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.

1. New self love serve as a important significance of being the last value of the year, and most important priority and pursuit of mankind.
2. The main thing in any of life is the love and the intimacy with God.
3. Reflect on your current relationship with God, and How is the intimacy and do you have an intimate relationship with God?
4. Do you desire to have a more intimate relationship with God?
5. What is intimacy?
6. ​​Intimacy- close familiarity or friendship, closeness
7. How well do you understand and know God!
8. Jeremiah 9: 28-34
9. ​​We need to boast in that we understand and know God!
10. Know-means to experience
11. ​​To know God is to experience him
12. 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
13. ​​There is a process that we can have with our walk of God
14. Matthew 16:18
15. Christ- means the anointed one
16. ​​Cannot be intimate with God if you are not intimate with the Holy Spirit
17. Acts 9:5-6
18. ​​Its possible to be in one of theses three experiences with God
19. ​​You can acknowledge God, but the intimacy is not greater than your basic knowledge.
20. ​​What I fear most is where I trust God the least
21. This can measure the level of intimacy you have with God presently.
22. ​​What is it in your life that you have the greatest trust factor about? That is your fear.
23. ​​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
24. Cannot operate in fear and have a intimate relationship with God.
25. ​​If you want to be more intimate with God acknowledge the fear and than trust Him.
26. ​​Every Challenge or circumstance is to drawer you closer to God
27. ​​God desires for you to know Him and the way is He allows it to happen is through your life experiences.
28. Just because you believe that God can but does not mean that you trust Him!
29. You won’t know if you trust Him until you trust Him!