Table of Contents

The Secret to Fullness

The Blessing of God

Only Need

Admitting Our Need

The Age of Laodicea

Accepting Common Humanity

Possessing the Kingdom

Common Harlotry, Uncommon Kindness

Embracing Need

Alone With God

Our High Priest

Purity in Weakness

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The Secret to Fullness

Years ago I studied the poems of Gerhard Ter Steegen. He and several others published spiritual poetry in 17th century Germany, and they wrote in great fullness.

In fact, the preface to their little book, now titled “The Hymns of Tersteegen,” stated that many Catholic mystics of that era spoke of the love of God and the bliss of God that was yet to be experienced. What these mystics saw was all future, whereas the German poets (Ter Steegen and his contemporaries) spoke of the glory of God as enjoyable now, in the present, and that was the great difference of their writings. Here is an example:

The Royal Priesthood

The race of God’s anointed priests

shall never pass away;

Before His glorious face they stand,

and serve Him night and day.

Though reason raves, and unbelief

flows on, a mighty flood,

There are, and shall be, till the end,

the hidden priests of God.

His chosen souls, their earthly dross

consumed in sacred fire,

To God’s own heart their hearts ascend

in flame of deep desire.

The incense of their worship

fills His Temple’s holiest place;

Their song with wonder fills the Heavens,

the glad new song of Grace.

(Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others. Rarebooks.com)

Now, it is easy to miss the real core of that poem. We would focus on the glory, the face of God, the anointing, the heart of worship, the song, the flame of deep desire. However, the real core of the poem, what makes these ones he speaks of the priests of God, is this line:

His chosen souls, their earthly dross

consumed in sacred fire.

That is what makes a priest: “Their earthly dross consumed.”

Here is another poem he wrote:

The Task

To learn, and yet to learn,

whilst life goes by,

So passed the student’s days;

And thus be great, and do

great things, and die,

And lie embalmed with praise.

My work is but to lose and to forget,

Thus small, despised to be;

All to unlearn—this task before me set;

Unlearn all else but Thee.

So our challenge is to unlearn, not to learn; to be reduced rather than to acquire.

The Blessing of God

Matthew 5:3 (Amplified) defines the blessing of God in this way:

Blessed (happy, to be envied, and

spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and

satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation,

regardless of their outward conditions)

are the poor in spirit (the humble who

rate themselves insignificant), for

theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

This is so real. The word “poor” there means beggar. It doesn’t mean that you have a little; it means you have nothing and all you have must be given to you.

Someone asked me recently, “What was it that made you so surrender to God? Was it that you had faith in His goodness?”

I said, “No, no, it was need.” And I could tell that it didn’t really register. She said, “I think you would have to know that God was good before you could trust your life to Him, wouldn’t you?” Again I said, “No, it is need.”

And it seemed like such a poor answer to such a grand question, but later I thought, “No, it is complete desperation.” When I first came to the Lord, I was in absolute destitution.

It wasn’t that I believed He was good that caused me to surrender. I needed Him to be God so badly that He was the only answer for me!

I knew that He had to be

Who He said He was, or

I was doomed and so was

everybody in the world.

Only Need

I know need on the most constant, primal, abject, lowly plain of life. Need is where I live, where I’ve been reduced to live.

Once when we were in Honduras, I saw that the poor are rich in faith. The poor have to pray because they don’t have things; they don’t have money to go to the doctor, so they have to pray for healing.

Yet the poverty that is spoken of in Matthew 5:3 isn’t limited to money; it has to do with poverty of humanity: the total poverty that every human being is.

There’s nothing good

we can produce;

there’s nothing lasting

we can do.

We can only make a mess

and then we are unable to fix

the mess we’ve made.

That is the tragic state of humanity, so in terms of anything valuable, we are absolutely in poverty.

Poverty is

the human condition—

absolute poverty.

Therefore, all God’s gifts, all God’s presence, all God’s sustenance correlate only to need. There is a place in us that we have to get down to: a place of devastating human need.

In the Psalms, David got down to it quite a lot, really. There is a place at the bottom abyss of your human condition that you have to come to and let God invade, and David did it. He was a man who got down to the bottom-most place of the human vacuum.

