Song of Songs – Session 2

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Song of Songs

Session 2 – Cry for the Kisses

Remember: This is the Song of all Songs

This book teaches us to turn our desire for God into prayer. This is what it looks like to sing the “Song of the Lamb”. 

 

Song 1:2a

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of Your mouth”. 

 

This cry reveals that she is ready to receive and to reciprocate love to God in new and higher dimensions. This cry is not based on understanding yet, it’s based on hunger. She is still immature. Sometimes we don’t have a sense of what we are even praying for, but God loves that we are beginning to ask. 

She desires intimacy, not just external communication, from God. It’s like she is saying “I must have His enjoyment on my heart”. 

When we see His affection for us in our current state, it lights a fire in us for Him. His affection for us is immeasurable, even in our weakness and that creates a response in us to give ourselves to Him more. 

When we desire the kisses of His mouth, we desire the Psalm 27:4 ”One Thing” anointing and we start learning to live before an “Audience of One”. 

Everyone must have a heart cry! If we have nothing to die for or something that we can give everything for, then we really have nothing to live for. Even her desire for the kisses was planted in her by the Holy Spirit. 

If we don’t have the cry for the kisses, our Christian walk usually trails off into spiritual boredom and we will fill the hunger with something else. We were created for wholehearted love for Jesus.

“The Kisses” 

She desires His kisses:

  1. Kisses from God come from personal meditation of the scripture. 
  2. Kisses from God come from finding yourself in scripture. 
  3. We receive the kisses of God through hearing the preaching and teaching of His word. 
  4. Kisses from God come from surprise encounters, personal prophetic words, and or unexpected blessings from God. 

Gifts and increased blessings from God are given based on your hunger, not your ability to receive. Holy Spirit will help your ability to unpack what you have received. 

 

Song 1:2b

“For Your love is better than wine…”

She sees that His love is better than everything. Affection based fervency will more likely produce obedience during dry seasons, even when you don’t feel Him. 

Wine – the best of all good things, even godly things. She is comparing His kisses to all other pleasures in this life. 

 

The Immature and The Insincere

  • Immaturity is not rebellion
  • Sincerity is also not maturity

She desires the deep things of God. His love is more valuable to her than the wine of this world and all good godly things. She is crying because she is starting to realize that nothing else can fill the cry of her heart, nothing but the kisses of His mouth. She has discovered intimacy with the Son of God and Holy Spirit has convinced her to come away from all other distractions. 

She recognizes that she needs the kisses more than anything. So she cries out to the Father “Let Him kiss me…”.  She cries for His kisses even while she is yet immature. 

God loves the world, but He enjoys sincere believers. 

When Jesus said “I didn’t come to bring peace, but I came to bring a sword” (Matthew 10:34-36), He was saying that He came to bring a sword between the sincere and the insincere, not between the immature and the mature. 

  • He loves the world
  • He enjoys the sincere and mature
  • He entrusts the mature

 

Song 1:3a

“Because of the fragrance of your good ointments…”

Holy Spirit helps us to experience the fragrance of God’s love in a variety of ways. Only He can open our eyes to see and experience the oil [ointments] of God that is already available, but often overlooked. 

“Your good ointments”

Holy Spirit also helps us recognize what is of the Lord and what is “man-u-fractured”. Soul ties, even in the body of Christ, happen when we plug into someone or something else if we don’t possess a cry for the kisses. Once we have a revelation of His kisses we want more. It’s too hard to go back to Jesus on the fly. 

 

Song 1:3b

“Your name is ointment poured forth”. 

It’s much deeper than just loving what He does for us. She is beginning to love the name [nature] of God beyond just seeing His acts. The Bible says that “Israel knew the acts of God, but Moses knew His ways” (Psalm 103:7). 

“Poured forth” means “revealed”. 

This means: JESUS, your name is the highest anointing revealed. There is a desire in God’s heart to have the love of a bride that He does not yet fully have. God is getting ready to kiss His bride in public. 

The anointing on our lives wasn’t meant to fulfill us, His kisses were meant to fulfill us. 

She goes from asking the Father “Let Him kiss me” to where she is speaking directly to Him, “Your name is ointment…”

 

Psalm 23 

1The Lord is my shepherd,
I will not be in need.

2 He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.

3 He restores my soul;
He guides me in the paths of righteousness
For the sake of His name.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me [presence]
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You have anointed my head with oil;
My cup overflows.

 

Once your testimony turns from HE to YOU His presence increases and the listeners are not even there anymore. Praise leads to intimacy. She starts by telling us about God and then shifts into intimacy with God. 

 

Song 1:3c “Therefore the virgins love you”

Virgins: young in Christ, carnal believers

She sees how much God loves the immature and it affects her revelation of His ability to love weak people. This doesn’t mean that He agrees with their sin, it means she sees how patient and affectionate He is and it helps her to stop judging others who may be immature. Some people can’t stand immature and weak people. Seeing how the young and immature people love Him helps us to see them how He sees them. As a result we begin to do more than just tolerate weak people. 

We fall deeper in love with Jesus when we see His intention towards us when we are just raw and yet sincere. This is meant to create a lifestyle of being transparent before Him and allowing that revelation to affect the way we interact with immature Christian’s. 

He is the most patient and kind person you will ever know!