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ENCOUNTER
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Directions for Your Encounter with God

• The Opportunity
• of a Lifetime!

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Opportunity of a lifetime

• To meet God, your Creator
• Unique personal and life-changing moments
• Experience change that will literally shape the
  rest of your life on this planet and beyond

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The Encounter Process

• Pre-Encounter
• Instruction, Orientation and Preparation
• Encounter weekend
• Intensely Focused High Impact Truth
• Interactive Small Groups
• Moments for Intimate Personal Reflection
• Post Encounter Sessions
• Life purpose
• Practical Applications
• Implementation Strategies

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No Man can come to me, except the Father who has
sent me draws Him. John 644
God is even more anxious than you are for you to
have an Encounter with Him! Get ready!!!
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You will seek me and find me when you seek Me
with all of your heart jeremiah 2913
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Who needs Encounter?

• Beginners or Plateaued Followers
• Those Needing a Refreshing
• Desperate Seekers
• Those Needing a Second Chance
• Transition in Lifes Seasons
• Tired of your Personal Pigpen

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Directions for Your Trip Home to God

• Take an honest inventory
• Admit that your way is not working
• Activate your will to change
• Habits, friends, choices, patterns that are
  destructive to Gods plans and purposes.

• Ask God to forgive us for breaking His heart

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God Restores those who come Home

• God offers His forgiveness and restoration
• God is anticipating your response
• God accepts you unconditionally
• God restores everything that has been damaged

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• But God demonstrated His own love for us in
  this While we were still sinners, Christ died
  for us.
• Romans 58

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A Face to Face Encounter Will Change Any Life

• Mary Magdalene
• Peter
• Zacheus
• Rich young ruler
• Demoniac of the Gadarenes
• Your name here_____________

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Get Ready for Radical Changes
My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have
seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent
in sackcloth and ashes. Job
425-6 Isaiah saw Him and was changed Woe is
me I am ruined! I am a man of unclean lips and I
live among a people of unclean lips. My eyes
have seen the King the Lord Almighty
Isaiah 65
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Get Ready for a New Relationship
Yet to all who received Him, to those who believe
in His name, He gave the right to become children
of God. John 112 I no longer call you
my servants, I call you my friends.
-Jesus-
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Get Ready for A New Soft Heart

• And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a
  new spirit within you. And I will take away the
  stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you
  a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 3626

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Get Ready for A Brand New Life

• If any man is in Christ, he is a brand new
  creation. Everything old has passed away. Look!
  Everything is being made new! I
  Corinthians 517

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Get ready for some new habits

• God Wants You to Talk to Him
• He Wrote You Some Love Letters
• You Get to Know a Whole New Family
• Youve Got Something to Share
• You Can Walk with Your Head Up

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Get ready for a radical prayer

• Search me ,O God,
• Know my heart today
• Try me O Saviour,
• Know my thoughts, I pray
• See if there be some wicked way in me
• Cleanse me from every sin
• And set me free! -Traditional Hymn

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