The Power of Knowing God

Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my
ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your
ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Philippians 3:8 NLT
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite
value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded
everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
and become one with him…
What Happens When You Get to Know God:

1. New Identity
   2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJ
   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have
   passed away; behold, all things have become new.
   Galatians 3:26-29 NLT
   For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all
   who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like
   putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or
   free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now
   that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You
   are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.
   Galatians 4:7 NLT
   Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you
   are his child, God has made you his heir.
2. New Expectations
   Matthew 25:14-29 NKJ
   “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country,
   who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to
   one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each
   according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.
   Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them,
   and made another five talents. And likewise he who had received two
   gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in
   the ground, and hid his lord’s money. After a long time the lord of
   those servants came and settled accounts with them. So he who had
   received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying,
   ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more
   talents besides them.’ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and
   faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you
   ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ He also who
   had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me
   two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ His
   lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been
   faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.
   Enter into the joy of your lord.’ Then he who had received the one
   talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping
   where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not
   scattered seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the
   ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ But his lord answered
   and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap
   where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
   So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at
   my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
   Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten
   talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have
   abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will
   be taken away.’”
3. New Possibilities
   1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NLT
   That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen,
   no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared
   for those who love him.” But it was to us that God revealed these
   things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows
   us God’s deep secrets.
   The more you KNOW GOD the greater your DREAM CAPACITY
   becomes!
   Vision: seeing the POSSIBILITIES before they are REALITIES