Honeymoon Time with Jesus

Immediately after a wedding, most couples try to escape for a honeymoon to enjoy quality intimacy and oneness in their new beginning. Each year, on the same date as their wedding, they celebrate their anniversary of being together in marriage. In the Bible, God provided a special feast season called counting the Omer to celebrate our relationship with Him.

What I'm finding, though, is that counting the Omer isn’t a chore; it's a blessing. If you participate, you’ll be blessed in ways you never were before. Each year is different. I've been counting the Omer since 2013, and every time I do, it’s a journey that takes you from Passover or Easter to Pentecost. It feels like a honeymoon with the Lord for 50 days. It's not about your salvation; it’s about getting to know God in a new and unique way and Him meeting you right where you are today. It's a honeymoon opportunity to spend with the Lord.

I don't hear many pastors, theologians, or Bible teachers discussing it. In a conversation I had with the Lord in 2013, I felt that someone needs to teach this so the body of Christ can understand their gifts and callings for such a time as now. Where can I find this in the Bible? In Exodus 34, these feast days of the Lord are timeless; they're not just Old Testament. As the body of Christ, we need to determine how to make them relevant to us today, just as we observe the Feast of the Lord by keeping the Sabbath. We attend church on Sundays, which we refer to as keeping the Sabbath, and celebrate Passover during Easter. There's a feast of Tabernacles in the fall that much of the church refers to as the coming of the Lord during the end times. However, there are many layers to that. 

One aspect the Lord encourages me to emphasize is the Feast of Weeks. We find it in Exodus 34:22, which states, "And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.” This feast is one of the three times a year when we are to appear before the Lord our God in Israel. It is also mentioned in Deuteronomy chapter 16.

In Deuteronomy 16:8, on the first day of the resurrection, or Easter morning, it states, “Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day, there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God, and you shall do no work on it.” The first day of that week, Easter or Resurrection morning, begins counting the Omer. Verse nine says, “You shall count seven weeks for yourself. You shall begin to count seven weeks from when you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain, which is resurrection morning. Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God, with a tribute of a free-will offering of your hand, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, as well as your male and female servants, and the Levites who are in your town, along with the strangers, orphans, and widows who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.”

Where is God choosing to establish His name? With the name comes nature, identity, power, and authority. So, has He chosen you to establish His name within you? There’s a difference between acknowledging God as Father and being a child of God. However, as Paul discusses in the New Testament, when He establishes His name in marriage to the Lamb of God, you are no longer simply a child. You may be a son or daughter of God, but if you remain in a child's state, you are no different from a bondservant. When you mature as sons and daughters of the Highest, carrying His name, nature, and identity, He grants you the power and authority to perform more excellent works based on what Jesus accomplished. This is why it's a matter of free will. You don't have to take this path. You can continue as a little child of God during your human life, then transition into the unseen realm known as Heaven, spending eternity in the presence of the Lord. But what if you discover that all the treasures of Heaven are accessible to you now? You didn't know it because nobody is teaching you how to gain access to them. 

So, this is a game change. If the blessings of Heaven are here now, and that's what Jesus came to show us, what is the process for us to unveil this finished work? John was trying to tell us this in Revelation, in the Gospel of John, and in his letters. He aimed to convey that it's not about becoming someone else but recognizing who you already are as a son or daughter of the Highest. However, we need to shed much of our human thought patterns regarding what it means to seek and know the Lord. There's knowing through head knowledge, there's knowing in a brotherly relationship, but how do you know with intimacy as the lover of your soul?

I have found that women don't have as much problem with this level of intimacy with Jesus as men do because we have a whole society of homophobia issues and identity issues. Well, those filters carry into the spiritual networking of the church. If the church does not accept that there's only one husband, Jesus Christ, then we have a masculine dominance that wants to say women can't teach or preach to men. 

The dominance of male leadership in the body of Christ is prophesying to themselves as the bride of Christ, which will hinder the Lord's works for you to do. I want to focus on this verse from Deuteronomy: "You shall count seven weeks for yourself.” Counting the Omer is not about looking in scripture and trying to change everyone else. Counting the Omer is about looking into scripture and asking the Lord how to change you, your walk, and your identity so that the Lord's glory can reveal Abba's ability in this world, allowing the earth to see that the kingdom of God is here and now.

