Experiencing God

Day 1

• As I follow Jesus one day at a time, He will keep me in the center of God's will.
• Jesus is my way. I don't need any other road map.

Day 2

• I will look to see what God says and how He works in the Scriptures. I will make my decisions and evaluate my experiences based on biblical principles.
• The Bible is my guide for faith and practice.
• The right question is, What is God's will?
• Watch to see where God is working and join Him.
• God is always at work around me.

Day 3

• To be a servant of God I must be moldable and I must remain in the Master's hand.
• Apart from God, I can do nothing.
• With God working through me, I can do anything God can do.
• When I find out where the Master is, then I know that is where I need to be.
• I come to know God by experience as I obey Him and He accomplishes His work through me.

Day 4

• God reveals what He is about to do.
• The revelation becomes an invitation to join Him.
• I can't stay the way I am and go with God.

Day 5

• God is able to do anything He pleases with one ordinary person fully consecrated to Him.
• God's standards of excellence are different from man's.

Day 6

• To know and do the will of God, I must deny self and return to a God-centered life.
• I must reorient my life to God.
• I must focus my life on God's purposes not my own plans.

Day 7

• I must seek to see from God's perspective rather than from my own distorted human perspective.
• I must wait until God shows me what He is about to do through me.
• I will watch to see what God is doing around me and join Him.

Day 8

• Do things God's way.
• God will accomplish more in six months through a person yielded to Him than we could do in 60 years without Him.
• I am God's servant. I adjust my life to what He is about to do.
• Understanding what God is about to do where I am is more important than telling God what I want to do for Him.

Day 9

• God's revelation of His activity is an invitation for me to adjust my life to Him and join in His work.
• "I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter."
• "I do not leave the result to feeling or simple impression."
• "I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God."

Day 10

• God has not changed. He still speaks to His people.
• If I have trouble hearing God speak, I am in trouble at the very heart of my Christian experience.
• God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
• Knowing God's voice comes from an intimate love relationship with God.

Day 11

• The moment God speaks to me is the very moment God wants me to respond to Him.
• The moment God speaks to me is God's timing.
• God develops my character to match the assignment He has for me.
• He has a right to interrupt my life. He is Lord. When I accepted Him as Lord, I gave Him the right to help Himself to my life any time He wants.

Day 12

• My Christian life depends on the quality of my love relationship to God.
• God created me for a love relationship with Him.
• Everything God says and does is an expression of love.
• A love relationship with God is more important than any other single factor in my life.

Day 13

• To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
• God did not create me for time; He created me for eternity.
• I will let my present be molded and shaped by what I am to become in Christ.
• "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness."
• I will make sure I am investing in things that are lasting.
• Only He can guide me to invest my life in worthwhile ways.

Day 14

• When my relationship is as it ought to be, I will always be in fellowship with the Father.
• I will make the priority in my life to come to love Him with all my heart.
• I will have my quiet time because I know Him and love Him, not in order to learn about Him.

Day 15

• In this love relationship, God always takes the initiative.
• I do not choose Him. He chooses me, loves me, and reveals His eternal purposes for my life.
• I cannot know the activity of God unless He takes the initiative to let me know.

Day 16

• The relationship God wants to have with me will be real and personal.
• God's whole plan for the advance of the Kingdom depends on His working in real and practical ways through His personal relationship with His people.

Day 17

• Knowing God only comes through experience as He reveals Himself to me.
• I know God more intimately as He reveals Himself to me through my experiences with Him.

Day 18

• Obedience is the outward expression of my love of God.
• If I have an obedience problem, I have a love problem.
• God is love. His will is always best.
• God is all-knowing. His directions are always right.

Day 19

• God is all-powerful. He can enable me to do His will.
• All of God's commands are expressions of His nature of love.
• When God gives a commandment, He is not restricting me. He is freeing me.
• If I love Him, I will obey Him!

Day 20

• God is at work in the world.
• God takes the initiative to involve me in His work.
• God must take the initiative to open my spiritual eyes, so I can see what He is doing.
• When I see the Father at work around me, that is my invitation to adjust my life to Him and join Him in that work.
• God's revelation is my invitation to join Him.

Day 21

• A tender and sensitive heart will be ready to respond to God at the slightest prompting.
• Pray and watch to see what God does next.
• Make the connection. Ask probing questions. Listen.
• God speaks when He is about to accomplish His purposes.
• What God initiates, He completes.

Day 22

If I do not know when God is speaking, I am in trouble at the heart of my Christian life!

• God speaks to His people.
• That God spoke to people is far more important than how He spoke.
• When God spoke, it was usually unique to that individual.
• When God spoke, the person was sure it was God.
• When God spoke, the person knew what God said.
• When God spoke, that was the encounter with God.
• If I do not have clear instructions from God in a matter, I will pray and wait. I will not try to bypass the love relationship.