When he caused Uriah to be killed and fathered a child by Bathsheba, he repented in Psalm 51:5-6 and he wrote from this abyss:

Behold I was brought forth

in iniquity, and in sin my

mother conceived me.

Behold, You desire truth

in the innermost being, and

in the hidden part You will

make me know wisdom.

David saw that at the core, the very conception of his being, he was a sinner. It is so easy to reserve certain places where we simply will not admit how low we are. We simply will not visit that place of complete nothingness, but David got down there.

David let God enter his very core which was really his most hidden nature, his innermost being. When he got to the bottom of his motive for what he had done, he found a wretched, worthless human being, and that’s where he invited God to come.

God came into that place, flooded David with transforming light, and then David’s prayer was:

Psalm 51:10-12 Amplified

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right, persevering,

and steadfast spirit within me.

Cast me not away from Your presence and

take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation

and uphold me with a willing spirit.

The prayer goes on to the hope that God brought him, because he went down to his lowest motive and he repented there. He said:

Against You, You only,

have I sinned (v. 4).

I think this is a great secret to fullness that we really hate. When I said the word “need” to my friend, I felt like it was a weak and pitiful little answer. How would you surrender your whole life to God? Surely it’s something noble. Surely it’s based on faith, but I had to say no, it wasn’t.

My surrender

in the beginning was,

and continues to be,

based on the most primal,

gut-level, abject need.

Admitting Our Need

Need is the place where you receive God’s fullness. That’s where He comes into the absolute emptiness of your capacity to do anything worthwhile.

However, some of the neediest people are unwilling to need. They are so proud that they will not need. We were created to need God, and we were created to need each other.

God said,

Genesis 2:18

It is not good for the

man to be alone.

We need each other. Men need women, women as friends, if not wives. And women need men. Our humanity is designed to need, and then to find all supply in God.

If we are too proud to

live in want, we will be

without God.

We will be without the tremendous invasion of His life into our innermost, deepest, darkest being.

Over the years I have seen the people who will not have need, who will not endure the humiliation of being in need. Eventually, they live in isolation, and for some there is a certain madness that comes when you live in isolation and hear only yourself, when you refuse to be humble enough to truly need any other person.

So if you want to be the only one

and the leader and the best,

you’re going to do it alone.

Not only alone from other human beings, but you will be isolated from God.

There are dark regions of our human soul that we will discover if we will be honest. And we have to let the light of reality come into those areas.

But if we will not admit those deeper, wretched levels of malice, selfishness and envy, then we refuse God’s entrance and our own cleansing. If we won’t admit it to God, and when appropriate to each other, we will not know His healing.

James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins

one to another… so that you

may be healed (of that sin).

If faith is complete dependence on God, what is it that takes you to that faith? It is failure and inability, that adds up to one all-inclusive, total poverty of every conceivable part of you.

I know people, and have known people, who would rather suffer the tortures of the devil and the isolation of being a Cain, than ever simply say, “I need you. I need You, God. I need you, brother. I need you, sister.”

The Age of Laodicea

Now we live in the age of Laodicea. This age of self-sufficiency is addressed in Revelation 3, starting in verse 14 (Amplified):

These are the words of the Amen,

the trusty and faithful and true Witness,

the Origin and Beginning and

Author of God’s creation:

“I know your [record of] works and

what you are doing; you are neither

cold nor hot… So, because you

are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot,

I will spew you out of My mouth!”

“For you say, ‘I am rich; I have

prospered and grown wealthy,

and I am in need of nothing.’”

That is the madness of the world, as well as the ‘world’ in the church. Many among believers today say (in one form or another): “I will not say I have need. I must come to church and be fully sufficient, fully together, fully spiritual.”

Spirituality is needing nothing. At least that’s what we think. However, that is human philosophy, human view. No, the reality is, I need everything.

There’s no way I can be rich on any level, whether I gather knowledge or wealth or position or strength. There’s no way I can be in… ‘need of nothing.’

In verse 17, Jesus goes on to say:

And you do not realize and understand

that you are wretched, pitiable,

poor, blind and naked.

The New American Standard Version says it this way:

…you say, “I am rich, and have

become wealthy, and have need

of nothing,” and you do not know

that you are wretched, miserable,

poor, blind and naked.

