1. Learning and Doing The Will of God
EXPERIENCING GOD
Learning and Doing
The Will of God

2. POWERFUL TOOL TO HELP YOU
To Hear when God is speaking to you
To clearly identify the activity of God
To Believe He is able to do all He promised
To Adjust your beliefs, character and behavior to Him and His Ways
see a Direction He is taking in your life and what He wants to do through you
To clearly know what you need to do I response to His Activity in your life
To Experience God doing through you as you obey Him what only He can do.

3. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

4. Principle # 1 GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK AROUND YOU
How Do We Respond To This Principle
AS SERVANTS OF GOD- WE OBEY
AS SONS OF GOD- WE SHINE
Live in Humility- No Murmur and complaining
Live in Harmony- Not Arguing or Contentious
Live in Holiness- Not Self- Centered, God-Centered
As Children of the Light- We SHINE

5. Learning and Doing The Will of God
EXPERIENCING GOD
Learning and Doing
The Will of God

6. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible,prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

7. continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
Principle # 2
God pursues a
continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.

8. Attributes of God’s Love
GOD’S LOVE IS PERSISTENT
GOD’S LOVE IS PERSONAL
GOD’S LOVE IS PRACTICAL
GOD’S LOVE- PURPOSEFUL

9. Learning and Doing The Will of God
EXPERIENCING GOD
Learning and Doing
The Will of God

10. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

11. Principle #3
God invites
You
To become involved
With Him
In His work.

12. Spiritual Markers of Being Chosen to be On Mission With God
God chooses you to involve you in His Mission to reconcile the world.
God calls you to Himself so that you can be on mission with Him.
God initiates a covenant of promise and obedience with you to accomplish His mission and to glorify Him.
God prepares and equips you to be on mission with Him.

13. Spiritual Markers of Being Chosen to be On Mission With God (part 2)
5. God sends you where He can best work through you to accomplish His mission.
6. God guides you step-by-step on His mission to glorify Him among all peoples.
7. God uses you to fulfill His mission for His glory.

14. WHEN GOD CALLS THE PREPARATION OF THE CALL
THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE CALL
THE PROBLEM WITH THE CALL
THE PROVISION IN THE CALL

15. THE CALL OF MOSES MOSES LEARNED TO BE A SERVANT
MOSES LEARNED TO TRUST GOD
III. MOSES LEARNED TO OBEY GOD

16. Learning and Doing The Will of God
EXPERIENCING GOD
Learning and Doing
The Will of God

17. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

18. Principle #4 “God speaks by the Holy Spirit
through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.”

19. God Speaks-Discovering the Will of God
I. THE CHARACTER OF GOD’S WILL
A.God’s Plan is definite.
B. God’s Plan is perfect.
C.God’s Plan is personal.
II. THE CONDITIONS FOR KNOWING GOD’S WILL
A. Convictions Within- the Peace of God-Holy Spirit leadership
B. Circumstances Without- What’s happening around me?
C. The Word of God-The Bible
D. The Church- The Counsel of Others

20. EXPERIENCING GOD
Learning and Doing
The Will of God

21. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

22. Principle #5
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.

23. The Crisis of Belief An encounter with God requires faith.
Encounters with God are God-sized.
What you do in response to God’s revelation (invitation) reveals what you believe about God.
True faith requires action.
Faith was believing that the God who called us to the assignments was the One who would provide for their accomplishment.

24. will determine what you do
The Crisis of Belief
What you believe about
God
will determine what you do
and how you live.

25. A FAITH THAT HONORS GOD A FAITH THAT DECIDES-Heb.11:4,25,31
II. A FAITH THAT DARES-Heb.11:8
III. A FAITH THAT DOES-Heb.11:24
IV. A FAITH THAT IS DETERMINED- Heb.10:35-36

26. Knowing and Doing The Will Of God
EXPERIENCING GOD
Knowing and Doing The Will Of God

27. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

28. PRINCIPLE #6
YOU MUST MAKE
MAJOR ADJUSTMENTS
IN YOUR LIFE
TO JOIN GOD
IN WHAT HE IS DOING

29. Kinds of Adjustments ADJUSTMENTS IN:
Your Circumstances- Job, Home,Finances,etc
Your Relationships- Family, Friends
Your Thinking- Prejudices, Methods
Your Commitments- Church, Family, Job
Your Actions- Pray, Give, Serve
Your Beliefs - God, His Purposes, His Plans

30. Obedience Requires Action
YOU CANNOT STAY
WHERE YOU ARE AND
GO WITH
GOD
AT THE SAME TIME

31. David Livingstone prayed…..
“Lord, send me anywhere,
only go with me,
Lay any burden on me,
only sustain me,
Sever any tie,
but the tie that binds me to Thyself.”

32. Getting In…Going On Principle #6 in Elijah’s Life
I KINGS 17
GOD’S RECOGNIZED PLAN
II. GOD’S RESTRICTED PROMISE
III. GOD’S REQUIRED PREREQUISITE
GOD’S RELEASED PROVISION
GOD’S REVEALED PROMISE

33. EXPERIENCING GOD
Knowing and Doing
The Will
Of God

34. The Principles 0f Experiencing God
God is always at work around you.
God pursues a continuing love relationship with you Him is real and personal.
God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
God’s invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work in you.

35. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes
PRINCIPLE #7
You come to know God
by experience as you
obey Him
and He accomplishes
His work through you.

36. Obedience Is: I come to know God by experience as I obey Him
Obedience is the outward expression of my love of God
Obedience is the outward demonstration of my faith.
The reward of obedience is that God reveals Himself to you.
5. If I have an obedience problem, I have a love problem.

37. Disobedience Is Costly
JONAH- A WHALE OF A RIDE
MOSES- 40 YEARS IN WILDERNESS
DAVID- ONE SON DIED AND THREE OTHER FAMILY TRAGEDIES

38. OBEDIENCE=EXPERIENCE GOD
THE PRINCIPLE OF OBEDIENCE
A. God demands it
B. God deserves it
THE PRACTICE OF OBEDIENCE
A. Obedience must be Intellectual
B. Obedience must be Intentional
C. Obedience must be Immediate
THE PURPOSE OF OBEDIENCE
A. Objective Purpose-His Witnesses
B. Subjective Purpose-His Holy Spirit