Getting Connected to the Source

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Getting Connected to the Source

• How to live a more spiritual life

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We have no power until we get connected to the
source and that source is God.

• I am the vine, you are the branches he who
  abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit
  for apart from Me you can do nothing. (John 155)

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Establish contact points with God

• that they should seek God, if perhaps they might
  grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far
  from each one of us (Acts 1727)
• And without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
  (Hebrews 116)

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• Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin
  the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And
  if you seek Him, He will let you find Him but if
  you forsake Him, He will forsake you. And for
  many days Israel was without the true God and
  without a teaching priest and without law. But
  in their distress they turned to the Lord God of
  Israel, and they sought Him, and He let them find
  Him. (2 Chronicles 152-4)

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Connect through Bible Study
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• Now we have received, not the spirit of the
  world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we
  might know the things freely given to us by God,
  (1 Corinthians 212)
• Be diligent to present yourself approved to God
  as a workman who does not need to be ashamed,
  handling accurately the word of truth. (2 Timothy
  215)

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• So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek
  Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting,
  sackcloth, and ashes. (Daniel 93)

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Connect through prayer
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Translate your spiritual study into lifes
day-to-day decisions

• How blessed are those who observe His
  testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
  (Psalm 1192)
• Because you did not carry it at the first, the
  Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did
  not seek Him according to the ordinance. (1
  Chronicles 1513)

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• If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual,
  let him recognize that the things which I write
  to you are the Lords commandment. (1 Corinthians
  1437)

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Find encouragement by associating with the Lords
people

• and let us consider how to stimulate one another
  to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own
  assembling together, as is the habit of some, but
  encouraging one another and all the more, as you
  see the day drawing near. (Hebrews 1024-25)

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• And all those who had believed were together, and
  had all things in common and they began selling
  their property and possessions, and were sharing
  them with all, as anyone might have need. And day
  by day continuing with one mind in the temple,
  and breaking bread from house to house, they were
  taking their meals together with gladness and
  sincerity of heart, praising God, and having
  favor with all the people. And the Lord was
  adding to their number day by day those who were
  being saved. (Acts 244-47)

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Of Him all the prophets bear witness that
through His name everyone who believes in Him
receives forgiveness of sins. (Acts 1043)
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And Peter said to them, Repent, and let each of
you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of your sins and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 238)