PASTOR RANTY CAMPONION on RUN TO GOD 2016
Introduction: 2016 is a year of Big Moves for us here at Hislife.
Before we start to do anything big. It would be wise to listen to the One who will give us instruction on how to do it and Run for it—Run to God!
Title: Run to God
Intimacy-Preparing to fast.
Introduction: Announce: We your pastors here at His life Ministries are calling on every His Life Ministries member together with regular goers at church to...
Join this 1-day humiliation prayer and fasting event come on January 4, Fired UP!, 6 p.m. our annual Day of fasting.
Fasting with prayer is after all NOT for us to be heared by God, but us hearing God first! That's the reason why we need to fast.
Let's spend time with Him. Let's hear and obey the Lord together.
Introduction: How much time do we spend building our relationship?. How much effort do we invest on hearing with God?
Hows your relationship with the Lord. Is He distant God or your close friend?.
Text: Habakkuk 2:1-2 NIV
2I will stand at my watch
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
2Then the LORD replied:
“Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
so that a herald may run with it.
We are created to relate with God. (Genesis 1: 26: we are made in His image.) We've been given a spirit that can communicate with His Spirit. We need to listen and hear His voice. -Charles Stanley
Because we are created to relate with God, God wants to you know.
1. God desires for us to intimate with Him.
a. In Genesis 2-- God walk with man.
b. Our purpose- to love Him, to glorify or Honor Him, and enjoy Him forever. -
--Love Him- Matthew 22:37 “37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
--Glorify Him-Revelation 4:11. “
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
--Enjoy Him. John 10:10. “10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.”
2. But Intimacy with God was lost
a. Adam sinned. The fall of men, Genesis 3.
b. We have turned our face from God. Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Sin separates us from God.
3. But Intimacy/Relationship with God restored
a. 2 Corinthians 5:21-“21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
b. 1 Peter 2:24 -“24He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.
c. Jesus our mediator. 1 Timothy 2:5- “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
4. Our Response- run to God. Make a commitment by faith in Jesus.
Faith is:
--Repenting-2 Corinthians 7:10. “
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
--Receiving Jesus Christ. Trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
John 1:12. “12Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
Conclusion: “God is glorified in me, when im most satisfied with him. --john piper.
To satisfy: You need a devotion time with God.
How.
Application:
1. Discover the joy of devotion. You need to:
a. spiritual notebook/pen.
b. decide a schedule of 15-30 minute daily with God.
c. read one chapter a day. Example book of John.
Use Observation Interpretation and Application as your guide.
Pray and memorize to remind yourself on what to apply and cut off.
The Result- Transformation, Christ likeness--RUN to God!
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