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Devotional-Intimacy with God · The Father's Business Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Father's Business Devotional Podcast, which flows from the heart of Sylvia Gunter and her deep desire to help people know God.
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  SPEAKER_01: May God quiet your spirit and soul, draw you close to the Father's heart, and anchor you in the unshakable truth that you are deeply loved and securely held.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intimacy with God Psalm twenty five fourteen and Genesis three eighteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit, hear God's word to you in Psalm twenty five fourteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord confides in those who fear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He makes his covenant known to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Genesis three eight, then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit, you are the same essence of Adam and Eve.
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  SPEAKER_00: God wants to walk with you and talk with you, and speak intimately with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome him to come into the garden of your heart and fellowship with him as they did.
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  SPEAKER_00: No books, no sermons, no ritual, no expectation, no agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just be spending time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be free of chains of expectation or performance, or same old, same old in worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your Father's heart will minister to you and you will respond in abandoned adoration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be blessed to be filled with new worship that is deeply satisfying to God and that exceeds all your previous definitions of good worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit, be blessed in your face to face time with the living God as you are spirit to spirit with Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Communion is a function of the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be in touch with the Spirit at all times so that you enter into this new communion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear the sounds of heaven as you fellowship with him in intimacy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let him touch you more deeply than he has ever touched you before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Experience love, trust, and deep emotional satisfaction in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intimate friendship with God is reserved for those who are crazy about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be free to know your first love and to come into harmony with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing compares with intimacy with him in richness and beauty.
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  SPEAKER_00: You meet him in surrender and waiting on him in faith, hope, and love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit, God confided in Abraham and Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called them his friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ said to the disciples, You are my friends, and he says to you, You are my friend if you obey my Father's commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Friendship with God is cultivated by authenticity and loving obedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were designed to live in friendship with him and share your life with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Claim your friendship with God by coming boldly to his throne of grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since friendship is mutual, you give to him even as he meets the needs of the depths of your being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit John one fourteen says that Jesus, the Word, became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
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  SPEAKER_00: His presence is your true home.
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  SPEAKER_00: The tabernacle in the wilderness pictured Jesus coming to earth because God wants to be close to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit on his lap, feel his arms around you, listen to his voice, hear his heartbeat, fall in love with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be bathed in his love and experience his presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your true identity is beloved of God, not worker for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Know him intimately and relentlessly pursue him with steadfast hunger for more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Live with humility of heart before him, and ascribe worship to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Declare him with your voice and reflect him in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: John one hundred fourteen also says, We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: See his glory that Jesus brought from his Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Receive the fullness of his grace and truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be blessed in the name of the one and only.
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  SPEAKER_01: This devotional is from You Are Blessed in the Names of God by Sylvia Gunter.
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