The millennial opportunity for Jesus to return to walk and talk with us on the earth is right here because Christ is in us today. It's not a someday, or it doesn't have to be a someday. When He says to establish His name, that's a marriage. When you get married, it's not the man that changes his name. Jesus isn't changing his. We have to change ours. It's the woman. It's a woman's heart that has to change. And that's why, as I said, when we see the male and female situation spiritually, all humanity must become the bride of Christ, not just females, while men will be brothers of Christ. No, we must recognize that there's only one husband in Scripture and that everyone else must prepare themselves to be a bride of Christ (Revelations 21:2).

I've been counting the Omer since 2013, when the Lord unveiled it to me. At the very start of each year, I ask the Lord in January and February, knowing that Passover and our resurrection day are approaching in March or April. I have conversations with Jesus about what this season will look like and how it will differ from the past. How can I feel excited? What are we going to discuss?

Often, I will read some of my past journals to refresh my memory of where I was on a day with my relationship with God. I did a journal in 2017 that I found, and in that one, the Lord says, I'm going to show you what the word in the Hebrew letters means one letter at a time and how counting the Omer relates to these letters. For example, it becomes an unveiling of the “Aleph,” the “Bet,” the “Gamel,” and the “Dalet,” also known as the door. “I am the door: by me, if any man enters in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture” (John 10:9). The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet identifies Jesus, declaring He is the Dalet, a letter, not just an entrance and exit to a building!

That was a whole study of counting the Omer one day at a time, along with a new letter of the Hebrew alphabet, unveiling a deeper intimacy with Jesus as the resurrected life of Christ in me. It was so eye-opening, an awakening on a forty-day journey with Jesus like what the disciples experienced when He appeared to over five hundred people. 

In 2022, He not only took the Hebrew alphabet and made it applicable one day at a time for 40 days. But that year, He went, and He took it from the numerical value of each number to a beautiful hidden treasure of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the eternal presence of Christ in each number. I spent more time each day desiring more intimacy of these heavenly layers of love being unveiled during this season than in the past.

 

There was no pre-planning but simply resting with each Letter one day at a time, discovering a whole new understanding of what Jesus was saying to John: He was and is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8). 

Sometimes, Jesus would reveal the Letters of who He is in a familiar, orderly way, and at other times, He would jump across various letters like playing musical notes on a keyboard. Did you know that there are healing and vibrational energies in Hebrew Letters? Yes. Another aspect that the Lord has provided is found in Eastern traditions, which Western Christianity often overlooks. When David played his harp for Saul, he used specific frequency keys to which Saul’s body, composed of many waters, would respond, bringing healing and nourishment to his cells. “And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took his harp, and played with his hand: so, Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him” (1 Samuel 16:23).

A significant factor in understanding this is that we possess a spirit, a soul, and a body that can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Our body strives to walk, talk, and represent Christ on earth. However, a hindrance affects the connection between our spirit, body, and soul. Our soul seeks to experience the world through our natural senses, shaped by our cultures, customs, and belief systems. These elements are deeply intertwined with our soul; our soul often takes control instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us. As a result, we miss the complete guidance the Holy Spirit offers, leading to the presence of many familiar spirits that dominate and control us.

It's as if the Holy Spirit says this while our soul, influenced by familiar spirits, responds affirmatively but with reservations. This leads to a trickle-down effect on our bodies. We start thinking that if we exercise, sleep, and follow certain routines, we’ll return to normal. Well, it helps and rejuvenates us, and we attempt to get back out there. However, we're missing out on a lot if we don't address this soul issue involving a familiar spirit. 

This year, I was excited because, as I spoke with the Lord, He revealed the importance of freeing the captives. I'm like, what? What do you mean by setting the captives free? Well, in Luke 4:18-19, Jesus read out of Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Jesus was sent to proclaim release to the captives, setting them free, giving sight to the blind, setting free those oppressed, and proclaiming the year of the Lord's favor. Okay? If Jesus sets you free, all that sounds like you are indeed free. But how does that happen personally after you believe that Jesus has set you free?  Then the next question is, “Free from what?” We know the Evangelical answer is free from sin and death and a ticket to go to heaven when we die, but is that really what Jesus was talking about? Everything about that feels out there. 

Keep in mind what Deuteronomy tells us: it must be about me. So how can I, during this year of counting the Omer, be set free so that the mind of Christ is in full function and flowing into my body?