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Relationship with God. To know God intimately means that you have developed a relationship with God that is personal and that is consistent. Intimacy with God is a place where we live in consistent fellowship with Him throughout our day, and we can honestly say that our love for Him far outweighs our desire for the things in the world.
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Intimacy with God is available to you. It is as accessible to you as Gods promises. And Gods invitation to you to enjoy intimate fellowship with him is that thing that is putting your faith to the test more than anything else (James 1:24). But of course intimacy is not spatial but relational. We all know what its like to be sitting right next to a ...
Intimacy is what we call the experience of really knowing and being known by another person. We frequently use spatial language when describing this experience. An intimate friend is someone we feel very close to; they know us at a deep level. If something happens that damages the intimacy with our friend, they feel distant from us. Or a person who...
This reality is vitally important to understand. As Christians, we want to experience intimacy with God. With the psalmist we say, for me it is good to be near God (Psalm 73:28). And we want to heed Jamess exhortation and realize its promise: Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you (James 4:8). But we can seek that nearness in ways that dont...
But never in the history of the Christian church has so much theological knowledge been available to so many people as it is today. The American church enjoys perhaps the greatest amount of this abundance. We are awash in Bible translations, good books, insightful articles, recorded sermons, interviews, movies, documentaries, music, and more. And m...
Some pursue this in high liturgical environments designed to inspire an experience of transcendence and mystery. Others pursue it in contemporary worship events designed to inspire an experience of immanence. Others chase revivals, thinking that proximity to Gods power will result in proximity to God. If we truly trust God, such environments can en...
Think of it like this: A candlelit dinner with romantic music may encourage a sweet moment of relational intimacy between a husband and wife, but only to the degree that the environment encourages and deepens their mutual trust and love. If theres relational distance between them due to a lack of trust, the aesthetics themselves have no power to br...
When God sees someone whose heart fully trusts his promises and lives by them, God comes to strongly support that saint (2 Chronicles 16:9) and manifests himself to him:
A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand ...
- Psalm 63:1-11 ESV / 444 helpful votes. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- James 4:8 ESV / 371 helpful votes. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- John 17:22-23 ESV / 226 helpful votes. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
- John 15:4-6 ESV / 207 helpful votes. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
In Psalm 139, the psalmist marvels at God’s intimate knowledge of us. “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me” (v. 1). From knowing our thoughts to guiding our steps, God’s presence surrounds us. He formed us in the womb, and His knowledge of us is complete and perfect. This psalm invites us to reflect on how God sees us.
Jan 4, 2022 · If we hope to attain true intimacy with God, Jesus must be our model. We love God because He first loved us (1 John 4:10), and we prove our love for Him by obeying Him. Jesus told His followers, “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). When we obey Him and keep what He has commanded, He promised that we will remain in His love ...
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Nov 6, 2020 · We have been created by God, purposefully. He knows us, intimately better than we know ourselves! He is mighty to save and always good. He is all-knowing and everywhere. Because of who He is, we ...
