Intimacy with God: Three Keys to Knowing Him

There’s a difference between having a receipt and having full access to the kitchen. This message is about moving past head knowledge — knowing facts about God — into real, experiential intimacy with Him, the kind Abraham, Moses, and David all had.

Three things mark that kind of relationship: real knowledge of who He is (not secondhand, not inherited from your mother’s or grandmother’s faith, but your own encounter), submission to walk in step with Him rather than ahead of or behind Him, and patience through the seed-time-and-harvest process, since a relationship — like a seed — takes time to grow before it produces fruit.

Key takeaways

• Knowing about God and knowing God are two different things — one is information, the other is relationship.
• You can’t inherit someone else’s intimacy with God through a praying mother or grandmother; you need your own encounter.
• Submission means walking in step with God’s timing, not running ahead of Him or lagging behind.