WAKE UP Week 3 – David Nasser

Overview:

God takes seriously people who desperately want Him. Tonight we focused on what attracts the presence of the Lord. Although revival is not guaranteed on our campus, we do know God loves those who hunger and thirst for His presence. However if we are feasting on the garbage this world, we will not have much of an appetite for the presence God. It is all or nothing. Often we desire to see Gods power and provision without seeking His presence first. In order to move us to a true desire for the presence of the Lord, we must seek the Lord for who He is.

Verses:

Psalm 27:4

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

Psalm 42:1-2

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

Quotes:

“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion… I want all that God has or I don’t want any.” A.W. Tozer

“How do you honor a fountain? You drink from it.” John Piper

“The same source that saved you is the same source that sustains you.” Pastor David

Questions:

1) Do you personally pray for, ask, and inquire of God for His manifest presence in your life?

2) What does His presence look like to you? Have you experienced that plea firsthand? What did it look like?
3) Do you truly have a hunger for God- to know Him intimately as a vital necessity in your life?

4) What holds you back?
5) Pastor David shared that the same source that saved you is the same source that sustains you. What is the source that sustains you?
6) When do you seek God most? Is it during the valleys of your life? Do you truly believe and live as though He is all you really need?
7) What scraps and garbage are you settling for instead of the banquet feast of the Lord?
8) What are you willing to give up to enter into a fuller relationship with the Lord? How can this group help you move into a greater depth with the Lord?