See? That covers everything. Our wretchedness is total. Then Jesus says in verse 18 (Amplified):

Therefore I counsel you to purchase

from Me gold refined and tested by fire,

that you may be [truly] wealthy,

and white clothes to clothe you and

keep the shame of your nudity

from being seen.

The funny thing is, when you are wretched, everybody knows it but you! When you are not true and not real, everybody knows it but you. And God wants you to be covered; He wants us to be covered, but we have to be willing to need covering.

And if we cover ourselves with a role, a mask, a pretense, or an image, it’s usually completely evident to people, like the old fable of the emperor with no clothes. I don’t know if they still teach fables anymore in school, but the tailor came and convinced the emperor that he was making these gorgeous clothes, when he wasn’t making anything.

It was all nothing, but the king believed him. So he walked down the street and all the people knew he had nothing on, but the king didn’t know it. That’s nakedness. It’s thinking you are covered, that you have hidden it, and everybody knows the truth but you.

Jesus continues in verses 18-19 saying:

…to keep the shame of your nudity

from being seen, and salve to put on

your eyes that you may see.

Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love,

I tell their faults, and convict and

convince and reprove and chasten.

[I discipline and instruct them].

So be enthusiastic and in earnest

and burning with zeal and repent,

[changing your mind and attitude].

Now here’s the famous verse we often quote out of context from Revelation 3:20:

Behold, I stand at the door and knock;

if anyone hears and listens to and

heeds My voice and opens the door,

I will come in to him and will eat

with him, and he [will eat] with Me.

We have made that verse about salvation, but in the context of this message of Christ to His church, it means that the door is shut to Christ by self-sufficiency.

And in that common place,

that hidden room where we are

wretched and all our self-serving

motives dwell—deep into that place,

Christ asks to enter.

This is the door of His knocking.

He is saying, “I’m knocking on the door of your most abject, primitive need, and if you will let Me come in, I will sup with you. We will have a feast in the place of your darkest motive and I will transform you. I will cleanse you. I will fill you, but I must fill you from the bottom of the abyss of your humanity.”

Accepting Common Humanity

I have taught many times and said many times to people, “Come down here and be common humanity just like the rest of us.”

You see, we don’t understand Jesus Christ. We don’t comprehend His deliberate willingness to live in normal human need. He entered our state of being. He appeared having no beauty, no handsomeness, without any personal attractiveness.

He came to earth in

poverty and obscurity,

the two very things we

most fight against.

Christ had nothing of what humanity values. He came in the most abject way. We think because He went there, we don’t have to. We believe He went that low so we could only go up. I have heard that preached.

However, I warn you that even if God is able to reduce you to that bottom-most abyss, to the reality of your need, you still have the choice to lock that door and keep that low, common, ugly life hidden away from yourself and Christ.

David said, “You desire truth in the innermost being” (Psalm 51:6). And the truth is, your need is absolute, to the bottom of your being.

Everybody shares a nature that is totally corrupt, but if you reserve any place that you will not be that corrupt, will not admit that you are just like other people, will not let God in there, then you will lose Him, because that’s where He must enter. THAT is the person He wants.

Jesus said,

Luke 5:31

It is not those who are healthy

who need a physician, but

those who are sick.

He wants the sick person to make us well, so that we can be transformed into a vessel of grace.

So the fullness of God comes

to the poverty of humanity and

on no other ground.

Possessing the Kingdom

This explains why, according to scripture, those who are poor in spirit—literally in an abject beggarly position—possess the kingdom. I said to someone once, “You are not in the kingdom, because you won’t be poor enough!”

The door to the kingdom is poverty of soul and spirit; poverty of life is the door to the kingdom. If you open that door to Jesus, then He opens to you the door of the kingdom. He comes into that painful room inside our human helplessness. He comes to fill and recreate our very being from deep within.

Jesus put on frail humanity.

He, the Son of God, went into

our dilemma when we

won’t even live it!

That is why so few really possess the fullness of God.

We say, “I’ll give you most of it, Lord. I’ll admit that I’m a sinner. I might even say how bad a sinner I am, but I will never admit that I am the same as the murderer or the prostitute, or the thief.”

