Deepening Your Relationship With God

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December 30, 2007  A.D.

Deepening Your Relationship With God

As we close out another year, if you are like many other Christians, perhaps you are making an evaluation of the quality of your walk with God. Or if you are not positive that you do have a proper relationship with God, just what should you be doing about it? Are there any certain things that we could do to make this most important relationship better? And if so, just what might that be? Well, on last Lord’s day, we were continuing a topical study on the glories of Christmas, highlighting some of the excellent facets of that First Advent of Messiah who as we saw made it possible for us to have a personal relationship with the Most High. So listen in right now as Straight Gate Ministries Pastor teacher, Landis Fisher presents a message for the close of this year instructing us in ways to make our walk better in the year to come in a message he has called: “Deepening Your Relationship With GOD” So please join us as we open our bibles and our minds and listen in as Pastor Fisher presents this special message!

Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 90:1 – 17  (KJV)
Psa 90:1  A Prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psa 90:2  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psa 90:3  Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Psa 90:4  For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psa 90:5  Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psa 90:6  In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psa 90:7  For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psa 90:8  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psa 90:9  For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psa 90:10  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psa 90:11  Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psa 90:12  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psa 90:13  Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psa 90:14  O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psa 90:15  Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psa 90:16  Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Psa 90:17  And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
New Testament Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:2  (KJV)
2 Cor 3:12  Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2 Cor 3:13  And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2 Cor 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
2 Cor 3:15  But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
2 Cor 3:16  Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
2 Cor 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Cor 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Cor 4:1  Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 Cor 4:2  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
Transforming Power Statements:

#1) Those who are saved have been blessed with the gift of proper self evaluation and therefore are guaranteed to succeed in all that God has spoken in His holy Word if they consume it and apply it diligently.


#2) Each one desiring to have a better relationship with the living God, must make a proper assessment of where they are in their walk and a high priority commitment to advance with no more compromise, knowing full well that our three enemies will pursue even more aggressively the more that we do.


#3) We are ultimately responsible for the distance between us and God in that He desires a closeness at all times that never changes because He is love and remains the same regardless of our vacillations and instabilities.