Seven Key Principles

Inspired by “Experiencing God” by Blackaby and King

1. God is always at work around us.

Philippians 2:13 “. . . for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”

2. God pursues a real and personal love relationship with us.

John 14:21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”

3. God invites us to become involved with Him in His work in the world.

John 17:18 “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.”

4. God speaks to us by the Holy Spirit through: the Bible, in prayer (the Holy Spirit), circumstances and through others (the church) in order to reveal Himself, His purposes and His ways.

John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.”

5. God’s invitation to us to work with Him may lead us to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action on our part.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

6. We may have to make major adjustments to our lives to join God in what He is doing.

Mark 8:34 “And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.””

7. When we do join with God in His activities we will come to know Him through personal experience as we obey Him and He accomplishes His work through us.

Philippians 3:10 “. . . that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death . . .”