1. DEVELOPING AN INTIMATE WALK WITH GOD A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY TO A GREATER AWARENESS OF GOD’S PRESENCE “STEP 3 – HEAR ME”

2. INSIGHTS INTO AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

3. Psalm 63:1-4 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

4. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.

5. So I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

6. O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

7. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.

8. So I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

9. DRAW NEAR TO GOD TO LISTEN

10. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

11. Psalm 46:10 Be still and know that I am God

12. DRAW NEAR TO GOD TO LEARN

13. Exodus 33:13 Teach me Your ways, so that I may know you, and continue to find favor with You.

14. Psalm 119:12 Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees.

15. Psalm 119:27 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts; then I will meditate on your wonders.

16. Psalm 119:64 The earth is filled with your love, O LORD; teach me your decrees.

17. Psalm 119:171 May my lips overflow with praise, for you teach me your decrees.

18. DRAW NEAR TO GOD TO RESPOND

19. Isaiah 30:18-21 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

20. O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

21. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.

22. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it.”

23. Luke 11:27-28 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”