 open to Philippians chapter 3. Today we had a powerful two days of deliverance. The God did so much today. We're going to pray for baptism of the Holy Spirit and we're going to pray some more for healing. And today I want to, because most of you here are from out of town, you're here, I want to leave you with something, a word from God, a direction from God that you can go back home and to begin to cultivate intimate relationship with God. That you go home, that you begin to grow in your relationship with God and grow in the knowledge of God. Deliverance is not a finish line. Deliverance is just a starting point. Deliverance is a starting point for your growth, the knowledge in God is a starting point for your discipleship. As Pastor Vlad mentioned yesterday, can I get a little bit on the monitors? As Pastor Vlad mentioned yesterday that discipleship without deliverance is impossible. It's going to create a lot of frustration in your life. But when you receive freedom from God, when you got delivered, the next, it's not an arrival. It's not a time to begin to live for yourself. It's a time when you can begin to pursue God and the knowledge of God passionately. This is where you are unleashed. This is where the chains fall off and you can freely run after Jesus. Amen. In Philippians chapter three verse eight says this, Apostle Paul says this, yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For the sake I have disregarded everything else, counting it all as garbage so that I could gain Christ. And verse 10 says this, I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His suffering, becoming like Him in His death. Jesus being on earth, walking with His disciples, training His disciples. In John chapter 17 verse three, He's praying His final prayer for His disciples. And He says this, now that is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ who you have sent. Second Peter chapter three verse 18 says this, but grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you Him be the glory both now and forever. Our goal and our pursuit is that we grow in the knowledge of Jesus, that we like Apostle Paul says that I disregard everything, that I count everything as garbage, as rubbish to pursue the knowledge of Jesus Christ, to pursue the knowledge of God. See because if you don't know God, you can't worship Him as God. You can only worship God to the level of your knowledge of Him. You can only serve God and be committed to God, to the knowledge of your level and to the revelation that you have of God. Some of us we struggle in our relationship with God and our commitment to God is because we have very shallow knowledge of God. We struggle in the intimacy with God. We struggle to connect with God because we have very limited understanding of who God is, of His love for us, of His character, of who He is. Often times we struggle in our prayer with God because we don't know who we're praying to. Often times we come in our prayer to God and we beg Him as if He doesn't want to give us something and we're like twisting His arm and trying to get Him into submission. God give it to me without understanding and knowing that all the good and perfect gifts come from the Father above and He's our Father, we are His children and we're not praying to squeeze it out of Him. We're praying to cultivate a relationship with Him, to cultivate intimacy with Him and then with simple petition, childlike faith when we ask, He gives it to us. Sometimes we strive to, we strive in our walk with God instead of living out of that place knowing that God loves us and living out, not out of the place of striving and works but out of the place of sonship, out of the place that He's our Father, living out of the knowledge of God. And Jesus' prayer for His disciple was, Lord, that they might know you. I want to give you four practical things today as you're going to go home, travel back home, how to grow in the knowledge of God. First and foremost, it's the word of God. Word of God is a love letter written to us from God. Word of God is what reveals the true nature of God. Word of God is true, there is no lie in it and it's that truth that sets us free. Word of God is what reveals the character of God, is what reveals the heart of God to us, is what reveals is what reveals the intent of God for your life. Commit yourself to the reading of God's word but moreover, commit not just to the reading of God's word but so that the word begins to read you. It's a different type of reading where the word of God not just speaks to you on the cognitive level but it touches your heart, it transforms your heart, it transforms your life. Some two, two and a half years ago, I began to pray and ask God, Lord, I want to know you more. And God really put on my heart instead of just reading through the Bible that year, three years now, instead of just going through the Bible like I would normally do, do a Bible reading plan and just go from Genesis to Revelation to read it through. But God really put on my heart just to take first books, first four books of the Gospel and just to begin to study Jesus, to begin to find out what was he like, to begin to see how he was thinking, what he was doing, how he was acting, what manner of a man he was and ever since, even in the beginning of this year, I thought, okay well I've been in these four books, I read them a couple dozens of times already, since that year I want to move on and go on further, maybe get back to the whole Bible reading plan for this coming year and I just felt like God said, stay a little longer, I want to reveal myself to you, I want you to see who I am in your life so that you can be transformed into my image, so that you can talk like me, so that you can act like me, so that you can pray like me, so that you can have a revelation of the Father that I had, I want to challenge you to not just read the Word of God, but be transformed by it, spend time in God's