Intimacy With God: Why We Need It'

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Intimacy With God Why We Need It.

• Without an authentic relationship with God, we
  are left empty and detached. There is in all of
  us , at the very center of our lives, a burning
  in the heart that is deep and insatiable. Most
  often we try to quench that yearning with a human
  relationship. We try to fill the gap in our
  existence with a friend or a lover, But no human
  relationship -- no matter how wonderful can ever
  complete us. Drs. Les and Leslie
  Parrott, Relationships

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• 1. Time Alone

• Mark 135 Very early in the morning, while it
  was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and
  went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
• John 615 Jesus, knowing that they intended to
  come and make him king by force, withdrew again
  to a mountain by himself.

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• Psalm 628 Trust in him at all times, O people
  pour out your hearts to him, for God is our
  refuge.
• Job 1620 My intercessor is my friend as my
  eyes pour out tears to God.

• 2. Radical Honesty

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• Deut.429 But if from there you seek the Lord
  your God, you will find him if you look for him
  with all your heart and with all your soul.
• God will manifest himself in the direct
  proportion to our passion for Him.
  Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

• 3. Persistent Passion

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• 4. Two-Way Communication

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• 4. Two-Way Communication

• Psalm 34 To the LORD I cry aloud, and he
  answers me from his holy hill.

• Authentic Christianityis a walk, a supernatural
  walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
  Thus the heart and soul of the Christian life is
  learning to hear Gods voice and developing the
  courage to do what he tells us to do. Bill
  Hybels, Too Busy Not To Pray

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• Luke 923-25 Then He said to them all, If
  anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny
  himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow
  Me. For whoever desires to save his life will
  lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake
  will save it. For what profit is it to a man if
  he gains the whole world, and is himself
  destroyed or lost?

• 5. Complete Surrender

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• John 1421 23 He who has My commandments and
  keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who
  loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will
  love him and manifest Myself to himIf anyone
  loves Me, he will keep My word and My Father
  will love him, and We will come to him and make
  Our home with him.

• 5. Complete Surrender

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Intimacy With God What it Takes

• 5. Complete Surrender

• Oswald Chambers, We shall all feel very much
  ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus on the point
  He has asked us to yield to HimTo get there is a
  question of will, not of debate nor of reasoning,
  but a surrender of will, an absolute and
  irrevocable surrender on that pointObey God in
  the thing he shows you, and instantly the next
  thing is opened up. God will never reveal more
  truth about himself until you have obeyed what
  you already know.