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Prayer
Over the past several weeks we have been studying prayer and how we should pray.
For the next two weeks I want to look at what prayer does for us.
You see prayer helps us get to know God better.
Or to put it another way, Prayer helps us get in tune with God!
Perhaps, one of the more influential Bible studies I ever did was called “Experiencing God” written by Henry Blackaby and Claude King.
I’ve worked through this Bible study twice in my life and taught it two other times.
In fact, it was a statement in this study that God used to send me back to Seminary.
In this study, Blackaby gives us “Seven Realities of Experiencing God.”
I want us to look at these seven realities in our time together this week and next.
God Is Always At Work Around You
The first reality that we want to look at is the fact that God is always at work around us.
Jesus talked about this very fact in .
All we have to do is look around us and we will see that God is working all around us.
One way God is working is in the beauty of creation that is all around us.
Psalm 19:1-
All we have to do is look around, and we will see God working.
He is working in nature.
And he is working in the lives of people around us.
Question: Do you see God working around you?
God Pursues A Continual Love Relationship With Us
This is hard for some people to grasp.
So many times we think of relating to God as some kind of cosmic game of “Whack-a-Mole.”
We believe God is sitting up in heaven just waiting for us to mess up so he can whack us on the head.
But look at , because it presents a different story.
If that is not enough, God has already demonstrated His love for us when He sent Jesus to earth to pay the penalty of our sin.
Romans
This is an amazing truth.
Yet, the sad thing is many people who profess they know God, have never experienced the reconciliation to God that comes from knowing Jesus.
The reality that we just read hinges on one phrase, “God pursues . .
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The fact is our human nature does not naturally pursue God, so God had to pursue us.
It is important to also notice the kind of relationship that “God pursues.”
This reality states that God pursues, “a continual love relationship with us!”
There are to key words in this phrase.
First is the word, “continual.”
God never tires of pursuing us.
He never tires of seeking after us.
His pursuit is continual.
The second significant word in this phrase is, “love.”
His love never fails.
Look at .
Lamentations
If we look at this same passage in the Message we see even more of the beauty of it.
I love the last part of this verse in the Message.
“I am sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He’s all I’ve got left.”
Question: Is the love of God all you have left?
If not, remember that God is ALWAYS pursuing you.
The final reality that I want to look at today is the third reality.
God Invites Us To Become Involved With Him
From the beginning of creation, God intended for man to work with Him.
In fact, when God put Adam (man) in the Garden of Eden He did it so that Adam would care for it.
Look at
In the New Testament we are told obedience to God is equal with loving God.
And it is how we get to KNOW God.
Look at the words of Jesus in .
God desires that we join with Him in the work that He is doing.
It is not our work—this church is not our church.
The missionaries we support are not our missionaries.
The work that I do for God is not my work!
ALL of this is God’s work which He allows me to join and actually wants me to join.
For God loves it when His people join with Him in the work that He is doing!
Question: Are you accepting God’s invitation to become involved with Him?
So What?
We need to see the truths of these three realities:
God is at work around us!
God is pursuing a love relationship with us!
God invites us to become involved with Him!
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