EXPERIENCING GOD

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EXPERIENCING GOD

• Learning and Doing
• The Will of God

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POWERFUL TOOLTO HELP YOU

1. To Hear when God is speaking to you
2. To clearly identify the activity of God
3. To Believe He is able to do all He promised
4. To Adjust your beliefs, character and behavior to
   Him and His Ways
5. see a Direction He is taking in your life and
   what He wants to do through you
6. To clearly know what you need to do I response to
   His Activity in your life
7. To Experience God doing through you as you obey
   Him what only He can do.

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with
   you Him is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in
   His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible,
   prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal
   Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
   leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
   faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to
   join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey
   Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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Principle 1GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK AROUND YOU

• How Do We Respond To This Principle
• AS SERVANTS OF GOD- WE OBEY
• AS SONS OF GOD- WE SHINE
• Live in Humility- No Murmur and complaining
• Live in Harmony- Not Arguing or Contentious
• Live in Holiness- Not Self- Centered,
  God-Centered
• As Children of the Light- We SHINE

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EXPERIENCING GOD

• Learning and Doing
• The Will of God

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with
   you Him is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in
   His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
   Bible,prayer, circumstances, and the church to
   reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
   leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
   faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to
   join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey
   Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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Principle 2

• God pursues a
• continuing love relationship with you that is
  real and personal.

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Attributes of Gods Love

1. GODS LOVE IS PERSISTENT
2. GODS LOVE IS PERSONAL
3. GODS LOVE IS PRACTICAL
4. GODS LOVE- PURPOSEFUL

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EXPERIENCING GOD

• Learning and Doing
• The Will of God

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with
   you Him is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in
   His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
   Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to
   reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
   leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
   faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to
   join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey
   Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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Principle 3

• God invites
• You
• To become involved
• With Him
• In His work.

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Spiritual Markers of Being Chosen to be On
Mission With God

1. God chooses you to involve you in His Mission to
   reconcile the world.
2. God calls you to Himself so that you can be on
   mission with Him.
3. God initiates a covenant of promise and obedience
   with you to accomplish His mission and to glorify
   Him.
4. God prepares and equips you to be on mission with
   Him.

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Spiritual Markers of Being Chosen to be On
Mission With God (part 2)

• 5. God sends you where He can best work through
  you to accomplish His mission.
• 6. God guides you step-by-step on His mission to
  glorify Him among all peoples.
• 7. God uses you to fulfill His mission for His
  glory.

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WHEN GOD CALLS

1. THE PREPARATION OF THE CALL
2. THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE CALL
3. THE PROBLEM WITH THE CALL
4. THE PROVISION IN THE CALL

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THE CALL OF MOSES

• MOSES LEARNED TO BE A SERVANT
• MOSES LEARNED TO TRUST GOD
• III. MOSES LEARNED TO OBEY GOD

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EXPERIENCING GOD

• Learning and Doing
• The Will of God

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with
   you Him is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in
   His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
   Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to
   reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
   leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
   faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to
   join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey
   Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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Principle 4

• God speaks by the
• Holy Spirit
• through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the
  church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His
  ways.

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God Speaks-Discovering the Will of God

• I. THE CHARACTER OF GODS WILL
• A.Gods Plan is definite.
• B. Gods Plan is perfect.
• C.Gods Plan is personal.
• II. THE CONDITIONS FOR KNOWING GODS WILL
• A. Convictions Within- the Peace of God-Holy
  Spirit leadership
• B. Circumstances Without- Whats happening
  around me?
• C. The Word of God-The Bible
• D. The Church- The Counsel of Others

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• EXPERIENCING GOD
• Learning and Doing
• The Will of God

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

• God is always at work around you.
• God pursues a continuing love relationship with
  you Him is real and personal.
• God invites you to become involved with Him in
  His work.
• God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
  Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to
  reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
• Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
  leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
  faith and action.
• You must make major adjustments in your life to
  join God in what He is doing.
• You come to know God by experience as you obey
  Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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Principle 5

• Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
  leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
  faith and action.

