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"Do You Know Me?”
Contributed by Mike Bence on Feb 12, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: Our personal relationship with God is vital for this life and the eternal, we can’t simply rely on what we are told, we must know him ourselves. Jesus walked this earth but no one truly knew Him, we have that opportunity today and now to walk with Him and know Him.
Practical application helps you understand God’s voice.
You want to enhance that experience even more Pray!
Your personal time.
I’m not saying you have to run and do back flips that’s up to you how you engage with God.
The church sometimes puts to much pressure on our outward actions, that’s a pride thing we don’t need you to amen us it just makes us feel good because it sounds like someone is listening.
You don’t have to do backflips in the church if you want to go ahead but the most important thing is that you hear something this house today that you can apply to your life in a benefical way.
And even if you didn’t I learned some more stuff by studying into the concepts talked about today.
Here are some things I want to share as I’m wrapping up.
This may sound like I’m minimizing church time I’m not.
I’m minimizing the traditional idea of how a service needs to go.
You see if you want to get everything out of our time together then what you do before you get to this place is the most important thing.
If every saint in here spends time in preparation, prayer and the word before they step into the church then you will be primed for everything God has instore during this time.
You may hear some good word to take home with you but when someone makes their way to the altar you have prepped the soil where God can speak to you and give you guidance as you prayer for someone, why because you have quieted some of the noise in your life.
Its his voice you hearing and the more you hear it the more confident you will be.
Heres the other thing what god tells you may not be for anyone else, it may not even align with traditional Christian thought processes.
Does it align with the word of God, not a surface knowledge but the deep word.
I’ve made decisions based off of my relationship with God when others didn’t agree with what I was hearing.
But you know God’s hand was on me and my family and that’s all I need.
If your relationship with God is right here in this place, first that’s messed up.
That’s a lot of pressure to put on other human beings, your ability to hear gods voice relys completely on the pastor, teacher, praise and worshippers.
Your relationship is yours.
Yes we need the word
Yes we need the lessons
Yes we need to praise God
No its not their job to talk to God for me.
Its my responsibility.
The enemy will be working against you.
He’s a slut, trying to steal you away from God.