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Leeland Jones video posted on November 14, 2014, transcribed:

Okay guys, how are you doing? I got another part in our series on the House of David. And I know I’m going to be sharing a lot of things throughout this series, many of them are kind of deep things, mysteries of deep revelation and many amazing things.

And I want you to know that you can participate in all the things I’m sharing with you. There are things to do. There are things that are roles that we have as kings and as priests, there are of marvelous things. But for many of you are going to struggle with your ability to do them, you just are. Of all the things I share with you, this is one that you should not struggle with. And if I say anything throughout this series and you don’t get a single thing, I encourage you to get this message, this one is of the utmost importance, because we have to maintain our intimacy with the Father.

We can be about doing good works and things like that. But without intimacy with Him, it’s really all for naught. That’s really the point of all this is that as you have intimacy with God, then you realize the responsibilities you have as His son. And then as His son, you realize that you must have intimacy with Him to maintain those responsibilities. So they work on a scale and there’s balance.

This message and the thing that the Lord spoke to me is very detailed and specific. And as you know, most of you are doing this and so I am proud of you for that.

But let’s just get into it. I am going to title it: The Father’s Desire. The notes I have here I will attached in the details of the YouTube video where you can go to Evernote, I have this on Evernote, this is just a print out.

{The link to Evernote is at the bottom of this blog post as well as the notes.}

But basically what we’re going to look at is we’re going to look at the connection of three stories. All of them are very familiar to you. And that is:

The Lord walking with Adam and Eve in the garden.
Abraham waiting at the tent door.
And then the Father of the prodigal son.

And basically the Lord spoke to me that this is His standpoint. From most of our standpoint of spiritual matters or different things is as a human looking up at God and things like that. But many of the things that we’re going to view we are going to view from God’s point of view. Of course Jesus gave us many of those through His parables and everything.

If we connect these three stories we can actually see the Father’s point of view with mankind and His love for us. So again, of all the revelatory things that I share with you they’re really amazing. You can do these things.

Just like the love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, unless I have love, it’s all for naught. And that love is ultimately your love in the 1st Commandment, your love with the Father. And you can speak to Him, you can speak to Him face to face. That’s really what this is all about.

But if you only do this and you don’t take responsibility, you’re really not going to grow. You’re going to be a baby and you’re going to be about, “Me! Me! Me! I need milk. I need my diaper changed.” And you’re really not going to grow as a son. So that’s where the responsibilities are important as well.

So, let’s look at this. If you are listening to this message and you want to click on the Evernote attachment that’s fine, bring it up. Don’t go ahead of me, you know, wait, wait, for the notes. I could just email you the information, but remember,

Faith comes by hearing, and it’s the sound and revelation of the experience that I’m coming from that is going to quicken your spirit to this message.

First off, we know in Genesis 3:8 God said, And they (Adam and Eve) heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the cool of the day. It’s Interesting if you break that down and you look at it, it is what it says; The voice of the Lord is walking. I mean how does the voice walk? But that’s exactly what he’s saying.

What is happening here is certainly they heard the voice of the Lord, but the Lord Himself is walking in the garden and they heard His voice in the cool of the day. And we’re going to look at that about what that means. And then in verse 9 it says, And the Lord called unto Adam, and said, ‘Where are you?’

There are certain parts of this message that the Lord wanted to give to me in other language, kind of prophetic or poetic language, I did my best to do that in here. And this is one of them. I just want to read this to you:

Our wonderful Abba Father still walks the garden, can you hear His footsteps? Can you hear the sound of His feet walking the pathways, the bridges, the autumn leaves under His feet, the noise of the wind as it rustles the leaves in the trees as He passes by. The sound of the Father walking, says, “Adam, where are you? I thought we had an appointment?”

I believe that that Hebrew word for the word that we see cool, and the Lord walking in the cool of the garden is ruwach, which is spirit. And if you look at it it’s like walking in the garden in the spirit of the day. That’s a completely different meaning than cool of the day.

