as His anointing for ministry is, it is no substitute for intimacy with Him nor can we allow ministry to interfere with our relentless pursuit to KNOW HIM as fully as He may be known.

 

"Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the {things of} gold, and the silver for the {things of} silver, and the bronze for the {things of} bronze, the iron for the {things of} iron, and wood for the {things of} wood, onyx stones and inlaid {stones,} stones of antimony, and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster in abundance.   (1 Chr 29:2)

 

As David supplied Solomon with the precious glistening stones, so have our spiritual fathers provided valuable “jewels” they discovered through their insights to God that are to be used in the foundation for the end time generation.  However, we do not live on the foundation but build upon it.  The prior generations have provided us with priceless insights into the "ways" of God that will form a solid foundation in the scriptures used by this generation to construct a Tabernacle suitable for His Glory.

 

In Bob's vision he noticed a variety of precious stones.  However, the diamond was the one stone that seemed predominant and in abundance.  A Diamond has withstood great pressure in its formation.  Likewise, many have been going through great pressure and will emerge as a diamond, precious to the Lord and immensely valuable in kingdom purposes.  The Light of God will shine upon these "diamonds" reflecting the seven Spirits of God even as the sun will strike a diamond displaying the seven colors of the spectrum.

                             

 WATER FROM OUR OWN CISTERN

 

Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.  Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?  Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you .Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your  youth.  

(Prov 5:15-18)

 

This final passage was given as an emphasis for this year.  Unknowingly, we have allowed subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, influences from the spirit of the world enter our lives.  The Lord views these as spiritual adultery.  There will be a spiritual and natural parallel in the marriage relationship promoting purity in both.  Marital partners cannot be allowed to give to others nor receive from others physical and emotional affections that are lawfully reserved for the marriage covenant.  This application applies not only to the natural relationship of husband and wife but also spiritually through spiritual adultery and fornication.  We must be pure naturally, spiritually, and emotionally.

 

The Body of Christ is like a wife to the Lord.  It would be adultery for a woman to have her thoughts and affections upon anything other than her husband.  So is it with the Lord.  If our affections are upon the things of this world then they represent spiritual adultery to the Husband.  We must be able to discern these offences and repent of them promoting purity of heart and soul within the bride.  Thus, will we be on the glorious path to the promised union between Christ and His Bride.

 

This will be a year for re-dedication.  A special grace is being bestowed to reaffirm commitment to the marriage covenant and its vows.  This applies both to the relationship of husband and wife and the Bride of Christ and her Bridegroom.  As we repent for past failures, we will discover the grace to begin anew in our relationships, especially with the Lord.  It will be a restoration of the joy we knew at the beginning.

 

There will also be a special emphasis on the Feast of Dedication (Feast of Lights) this year.  Watch closely the spiritual and natural occurrences during this season to determine greater insights into the Lords heart for His people. (Dec. 4-11)  He is desiring to establish a “dedicated” line of communication with His Beloved.