Why You Need to Experience God.

It’s commonplace to see people argue about God, but he is never to be argued about but experienced.

PAUL had to experience God to know Him. He was coming to Damascus when a bright light shone around him.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say, “Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:3-6)

When you experience God, you do not tell him what to do. He tells you what to do.

MANY PEOPLE want to be called Christians but do not want God to tell them what to do.

If God cannot tell you what to do, he cannot be involved in you.

You must experience God to take instructions from Him.

MOSES did not know what to do until he saw a strange sight—and as he looked, God spoke from the burning bush.

He told him not to come near and take off his sandals [out of respect], because where he stood was holy ground.” (Exodus 3:5)

Until Moses realized that he was made for God, nothing made sense.

Some people still wonder if God speaks. However, if you are patient and linger in his presence, you will hear Him speak to you.

You need to experience God to know His mind.

WHEN God steps into your situation, he shares his heart.

He did this with Isaiah when he visited the temple to pray.

Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy — John Piper.

You need to experience God to know who you are.

IN THE YEAR King Uzziah died, Isaiah saw the Lord, and his train filled the temple.

“Woe to me!” he cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” (Isaiah 6:5)

Despite our best efforts, we need his ability to be who we should be.

Without Him, we can do nothing. (John 15:5)

You must experience God for things in you to shift.

YOU cannot have a revelation of God and remain the same.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Saviour], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away.”

Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].

When Paul encountered God, he confessed that he was crucified with Christ. He no longer lived, but Christ lived in him. (Galatians 2:10)

Paul’s mouth said what he believed.

You need to experience God to be a witness.

HOW will people call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher (messenger)? (Romans 10:14)

Moses could not go until he was sent. Isaiah heard God ask for someone to send, and he told Him to send him. (Isaiah 6:8)

Encounters with God will make you know that you're made for more.

You need to experience God to demonstrate his attributes.

WHEN the Queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house (palace) which he had built, the food on his table, the seating of his servants (court officials), the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, his stairway by which he went up to the house (temple) of the Lord, she was breathless and awed [by the wonder of it all]. (1 Kings 10:4-5)

Some people will never know God until they see him through you.

PAUL puts it this way: You are our letter [of recommendation], written in our hearts, recognized and read by everyone.

You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but tablets of human hearts.

(2 Corinthians 3:2-3)

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You're God’s letter to the world.

FOR PEOPLE to experience Christ through you, you need to bear fruit.

But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

Final Thoughts

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the the other 99 will read the Christian — D. Moddy.