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Experiencing God Today
Henry T. Blackaby in his book ‘Experiencing God’ says that during Bible times, people came to know God through specific experiences. Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah. When the ram for the sacrifice was provided providentially, he came to experience God as a “Provider”. Hagar had given up on life in the desert of Beersheba. But when God opened her eyes, she saw a well of water. Hagar called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?” Moses at the Red sea was not intimidated by the situation but experienced God as the ‘Deliverer’.
In the same way, we too experience God in many ways in our own lives.
Who am I, O Lord God?
King David was not a saint. He went through trying times following his fall. He had problems from within himself as well as from within his family. But David constantly sought the Lord and strengthened himself in the Lord. That is why God found him as the ‘man after His own heart’.
God communicated three things to David through Nathan (1 Chronicles 17:7,8). “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth”. God also said in v11, “I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom” and in...