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- So picture this, a baby crying to nurse,

a toddler fussing at the table,

dogs whining to be letout, and a microwave

incessantly beeping thatbreakfast is getting cold.

No wonder Mo Aiken had a meltdown

right on her kitchen floor.

The good news, she didn'tstay there. Take a look.

- [Narrator] Mo IsomAiken is a New York Times

best selling author, speaker,

and former soccer player for LSU.

If you're feeling burned out, distant,

or disheartened in your walk with God,

she wants to help.

In her new book, "FullyKnown," Moe invites you

to discover God's blueprint

for continually growingintimately closer to Him.

- Welcome back to "The 700 Club," Mo.

Nice to have you here.

- Thank you so much.

It's a pleasure to be with you guys again

- So tell me about thatmorning on the kitchen floor

when you felt like you had lost it.

At the same time that that was happening,

you did hear a whisper.

Talk to me about what happened.

- Yeah, I think back to reallya compilation of moments

where it was just tough, it was hard.

I remember doing so many wonderful things,

pouring myself out, serving,working to build the kingdom,

but kind of coming up for air

and realizing my spiritfelt so far from God.

And He met me with somechallenging scripture

with Matthew 7:21-23, which really says,

"Not all who say to me 'Lord, Lord'

"will enter the kingdom of heaven."

He goes on to say that,"To many I will say,

"'Depart from me, I never knew you.'"

And that word, knew, knew you,

I just began to wrestle with it.

God, what does this mean?

Because I know You haven'tleft me or forsaken me,

but I'm struggling here.

And I don't know that I know You.

I don't feel that intimacy.

And it's actually through what seems like

kind of a scary piece of scripture,

He revealed the beauty of the invitation

to be known and to know Him.

That Hebrew root being yadah,

yadah intimacy is themost connected, deep,

layered type of oneness.

And when He met me withthat invitation to know Him,

really in yadah intimacy form,

it just unpacked thisblueprint of invitation

from the maker of theheavens and the earth,

to draw near to Him andto experience revival,

even in my own heart.

- So, Mo, what did that look like?

Like here you were feeling this emptiness

and a lot of the pressurestill going on around you.

How did you pursue that?

- Well, it's interesting,probably an unconventional way.

I had been ministering for awhile off of my second book,

"Sex, Jesus, and theConversations the Church Forgot."

So really the thoughtsof sexuality, of sex,

they were kind of always onthe forefront of our minds

as we ministered in that space.

But I realized in the textthat this yadah intimacy,

it was the same form of theword used when it would speak

of a man had not yet known his wife,

or he took his wife and he knew her.

And I said, God, what does this mean?

That You're sort of tyingtogether relational intimacy,

even sexual intimacy, as You communicate

the depth of Your invitation.

And He began to just unpackpiece by piece for me

in a way that I could see and understand

this bride and bridegroom relationship.

This intimacy that we knew in the garden

that was broken when we chose our own way.

But that Christ came to breakdown those those prison gates,

those brothel doors,really, when we're enslaved

to our sin, to set us free,

and to make a covenantof marriage with us.

And then what that intimacylooks like in marriage.

Oh, it was the most incrediblepicture He began to unpack.

'Cause admittedly, I hada lot of misunderstandings

about good, healthy,right-natured intimacy.

So He took me piece bypiece to heal those,

to show His way, Hisheart, to restore in me

my understanding of what a pure,covenantal love looked like

and how that ultimatelytransforms us and sanctifies us.

- Mo, you say that that intimacycomes with the great cost.

What do you mean by that?

- Well, think about a covenant.

Think about the covenant of marriage.

It's never one sided.

It's never, hey, I'llgive everything I have.

And then the other party saying,

well, make sure it keeps me happy or else.

There's a beautiful mutual commitment

in the covenant of marriage

that Christ has given all for us.

He has paid at all, but that doesn't mean

we abuse that grace andgo off living flippantly

or maybe in and out of communion with Him.

It means that we say, "Yougave everything for me,

"then my life is Yours.

"I will give it all."

"You have, you know, Youspeak to me, You tend to me,

"You heal me, then let mylife be a reflection of that."

And truly living a Christ-surrendered life

in communion with God, itdoesn't always feel great.

It doesn't always make us happy.

It's a real sanctifying process.

But it does bear kingdomfruits, Spirit conceived fruit

that, man, it shifts thedecisions in our lives.

Generosity becomes a big move.

Self-sacrifice becomes a big move.

We begin to look a lot more like Christ,

and that's not without cost.

That's not always with comfort,

but the beauty is that we know communion

and we know that those areempowered by God's grace.

- Well, I just want to mention to folks

who are watching today

that Mo's book is called "Fully Known."

It is so inviting, and it's available

wherever books are sold.

I highly recommended it.

"An Invitation to True Intimacy with God."

Mo, thank you so much.Beautifully written.

And happy new baby, whenever that happens.

- Someday soon. Right around the corner.

(both laugh)

- God bless you.

Great to have you with us today.