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RE–EXPERIENCEExperiencing God in Your Life

Part 3: It’s all about the center

You were created for eternity – not time You will only know God by experience.

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“God only wants for us what we wouldwant for ourselves if we were smartenough to want it.”

Adrian Rogers

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God is at work around you

God pursues a love relationship with you

God invites you to join Him in His work

God speaks to you

God’s invitation will lead to a crisis of belief

Joining God requires adjustments & obedience

God wants to accomplish His work through you

“… with God, how you dosomething is as important as whatyou do. It is possible to do theright thing in the wrong way or atthe wrong time. … Doing thingsGod’s way is critical.”

Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God

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Mt 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hatethe one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the oneand despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Phil 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do forHis good pleasure.

1. Will it be you or Him?• The God-centered life:

- Self denial- Godly living- Focus on God & His perspective & plans- Total dependence on God

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• The self-centered life:

- Self indulgent- Fleshly living- Focus on the world and it’s ways- Dependence on logic and human ability

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2. Will it be God’s purposes or your plans?

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•The profits of doing it God’s way:

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• The problems of doing it our way:

Ps 81:11-14 “But my people would not heed my voice, andIsrael would have none of Me. 12 So I gave them over to theirown stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels. 13 Oh, thatmy people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in myways! 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn myhand against their adversaries.”

3. God is inviting you to be involved in God-sized tasks.

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4. What keeps God from doing great things in our lives?

Answer 1: We’re not ready yet

Lk 22:33-34 But he said to Him,“Lord, I am ready to go withYou, both to prison and todeath.” 34Then He said, “I tellyou, Peter, the rooster shall notcrow this day before you willdeny three times that you knowMe.”

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Answer 2: We’re not seeing through “spiritual eyes”

2 Kings 6:17 And Elishaprayed, and said, “Lord, Ipray, open his eyes that hemay see.” Then the Lordopened the eyes of the youngman, and he saw. Andbehold, the mountain was fullof horses and chariots of fireall around Elisha.

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Lk 19:41-42 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and weptover it, 42saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in thisyour day, the things that make for your peace! But now they arehidden from your eyes.”

Mt 13:54-58 When He had come to His own country, He taughtthem in their synagogue, so that they were astonished andsaid, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mightyworks? 55 Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mothercalled Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, andJudas? 56 And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where thendid this Man get all these things?” 57 So they were offended atHim. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honorexcept in his own country and in his own house.” 58 Now He didnot do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.