encounter with God

We are created to encounter God. He’s alive and He’s moving in the earth and He just so desires a relationship with us. I grew up in a Christian home and I knew God, in theory. I knew Him in my head. But as I got older, I really began to know Him in my heart and really realized that God wants to encounter me, that He wants to do life with me. And for me, that looks really simple.

I’ve seen, you know, God come and do just crazy, awesome things, just really big level things. But when it comes to my personal encounter time with the Lord, it’s really simple. And it’s on the foundation of God is for me and not against me, that He loves me and that He wants to encounter me. And I remind myself of that daily, and I make space for Him to encounter me.

I think sometimes we can become so busy doing life, you know, there’s just task after task, thing thing that needs to be done, but we really have to create space for encounters with God. And so for me, in my busy season of life right now, you know, I remember there was a season where I could wake up in the morning and spend two hours with God, because I didn’t really have a lot of responsibilities. But now, you know, working, full-time, having a kid and having other things, my time is very limited. And so for me, it’s my car rides by myself to work is my sanctuary, where I’m driving to work and I’m like, “Lord encounter me with your love.” And you know, sometimes it’s really simple and it’s just Him just reassuring me that He loves me. And sometimes it’s like, oh my gosh, I’m weeping so hard, I may need to pull the car over.

And so I just want to encourage you that God wants to encounter you. And I’m going to pray just for the radical love of God to touch your life and that you would be confident in that encounter being very specific to you, that it’s not meant to look the same as anyone else’s. And so Lord, I just ask that you to release encounters on your sons and your daughters. God, that you would just begin to breathe just a revelation of your love. God, that every encounter would be rooted in your love for your people. God, whatever word you speak, whatever you do, God, whatever, just, you know, crazy thing that you would show us God, that it would be rooted in the foundation of love. That you love us God, you are for us, God. And for people that have never had an encounter with you, God, I ask that you release fresh hope, fresh faith, knowing that it’s not about them, and it’s not about anything that they’re doing or not doing, but that your heart is to encounter your people. And so even now as you’re watching this video, I would ask that you would just say, “God, encounter me with your love,” that you just come into agreement with that revelation, with that truth, that wow, God wants to encounter me.

I encourage you just to begin to see new ways. Like, I feel like even some of you, God has already been encountering you, but you’re expecting it to look like someone else’s story and that you’re actually missing what God’s already doing. And so I ask that you would just begin to say, “Hey God, what are you saying? What are you doing? What are you speaking? How are you encountering me? How have you encountered me in the past?” And yeah, I bless you. You were created to encounter the living God, in Jesus’ name.

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