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…the joy of intentionally knowing God
“It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.”
John 4:23 The Message

2. en·gage A Car Buying Story
The salesman had to drive it off the premises…
…but he couldn’t get it in gear! He remarked, “Impressive huh!”
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3. en·gage A Car Buying Story
The salesman had to drive it off the premises…
…all that power wasted because it couldn’t be engaged!
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4. Fundamental Questions
I wonder what God is unable to do because we/I have failed to engage His power in our/my life?
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5. Fundamental Questions
What does it take to intentionally engage our life in a way that allows us into a place of intimacy with God, to know Him and His power?
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6. Fundamental Questions
Could it be that intimacy with God is in direct correlation with the engagement of God’s kingdom working within us?
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7. Some Fundamental Scriptures
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33
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8. Some Fundamental Scriptures
“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all…
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9. …things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection,
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10. …and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
Philippians 3:7-11
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11. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.”
Matthew 22:36-38
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12. en·gage A Pathway to Intimacy
Jesus, our great teacher, gives us a pathway to great intimacy with God!
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13. The intimacy of Desiring to be used by God!
A Submissive Heart
The intimacy of Desiring to be used by God!
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14. en·gage A Submissive Heart
“And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”
Luke 22:41-42
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15. The intimacy of Actually being used by God!
A Transformed Being
The intimacy of Actually being used by God!
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16. en·gage A Transformed Being
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:1-2
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17. The intimacy of Seeing God at work in Us!
A Pure Heart
The intimacy of Seeing God at work in Us!
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18. “Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.”
A Pure Heart
“Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.”
Matthew 5:8
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19. A Pure Heart
“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.”
Psalm 24:3-5
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20. en·gage How Do We Engage?
None of these are possible without a Super-Natural engagement of God in Our life!
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21. The late night visit of a man called Nicodemus!
How Do We Engage?
The late night visit of a man called Nicodemus!
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“It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.”
John 4:23 The Message