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 the Needy

1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,

come to the waters;

and you without money,

come, buy, and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without cost!

2 Why spend money on that which is not bread,

and your labor on that which does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,

and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

3 Incline your ear and come to Me;

listen, so that your soul may live.

I will make with you an everlasting covenant —

My loving devotion promised to David.

4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations,

a leader and commander of the peoples.

5 Surely you will summon a nation you do not know,

and nations who do not know you will run to you.

For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,

has bestowed glory on you."

6 Seek the LORD while He may be found;

call on Him while He is near.

Isaías 55:1-6

24 Even before they call, I will answer,

and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Isaías 65:24

3 Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Jeremias 33:3

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give 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.

As the Deer Pants for the Water

1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul longs after You, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God.

When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Salmos 42:1,2

Thirsting for God

1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

O God, You are my God.

Earnestly I seek You;

my soul thirsts for You.

My body yearns for You

in a dry and weary land without water.

2 So I have seen You in the sanctuary

and beheld Your power and glory.

3 Because Your loving devotion is better than life,

my lips will glorify You.

4 So I will bless You as long as I live;

in Your name I will lift my hands.

5 My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods;

with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

6 When I remember You on my bed,

I think of You through the watches of the night.

7 For You are my help;

I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.

8 My soul clings to You;

Your right hand upholds me.

9 But those who seek my life to destroy it

will go into the depths of the earth.

10 They will fall to the power of the sword;

they will become a portion for foxes.

11 But the king will rejoice in God;

all who swear by Him will exult,

for the mouths of liars will be shut.

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 I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one — 23 I in them and You in Me — that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.