https://intimatekingdom.com A conversational study through the Song of Songs Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:42:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://intimatekingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-crown2-32x32.jpg https://intimatekingdom.com 32 32 https://intimatekingdom.com/bed-of-heaven-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bed-of-heaven-2 https://intimatekingdom.com/bed-of-heaven-2/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:30:17 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3475 https://intimatekingdom.com/bed-of-heaven-2/feed/ 7 https://intimatekingdom.com/secret-garden-story-lily-among-thorns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secret-garden-story-lily-among-thorns https://intimatekingdom.com/secret-garden-story-lily-among-thorns/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:20:19 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3461 https://intimatekingdom.com/secret-garden-story-lily-among-thorns/feed/ 2 https://intimatekingdom.com/dove-eyes-1-15/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dove-eyes-1-15 https://intimatekingdom.com/dove-eyes-1-15/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:30:40 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3372 Blossoms are appearing! The season of songbirds has come, and the cooing of doves is being heard in the land.  Song 2:12 My family used to raise doves, and sell the babies to pet stores. It was fairly easy, since they mated for life. And mated a lot! In fact, that is one of the unique things above doves. When our doves weren’t eating or sleeping, they were preening and loving on each other. The male constantly did a courtship dance, too.  "Coo-Coo-Wah," (with head bow) and he'd repeat it over and over until his female was finally receptive to him...]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/dove-eyes-1-15/feed/ 1 https://intimatekingdom.com/scent-trail-of-henna-1-14/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scent-trail-of-henna-1-14 https://intimatekingdom.com/scent-trail-of-henna-1-14/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:14:56 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3342 “While the king is around his table, my spikenard spreads its fragrance!” verse 12. Solomon returns to looking at his papers, but there’s a boyish smile on his face. We know that he knows, that his lover is in the room. The Shulamite, however...]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/scent-trail-of-henna-1-14/feed/ 2 https://intimatekingdom.com/bernard-of-clairvaux-on-myrrh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bernard-of-clairvaux-on-myrrh https://intimatekingdom.com/bernard-of-clairvaux-on-myrrh/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:39:51 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3320 https://intimatekingdom.com/bernard-of-clairvaux-on-myrrh/feed/ 0 https://intimatekingdom.com/ministry-of-beautification2-1-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ministry-of-beautification2-1-10 https://intimatekingdom.com/ministry-of-beautification2-1-10/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:20:13 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3221 It is to be decorated.]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/ministry-of-beautification2-1-10/feed/ 4 https://intimatekingdom.com/the-courage-of-the-bridal-mare/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-courage-of-the-bridal-mare https://intimatekingdom.com/the-courage-of-the-bridal-mare/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:41:30 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=3173 “my mare” as a “company of horses,” when the Hebrew is clearly a female horse, who is among Pharaoh’s horses. But of course this would be a problem for the ancient mind. Often, and for a variety of suggestive details, a comparison of a woman to a mare or filly in poetic literature was a provocative one. In addition to that, horses in general were often associated with a pagan, extravagant lifestyle as well. But there's more to it than even this! ]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/the-courage-of-the-bridal-mare/feed/ 2 https://intimatekingdom.com/pausing-to-think-about-friends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pausing-to-think-about-friends https://intimatekingdom.com/pausing-to-think-about-friends/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:20:20 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2915 Telling others too much, too soon. Doing so may feel good in the moment, but the results do not! Think about it. Declaring “he brought me into his chambers" (1:4) was a true statement for the Shulamite, but it brought out the immaturity and hidden jealousy of the young women who heard her.  They immediately scanned her for faults. They judged her unworthy of a high calling. And they were closed off from rejoicing with her.  In the next post we’ll look at the stunning way she responded. (Sorry, I don’t mean to keep dangling that!) :-) But meanwhile I got to thinking...]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/pausing-to-think-about-friends/feed/ 2 https://intimatekingdom.com/gods-stigma-dark-secret-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gods-stigma-dark-secret-2 https://intimatekingdom.com/gods-stigma-dark-secret-2/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:14:03 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2897 What little information she does reveal is intentional. Consider the following points:]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/gods-stigma-dark-secret-2/feed/ 1 https://intimatekingdom.com/being-gazed-upon-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=being-gazed-upon-2 https://intimatekingdom.com/being-gazed-upon-2/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:24:39 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2877 judging eyes of her very own friends. At first they seemed to be encouraging to her, but now they are finding fault with her suntanned skin, which was an undesirable trait in those days. It was most likely because it looked even darker now, in contrast to the “glow” she was wearing on her face from being in the Beloved’s bed! How did she respond to her friends? What can we learn?]]> https://intimatekingdom.com/being-gazed-upon-2/feed/ 0