How To Get Close To God

ZChurch Message for August 26, 2023 (full service:    • How To Get Close To God  )

In this special gathering, we are honored to have three remarkable speakers share their unique insights. Steve Chen shares about receiving God’s covenant love followed by Terri Branham, our seasoned prayer leader, inspiring us to cultivate intimacy with God. Finally, Maria Sanchez Rosado, a leader in our Spanish Outreach, discusses her perspective on developing relationship with God.

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STEVE CHEN

Proverbs 9:10 (KJV) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

TERRI BRANHAM

Heb 4:15-16  We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Ps 61:2-3  (NKJV)   Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.  2.  From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.  3.  For you have been a shelter for me, a strong tower from the enemy. 

Col 1:12-13 (TPT)  Your hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when you think of how God made you worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light.          13   He has rescued us completely from the tyrannical rule of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom realm of His beloved Son. 

Isa 32:17 (AMP)  And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external] and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.  

Heb 11:6b  … He who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Jn 11:41-42  Father, I thank you that You have heard Me.  42 And I know that You always hear Me… 

John 17:23 (MSG)  …The same glory you gave me, I gave them, so they’ll be as unified and together as we are–I in them and you in me.  Then they’ll be mature in this oneness; and give the godless world evidence that you’ve sent me and loved them in the same way you’ve loved me. 

John 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 16:13-14   NKJV  However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and he will tell you things to come.  14  He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare (disclose, transmit) it to you.  

MARIA SANCHEZ ROSADO

James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

Hebrews 10:22 KJV Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

John 15:15 KJV Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Genesis 18:23 KJV And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Psalm 73:28 KJV But it is good fro me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

Romans 8:14-15 KJV For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Isaiah 54:5 KJV For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Isaiah 62:4-5 KJV Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

2 Corinthians 11:2 KJV For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ; Revelation 19:7-8 KJV Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Revelation 21:2 KJV And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.