However, having met that abyss of self, I can say, “I am a murderer without a corpse.”

I am whatever anyone is

because my nature

is the same.

And yet when God wants to bring you to that level of humility, so that He can be everything to you, you fall madly in love with Him because He is so sufficient. The wonder is: He comes in and accepts you. He comes in!

Common Harlotry, Uncommon Kindness

In the Book of Hosea, the prophet’s wife, Gomer, was a picture of spiritual harlotry. She believed that her “wool, flax, oil, wine, water” (those supplies for her needs) came from her lovers, and also that she had to ‘buy’ what she had from her lovers by giving away herself.

So God said, “I going to take away her lovers because she doesn’t know her flax, and wool, and oil are from Me. I’m going to take away her lovers and all her wealth, and I will lure her into the wilderness…” (Hosea 2:6-14, summarized).

And then He says the strangest thing that we don’t understand as human beings. He says, “There (in that stripped wilderness) I will speak kindly to her.” Harshly to her? No. “There I will speak kindly to her” (v. 14).

His kindness is extended

to the core of our most

black, ugly self.

That is where you experience

the deepest kindness of

the Lord and it wrecks you,

melts you, washes you.

He comes into that place of the lowest human level, the dirty shame, the place where you know who you are. I must open the door to admit Him so that we can feast together. I feast on Him and He feasts on my sin.

He knocks on the door of my need—that is the meaning of these passages. He is willing to enter the room of my deepest destitution and dwell with me in my dark poverty.

Wherever I discover my futility,

God is knocking.

He wants to come into the

cave of my emptiness.

Embracing Need

Truthfully, we don’t want to need God, and we certainly don’t want to need Him desperately. Furthermore, we don’t want to really need each other; we want to be the self-sufficient one who gives and doesn’t need to receive.

But you know, I have seen people, over the years, come close to opening that door and letting Christ in, close to letting that dark closet be exposed to the light; I have seen them know their own wretchedness, but refuse to open the door. It is possible to do that.

That is why in Revelation 3, the scripture doesn’t say that they open the door; it says, “To him who overcomes” (v. 21).

What does that mean? What is it that we are to overcome? Our pride!

What is it that keeps Him

out of the place He

would enter? Pride!

Pride that says, “I will

not be like other people.

I will not be common.”

But He promises, after admonishing “Buy from Me gold, white garments….” and going on to discipline:

Revelation 3:21

He who overcomes… I will grant him

to sit beside Me on My throne,

as I Myself overcame and sat down

beside My Father on His throne.

Only the needy will sit down with Him on His throne.

Do you see, saints? What we have to overcome is the pride of being unwilling to be wretched. I have seen people who could have so easily said, “Oh, my goodness! I messed that up, forgive me.” Or “Oh, my goodness, my motive was wicked,” but they will not admit it. Their blindness remains, and their false image continues, and they live in isolation.

I think one of the great things we have come to in the church—and it has taken our group years to be accountable to each other and transparent—is to help each other ‘come down’ and accept, just accept, the condition of our need, just being comfortable with our normal human condition of humiliation.

Yet the release from

human despair is not merely

to be nothing, but to be

content to be nothing.

To be willing to live there. To move in and get used to the feeling of awakening everyday in need of God, of facing every situation in desperate need of God, learning to live there in peace and waiting for Him to fill that void.

IN our need, we are

the one who opens the

door to Christ.

We often, in our hearts, accuse Him of not meeting our need. But He waits to enter the room that holds the motive of our despair, the very reason and darkness of our soul.

So the condition of humanity requires God for anything and everything: for health, for money, for breath, even for knowing Him as He is…

We believe that if you have enough knowledge, then you don’t need God. That was the condition of the Laodiceans. And what did it do to them, their not being willing to live in the reality of need?

They thought because they had money and clothes, et cetera, that they were wealthy before God.

“If I’m wealthy, it means that

God is pleased with me.

It means I have need of

nothing, including God.”

So we hide behind money, wealth, knowledge, position and on and on. Yet inside we are naked, wretched, miserable, blind, and poor.

Our real condition

remains: abject need.

Alone With God

We go to control because of need. We want the world to change because we are so needy. We want our family to change because “I” need peace.

“I demand you to give me

the peace I don’t have

because of pride.”

