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GYC Southeast

Experiencing God

Janet Page

Session 1: New Life in Prayer and Praise

Session 2: Forever Ruined For The Ordinary

Session 3: Principles of Intercessory Prayer

Lord, I really need you right now and I just pray for your Holy Spirit to take my words and make them meaningful to this group.

Just pray, Father, we give you permission to speak to each 1 what they need in their lives right now.

It may not be anything I say, but God, just speak to their hearts.

Thank you for what you'll do in Jesus' name, amen.

And for those of you who are poor at math, that was 17 years ago.

But my friends, I call them my ex-friends, did 1 of these black balloons, black crepe paper parties.

And of course I always say, what do I do to deserve this?

I moved across the country and when I turned 50, new friends did it to me all over again.

But the next morning, I could hear car horns honking as they went down our road.

And I go out and look, and there's a big sign in the yard, but I can't see it, because I'm on the back side of it.

So I go out and look at it and it says, honk your horn Janet, Paige's youth has died.

Well, I was gonna take it down, but my son, he's 24 now, he was probably about 4 then, he couldn't have been 4, what was he?

Anyway, I can't add, no, my math is terrible.

I went through nursing school using a calculator.

They told him, don't let your mom take that sign down, you keep that sign up.

So he was determined, put his body against it, no mom, you're not taking the sign down.

Fortunately, it started raining, it was misting, and the wind was blowing a little bit, and the sign came down.

He brings the sign in the house, and he says, mommy, will you help me get the sign back up?

And I go, uh-uh, no way am I gonna help you.

He goes out the garage, finds a hammer, and starts trying to tack the sign up, but he can't get it up.

And he stood out there for a long time holding that sign till finally all the cars that they're all headed to work had gone and there was no more.

But he held that sign, so He's faithful to his job.

You probably aren't going to identify with this statement.

But for those of us who are older, when you're young, you think, life, is it ever going to happen?

But all of a sudden, it takes up fast pace.

And I got into my 30s, and I suddenly, wow, life's really picking up speed here.

And it's almost like you're on the steam engine.

It's going faster and faster and faster and faster.

And you're thinking, whoa, when's it gonna stop?

And I started thinking about, you know, I got all these good things I need to be doing, all this stuff coming at me.

And I started thinking about, you know, I've got all these good things I need to be doing, all this stuff coming at me.

And I started thinking about, you know, what really matters?

It's been so fast to my 30s, pretty soon I'm going to be 40 and then I'll be 60 and then 80.

And as I thought about it, you know what came to my mind?

That verse in John 17, 3 that says, this is eternal life that you may know Him, the only true God, Jesus Christ whom you've sent.

The only thing that really matters is if I know Jesus Christ.

And sometimes that's hard to realize when you've got all the world coming about you and you're looking at that good looking guy you want to marry or whoever, that the only thing that really matters is if you know Jesus Christ.

The only thing that's going to make a difference in that marriage is if you know Jesus Christ.

And here I was in my 30s, and yet, when I was a senior in academy, I had a Bible teacher tell us how important it was that we spend time with God every day.

When I was a teenager, back when we had square stone wheels on our cars, nobody talked about spending time with God.

It was just, be good, be good, go to church, you know, just do these things and maybe you might get saved.

And so that's the only thing I really knew.

But this Bible teacher is telling me, you need to spend time with God.

He says, well if you don't spend time with God, you're not going to love Him.

And if you don't know him, you're not going to want him.

You will end up walking away from him, even though you may not think you will.

I've watched people over and over again end up falling into a bad situation, end up leaving God.

And what's happened is they thought they were safe without that time with God for a little while and they end up falling away.

But here I am in my 30s realizing, you know, I've been trying, trying.

I asked that Bible teacher, well just how do I do this?

Because if I'm gonna do it, you know, I wanna do it right.

And he said, well there's no set amount of time, but maybe try 30 minutes.

And I said, well how do I spend that time?

And he said, well just, you know, pray some, read your Bible.

So I got out my alarm clock, because I wanted to be sure I did it in 30 minutes, sat it on my bed, I thought I had to kneel, and I'm down there kneeling, praying, praying, praying, and I look at, I finally run out of things to pray about.

I look at the clock to see how much time I have left.

I think, what am I going to do with the rest of this time?

I didn't know how to spend that time with Him.

He wants so much to spend time with each 1 of us that if we will keep pursuing Him and spending that time with Him, He will show each 1 of us how to spend it with Him.

He is so desperate to spend that time with you.

It was actually here at Southern Missionary College then taking nursing.

And you get really busy with your nursing labs and everything going on, plus you try to have a social life.

And I would forget about spending time with God until exam week.

And then it was, oh God, if you'll get me through exams, you'll help me to, you know, make good grades, Lord.

I promise I'm going to start reading your word and getting to know you.

I'm gonna start spending time with you every day.

And I would try to do that, spend time with him for a while, but pretty soon I'd get busy and I'd fall out of it again.

Series

Experiencing God

Session 2: Forever Ruined For The Ordinary

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Alan Parker ~ Biblical Holiness: A Guide for Sinners

A Life of Prayer, Part II

1h

Revelation Today Crusade

10. Antichrist Exposed- Part 1

1h

ABC's of Prayer (with Video)

3 - How I Discovered Christ’s ABC’s

54m

Plenary

The Secret to a Successful Christian Life

50m

Steps to Christ

Confession

42m

A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

19 Restore To Me The Joy

43m

Lord, Teach Us to Pray: The Science of Prayer

1. What’s Hindering You?

47m

Getting Acquainted With Jesus

2 - My Drowning Brother

28m

Truth and Consequences

46m

Repent the Right Way and Be Forgiven

47m

You’re Believing a Lie

24m

A God Worth Knowing

18 Why God Won’t Leave

1h 1m

Sound Doctrine