The sermon notes

Title of the sermon : Knowing God is a Key to an Unshakable Relationship with Him

Scriptures: all from NKJV

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Knowing God is not a one time experience. It's a series of personal encounters with him throughout our daily lives.

John 17:3

That we may know Him is one of our greatest purpose as believers. Him which includes his very characters:

Exodus 6:7 "....Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God..."

Exodus 7:17 "....By this you shall know that I am the Lord."

Exodus 10:2 "....that you may know that I am the Lord."

Exodus 3:14"...I AM WHO I AM"

Exodus 15:3  The Lord is a man of war...

Exodus 16:15 "...The Lord Is My Banner..."

Exodus 31:13 ... the Lord who sanctifies...

Exodus 34:14... the Lord is a jealous God...

These verses gives us a picture of God revealing Himself (His characters, attributes) to His people Israel throughout their long journey. In their exodus to be established as people of God to bear His name and that they will become a blessing to other nations, they experienced these personal encounters and revelations of who God is. Thus, they became eyewitnesses, not only hearers of the attributes of their God. 

As people of God, it is also must be our experience to become effective witnesses. We cannot testify of what we heard but of what we have personally seen and experience.

It  is vital that we have these revelations of God to the extent of what He allows us to know about Him. ( Remember of what God has done in your lives)

The Lord is working to have a people who cannot be shaken because they are rooted in Who God is. 

Mathew 7:7-8

His words now become alive in us.

Also His very nature is being built in us. In our own journey, we become men of prayer, seekers, become knockers ( persistent faith).

We are knowing and understanding His ways.

Mathew 7:21-23

One of many lessons from this:

NO RELATIONSHIP!

Psalms 20:7( other translations says we " trust "in the name of our Lord)

What we have known of our God, His nature, His character- is where we put our faith and trust as we go out and become witnesses of our God.

Romans 15:18 

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient—

I believe in this verse, the Apostle is saying to us we have to become witnesses first before we will go and be witnesses so that we have the truth in us to declare and testify.

Healing power of God

2. God heals, sometimes miraculously.

If God really exists, then we should not be surprised that he can heal our sicknesses. When the world was created, sickness did not exist. It was a result of the fall of man into sin.
Does everyone who prays to God in the Name of Jesus get immediately healed? No, but sometimes it happens that way.
A neighbor of moved in a few years ago. His wife suffered from a wheat allergy that almost killed her many times before. I would see that sometimes she would just touch her lips to a food and immediately her lips would swell and she would lose her voice. They carried am injection just in case she had a serious reaction. This had been a long-term sickness and she had lost her hair at one time, because of it.
One day we had a church service at our home and I asked for us to pray for her. It was a desperate cry to God. A couple days later she was eating at our house and ate something my wife had cooked and when I asked my wife what was in the food, she showed me a bag of bread crumbs. But the lady did not get sick. Over the next week, she never got sick and I was thinking.. maybe she got healed. Her husband was very concerned at this time, and in disbelief. Eventually he recognized what God had done. His wife began eating sandwiches. Now she loves to bake and even teaches others how to bake.
Are you sick? Have you asked God to heal you in the Name of Jesus?

Do you know that one day all sickness and death will be taken away and things will be restored to Gods' creation?

Revelation 21:2-5 New International Version (NIV)
 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.  ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[a] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

God is waiting for you!

Last Sunday, the guest speaker at church spoke about our relationship with God.
Because oh that great message, I wanted to post things I have witnessed and learned about God. I hope others, like you, might add to this.

1. God is waiting for us to turn to Him.
At 17 years old, I was a very blessed person. My family loved me. I had always had anything I wanted. School came easy. I excelled in sports. I had many great friends. I was healthy. But, despite all of this I had grown depressed. I began to hate the world and to hate being a human being. I could see no real purpose in life. In the midst of this I was invited to church by a friend. I went... out of desperation.
What I got was a message from Jesus that exposed the sin in my own heart and life. When the speaker asked if anyone needed to pray to receive the pardon of Jesus, I nervously went to the front. There I confessed the hatred in my heart and asked God to help me to love people. He answered that prayer and gave me a new heart and a new purpose for my life.
Now I can tell you that God is waiting for you. Will you recognize your own sinfulness and cry out to the one who died for us, the one who was killed for our sins, who rose again from the dead to offer us new life?

John 3:16-17 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.