Word, that's number one, number two, Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us, cultivate relationship with the Holy Spirit, in John chapter 15 verse 12 or 26 as this, when advocate comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the spirit of truth who goes from the Father, he will testify about me, Holy Spirit wants to reveal Jesus to you, this is where all of these, all of these four points that I'm gonna give it to you, they're practical but they're all interchangeable, but yet very distinct in its nature, Holy Spirit is the one that will take the Scripture first and foremost and will reveal to you something that you read maybe a thousand times, but he will point it out like a few months ago I was reading and I said just that's how I begin to read the Bible, I said Jesus I want to know you, reveal yourself to me, Holy Spirit reveal Jesus to me and I was reading and I believe it was in in in in Matthew chapter 12 I believe it was a story that I've read literally probably a hundred times it's a place where Pharisees and Sadducees was trying to capture Jesus and saying something so they could arrest him and one of the things that Pharisee said he came to Jesus he says I know that you are true, you are just and you are impartial and it just these three things you stood out to me Jesus is true he's always truthful he's just and he is fair he's impartial and it just stood out to me and I was like Lord wow and I begin to pray over that Scripture the Holy Spirit begin to reveal Jesus to me in that manner that's how we need to read the Bible it's not just a history book while it is it's not just for some cool revelation so that we can share in our groups we can preach about it but Jesus first and foremost Holy Spirit reveals it to us so that we can be likened to him amen number three Holy Spirit sorry we know God through nature Psalm 19 one there's many scriptures I'll just share with you too the heavens declare the glory of God the skies proclaim the works of his hands nature reveal God to us in Romans chapter 1 verse 20 says this for since the creation the world God's invisible quality God's invisible qualities his eternal power and divine nature has been clearly seen being understood from what was made what has been made so that people are without excuse what the apostle Paul's saying to Romans that you have no excuse not to know God because even the nature declares his wonderful works even the nature declares his mysteries even the nature declares his goodness Bible says another place in a song the nature declares his unfailing love practically this which I saw something that I begin to practice very recently inspired by Passover out is to have these times where you get away with the Lord and go out in the nature go out in nature for me sometimes it often looks like it looks like a drive through especially Pacific Northwest it's such a beautiful beautiful state beautiful area when you see the rivers when you see the lakes when you see the mountains and you just take time to take it in and plunder on the greatness and goodness of God you know even scientists say that just 20 minutes a day in a nature can improve your mood can improve your health reduction of depression anxiety so forth so on because you're literally looking at God and his creation I want to encourage you to take time with the word of God with the spirit of God go out for a walk by the river sit out at but maybe in the backyard at the fire and just meditate on God go out on the on the hike I mean I don't like hikes because you know point of going up wasting all the energy in the coming down for no reason but they say it's good for your health you know so I like going to a destination that's my preference but you know but it does have a destination destination is to know God destination is to know God and just be with the Lord scripture calls us to be with God Jesus went to be we drew to different places to be with him take time in a nature to be with God you cannot some of you were way too stressed out in your life if you just do that one part right there your stress would be limited by half reduced by half your anxiety and worries when you look at these mountain ranges that beautiful mountain ranges that we hear we have here in northwest and you see how great and magnificent magnificent they are and how God took time to create it so beautifully and so mightily you look at your problem it's all of a sudden it's going to become so small and you can be God he's so great if you've done this for this life I don't want to say lifeless nature but soulless nature how much more you can do for me who has your soul who carries your spirit inside of me number four is your experiences as many scriptures while I share with you on Joshua 4 verses 6 through 7 when will you when will you when sorry we will use these stones to build a memorial in the future your children will ask you what do these stones mean then you can tell them they remind us that the Jordan river stopped flowing when the ark of God of the Lord's covenant went across the stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever there are things that God will bring you through that unless you go through it you will not know the nature of God you can read about it you can hear testimonies about it but it's unless you face a deadly sickness in your life and God healed you from it you will know God differently than the one that sits on the chair and says oh yeah praise God for your healing unless you face a deadly car accident and you know that it was only by God's hand that he spared your life you know him as your protector and it's it's going to mean completely different to you than just saying or even saying that he's my protector unless in those moments and times when you face serious lack and you're like I can't provide for my children for my family I can't pay my bills and something supernatural came through and you in that moment realize