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The Crisis of Belief

• An encounter with God requires faith.
• Encounters with God are God-sized.
• What you do in response to Gods revelation
  (invitation) reveals what you believe about God.
• True faith requires action.
• Faith was believing that the God who called us to
  the assignments was the One who would provide for
  their accomplishment.

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The Crisis of Belief

• What you believe about
• God
• will determine what you do
• and how you live.

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A FAITH THAT HONORS GOD

• A FAITH THAT DECIDES-Heb.114,25,31
• II. A FAITH THAT DARES-Heb.118
• III. A FAITH THAT DOES-Heb.1124
• IV. A FAITH THAT IS DETERMINED- Heb.1035-36

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• EXPERIENCING GOD

Knowing and Doing The Will Of God
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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

• God is always at work around you.
• God pursues a continuing love relationship with
  you Him is real and personal.
• God invites you to become involved with Him in
  His work.
• God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
  Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to
  reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
• Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
  leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
  faith and action.
• You must make major adjustments in your life to
  join God in what He is doing.
• You come to know God by experience as you obey
  Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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PRINCIPLE 6

• YOU MUST MAKE
• MAJOR ADJUSTMENTS
• IN YOUR LIFE
• TO JOIN GOD
• IN WHAT HE IS DOING

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Kinds of Adjustments

• ADJUSTMENTS IN
• Your Circumstances- Job, Home,Finances,etc
• Your Relationships- Family, Friends
• Your Thinking- Prejudices, Methods
• Your Commitments- Church, Family, Job
• Your Actions- Pray, Give, Serve
• Your Beliefs - God, His Purposes, His Plans

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Obedience Requires Action

• YOU CANNOT STAY
• WHERE YOU ARE AND
• GO WITH
• GOD
• AT THE SAME TIME

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David Livingstone prayed..

• Lord, send me anywhere,
• only go with me,
• Lay any burden on me,
• only sustain me,
• Sever any tie,
• but the tie that binds me to Thyself.
  

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Getting InGoing On Principle 6 in Elijahs
Life

• I KINGS 17
• GODS RECOGNIZED PLAN
• II. GODS RESTRICTED PROMISE
• III. GODS REQUIRED PREREQUISITE
• GODS RELEASED PROVISION
• GODS REVEALED PROMISE

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EXPERIENCING GOD

• Knowing and Doing
• The Will
• Of God

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The Principles 0f Experiencing God

• God is always at work around you.
• God pursues a continuing love relationship with
  you Him is real and personal.
• God invites you to become involved with Him in
  His work.
• God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the
  Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to
  reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
• Gods invitation for you to work with Him always
  leads you to a crisis of belief that requires
  faith and action.
• You must make major adjustments in your life to
  join God in what He is doing.
• You come to know God by experience as you obey
  Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

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PRINCIPLE 7

• You come to know God
• by experience as you
• obey Him
• and He accomplishes
• His work through you.

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Obedience Is

• I come to know God by experience as I obey Him
• Obedience is the outward expression of my love of
  God
• Obedience is the outward demonstration of my
  faith.
• The reward of obedience is that God reveals
  Himself to you.
• 5. If I have an obedience problem, I have a love
  problem.

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Disobedience Is Costly

• JONAH- A WHALE OF A RIDE
• MOSES- 40 YEARS IN WILDERNESS
• DAVID- ONE SON DIED AND THREE OTHER FAMILY
  TRAGEDIES

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OBEDIENCEEXPERIENCE GOD

• THE PRINCIPLE OF OBEDIENCE
• A. God demands it
• B. God deserves it
• THE PRACTICE OF OBEDIENCE
• A. Obedience must be Intellectual
• B. Obedience must be Intentional
• C. Obedience must be Immediate
• THE PURPOSE OF OBEDIENCE
• A. Objective Purpose-His Witnesses
• B. Subjective Purpose-His Holy Spirit