NJ - Intimacy with God
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Prayer: Father we thank You for Your grace and love toward us. We pray that we would be filled with Your strength and power that we can walk in all that You have called us to. We ask Your Holy Spirit to bring revelation of Your word that we can apply it to our lives. Amen
Last week Ps Rachel begun our next theme: Intimacy with God - Gideon
God is the God of Intimate Encounter
Encounter leads to Truth
Encounter leads to Revelation & Worship
Encounter leads to Mission
Introduction:
Today we are going to look at the importance of extracting ourselves from the business of life, and going to the intimate place with God. Jesus came to restore our relationship with the Father. In John 14:8-11 Jesus said to Philip, I have come to you to show the Father.
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
1. Find that Intimate Place with God
1. Find that Intimate Place with God
It is important for all of us to have an intimate relationship with God, Jesus would extract Himself from the crowds and His disciples to go, pray and spend time with His Father.
We all need to purpose this, if we are filled up with everything else it will make it difficult to make for our time with God.
Be hearers and doers - this is the example that Jesus showed us.
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
Have you ever had the question or thought: What do I do in this situation? / What do I say?
12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
2. Seek God Whole Heartedly
2. Seek God Whole Heartedly
13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jesus said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst”.
David was completely sold our to God, he was a man after Gods own heart.
14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
Remember David was a man that had everything. But still recognised his need of God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
3. It is our Responsibility to go to our Intimate Place
Remember, We are the ones who determine our level of hunger for God. It is Not God.
There are many Ways and Paths to Deeper Intimacy with God, lets look at some of these:
We know God by studying His word.
Intimacy starts with us knowing who God is.
We need to commit to living for Him.
Equip the saints for the work of ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ.
The more time we spend with someone, the more we know them, and if we like them, the more we want to spend time with them.
Trust Him.
Prioritise Him.
We need to have a hunger for Him
Our relationship with God grows, through our time with Him:
A Father/child relationship is developed.
He has adopted us as His own through Christ Jesus
The fruit of God's Spirit is cultivated.
The more time we spend in His presence, the more His spirit is cultivated in our lives.
Our daily life will become a reflection of God Himself.
In the New Testament, Jesus spent time alone with the Father many times as described in these scripture passages:
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13 When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities.
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35 Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. 36 And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. 37 When they found Him, they said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.” 38 But He said to them, “Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth.” 39 And He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out demons. 40 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
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45 Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the multitude away. 46 And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray.
32 Then they came to a place which was named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed. 34 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”
16 So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.
12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
18 And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.
In the Old Testament, we see many stories where God calls His prophets to come to Him alone.
God called Moses aside to the burning bush,
God met Gideon in the wine press
David would go and spend time with God every day