Today we begin a new series that I believe...

... is going to resonate with many. A Quest for Intimacy. One of the first responses we get when we ask someone how they are doing is, “I am so busy!” Psalm 42:1-2 (NIV) As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? People, even church people, actually everyone are caught up with the phrase Charles Swindoll calls the “tyranny of the urgent.” Swindoll – The tyranny of the urgent is not a theoretical issue, but a very real fact of life. It leaves people feeling strung out, impatient, occasionally resentful, and even worse, empty. I guess what I am asking of us as we begin this series, are we willing to make the changes needed to help us?

1. Deep Things. People have always been intrigued by deep things. Deep recesses of space, deep jungles, deep oceans, deep caves, deep thoughts, and deep conversations. Nothing is more exciting or nothing should be more exciting than to realize that God is giving each one of us an invitation to go deeper with Him instead of being swallowed up with surface junk.I believe some of God’s best truth’s or treasures are hidden in depths few are willing to venture into. What a loss for us! Patiently God waits on someone who is hungry enough to dig.

2. Hearts that Belong to God. As intriguing as the deep things of God might be, they are not found by the natural means of our mind. He is looking for hearts who belong completely to Him. Sadly, in our crazy hurried world there is very little time for intimacy with God. The church has become a group of people who resemble a herd of cattle in a stampede than a flock of sheep by still waters. Psalm 23:1-2 (NKJV) The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 

3. We Cannot Stay Where We Are Now. Think about the condition of our world. Think about new government leaders in our country putting people in leadership who are the most pro-abortion, anti-family, Israel defying they can find. Isn’t it time for the Church…the real church, to get serious about its relationship to God and our responsibility to a lost and dying world. We must go deeper. Obviously God has provided Holy Spirit for us so we can have greater intimacy, greater power, and depths we have yet to discover. Let’s go!