Episode 449 - Show Notes
- I believe there are many who hear others talk about intimacy with God, but they have never experienced it for themselves. They have read about a close relationship with God, but it has never been their experience. They will never know what it is like until the intimacy becomes their own.
- I’m so thankful that God doesn’t offer us cold, ritualistic, meaningless religion. Instead, he offers us himself. How amazing it is that we can know God in a personal way!
- We begin this relationship with God at our conversion. The moment you place your faith in Jesus and confess him as your savior and Lord, you begin a relationship with God. But like any relationship, intimacy is gained only through intentional pursuit and development.
- How does our relationship with God grow? Like all relationships it grows through trust. The more we trust God, the closer we are to him. Intimacy does not grow through knowledge alone, though knowledge is important.
- Scripture shows us that God is intimate with those who trust him. The more we trust God, the more intimately we come to know him.
- I want you to see there is a deeper experience and a closer relationship that you can experience in God. He rewards our intentional pursuit with a greater revelation of himself. On Mt. Sinai, Moses prayed, “I want to see your glory…” He was intentionally seeking to know more of God.
- You can I can do the same thing. Our relationship with God is not static. We don’t reach a place of plateau or arrival. We must keep seeking God to know him more.
Psalm 63:1-5 - “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.”
James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”
Psalm 145:18 says, “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.”
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