I recently just completed a series of seven devotional videos for my son's school. These covers the "formula" for an intimate walk with God, each one building on the previous, outlining the necessity of each step in the formula.
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Below, I've included both the blog and the recording of each devotional:
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Gracefull Diagnosis: Laying out the "formula" for a Christian walk with God - Video | Blog
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Gracefull Essential: Knowing God (Part 2) - Blog
Click on any link above to watch the recording or read the blog post. Each will open in a new window. I've also summarized each one below.
This blog post establishes the "formula" of the Christian's walk of deepening intimacy with God, which is broken down in consecutive posts:
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To know Him is to love Him.
To love Him is to trust Him.
To trust Him is to obey Him.
To obey Him is to follow Him.
To follow Him is to die to our self/absolute surrender and walk in abundant life.
This blog post encourages Christians that God wishes to be known, makes Himself known, and CAN be known. It is imperative that we KNOW GOD.
This blog demonstrates how to begin to know God and simplifies wisdom: wisdom, in its simplest definition, is knowing God and keeping His ways.
It is the active love of God and our loving God, together, that sustains a thriving walk with God. This blog post elaborates on the "dance" walking with God is: Because of His great love for us, drawing us, we begin to know God and we worship Him. Our worship draws God nearer. We see God and ourselves. We mourn our sins, repent, and worship again, drawing Him ever closer. The dance repeats.
We trust God when we've come to know and learned to rest, in His character. We rest in His character as described in the Bible...even in His wrath. It also explains what holiness really is.
Obeying Christ is far more difficult and yet, far more simple than one might think. This blog covers the risky call of God and how we won't be able to answer it unless we trust God, love God, and know God.
This blog post explains how you can't truly understand the love of God until you understand his justice—his wrath. And visa versa. And how we respond to the call of Christ to die to ourselves.
This blog post completes the formula by explaining how Absolute Surrender and Abundant Life—even though they sound completely opposed, are actually one and the same.