SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS “JOURNEY” “U” MUST BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED

SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY THE BASIC PREPARATION IS SIMPLE!!! “KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS LORD (BOSS) AND SAVIOR!!!!” WHY????????

SO HE CAN BE YOUR SPIRITUAL GUIDE ON THIS JOURNEY

SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) 1) Joshua 23:11 “Take good heed, there fore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God” Life Application Study Bible (NIV) “So be careful to love the Lord your God”

SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) “To Do That, We Need To Know 3 Things” “About Him” 1 st ) We need to know GOD is 3 persons in 1 1a) Isaiah 45:5a “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no GOD beside me” (NIV) “I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no GOD.” (NIV) “I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no GOD.”

1b) Deut. 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (NIV) “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one” 1c) II Corin. 13:14 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen” (NIV) “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) 1d) Matt. 3:17 “And lo, a voice from heaven saying,this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (NIV) “And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased’” “HE IS 3 PERSONS IN 1”

2 nd ) “We need to know God’s attributes” 2a) (OMNIPOTENCE..om-nip-o-tens) Job 42:2 “I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be with holden from thee” (NIV) “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted” Ephe. 3:20 “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (NIV) “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is working within us” “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

2b) (OMNIPRESENCE…om-ni’-pres-ence) I Kings 8:27b “Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded” (NIV) “The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!” “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

2c) (OMNISCIENCE…om-nis-c-ince) Psalm 139:1-2 “O Lord thou hast searched me, and known me. ‘Thou knowest my downsitting and mine up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off’” (NIV) “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. ‘You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar” “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

2d) (IMMUTABLE…m-mut-a-bul) Malachi 3:6a “For I am the Lord, I change not” (NIV) “I the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed” II Tim. 2:13b “For He cannot disown Himself” “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

HIS ATTRIBUTES 1) Omnipotence….All Powerful 2) Omnipresence..Everywhere At Once 3) Omniscience…..All Knowing 4) Immutable……..Never Changes “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

3 rd ) “We need to know God’s character” !!4 Things U Must Know!! 3a) (God is Holy) Habak. 1:13a “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” (NIV) “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong” “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!)

3b) (God is Just) Deut. 32:4 “He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He” (NIV) “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he”

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) 3b) (God is Just) cont. Romans 2:11 “For there is no respect of persons with God” (NIV) “For God does not show favoritism” 3c) (God is Gracious) Romans 3:24 “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) 3c) (God is Gracious) cont. (NIV) “And are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” 3d) (God is Loving) John 3:16 “KJV” (NIV) “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believesin Him shall not perish but have eternal Life”

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) 4) Psalm 113:3 “From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord’s name is to be praised” (NIV) “From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised”

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) Keep this in mind: When everything seems to be against you!! When everything seems to be against you!! And no one is agreeable about anything!!! Family has gone berserk!!!!

“JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP” (!!Getting To Know GOD!!) Try this equation for life……… U + GOD = THE MAJORTY

NEXT WEEK!!!! !!!GETTING TO KNOW THE!!! !!!HOLY SPIRIT!!! “JOURNEY THROUGH SPIRITUAL” “BOOT CAMP”