12/10/23 Love and Intimacy With God is the Main Thing In My Life
Scripture: Mark 12:28-33
Elder: Bro. Randy Jackson, Sr.
- New self love serve as a important significance of being the last value of the year, and most important priority and pursuit of mankind.
- The main thing in any of life is the love and the intimacy with God.
- Reflect on your current relationship with God, and How is the intimacy and do you have an intimate relationship with God?
- Do you desire to have a more intimate relationship with God?
- What is intimacy?
- Intimacy- close familiarity or friendship, closeness
- How well do you understand and know God!
- Jeremiah 9: 28-34
- We need to boast in that we understand and know God!
- Know-means to experience
- To know God is to experience him
- 3 levels of intimacy with our relationship with God: 1.Jesus- son Matthew 16:18, 2. Christ- Holy Spirit Matthew 16:18, 3. Lord-Father Acts 9:5-6
- There is a process that we can have with our walk of God
- Matthew 16:18
- Christ- means the anointed one
- Cannot be intimate with God if you are not intimate with the Holy Spirit
- Acts 9:5-6
- Its possible to be in one of theses three experiences with God
- You can acknowledge God, but the intimacy is not greater than your basic knowledge.
- What I fear most is where I trust God the least
- This can measure the level of intimacy you have with God presently.
- What is it in your life that you have the greatest trust factor about? That is your fear.
- Fear: unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Perfect Love Cast Out Fear. I John 4:18
- Cannot operate in fear and have a intimate relationship with God.
- If you want to be more intimate with God acknowledge the fear and than trust Him.
- Every Challenge or circumstance is to drawer you closer to God
- God desires for you to know Him and the way is He allows it to happen is through your life experiences.
- Just because you believe that God can but does not mean that you trust Him!
- You won’t know if you trust Him until you trust Him!