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Purpose Driven Life
Lesson 11
Becoming Best Friends with God
Let us underline some stuff
• Friendship (reconciled - restored) - to reestablish proper friendly interpersonal relations after these have been disrupted or broken
• How has that relationship been restored?
This is all God’s doing
• It’s good to be reminded of this relationship involves
o God is your Creator and Maker, Lord and Master, Judge, Redeemer, Father, Savior
• The perfect example of this relationship
o “There were no rituals, ceremonies, or religion—just a simple loving relationship between God and the people he created.
Unhindered by guilt or fear, Adam and Eve delighted in God, and he delighted in them.”
Old Testament perspective
– A fear of God – They went through the priest – God dwelt in the temple
New Testament things changed
• We now have direct access to God
We call this Grace
• The word “friend” in this is a deep friendship – (Best Friend)
• Everything God has done, is doing, and will do is for us to have a relationship with him.
• The book says it well
o We think of God as Master – slave, Creator – creation, or Father – child
What does it mean to be friends with God?
Through constant conversation.
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The casual Christian
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How do you have a relationship if it’s one a week or even worst once a month or worst yet sitting on the couch watching on your phone.
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Friendship with God is built by sharing all your life experiences with him.
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Even a quiet time is not complete
“Spending time with God”
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My mind quickly turns to a pray closet
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The bible teaches us that Jesus went alone to pray
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But being a friend with God is constant on going activity
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In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
Breath prayers
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I love this idea
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A prayer you can say in one breath
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Christian growth is always a process
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It takes practice
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It’s not something you feel but something you are
Through continual meditation.
a. Thinking about his word.
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How can we ever be friends with God and not know who he is?
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We know many things about our friends
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What they like don’t like etc
2. We like to put Jesus into our mold
3. The bible teaches us to study to show ourselves approved
He called meditation – Focus thinking
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When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that’s called worry.
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When you think about God’s Word over and over in your mind, that’s meditation.
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If you know how to worry then…
Develop the practice of renewing your mind.
i. Name some ways.
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Study notes
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Memorize
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