3 Keys to Experiencing God
Collin Wimberly
Isaiah 64:1-9
CIT - Isaiah remembers when God performed mighty acts for Israel, but now sin has separated them from God.
Proposition - We can experience God today in our personal lives and in our Church.
Question - What must happen before we experience God in a powerful and personal manner?
2-26-2023 New Life Church
Introduction:
Isaiah has been preaching for a long time.
He remembers clearly when God called him to preach in chp. 6, but a lot of time has passed and things are not better spiritually in Israel, they seem worse.
God had warned Isaiah it would be this way. But still, he longs for God's people to return to Him.
In the path of your judgments,
O LORD, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26:8
But God's people will not listen. They will not give up their idolatry and false worship.
Now Isaiah is longing for God's people to experience God in a powerful and life-changing manner.
Is that what you are longing for this morning?
Are you like David in Psalm 42:1?
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
How can we experience God in a powerful and personal manner?
What must happen?
Is there something you and I have to do?
I) FIRST, THERE MUST BE DESIRE - VS. 1-4
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down! The language is best translated, Of, if only you had already broken in upon us!
Isaiah understands that what Israel needs is the presence of God. They are religious, they do not need more religion. They are surrounded by enemies, but they do not need a stronger army. They facing economic ruin and famine, but they do not need a stronger economy.
They need God. If God had already come upon them, they would not be in the mess they are in.
The need of the hour in America is the presence of God.
A) BECAUSE OF WHAT HE CAN DO - VS. 1-3 - Vs. 3 - You did awesome things that we did ...
Collin Wimberly
Isaiah 64:1-9
CIT - Isaiah remembers when God performed mighty acts for Israel, but now sin has separated them from God.
Proposition - We can experience God today in our personal lives and in our Church.
Question - What must happen before we experience God in a powerful and personal manner?
2-26-2023 New Life Church
Introduction:
Isaiah has been preaching for a long time.
He remembers clearly when God called him to preach in chp. 6, but a lot of time has passed and things are not better spiritually in Israel, they seem worse.
God had warned Isaiah it would be this way. But still, he longs for God's people to return to Him.
In the path of your judgments,
O LORD, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26:8
But God's people will not listen. They will not give up their idolatry and false worship.
Now Isaiah is longing for God's people to experience God in a powerful and life-changing manner.
Is that what you are longing for this morning?
Are you like David in Psalm 42:1?
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
How can we experience God in a powerful and personal manner?
What must happen?
Is there something you and I have to do?
I) FIRST, THERE MUST BE DESIRE - VS. 1-4
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down! The language is best translated, Of, if only you had already broken in upon us!
Isaiah understands that what Israel needs is the presence of God. They are religious, they do not need more religion. They are surrounded by enemies, but they do not need a stronger army. They facing economic ruin and famine, but they do not need a stronger economy.
They need God. If God had already come upon them, they would not be in the mess they are in.
The need of the hour in America is the presence of God.
A) BECAUSE OF WHAT HE CAN DO - VS. 1-3 - Vs. 3 - You did awesome things that we did ...
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