1. Getting to Know God

2. Time + Shared Experiences + Mutual Love = Relational Depth

3. Time + Shared Experiences + Mutual Love = Relational Depth
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in
him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
John 15:4-5

4. Pursue God’s Presence

5. Pursue God’s Presence
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”
Psalm 42:1-2a

6. Pursue God’s Presence
“O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.”
Psalm 63:1-2

7. Pursue God’s Presence
“Jesus said to the Pharisees, ‘Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’”
Matthew 15:7-9

8. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul

9. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.”
Mark 1:35

10. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
Solitude

11. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
Silence

12. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 46:10

13. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
John 10:27

14. Engage in Spiritual Practices that Feed Your Soul
Suffering

15. Say Yes to God and No to Yourself

16. Say Yes to God and No to Yourself
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
Matthew 16:24-25

17. Say Yes to God and No to Yourself
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”
Romans 12:1