Finding True Intimacy with God!
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Reverend Larry Deering
1 Kings 1:29-32
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
The king then took an oath: "As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place."
Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, "May my lord King David live forever!"
King David said, "Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada." When they came before the king,
Jeremiah 3:14
"Return, faithless people," declares the Lord, "for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.
John 3:29
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
to make her holy, cleansing Or [having cleansed] her by the washing with water through the word,
and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-2
The words of the Teacher, Or [the leader of the assembly]; also in verses 2 and 12 son of David, king in Jerusalem:
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
I said to myself, "Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge."
Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Song of Solomon 1:1-4
Solomon's Song of Songs.
(She The main male and female speakers (identified primarily on the basis of the gender of the relevant Hebrew forms) are indicated by the captions [He] and [She] respectively. The words of others are marked [Friends]. In some instances the divisions and their captions are debatable.)Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine.
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!
(Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers.(Friends)We rejoice and delight in you The Hebrew is masculine singular.; we will praise your love more than wine.(She)How right they are to adore you!
Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.
(She)While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
(He)How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
(She)How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.
(He)The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
John 6:44
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
Luke 2:13
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
Psalms 42:1
( For the director of music. A maskil Title: Probably a literary or musical term of the Sons of Korah.)As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
Psalms 104:15
wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
Song of Solomon 7:10
I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
