7 Keys To Grow Closer To God
What are the keys to grow closer to God and have intimacy with God ? What do you need to do in order to have the close and intimate fellowship with God that He desires for you ?
In this 4 part series we will look into God’s word the Bible in order to find the 7 keys to grow closer to God and have intimacy with God.
7 Keys To Grow Closer To God
The Bible Uses Marriage As A Symbol Of Our Relationship With God
There are many similarities between having a good marriage relationship with your spouse and having a good personal relationship and intimacy with God. In the Bible, there is a lot of language that refers to marriage in describing a personal relationship with God. Those who receive and profess Jesus as their Lord and Savior are referred to as the “bride of Christ”.
In Jeremiah 2:2 God says “I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert”
Jeremiah 3:14 – God speaks to His people after they had left Him: “Return, faithless people, declares the Lord, for I am your husband”
Jeremiah 3:20: “But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to Me.”
7 Keys To Grow Closer To God
We are God’s first love. He loves us more than anything else He created. Now God wants to be our Frist Love so we will love Him more than anything or anyone else. God wants to have an intimate personal relationship with us.
1 Corinthians 1:9 tells us “God who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord is faithful.”
“Koinania” fellowship is “the closest possible fellowship and intimacy with God, and being one with God or in complete unity with Him, and also a partnership with God in His kingdom work and mission.”
Here are the 7 keys to grow closer to God and have intimacy with God.
7 Keys To Grow Closer To God
#1 of 7 Keys to Grow Closer to God – Commitment & Devotion (Be Faithful to God)
Deuteronomy 5:7-9 “You shall have no other gods before Me. ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.”
Revelation 2:2-5 “But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.”
Psalm 100:5 ” For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations.”
1 Chronicles 28:9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.”
7 Keys To Grow Closer to God
Be Fully Devoted to God
Acts 2:42 “they devoted themselves…”
The Greek word for devoted means to “latch on and refuse to let go”. It is the strongest word in the Greek language for Commitment. The early church “latched on” to Jesus and fully committed themselves to Him, no matter what the cost was to them. They were not committed to do religious things or be religious people. They were totally devoted and committed to Jesus.
They lived in a dangerous time for Christians, and it was difficult to follow and obey Jesus. In fact, every one of the apostles except John died for following Jesus and doing what He commanded them to do.
God is fully devoted & committed to us, and His love is an unfailing, forever loyal love. He wants us to be fully devoted and committed to Him, and to love Him as He loves us. Would a marriage be very good if only 1 of the 2 people were totally committed to the other ? Our relationship with God will not be very good if we are not as committed to God as He is to us.
In Part 2 of this 4 part series we will continue to look at more of the 7 keys to grow closer to God.
Pursuing Intimacy With God
Pursuing Intimacy With God is committed to helping you with the most important thing in your life… your intimacy with God , your fellowship with Him, and your partnership with God in His Kingdom work & mission.
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Kevin Bart has been a Jesus follower for over 40 years. Kevin has taught Bible study classes, small groups, and discipleship classes for many years. He developed Pursuing Intimacy With God after many years of seeking God and studying His word.
Kevin is a former business owner, and current international missions ministry leader with more than four decades of combined business and ministry experience. After building and running a successful business for 23 years, with God’s guidance and blessings, he sold his company to dedicate himself to full-time global missions.
For over 20 years, Kevin and his wife Nancy have led an international missions ministry. Utilizing learned business and financial management skills, as well as knowledge and experience in travel points and miles, to date they have had 51 mission trips to 36 countries in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