“I demand that you change,

but do not ask me to change.

You must do it.”

I think my need is for you to change. And so whatever my need is, I want you to meet it. However, I’m not going to tell you I have a need. Is that familiar to anyone?

But what you live in, then, is a lukewarm death. You have no life, no zeal, no reality, and certainly no thriving relationships, because relationships only exist on the ground of mutual human need.

Humility is just the

simplicity and willingness

to be comfortable in need.

If you are still uncomfortable with need, then you are still in pride. You have to be comfortable with being utterly human, and letting God transcend your humanity in and for you.

God wants us to be full of zeal. He wants us to be alive, and not a putrid nothingness that is lukewarm and that He will spew out of His mouth.

The secret of the church of Laodicea is that we have to overcome the pride that will not see how wretched we really are. The “faithful and true Witness” (Who is Christ) is speaking to everyone!

He is speaking to all the church in Laodicea. It’s not some; it’s all of us. We are wretched, blind, poor, naked, miserable. But that’s not a problem. It is no problem to be in that destitute condition.

The real problem is if I keep the door closed to letting Him in with the light to show me that my wealth does not make me rich, my possessions don’t make me secure, my mask doesn’t hide me, my knowledge doesn’t save me. All of that is the façade I build to cover my true state of abject poverty.

Within myself there is

just me and God.

So the only thing that would

keep us from fullness is being

too proud to need.

God resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble (Jas. 4:6). He takes Gomer to the wilderness, strips her of everything, and then He speaks kindly to her and restores her (Hosea 2).

If you want to meet the grace of God, be in the place where you need it! Be in the place where your only hope is the grace of God.

When I was 26 years old, I needed God to be God, because I was faced with the reality that life was entirely futile unless He is God. So I asked Him to come and He did, and my surrender was based on just primal destitution.

He comes fully where there is need for Him. Our connection to Him is our poverty, and then it becomes love, because you love the one who is the Source of your supply and the One who can meet your need with real substance.

We don’t love Him because

we’re too rich to need Him.

If you need Him enough,

you will love Him.

Our High Priest

God says this about Gomer in Hosea 2:8-10:

She does not know that

it was I who gave her the grain,

the new wine and the oil…

Therefore, I will take back

My grain at harvest time,

and My new wine in its season.

I will also take away My wool

and My flax, given to cover

her nakedness…

and no one will rescue

her out of My hand.

Do you see God’s way with us? He is creating need for Gomer, so that He can have her. He loves her. He has to remove her sustenance, her false securities, her selling of herself to get her needs met.

You are driven by your needs; you do what you do out of need. Gomer thought she was earning her provision.

So if you will be in your rotten, feeble, selfish self—and in the lowest place that you have found in you open the door—then He is there to cover you with grace and to clothe you because He has stripped you down to the bone. That’s why He does it, saints! He wants to reduce us to need so that He can richly supply.

We will not receive

the fullness of His grace

unless we need it.

Jesus experienced our humanity. It just wrecks me that He really lived in this frail futility. He never left that human weakness. He simply lived receiving ALL from the Father.

Christ lived in complete

dependence on God.

He was the only human being

that, every second of His life,

accepted His need of

the Father.

He never entered the effort to “be or do, or have.” He never went to independence.

He lived only in raw need of God. He said, “I can do nothing on My own initiative” (John 5:30).

He didn’t attempt

the humanly impossible.

I am awed that we have a high priest who “knows our weakness” and the struggles of it (Heb. 4:15). He embraced humanity’s weakness and the Father filled Him with power that was divine.

Furthermore, He was not capturable. The scripture says He trusted Himself to no man (John 2:24). Why?

He did not impose

His need on people.

He looked only to God

for everything.

Jesus wanted disciples to whom He could reveal the Father. He needed to do the will of God, but He had food to eat that they knew not. His food was to do the will of God. His need was to obey. And that is our need, too (John 4:34).

Our need is to receive His fullness, so that we can give—out of our wretched person that is no better than anybody, and no worse than anybody.

Humbled humanity

has mercy for all humanity.

Jesus never went where God didn’t send Him; He remained inside human limitation and God filled Him in that place.

