The Path (Fire on the Mountain Series) by Rick Joyner Page B

discovery anyone could ever make would be to know God. At the time, like most people, I was confused by religion, but I thought that if I could ever learn who the real God was I would spend the rest of my life getting to know Him. What could possibly be more important than that?
“Then I had a supernatural conversion experience that left me with no doubt that God is real and that Jesus is the Son of God and everything He said He was in the Scriptures. This was the greatest day of my life. I knew I had found the greatest treasure of knowledge anyone could ever find. I have been in constant awe and fascination with Him ever since. I cannot imagine life being more wonderful than getting to know Him and serving Him.
“It is written that‘ God is Love ,’ and I learned that you could not learn anything about Him without loving Him more. That compels you to learn more about Him so that you get caught up in an ever tightening and ascending life spiral that gets stronger and stronger. I call this ‘the great addiction’ that every other addiction is a counterfeit of. There is nothing that will ever satisfy the human soul like knowing God. Once you start to know Him, you just cannot get to know Him enough.”
“To this I will attest,” said Elijah who had joined our company without being noticed. “I have seen the glories of earth and heaven. The glories of heaven overshadow the greatest glories of earth more than can be conveyed, but the glory of God overshadows the glory of heaven even more so.
“I have sat in the great councils of heaven. The greatest of all marvels is how the Lord shares His glory with men, and how He intends to dwell on the earth among men. His love for man is more than anyone has yet comprehended. To know this is the greatest knowledge of all; this is the greatest treasure of all. The highest pursuit of all is to know Him.”
    We were all still pondering what Elijah had said. There was a long silence, but it was not awkward—it was holy. The presence of the Lord was so great that we just wanted to enjoy Him. After a long time, Mark spoke:
“The Lord built His first dwelling place among men in the wilderness with the children of Israel. It is here that He is building His dwelling place among us.”
“Why did He just come upon us so strongly like that, here and now?” someone asked.
“Because we were talking about His love,” the older Mary answered. “The real revelation was not in the words, but in what we felt—His love for us. He is with us. He loves us.”
“He is with us all the time, we know, but it is so different when He comes upon us like this,” someone else chimed in.
“This is His manifest presence,” someone added. “He is with us all the time, but He does not always manifest Himself like this. Being with Him in His presence is like nothing else. This is what we were made for—to dwell with Him, to know His special fellowship.”
    We had to stop. It just was not possible to keep walking. The rest of the group gathered around, and we prayed and worshipped for a long time. No one wanted to leave. Many tears flowed. Then there was laughter. No jokes, just joy. We all seemed to know at the same time that we needed to start walking again. We all just got up and started.
“Do you feel rejuvenated?” William asked. “That was even better than the living water. I don’t know if I have ever felt this good.”
“‘ He is a quickening Spirit who will quicken our mortal bodies ’,” someone quoted.
“That was what King David called ‘the sweet fellowship’ they experienced in the house of the Lord,” another chimed in. “There is nothing else like it. That is why David had to have the Ark with him in Jerusalem.”
    As we were basking in what we had just experienced, I looked around at the group and could not help but think of how much more wonderful it was to go through the wilderness with them. For this, I could be content to stay in the wilderness. The presence of the Lord