Deepening Your Relationship With God

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Deepening Your Relationship With God
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• That is why I am suffering here in jail and I am
  certainly not ashamed of it, for I know the One
  in whom I trust, and I am sure that He is able to
  safely guard all that I have given Him until the
  day of His return.
• 2 Timothy 112 (Living Bible)

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• Circle the one that best applies
• Vibrant
• Status Quo
• Distant
• Non-existent

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• 1. Do you believe in Christ?

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• Yet to all who received (Jesus), to those who
  believed in His name, He gave the right to become
  children of God
• John 112 (NIV)
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• Believe
• Repent
• Transfer Your Trust
• Confess

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• 2. Are you depending regularly on Gods Word in
  your daily life?
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• Then the lord spoke to Moses saying, Send out
  for yourself men so that they may spy out the
  land of Cannan, which I am going to give to the
  sons of Israel you shall send a man from each of
  their fathers tribes, every one a leader among
  them..Thus (the spies) told (Moses), and said,
  We went in to the land where you sent us and it
  certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this
  is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who live
  in the land are strong, and the cities are
  fortified and very large  

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• and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak
  there. Amalek is living in the land of the Negev
  and the Hittities and the Jesbusites and the
  Amorites are living in the hill country, and the
  Canannanites are living by the sea and by the
  side of the Jordan. Then Caleb quieted the
  people before Moses and said, We should by all
  means go up and take possession of it, for we
  shall surely overcome it. But the men who had
  gone up with him said, We are not able to go up
  against the people, for they are too strong for
  us.
• Numbers 131,2,27-31

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• When you read Gods Word 
• Follow a Daily Reading Plan
• Read Where You Will be Fed
• Expect God to Speak
• Memorize it Claim it Obey it

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• 3. Is there any area of your life you
• dont want your relationship with God
• to affect?

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• But whatever things were gain to me, those
  things I have counted a loss for the sake of
  Christ. More than that, I count all things to be
  loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing
  Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered
  the loss of all things, and count them but
  rubbish in order that I may gain Christthat I
  may know Him
• Philippians 37-10

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• 4. Are you regularly giving of yourself for
  the sake of others? For whom?
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• that I might know Him.and the fellowship of His
  sufferings
• Philippians 310
• We know love by this, that He laid down His life
  for us and we ought to lay down our lives for
  the brethren.
• 1John 316