Purity in Weakness

Our need is to die to the pride of self-sufficiency, to need God as totally as we do, in the willingness to live in poverty of spirit and wait for Him to supply. But I warn you, if you will not open the door to Him, there will be torment and madness of the satanic world.

I have seen it too many times, that you can die simply over the pride of not being willing to be human.

So the secret to fullness in God

is abject, primal destitution

of everything.

God wants to fill the void of our being with His Spirit. Paul said it so beautifully, so magnificently, in 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (Amplified):

Three times I called upon the Lord…

but He said to me, “My grace

(My favor and lovingkindness and mercy)

is enough for you… for My strength

and power are made perfect,

(fulfilled and completed) and show

themselves most effective

in [your] weakness.”

Therefore, I will all the more gladly

glory in my weaknesses and infirmities,

that the strength and power of Christ

(the Messiah) may rest (yes, may

pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

So for the sake of Christ, I am

well pleased and take pleasure in

infirmities, insults, hardships,

persecutions, perplexities and

distresses; for when I am

weak [in human strength],

then I am [truly] strong (able,

powerful in divine strength).

Then Paul said, “I’ve been speaking like a fool but you forced me to it” (v. 11). Because the Corinthians were in their strength, they were immoral.

It is only in weakness that

you can be pure.

So Paul was calling them down, “Come down to weakness.” He was telling them the secret of his life: the secret of his fullness, revelation, enormous light, his power to endure three days in the ocean, being beaten, starved, and left for dead.

What was his secret?

That he could not handle it;

he was too weak as a

human being.

He was too wretched. Though fully forgiven and transformed, Paul never left the humility that he was a persecutor of believers, never forgot who he was in that darkest place of his soul.

Paul opened the door to Christ’s knock, let Him come in and ‘sup with him.’ He was so flooded with light on his darkness that he was not ashamed to tell it. He never tried to hide it. He let it be known. He would tell believers who he was.

Paul ministered from that room of his need and so he was explosive, dynamic, earth-shaking, undefeatable, enduring and eternal.

Ironically, we have to enter

the weakness of humanity

in order to rule and

reign with Christ.

Now that is a paradox. So much of what is presented to the world out of so-called Christianity is the strength to “be together,” hold it altogether, be on top of every problem—but that is only strength to have a life of self.

Much of modern Christianity is Laodicean self-sufficiency. It has no hatred for evil and no white-hot zeal for God. It has no coldness toward the devil and no real heat toward God.

Christ names it lukewarm and nauseous to Him. He will spit it out of His mouth, because the secret to the fullness of God is that little humiliating word: need.

Will you agree with me in a prayer?

Father, open our eyes to see where You want to reduce us to the lowest abyss of our human need, so that You can be the magnificence within; so that You can come into our wilderness of heart and speak kindly to us; so that you can fill that place with mercy, grace, the blood of Christ, and the finished gift of our new creation.

Oh, God, grant us eyes to see the wretchedness of pride, the deadly nature of self that would hide our worst being from You. God, have mercy on us. Help us, Lord, to fling open that door as You knock and welcome You into our helpless poverty.

And Lord, in this dark hour, I ask You, by the power of the Spirit, to explode Your message of Laodicea—send it through the world of believers. Let the beauty of Christ’s humility be in us, His lavish grace upon us, drawing those in need to You.

Oh, Father, I throw that door open. I leave it open and choose to live in the room of my need, by Your mercy. And where I forget and rise up, You are faithful to remind me. You keep me there if I will hear You and follow You. You will keep me in that place of need, where Christ is so luminous and glorious, so sufficient that He bears everything for me and fills my darkness so full that I don’t even care that in myself I am poor, because of His presence.

Thank You, Father, for such a plan. Thank You for creating us with a great internal cavern of need for You. Thank You, Lord. We wouldn’t come to You if we didn’t desperately need You. Bless these readers with your Holy Spirit’s illumination, personally and privately to each one.

In Jesus’ Matchless Name, Amen.

Table of Contents

The Secret to Fullness

The Blessing of God

Only Need

Admitting Our Need

The Age of Laodicea

Accepting Common Humanity

Possessing the Kingdom

Common Harlotry, Uncommon Kindness

Embracing Need

Alone With God

Our High Priest

Purity in Weakness