Hi There! As promised in the previous episode, I am going to show you the Amazing Power Of Relationship With God, that you get by being personal with Him and being close to His heart!
Amazing Power Of Relationship With God
In the previous episode (The Secret Key To Personal Relationship With God), we saw the 2 modes of prayers that we can engage informal and casual. Both are needed and equally important. However, when religion forces to always be formal in prayer, then it becomes boring, habitual and does not help in building a personal relationship with God. So we saw that, you can be casual and real in expressing your feelings and emotions openly to God when building a personal relationship with God.
In this episode, we are going to study from the Bible, about the amazing Power Of Relationship With God.
According to me, one of THE BEST LEADER in the entire Bible was Moses. This is according to me and its a personal choice. I will give you the reason why I think that. A leader is someone who leads, but takes the full responsibility of the group that he leads. In the case of Moses, he never wanted to lead in the first place. You know that he tried his best to escape from God many times but God did not let him escape! Finally without any other option, Moses accepted to lead the people of God out of Egypt! You can read the entire story in the book of Exodus which is the 2nd book in the Bible.
But once Moses took over the responsibility of leading the people of God, he was extremely sincere! One of the greatest prayer that can ever by done by a leader for his people is recorded in the Bible for us and that was by Moses!
This prayer of Moses fascinated me so much. I still wonder on how he could do such a prayer! This prayer was done by Moses when the people of Israel did the terrible SIN of creating a golden calf and worshipped it when Moses went on top of the mountain to get the 10 commandments from God. This sin which was committed by the people made God so much angry that he wanted them wiped out!
First Moses prayed for the people right at the top of the mountain even before he came down. In the initial prayer, Moses was able to change God’s mind a little.
Let us read:
[Exo 32:31 NIV] So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.[Exo 32:32 NIV] But now, please forgive their sin–but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
LET US LOOK AT THE LIFE OF KING DAVID.
We all know what a wonderful relationship he had with God. He always used to sing and praise God like no other man on earth!
[Act 13:22 NIV] After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’
GOD CALLED DAVID A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART!
Can God Call You as a Man Or Woman Or Child after his own heart?
Do you know what Influence David had over God because of his relationship with Him?
Let us read
[2 Sa 7:16 NIV] Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.
God Promised David that his throne will be established forever. Do you know how God had fulfilled it?
[Rev 22:16 KJV] I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.
Jesus is the Offspring of David! Jesus was born from David’s lineage!
[Luk 1:32 KJV] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:[Luk 1:33 KJV] 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
So the THRONE OF KING DAVID WILL BE GIVEN TO JESUS AND THAT KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END!
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Do you See the result of having a personal relationship with God?
NEXT, LET US LOOK AT ABRAHAM.
Again one of the best examples of having a personal relationship with God.
Do you know what God called Abraham?
[Jas 2:23 KJV] And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
ABRAHAM WAS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD!
Can you be called a friend of God today?
Do you know what Influence Abraham had over God because of his relationship with Him?
Let us read the Prayer of Abraham for his nephew Lot:
[Gen 18:32 NIV] Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
You all know this story very well. Abraham keeps negotiating with God until he reaches 10 people all the way from 50. Finally God said, ok if he finds 10 righteous people in Sodom, He will not destroy the city!
But God knew Abraham’s heart and there was only 1 family that was righteous – LOT. God rescued Lot’s family and then destroyed the city.
See the influence that Abraham had over God because of his personal relationship with God!
OK, We saw 3 people from the Bible who were experts in building a Personal Relationship with God and the result of that.
Now we are going to FINISH THIS NUGGET with a VERY SPECIAL PERSON who I believe is a TYPE that is applicable to the CURRENT GENERATION!
THIS SPECIAL PERSON IS ENOCH!
ENOCH had such a special relationship with God that God took him to heaven directly!
[Gen 5:24 KJV] And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
“He was not” meaning, “he was not found”.
It looks here to be very normal that Enoch died just like every man of God. But NO!
[Heb 11:5 KJV] By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
This verse is FULL OF INFORMATION for us to DECODE!
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[Gen 5:24 KJV] And Enoch walked with God.
What is waking with God all about?
See the Amazing Power of Relationship with God?
NOW HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE:
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO THIS GENERATION OF OURS?
THE BIBLE TALKS OF ONE GENERATION IN THE FUTURE WHICH WILL BE TRANSLATED EXACTLY IN THE SAME WAY AS ENOCH WAS TRANSLATED!
[1Th 4:16 KJV] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
So This Is The Sequence Of Events That Will Take Place When Jesus Returns:
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THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST
Next:
[1Th 4:17 KJV] Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND NOT DEAD WILL BE CAUGHT UP OR RAPTURED TOGETHER WITH THOSE WHO WERE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, TO MEET JESUS IN THE AIR.
So that is what the RAPTURE REALLY IS.
[1Cor 15:51 KJV] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
The already DEAD PEOPLE IN CHRIST WILL BE RAISED FIRST.
When the DEAD PEOPLE are RAISED TO LIFE, THEY ARE ALREADY TRANSLATED INTO THEIR SUPERNATURAL SPIRITUAL BODY!
That is why this verse says WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED!
This is the body of Jesus Christ that he got when he rose from the dead!
Jesus got the supernatural spiritual body. He could transcend space and time. He could get into locked rooms (remember he appeared to the disciples in locked room?)
He could eat and drink in his supernatural body! He could appear and disappear. He could go to Heaven and be back to earth in seconds!
That is the same kind of body that we will have once we are translated during the rapture.
[1Cor 15:52 KJV] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[Rev 3:10 KJV] Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
[Luk 21:36 KJV] 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.
What is that?
YOU SEE THE QUALIFICATION FOR BEING RAPTURED IS HAVING A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD!
Some of you might ask, so is this the only qualification that is needed?
So I hope that answers that question.
All of this is real and Jesus said that HE IS COMING SOON.
So let us be preparing ourselves by building a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD that will QUALIFY US TO BE TRANSLATED LIKE ENOCH AND BE TAKEN TO HEAVEN BY OUR LORD!
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