5/23/2021
Worship Service May 23, 2021 Ep. 65
How To Develop A Friendship With God
James 4:8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you…
Friendship With God Is Believing In God!
James 2:23 …Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
God Desires Friendship With You!
Hosea 6:6 I want you to show mercy, not just offering of sacrifice. I want you to know Me more than I want (religious) burnt offerings!
Acts 17:26-27 From one man He made every people, that they should inhabit the whole earth; He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that people would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from any of us!
John 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are My friends, since I have told you everything the Father told Me.
Romans 5:10-11 Our friendship with God was restored by the death of His Son while we were still God’s enemies, we are now more than saved through the life of His Son. Rejoice in our new relationship with God, because Jesus Christ has restored us to friendship with God!
Make Knowing God Your #1 Priority
Matthew 6:33-34 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Deuteronomy 4:29 …from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Philippians 3:8-9 To me, everything else in life is worthless, when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord! For His sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as rubbish, so that I can gain Christ and become one with Him!
Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the LORD says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know Me and understand that I am the LORD Who demonstrates unfailing love and Who brings justice and righteousness to the earth and that I delight in these things. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Be More Patient And Slow Down The Pace Of Your Life
Psalm 25:14 The secret of friendship with the Lord belongs to those who revere and worship Him, He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its meaning.
Psalm 46:10 Let be and be still and know that I am God! I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth!
Zephaniah 1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice and he hath invited his guests.
Choose Whose Friendship You Want Most
John 15:10-15 When you obey My commandments, you remain in My love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with joy. Your joy will overflow! This is My commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are My friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are My friends, since I have told you everything the Father told Me.
James 4:4-5 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
1 Timothy 6:20-21 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith.
Talk With God All The Time
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man.
Ephesians 6:18 …pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching with all perseverance and supplication for all the people of God…
Luke 18:7 …will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off?
Trust Him In Times Of Pain And Difficulty
Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.
Psalm 91:14-15 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
Job 29:2-6 How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when His lamp shone upon my head and by His light I walked through darkness! Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house, when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me, when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
Jeremiah 15:19 …this is what the LORD says: “If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve Me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be My spokesman. Let the people turn to you, but you must not turn to them.