that God is your provider now you can hear all about it and you can know to a certain level but when you experience him as your provider it means completely different next time when you sing a song God you're my provider you're not just thinking you're not just singing out of your mind you're singing out of your heart next time you're singing Lord you have saved my life you're not just singing it because you know you know somebody that God saved protected but you truly rescued you when you sing next time God you are my healer you're not just singing knowing some testimonies of friends that God healed but God has healed you and it just means completely different use these four means to know God use these four means to pursue the knowledge of God when you read Bible search out for Jesus when you read your Bible search out for the father for his characteristics for his manners for his intent for you and your life don't just read it so that you could put a check mark in your mind that you read the Bible for the day hallelujah hallelujah see my message today by the way is cultivating the intimacy with God so that's just the first point see you truly you can't have an intimacy with God unless you know how to please him but you can't please God unless you know him you can't have intimacy with God unless you know how to please him but you can't please him unless you know him many of our relationships now i'm talking about earthly relationships our marriages with our partners suffer not because we don't know them some of them we with some people we live for 15 years we know them in and out we know what they like what they don't like is but we fail to please them most of us here we have a certain knowledge of God yes we gotta continue to go deeper and we gotta pursue God and we're gonna we have to strive to know him more but most of us we have a certain knowledge with God but one of the reasons why sometimes we feel disconnected with God one of the reason sometimes what we fail to go deeper with God it's not that we don't know him it's just we fail to please him we fail to learn what he likes oftentimes when we come to God we give him our best instead of giving him what we what he likes you know gary gary chatman i believe wrote the book on five languages of love and he said the statement that he said oftentimes we like to love people or express a love to people the way we like to be loved and then he the point of the book is i highly recommend for everybody to read especially if you have a struggling marriage it's to learn the love language of your spouse five languages and learn to please them some of you in your relationship in your marriage your intimacy is struggling is because you think intimacy starts in bed when you strip yourself naked come on let's get it on that's not that's not the way it works it starts way before that that starts way before that now women understand what i'm talking about our guys are the ones that slow to come to that and um you know god rebuked israel one uh not once i wish it was once there's so many times whole new testament is god rebuking israel but there was instances where god rebuked his people and called him a harlot and prostitute because they used god to satisfy their own needs and how many of our marriages suffer because we're selfish in our nature and we use the people we use our partner to satisfy our needs we pray to god because we need something we we we uh we come to morning prayer when we have problems we have pain in our body when we have shortage in our finances unless god is good and he will help you but you will never have true intimacy with god he might give you something you ask for based on because you you are his child and he loves you but you will not have closeness with god does not produce closeness with god intimacy does and not every time you pray you have intimacy with the lord are you with me if he just chapter five or stands as this and try to discern what pleases the lord try to discern what pleases the lord knowledge of god should lead us to the place where we seek to please god you read the scriptures because you're trying to figure out what does god like so that i can please listen i'm not talking about works right now i'm not talking about what is the scripture that says we cannot uh roman chapter eight verse eight those who are in flesh cannot please god i'm not talking about pleasing god out of our flesh Pharisees try to do that they even tied out of the leaves of the trees they kept things regularly but they didn't have intimacy you can't please god out of flesh i'm talking about searching the scriptures to know god so that you can please him makai six five says this mercy and love and justice pleases god and what shall i come before the lord and by myself before god on high shall i come before him with burnt offerings with calves a year old will the lord be pleased with thousands thousands of rams with tens of thousands of river of oil shall i give my first born from my transgression and my fruit of my body to the sins of my soul he has told you oh man what is good see god is telling you what he wants you don't have to guess you know sometimes in relationships you know you have that silent partner and then you have to guess he read their mind what they want and god has spared you of that he told you literally everything he wants oh you have to do search out the scripture and what does the lord require of you but did you justice love love kindness and walking hum a humility with your god what else god likes he wrote chapter 11 verse 6 without faith it is impossible to please god loves faith god loves pure trust in him see when you read the scripture don't just read it oh god loves faith i'm gonna use faith to get something out of god wrong motive faith to please god that's what faith is first this alone is chapter 2 verse 4 bible says that it pleases god when we share our faith with others when we share god's