And so what I believe is that spirit of the day is an actual time. It’s an appointment! And God met with Adam at a specific time every single day, and I believe He still does. I believe that the Father waits in the garden for you to show up every single day. And not only you, all 7 Billion of us! Wow. So let’s look at this.

And you can just see this throughout so many things that the LORD desires for intimacy and fellowship with His children. Even Jesus saying, ‘Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I have conquered.’ {Revelation 3:20-21}

This is the same thing. It’s the Father, it’s the Lord Jesus, the call for intimacy. And the sad thing is is that the Lord Jesus has to knock on the Door because He is not in the room. We want to let Him in, and we want to visit Him every single day, and sup with Him.

And in the next part I want to quote a brother Bruce Allen in his book. I just thought this was great and I wanted to share this. I’m going to go through a number of themes along this subject line. But there was a busy man, and the Lord Jesus visited him and said:

“Son would you just spend time with Me as a friend? I don’t have anyone who will just spend time with Me as a friend. Everyone always comes with a petition, with intercession, with various requests, but they never just want to be with Me for who I am.”

{Leeland} Oh my goodness, isn’t that the Lord?

This man began to ask “How’s your day been Jesus? What do you think about this or that?”

Wow. That is completely contrary to everything that we do. We think that the Lord is Santa. We pop on His lap, we have our list. “Okay, #1. God, I want this!” And you go down your list. “Give it to me, by___? See Ya next time.”

What if you sat on His lap and said, ‘Lord, how’s Your day? What are You doing today?” What if you did that every day? What if you took time every single day to say, “You know what, the Garden is still available to me. I can go there and I can sup with the Lord.” I encourage you to do that.

The Lord gave us this almost a year ago.

So every day I take a cup of coffee, He doesn’t always drink it, but He will someday:) And you take a cup of coffee, you pour 2 cups. You put a cup by you and you put a cup by another chair on the table and you say, “Lord Jesus how is your day? Heavenly Father what are you doing this day?” And have a cup of coffee. Isn’t that simple?

But you can also see your garden. You can also be quickened as you do this to the fact that you have a garden in Heaven. The Garden of Eden is still there in Heaven and you have a section of it or you have a place and you can sit with the Lord on a park bench or on a swing. You can walk with Him in your appointed time, every single day.

Those of you that are watching on YouTube and you’re not part of the group and everything, I encourage you to seek the Lord on this. Those of you that do know me and are part of the group, we can go together and we can engage this.

There’s many things and many connections to this one message. But this is the Oneness that Adam shared with the Lord. And then Jesus restored that when He said, ”Father I pray that they would be One; even as we are One”, {John 17:21}. So then you begin to develop this Oneness, this intimacy with the Lord. That’s the garden.

{11:11 min mark} Now let’s look at a couple other examples of what it’s like for the Father.

That was us, we go, we engage the garden, we go to be with our Heavenly Father. Now let’s look at what it’s like for the Father. What’s His point of view on this matter? Because look, this is unique.

His relationship with mankind is unique. The angels even said {Psalm 8:3-4}, What is man, that You art mindful of him? That You crown him with glory, and that You visit him? This is what it’s talking about.

The Father visits mankind. He visits them everyday in the garden and He waits for you. He sits on the bench and He waits for you. If you don’t show up, He comes back the next day. He waits for you.

But let’s watch what He actually does. Unfortunately we name these parables that Jesus said. Right? So we focus on the Prodigal son. We focus on the son, but it’s really not about the son. In fact, I am going to title this message The Father’s Desire. Because it’s not the prodigal son, it’s the Father’s Desire for the son.

Even our whole mindset of everything is completely backwards when it comes to many spiritual matters. When we look at it in Luke 15:20, it says:

” And he arose and came to his father. But when he was a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.”

Wow. That should be the focus of this parable, not the son and eating with the pigs.

Verse 22 “But he said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. 23 “bring out the fatted calf, kill it and let us eat and be merry.

