Building a Genuine Relationship with God

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "If God never ever fails then why don't we just go trusting you see I think we've we've uh we have abused the word and our prayer life has become something that we use to try to get what we want from God instead of building a relationship with God of trust and so we go through all of the prayer rituals that the pharisees went through and and we say words to be heard by men and then when we talk to people we say words to be heard by men and then we say words to be heard by men and then when we talk to people we say words to be heard by we're always asking him to do something for us and I think sometimes God just says hold on a minute do you really know me" [03:26] (68 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And all God wants from any of us is a relationship of an intimate knowledge of who he is and he's a God and i think that's what god wants for us and i think how much He really loves us. And then you can trust Him. Then you can do what Mary did and you can just simply sit at the feet of Jesus, grow and learn, build a relationship of trust, and know that no matter what, you can trust Him." [03:26] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We live in a world that's messed up. But there's no reason to be shocked or upset about it because Jesus said it was going to happen. But he has also called us to be a light in the middle of the darkness. He called us to be a light in a world that needs to see the truth. So the more we know, the more we can do. The word teaches us in Hosea that God's people are bound to destroy due to lack of knowledge. If there's anything we need, we need knowledge. We need knowledge of God, knowledge of the word. We need knowledge of his goodness so that we can display his fruit in the world we're living in." [20:08] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God and you believe that he came in the flesh and you believe that God raised him from the dead then you have the spirit of Christ. You no longer are controlled by the spirit of Antichrist. You have a revelation of truth. For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son. So that whoever believes in him can have everlasting life. That's the truth. And if you believe you will receive him as Lord and you will repent and you will turn from your sin. There's no salvation without turning." [24:43] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "When you have pure faith in who the Lord Jesus Christ is nothing can destroy you. Nothing can stop you. Oh but what about all my problems? Who cares about your problems? Where is your faith in Jesus? Everybody in this world has problems. It's common demand. What makes you so special that thinks you shouldn't have any? It's common demand. The purpose of our faith is to get us through our problems with joy and peace and victory and knowing that God's going to work out every detail for eternity for our life. Being a testimony in this life. Showing the world who Jesus really is so we can be more than a conqueror in the middle of our problem." [56:50] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Many people don't have a purpose in their giving. If you don't purpose in your heart in your giving, what you do, you give, sometimes you give when you have a need. Because we've been taught that if you give out of your need, God will give back to you. And we're missing the point entirely. If the only time you give to God is when you have a need, then you have not purposed in your heart how to give. Sometimes the only time we give to God is when we don't need anything and we have an abundance. We have a little extra. So we made a little extra this week, so we're going to give a little extra this week. And we're not giving out of purpose. We're giving out of, well, some emotional desire or some manipulation." [04:30] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "If we give as we purpose in our heart, then we will not give grudgingly or we will not give out of necessity. If the only time we give is when there's a need, then we're giving out of necessity. The giving ought to be from our heart. Because he goes on to say, for God loves a cheerful giver. That means you're not controlled by someone in your giving. You're not manipulated by someone in your giving. You just give because you're in love with God. And you want the kingdom to increase." [06:31] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If you hear the word and don't do the word, you deceive yourself. If there's anything that bothers me as a pastor, it's people that have heard the word and heard the word and heard the word and heard the word and heard the word but they don't do it. Why? Because the word says, if you hear it and don't do it, you deceive yourself. Be doers of the word, not hearers only, deceiving yourself. So if you are deceived, then you just keep on living, thinking you're right, everything's good, I'm okay, but you're deceived because you're not hearing and obeying. You're only hearing and not doing." [32:06] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "There are four types of people that live in the world today. There are people that call him Lord, we just read, but they don't do what he says. They call him Lord, go to church every Sunday, but they don't live the life. And then there are people that don't call him Lord, and they don't do what he says. They don't know him, don't care. And then there are other people that don't call him Lord, but they do what he says. They obey the word. They live a good life, but they don't make him Lord. And then there are those that both call him Lord, and they do what he says. Out of those four types of people, there's only one group going to make it to heaven, and that's those that call him Lord and do what he says." [35:30] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If you don't obey him you don't know him because once you know him you can't help it. You want to do it because you crucified the flesh. You die out to your own desires. You're not praying to get, you're praying to give. Wow. Hebrews 10 17. Jesus paid the price. There's coming a day when we'll stand before him and this statement will be real for us. Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. So there is a place under the blood where God destroys the authority of your past and you're free from sin." [40:45] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)