Intimidade com Deus

A intimidade com Deus é o maior privilégio do cristão. Ele nos convida a nos aproximar, a conhecê-lo profundamente e a desfrutar de comunhão diária com o Criador do universo.

Aproximar-se de Deus

Chegai-vos a Deus e Ele se chegará a vós. Deus deseja intimidade, não religiosidade. Ele busca os que o buscam de todo coração.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!

Tiago 4:8

Invitation to True Rewards

1 "Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters!

And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat,

and come, buy without money,

wine and milk without price!

2 Why do you weigh out money for what is not food,

and your labor for what cannot satisfy?

Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,

and let your soul take pleasure in rich food.

3 Extend your ear, and come to me!

Listen so that your soul may live,

and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

the enduring proofs of the mercies shown to David.

4 Look! I made him a witness to the peoples,

a leader and a commander for the peoples.

5 Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know,

and a nation that does not know you shall run to you,

because of Yahweh your God,

and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you."

6 Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found;

call him while he is near.

Isaías 55:1-6

24 And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer;

while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.

Isaías 65:24

3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.’

Jeremias 33:3

11 For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

Jeremias 29:11

Sede de Deus

Como a corça deseja as correntes de água, assim a minha alma suspira por ti, ó Deus. A intimidade nasce do desejo profundo.

Hope in God in the Midst of Despair

1 As a deer longs for streams of water,

so my soul longs for you, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

Salmos 42:1,2

Longing for God

1 O God, you are my God;

I will seek you diligently.

My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you

as in a dry and weary land without water.

2 Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary,

beholding your strength and glory.

3 Because your loyal love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

4 So I will bless you while I live.

I will lift up my hands in your name.

5 My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food,

and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.

6 When I remember you on my bed,

I meditate on you in the night watches.

7 Because you have been my help,

therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

8 My soul clings to you;

your right hand upholds me.

9 But as for them who seek my life for ruin,

they will go into the depths of the earth.

10 They who would deliver him to the sword

will become a portion for jackals.

11 However, the king will rejoice in God.

Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast,

because the mouth of the liars will be stopped.

Salmos 63:1-11

Unidade com o Pai

Jesus orou pela unidade dos seus com o Pai. A intimidade com Deus inclui confissão, perdão e alegria na comunhão.

22 And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we are one—23 I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.