Day 23

• An encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God.
• I understand spiritual truth because the Holy Spirit is working in my life.
• When I come to the Word of God, the Author Himself is present to instruct me.
• I never discover truth, truth is revealed.

Day 24

• God's revelations are designed to bring me into a love relationship with Him.
• God reveals Himself to increase my faith.
• God reveals His purposes so I will do His work.
• God reveals His ways so I can accomplish His purposes.

Day 25

• God speaks uniquely to individuals, and He can do it in any way He pleases.
• When God speaks to me, I will recognize His voice and follow Him.
• I cannot understand spiritual truth unless the Spirit of God reveals it.
• He is more interested in what I become than what I do.

Day 26

• When the God of the universe tells me something important, I should write it down.
• Truth is a Person.
• Prayer is two-way communication with God.
• Prayer is a relationship, not just a religious activity.
• I need to make sure that my only desire is to know God's will.

Day 27

• Oh, God, if I ever give You a request and You have more to give me than I am asking, cancel my request.
• Only the Spirit of God knows what God is doing or purposing in my life.
• God will let me know what He is doing in my life when and if I need to know.
• Sometimes God's silences are due to sin.
• Sometimes God is silent as He prepares to bring me into a deeper understanding of Himself.

Day 28

• God used circumstances to reveal to Jesus what He was to do.
• Jesus watched circumstances to know where the Father wanted to involve Him in His work.
• To understand my bad or difficult circumstances, God's perspective is vital.

Day 29

• Never, ever determine the truth of a situation by looking at the circumstances.
• I cannot know the truth of my circumstance until I have heard form God.
• The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and reveals God's perspective on the circumstance.

Day 30

• In a decision-making time my greatest difficulty may not be choosing between good and bad, but choosing between good and best.
• Two words in the Christian's language cannot go together. No, Lord.
• God works in sequence to accomplish His divine purposes.
• When God gets ready for me to take a new step or direction in His activity, it will be in sequence with what He has already been doing in my life.
• A spiritual marker identifies a time of transition, decision, or direction when I clearly know that God has guided me.

Day 31

• A church is a body. It is the body of Christ!
• Jesus Christ is present as Head of a local church.
• Every member is placed in the body as it pleases God.
• God made us mutually interdependent. We need each other.
• Apart from the body, I cannot fully know God's will for my relationship to the body.
• Every member needs to be listening to what the other members are saying.
• As I function in relationship to the church, I depend on others in the church to help me understand God's will.

Day 32

• When God invites me to join Him in His work, He has a God-size assignment for me.
• How I live my life is a testimony of what I believe about God.
• When God tells me what He wants to do through me. I will face a crisis of belief.

Day 33

• When God speaks, my response requires faith.
• Faith is confidence that what God has promised or said will come to pass.
• Sight is an opposite of faith.
• Faith must be in a Person.
• Before I call myself, my family, or my church to exercise faith, I must be sure I have heard a word from God.
• When God lets me know what He wants to do through me, it will be something only God can do.
• What I believe about Him will determine what I do.

Day 34

• The kind of assignments God gives are God-sized.
• When God's people and the world see something only God can do, they come to know God.
• Let people see the difference that a living Christ makes in a life, a family, or a church; that will make a difference in how they respond to the gospel.

Day 35

• What I do reveals what I believe about God, regardless of what I say.
• What I believe about God will determine what I do and how I live.

Day 36

• Faith without action is dead!
• Genuine faith is demonstrated by action.
• God has planned something far better for people of faith.
• Don't grow weary in being faithful. A reward awaits faithful servants.

Day 37

• When God speaks to me, revealing what He is about to do, that revelation is my invitation to adjust my life to God.
• Adjustments prepare me for obedience.
• I cannot stay where I am and go with God.
• My greatest single difficulty in following God may come at the point of the adjustment.
• No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him!

Day 38

• God is interested in my absolute surrender to Him as Lord.
• I adjust to a Person.
• Adjustments are well worth the reward of experiencing God.
• The God who calls me is also the one who will enable me to do His will.

Day 39

• Obedience is costly to me and those around me.
• I cannot know and do the will of God without paying the price of adjustment and obedience.
• I must adjust my plans and program to what God is doing.

Day 40

• My obedience is costly to those around me.
• I can trust God to care for my family.
• Don't deny others the opportunity to sacrifice for the Lord.
• I need to trust Christ to communicate with His people.
• Lord, whatever you may ask of me today or in the future, my answer is yes!

Day 41

• Obedience requires total dependence on God to work through me.
• "IT" never works! HE works!
• The key is my relationship to a Person.
• Through me He will do more in days and weeks than I could ever accomplish in years of labor. Waiting on Him is always worth the wait.
• Fervent prayer will be one of the most demanding things I ever do.
• My church needs to be a praying church!