goodness with others i'm just gonna run through quickly just a few things colossians chapter 3 verse 2 it says it pleases god when children obey their parents hebrew chapter 13 verse 6 says that god it pleases god when we're generous do not neglect to do good and share what you have for such a sacrifices pleases god bible says inoc pleased god and he was no more he read i mean god took him on more like well yeah he was no more right now here on earth he walked in such a awareness of god and he seeked an opportunity to please god you know mean my wife we've been married for a long time and i know what she likes and she doesn't like and uh but not always i choose to please her you know work in progress and uh and our intimacy is effected by my choices it's not that i don't know her i know her very well we finish each other sentences but it's the desire to please her it's that drive to find an opportunity and moments where i can make her feel special and that changes you know one advice one man of god as a slavic station she she she she she she she told me he said this advice that he received from another minister when he just got married he said to the man he said to him as a man you must live your life in such a way that you never have to ask for sex live your life treating a woman in such a way that she will always be available and willing to be intimate with you to live our life with god in such a way constantly cultivating intimacy constantly looking for opportunity to please him constantly looking lord what is that will please you today god what are what are you like what would you like and every day he will find opportunities in moments sometimes you will look like in a moment where where you're walking and god drops something in your spirit and says go talk to this person you go talk to me encouraged them god says yeah i'm pleased with that because you've helped and encouraged somebody the other time god will drop in your spirit to wake you up in the middle of the night and you're perfectly not tired and you sense god's calling into prayer because he's seeking a moment that pleases him to be with you in a moment that you respond to that you look for opportunities you be with him and to please them it happens many different ways but you won't know it you will miss it unless you know him what he wants what he likes and you seek out to please him and pleasing the lord will lead to an intimacy just to be a by product intimacy lost produces fruit intimacy produces fruit intimacy is a privilege for a very specific people there's there's privileges that only belong to intimate people and um my heart cry in my heart's desire for you and me that will be this and relentless pursuit of god relentless pursuit of pleasing him because then you don't come to pray to get connected with god it's like a date you're connected with him always like you and your wife you know you're your spouse your partner you're you're you're connected but then there's dates right and those are important then it's it's a continuation of relationship you speak to god and he speaks to you always you speak to god you know i um my wife to me is a great example in this you know i have an opportunity to every morning to go and spend time with god she stays home with the children and she doesn't get that opportunity because she has to take care of the children be at home both of us obviously cannot be gone and um and i get a chance to go and spend some time with god as oftentimes as much as i want from five six in the morning up to nine o'clock eight o'clock depending what my schedule looks like and spend time with god to connect with god and my wife you know she's she has a lot more responsibilities than uh than i especially with with family but there's one thing about my wife that i've noticed that she's actually more connected with god than i am and i'm like how is that i pray more than her or i think let me put it this way i think i pray more than her yet i have to go and pray to get connected with god but she goes and pray to be with god and then she will be washing dishes and said oh the lord just showed me something was prompted me this and this and that and she and then the the prophetic the word of knowledge flows out of her god speaks to you in dreams and visions i mean and i oftentimes i'm the one that's seen on the front doing that but i am learning from her really because you know she just cultivated that connection that everywhere she goes then god puts on her heart one time god dropped on her heart to text somebody who did not come for a home group for a while to get connected she she sensed that urgency then she calls a person and that person was on the way to abortion clinic to abort her baby she talked to her she did not abort the baby today she's literally thanking her she's she's thanking her that she did not abort the child she named the child after her and she said it would have been the biggest mistake in my life when you walk continuously with the lord cultivate that relationship out of that lord can speak to you anytime to you about you about others but it's not out of a place of striving not even out of place of fasting and and praying but it's out of the intimacy of god comes the fruit of god your character is transformed the gifts of god flow freely but this place is reserved really it's a place of privilege it's reserved for those that are close to god hey thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video it cost you nothing but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm as well as if you're not subscribed to our channel hit subscribe click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos thank you so much for being a part of this community if you're interested in learning more about hungry jen our internship our conferences deliverance and so many other things go to hungry jen.com for more information and as 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