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Title: Get to Know God
Date: 2009-07-10

Tami Weissert: How do you get to know God? Woodrow Kroll answers with John 14 and today's Bible Minute.

Woodrow Kroll: Jesus is saying, "Watch carefully. You want to get to know God? First of all, you get to know Me, because I came so God could be in flesh and live among you. You want to get to know God? You listen to what I have to say, because I don't say things based on My own authority. I say things based on the authority that God has given Me."

Then there's that third little thing in verse 10 of John 14. He says, "But the Father who dwells in Me does the works." So He says, "There is My person who reveals God to you. There is what I say that reveals God to you. And there is what I do that reveals who God is to you." He says, "Watch what I do. Listen to what I say, and you'll get to know God."

Tami Weissert: Getting to know God means getting to know Jesus. We'll get you started at bibleminute.org.

 

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The Bible Minute daily devotional is provide courtesy of Back to the Bible.Title: Get to Know God
Date: 2009-07-10

Tami Weissert: How do you get to know God? Woodrow Kroll answers with John 14 and today's Bible Minute.

Woodrow Kroll: Jesus is saying, "Watch carefully. You want to get to know God? First of all, you get to know Me, because I came so God could be in flesh and live among you. You want to get to know God? You listen to what I have to say, because I don't say things based on My own authority. I say things based on the authority that God has given Me."

Then there's that third little thing in verse 10 of John 14. He says, "But the Father who dwells in Me does the works." So He says, "There is My person who reveals God to you. There is what I say that reveals God to you. And there is what I do that reveals who God is to you." He says, "Watch what I do. Listen to what I say, and you'll get to know God."

Tami Weissert: Getting to know God means getting to know Jesus. We'll get you started at bibleminute.org.

 

> Receive the Bible Minute as a daily devotional email.

The Bible Minute daily devotional is provide courtesy of Back to the Bible.

THE HOLY BIBLE

NEW TESTAMENT

OLD TESTAMENT

                                CHOOSE YOUR PASTOR WISELY

Phil. 3:17 Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those
who follow our example.

Your pastor is the person that you have positioned in your life, to assist your growth as a believer. The sad part is that many people today have placed the wrong person in this position. And the way to know if you have placed the wrong person there is to measure your progress. Are you at a stand still? Have you been walking in the same steps for the past few years? Are you better now, growing, or being challenged to live right and seek God more since you have been under him? Well, if your answer is no, then you have placed the wrong person in front of you and you are marking the wrong steps.

Choosing a pastor is an important act.

1. You must select someone that can look beyond their personal feelings and guide you based on the word of God and their wisdom.
2. You have to choose someone that is not self centered, and not concerned about how they will look or how you will affect what they have going.
3. You need someone that is focused on the big picture and can lead you according to what God has done for them.
4. Try to choose a pastor that is above you spiritually!
5.  Never choose a person that is not progressing themselves.
6.  Never choose a pastor that is not living their own life progressively.

 

 Whatever your pastor has spiritually, you will have and whomever you choose to
guide your life, will only guide you based on his own progress. So, be sure that you are submitting yourself to a person that has been where you are going and has conquered the things you are up against.  Cut loose people in your life that just have opinions and no substance! They can talk it but have not walked it. They can say it but have not experienced it. Never submit yourself to anyone that has not taken authority over their own issues. Bottom line, submit yourself to the person that is totally submitted to God. God's way is their way, and they can mentor you by example, as God leads them.

Suggested Reading: 1 Tim 3: 1-14, Psa. 37:37, Rom. 16:17, Phil. 3:17, Psa 37:23