Experiencing God

Unit Two

*It isn’t the method that is important-it is the relationship.

*God always asks you to do what you can’t do by yourself.

*Henry Blackaby talked about a God-Centered Life. ????

*God can do anything He wants when He has access to a people who will believe Him. (The opposite of this would be that unbelief limits Him.)

Psalm 81

11 "But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.

12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

13 "If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways,

14 how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!

Hebrews 3

7 ¶ So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,

9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, `Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'

11 So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'"

12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

15 As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?

18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?

19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

*God seldom does the same thing twice. (Healing methods of Jesus as an example.)

*There was only one burning bush experience.

*We only have one account of people holding up the leader’s hand.

*The Christian does not function by dream but by revelation.

*We say “don’t just stand there, do something.” God says, “don’t just do something, stand there.”

*Jesus didn’t say just that He would show us the way; He said I AM THE WAY.