Experience God

“hot wheel cars but most importantly i felt loved and i always say that god is love when you show love to people you show god to people when people experience love they experience god and once you experience that god's unconditional love you will not walk away unchanged and that's what you get to to be a part of when you pack a shoebox with Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child. But it wouldn't be possible for the wonderful, hardworking people like you. And speaking of”

“the ability to to exchange faith for failure forgiveness for guilt freedom for bondage but it allows us to experience three things one it allows us to experience Fellowship fellowship with God to know God to experience God in a personal way in your life the Jesus Revolution movie is about the life story of Greg Laurie as I've already told you”

“So the Jesus revolution not only gives us the ability to exchange faith for failure, forgiveness for guilt, freedom for bondage, but it allows us to experience three things. One, it allows us to experience fellowship. Fellowship with God. To know God. To experience God in a personal way in your life.”

“I read something by C.S. Lewis one time, and it said that when you experience God one-on-one, you experience Him in a certain kind of way that's unique to you, and other people experience God in a way that's unique for them as well. And when you're around other people focusing on God, you can experience God in different ways than you're allowed to, or you're able to experience Him by yourself. Life root, that's the backbone. It really is, because you get in there and you establish relationships with those folks, and they become more than just church members. they become your friends, they become your prayer partners,”

“And so I just want to take a little bit of time here and give us three things, three ways we can walk with the people in Joshua and not the people in Numbers. Number one, we experience God's purpose when we choose faith instead of fear. We experience God's purpose, and the only way we experience God's purpose is when we choose faith instead of fear. The first generation, they saw the giants.”

“you would serve one and you would attend one and you'd use the gifts that God's given you and you would find joy and you would experience God like you can never experience God on the sideline. Amen. All right, it's time to preach. I already preached a little mini message, but here we go in the real message. The real message today is in Matthew chapter five series called The Blessed Life. It's out of the Beatitudes is the message title that I preached to you last week. And we”

“It was always meant to be done in community with one another. This is why life groups here are so vital in a church that has over a thousand people in it on this campus. You've got to take a next step to not just be a forgotten person on the back pew or the back row. Y'all don't have pews here. Y'all have nice comfortable chairs here, but like the back seat, right? No, you got to step in. You got to get in because it's in community that you experience the power of God. You experience the intimacy I'm talking about. You experience the presence of God. That's why he says in the”

“Because when the helper comes, it's actually going to be a better experience of God and a more full experience of God than actually having Jesus right in front of them. And so this is what he says in John chapter 14, verse 16. John 14, verse 16. He says, and I will ask the Father and he will give you another, what does it say? Helper. To be with you forever. even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him”