So what’s happening here? Well, the son is coming back. But why is he coming back? He’s coming back to the Father’s house, but he’s coming back to the garden. And what’s happening is his Father is sitting there every day waiting, looking a far off. How does He see him a far off?

The Father is waiting for you every day. He loves you! He loves you! Oh, if you knew.

Now let’s look at the similarities of this with Genesis 18 and Abraham sitting at the tent door of Mamre, a type of the Father.

What is happening in the parable in Genesis 18 is Abraham is a type of the Father. The connection is we have the Father waiting in the garden, “Adam where are you? This is our appointed time and why aren’t you showing up?” Now we have the Father’s Desire parable, let’s call it that.

Let’s look at more details of what it was like for the Father. The Father is a type of Abraham in this case:

Genesis 18:1 ‘and Abraham sat at the tent door in the heat of the day; ²And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door.’

Can’t you see it’s the same thing? It’s the same thing as the prodigals that He’s sitting at the tent door, He’s waiting, and He runs. I have many things I’m gonna go through and breakdown. You know I have to teach, we have to have our points 1, 2, 3.

But watch and listen to this in the Amplified Version of Isaiah 30, verse 18. It’s the same thing.

“And therefore the Lord (earnestly) waits (expecting, looking, and longing) to be gracious to you; therefore He lifts Himself up, that He might have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you.”

Remember the Lord He lifts Himself up in both cases in the parable. And Abraham, He’s waiting at the tent door and when He lifts Himself up, He runs.

“To be mercy, to show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are all those who (earnestly) wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him (for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship)!”

What is this saying? This is saying that the Lord waits at the tent door and you are to wait as well,

the waiting should come together. So the Lord is waiting in the garden for you every day, and then you must show up. And when you show up, you must speak, you must come to grips with this thing and work it out. Wow. “How does this work God?”

{16:32 min mark} Let’s look at some interesting things in Genesis 18 of what Abraham does. And this is all lining up with the parable.

#1. See, lift up your eyes. What I am saying to you you must be able to see. You must be able to lift up your eyes above the circumstances of your life, the excuses that you come up with of why you can’t do this.

Look, all this stuff I’m telling you, if you look and you say “I can’t do that!” Well, that’s a bad attitude. And you’re right, you can’t. But if you look at it and you should have a good heart and a good attitude, and say “You know what, I want that. But I don’t know how to?” That’s a good attitude.

Then say “Okay God, how do I do this? How do I sit in the garden with You every day?” If you’re doing this and then you have blockages you have to come to grips with why am I having a problem, sitting with the Lord in the garden? This is a marvelous blessing.

“Adam, where are you?” So lift up your eyes, the Lord is still asking the same question. He never stops, what He starts….. to Him there’s no new thing under the sun. He just does the same thing over and over. He sits, He waits. Just like Abraham saw, He lifted up His eyes anticipating His son. He’s waiting every day with anticipation that you are going to show up. That you are going to be there in the garden earnestly waiting, expecting, longing.

#2. Compassion. The Father has compassion! Like Isaiah 30 says, He’s been waiting, expecting for the chance to show mercy and grace to you. Oh, the compassion, the desire that you finally showed up.

Look, God is a whole lot better than me, I wouldn’t bother with you for that long:) Isn’t He amazing?

#3. Run. He runs! Both Abraham and the Father they run when they see the son. He runs to you! And He is going to run to you with this message.

He’s going to run to you with this chance to have fellowship with you every day. But you have to be consistent. You do so many things. You’re so busy. You have so such stuff going on. Why won’t you do this?

#4. He fell on his neck and kissed him. Both times, Abraham, the Father and the Prodigal. The sincere desire of the Father is fulfilled in a big ol’ bear hug. Imagine that, our Daddy falls on our neck when we simply answer His call “Where are you?” Oh, this is so marvelous. Oh, this makes me want to cry.

In Genesis 18 Abraham runs and bows which in Hebrew is shachahwhich. Watch this, which is translated worship 99 times and bow 31 times. It literally means to prostrate oneself before a superior. What’s interesting is that the Greek word for worship is proskuneo, which means “to kiss”.

