Presented at Kingsway Community Church on October 25, 2009
Pursuing Relationship With God:
Duet. 4:29, James 4:8 My Notes: ______________________________________ Three Steps To Take, In The Pursuit Of A Relationship With God ______________________________________ STEP 1: Remove all barriers. ______________________________________ STEP 2: Increase your knowledge of God. ______________________________________ STEP 3: Intentional Pursuit of Intimacy ______________________________________ It Requires A Lifestyle … ______________________________________ 1. of Repentance ______________________________________ 2. of increasing your Biblical knowledge of who God’s is. ______________________________________ 3. of intentional pursuit of intimacy with God. ______________________________________ Unrealistic Expectations: ______________________________________ _______________ – ______________ – ___________ ______________________________________
Wrong Thinking About The Pursuit of Intimacy With God: ______________________________________
______________________________________ 1. Intimacy is not about what God will do for us when we ______________________________________ get close to Him. 2. Intimacy is not about an informal “buddy-buddy” ______________________________________ relationship. ______________________________________ 3. Intimacy is not the same experience for all of us. ______________________________________ 4. Intimacy is not a completed experience in the “here and ______________________________________ now.” 5. Intimacy is not experienced if we are nominally ______________________________________ committed to God. ______________________________________ ______________________________________ Realistic Expectations: _______________ – ______________ – ___________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ Right Thinking About The Pursuit of Intimacy With God: ______________________________________
1. In faith, I embrace God and _______________ to a ______________________________________
lifetime of pursuing Him. ______________________________________ ______________________________________ 2. God’s dramatic interventions will most likely occur ______________________________________ ____________________ in my life. ______________________________________ 3. God has already done more for me than ___ ________. ______________________________________ ______________________________________ 4. God is doing a _______ ____ ___________ for me every day, that I do not even know about. ______________________________________ ______________________________________ 5. Intimacy is about seeking a ______________________, ______________________________________ not receiving gifts. ______________________________________ If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end, if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. – C.S. Lewis