Experiencing God -- The Seven Realities

Experiencing God -- The Seven Realities

“Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).” Jeremiah 33:3 (The Amplified Bible)

God longs for you and I to experience Him. The Old and New Testament biblical characters did not have a corner of experiencing God. You and I have the same privilege. The question is do we long to have him enter into our world.

In his classic Bible study, Dr. Henry Blackaby suggests that there are SEVEN REALITIES to Experiencing God:

1. God is always at work around you.

2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that 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. God’s 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 what God is doing.

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

Throughout the next several weeks, I'd like to invite you to travel on this journey with me as we take our time exploring these seven principles. I want to suggest that you grab your journal and begin to open your eyes and heart, and experience HIM in a way that could literally turn your world upside down.

Will you join me on the journey? -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 19 Nehemiah 12-13; Acts 4:23-37

Great Quote: What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him so to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one. Hannah Whitall Smith