We might look at it like this, when we bow and worship the Father, when we bow and we worship Him. When we worship. The mystery is that Abraham here is a switch, it’s turning, so instead of him being the Father, it’s us. When we bow and prostrate before the Father.

When we bow and we worship the Father, the Father responds with hugs and kisses. The Hebrew word is to bow for worship, the Greek word is to kiss. So when we bow, He kisses. This is worship in spirit and truth, this is what the Father craves. He said He craves this worship, so He can respond with hugs and kisses on you. This is marvelous.

#5. Robe and Ring. When the Father puts the robe on the son’s back and the ring on his finger He restores him in righteousness and authority. These are also promises to the overcoming saints. In Revelation 3:5 He says, “He that overcomes will be clothed in white raiment. ” And Revelation 21:7 “He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son.”

The inheritance of all things is the ring. The ring, that is a Seal, an authorization of documents of things from the Father. This speaks of the authority of the ring. Like Joseph being 2nd to Pharaoh when he was given a robe and a ring. We’re given a robe of righteousness. Clothed in righteousness and a ring.

When you have intimacy with the Father and you restore this place in the garden, you will walk in authority and dominion.

#6. Shoes- Washes His Feet. What is this? The shoes speak of the walk of the overcoming saints. In Revelation 3:4 “they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.” This is a walk of white, a walk of righteousness, a shoe given to be worthy to walk righteous. Before the son can put on the shoes the Father gives him, he first needs his feet to be cleaned.

In Genesis 18:4 Abraham washes the feet of the guests. This is a type of Christ, He washes the feet of His disciples {John 13}. Wow. It’s only through Christ that we can put on the shoes. You see your feet are dirty. So Abraham washes the feet of the guest. And Christ fulfills that by washing the feet of the Disciples. Wow. And we are to do the same.

I might have another piece on washing feet, it is amazing. I’m not saying we are going to do this, I mean, you should in a way:) But washing the Lord’s feet, it’s a marvelous thing.

#7. Calf -Eat and be Merry. Both the Father and Abraham were quick to prepare a calf they had ready in anticipation of the guest! So the Father is ready! The table is set for the bride in Heaven, He’s ready everyday.

And Abraham said “comfort your hearts” and the Father said “kill the fatted calf and let us eat and be merry.” I believe this is more than just a one time event that we anticipate as the marriage supper of the Lamb. It’s a practice. We are practicing within the garden, having intimacy with the Lord of the great and marvelous promises He has for us.

So what am I saying? I propose that the Father’s desire is more than a one time event of acceptance of the son at salvation. I believe He daily asks “where are you?” He set the appointed time in the beginning at a specific time or the spirit of the day. He waits earnestly, longingly, expectantly looks for you every day in the garden. Wow.

Here again I want to say this like a poem to you:

“See the Lord sitting at the park bench waiting for you.

Our wonderful Heavenly Father sits in the garden at the park bench waiting everyday for you to come to sit down fellowship. Everyday He comes and sits desiring to talk face to face like Moses and He waits whether you show up or not. He still calls you to this place in the garden asking “Adam where are you?”

After waiting for a while when He sees you’re not coming He gets up and leaves but comes back the next day waiting again asking “Adam where are you?”

Who will fulfill His desire for fellowship? Who will allow Him to be gracious to them? Don’t hide from Him. Don’t cover yourself with fig leaves and excuses. Let us run back to Him in the garden every day!”

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Father’s Desire:

Verse 22 “But he said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

Verse 23, “bring out the fatted calf, kill it and let us eat and be merry.

I believe the cool or ruwach (spirit) of the day was an appointed time that God met Adam every single day. I believe the Father still calls to all of us and asks “where are you?” Many have believed in His son and have answered salvation with “here I am Lord.” However, I believe there is a continuing fellowship available by daily meeting the Father in the garden. I believe Jesus is the Second Adam that first answered the Fathers call by presenting Himself as Gethsemane so we could go to Eden. So He says (Rev 3:20)

Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I have conquered.

