intimacy with god
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BETTER THAN GIFTING.
INTIMACY
Marco LafebreApril 20, 2016
Learning to Prophesy
• The state of being intimate.• A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal
relationship with another person or group.• A close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding
of a place, subject, period of history, etc.: an intimacy with Japan.• An act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, affection, or the
like: to allow the intimacy of using first names.• An amorously familiar act; liberty.• Sexual intercourse.• The quality of being comfortable, warm, or familiar: The Intimacy of
the room.
Intimacy Definition:
• Intimacy with a person, a group or persons, a pet, a country, or any other thing where we can put our affection, doesn’t occur from night to morning.
• You need to make an effort to get to know the person or object of your attention.
• You get familiar with everything that pertains with them.• You come to love their companionship.• You seek to stay around the person or object of your now loved.• The more you stick with them, the more you’ll be intimate
You must go through a process
• To have intimacy with God, you have to desire HIM.• The bible has many scriptures showing that it is God himself
who is most interested than you and I to have intimacy with his children.
• First step, Make Jesus your all in all.• Talk with Him, listen to him, enjoy his company.• Then you can experience the intimacy of his silent presence in
your life.• Intimacy is an ongoing process
Intimacy with God
• You will study the slides given to you and them give us your description of how your personage have had intimacy with God.
• Then give us your share of the prophetic inside this part of the bible has for us.
• The Bible is the best source of prophecies and we need to love it, the Holy Spirit will give us an understanding of the passages we study and bring revelation on how to apply this prophetic realities in our own lives.
• You have 5 minutes to do this.
Your activity:
• Noah• Abraham
• Moses• Joshua
• Jonah
Examples in the Old Testament
• Genesis 6:8New King James Version (NKJV)• 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Noah is your personage.
Noah, 100 years working on intimacy.
Evil perishes
The covenant promise
• Genesis 15:5New King James Version (NKJV)• 5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward
heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
Abraham is your personage
Abram, Abraham
Talking as with a friend
Points resulting of his intimacy with God
Still going on
Promises of God
• Exodus 33:11New King James Version (NKJV)• 11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks
to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
Moses is your personage
Moses 40 years wondering about God
Power and authority comes fromIntimacy with an Awesome God.
Points for intimacy
• Exodus 33:11New King James Version (NKJV)• 11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks
to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
Joshua, your personage
Living in the Tent
Crossing the Jordan River
Out of intimacy
• Jonah 4:2New King James Version (NKJV)• 2 So he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah, LORD, was not this
what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
Jonah is your personage
Jonah had great intimacy with God.
From East to West, God’s hand can reach you anywhere
• Peter• John
• Paul• You
Examples in the New Testament
Peter is your personage
Peter left everything and followed Him
Favor will draw you to intimacy
Wash me fully
John is your personage
• 2 Corinthians 12:9New King James Version (NKJV)• 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My
strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Saul, Paul, is your personage
Paul taken down from his horse
• Galatians 1:11-12New King James Version (NKJV)• Call to Apostleship• 11 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was
preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• The prophetic will flow even when you are not “normally” prophesying for someone.
• The prophetic will flow when you are preaching, or teaching, or counselling some one.
• You as a Prophet in formation look for any opportunity to be used by the Holy Spirit in this wonderful way.
• I Pray that God increases in each one of you all the revelatory gifting, so you may be used in a great way to expand His Kingdom.
Remember:
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