Do I Really Want to Know Him?

Do I Really Want to Know Him? That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection ... Phil 3:10
I hear the Lord saying that He is raising up a new generation, like the disciples of Jesus, who will drop everything to walk and talk with Him - for life. He is raising up those who are anxious to spend every free moment with Him. The disciples were absolutely in love with Him and were devastated when He said He was going to leave them. They forgot every other priority, cleared their schedule and followed Him. There is going to be a great re-positioning and those whose passion is not for Christ Himself will be replaced by those who really want to know Him above all else. Many who appear ill equipped will be promoted.
After 3 perfect years, He said He was leaving; they could not go with Him now, but would follow Him afterward. They felt like they had been thrust through with knife. He said He was going to prepare a place for them and would come for them later, that where He is, they may be also. How could He leave them after 3 wonderful years? He knew that His disciples already had a passion birthed in them that no persecution, no ridicule, no wet blankets could dampen. He said if we know Him, we know God. It is true. He said we will do even greater works than He did because He is going to the Father. How can that be? He said not to worry and He promised that whatever we ask in His Name, He will do it. He will send the Spirit of Truth and He will be with us.
"At that day, you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him." (Jn 14:20-21) What does "manifest Myself" mean? What will our relationship be then? When Jesus manifested Himself to and through the woman at the well, He smacked "religious legalism" in the face. She was a woman who was rejected by Jews because of her race, rejected by religious leaders because of sexism, rejected by neighbors on account of her serial marriages and for being a failure at love! But the woman at the well became the first missionary, appointed by Jesus himself and she reached her town the same day! Jesus said, "If they are not against us, they are for us." Many are called, but today, few chose their calling. Where are those good Samaritans, who stop for the one who is hurting and wounded? Jesus is calling out a new generation, young and old, who crave a new relationship of abiding in Him. Those who abide in Him and His words abide in them, are fruitful. We will ask whatever we wish, and it will be given to us - because we ask for what He wants. This generation will not live for position, power and prestige but only to abide in His presence everyday. I heard Jesus saying that He has spoken all this so that our joy can be full! Joy is abiding, worshipping Jesus, hearing His voice, building His Kingdom and His purposes. This generation will arise early to pray, but prayer will be listening to Him, getting our assignment a-fresh from Him everyday, constantly tuning in to His agenda and forgetting our own. We will be truly faithful friends who are never satisfied but always want to know Him more. Jesus said, "No longer have I called you servants ... but I have called you friends." (Jn 15:15) Then He commanded us to love one another and to glorify God. As He talked of leaving, He began to pray for all of us - that we would be one with Him.