The Lord spoke to a busy man mentioned in Bruce Allen’s book saying:

This man began to ask “How’s your day been Jesus? What do you think about this or that?”

The relationship that Adam enjoyed with the Lord was expressed wonderfully when the Lord Jesus voiced His desire “that we would be One as He and the Father are One”, Jn 17: 21.

We can find more about the Father’s desire for this relationship in what is known as the parable of the Prodigal son. I would rather change the emphasis to our wonderful Father from that of the rebellous son by calling it “The Father’s Desire”.

Lk 15: 20 says, ” And he arose and came to his father. But when he was a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Verse 22 “But he said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. Verse 23, “bring out the fatted calf, kill it and let us eat and be merry.

Now let’s look at the similarities of this parable with Gen 18 when Abraham, a type of the Father waiting at the Mamre tent door.

Gen 18:1,2 “he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; ²And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door.”

Here we see a glimpse of what the Father was doing in order to see the son coming a”a far way off” from what Jesus said in the parable.

Also the AMP version of Isa 30:18 describes this “And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]”

See, Lift up eyes Remember the Lord in the garden quietly asking, “Adam, where are you?” Well, the first thing the Father does is sees his son coming from a far off. Gen 18:2 says Abraham lifted up his eyes, this means to cast eyes on a person or thing in love and desire. Here Father is waiting at the tent door anticipating seeing His son, possibly at the same time daily. Isa 30:18 descibes this by the Lord [earnestly] waiting [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you.”
Compassion. Father has compassion and like Isa 30:18 says He’s been waiting with expectation for the chance to show mercy and grace to his son.
Run In both Gen 18 and Lk 15 it shows the Father running once he sees the son! The Father runs with all His might to greet the long lost soul.
Fell on his neck and kissed him. The sincere desire of the Father is fulfilled in a big ol’ bear hug! Imagine that, our Daddy “falls on our neck” when we simply answer His call, “where are you?” In Gen 18 Abraham runs and bows which in Hebrew is shachahwhich is translated worship 99 times, bow 31 times and literally means to prostrate oneself before a superior. What’s interesting is that the Greek word for worship is proskuneo which means “to kiss”. We might look at this, when we bow in worship, Father responds with hugs and kisses! This is worship in spirit and truth, this is what the Father craves so He can respond with hugs and kisses.
Robe and Ring . When the Father puts the robe on the son’s back and the ring on his finger He restores him in righteousness and authority. These are also promises to the overcoming saints. Rev 3:5 says, “He that overcomes will be clothed in white raiment” and Rev 21:7 “He that over comes shall inherit all things, I will be his God and he shall be my son.” This speaks of the authority of the ring. Like Joseph being 2nd to Pharaoh when given the robe and ring Gen
Shoes– Wash His Feet The shoes speak of the walk of the overcoming saints, Rev 3:4 “they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.” Before the son can put on the shoes the Father gives him, he first needs his feet to be cleaned. In Gen 18:4 Abraham washes the feet of the guests as a type of Christ as He washes the feet of the disciples. It’s only through Christ that we can put on the shoes.
Calf – Eat and be Merry Both the Father and Abraham were quick to prepare a calf they had ready in anticipation of the guest! Abraham said “comfort your hearts” and the Father said “kill the fatted calf and let us eat and be merry.” I believe this is more than the one time event that we anticipate as the marriage supper of the Lamb.

I propose that the Father’s desire is more than a one time event of acceptance of the son at salvation. I believe He daily asks “where are you?” He set the appointed time in the beginning at a specific time or spirit of the day. He waits earnestly, longingly, expectantly looks for you every day in the garden.

See the Lord sitting at the park bench waiting for you.

After waiting for a while when He sees you’re not coming He gets up and leaves but comes back the next day waiting again asking “Adam where are you?”

Who will fulfill His desire for fellowship? Who will allow Him to be gracious to them? Don’t hide from Him. Don’t cover yourself with fig leaves. Let us run back to Him in the garden every day!

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