Best Year Spiritually

Daddy-Handsome Ella-cation™

“We are as close to God as we choose to be.” - Oswald Sanders

How close are you to Jesus?

How close do you want to be?

John 15:12-13  //  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

How Close Can We Come to Jesus?

Know or Know About

Jesus’ Circles of Relationship:

The Crowds – the place of “watching & listening” from a distance

The 5000 – the place of “feeding & healing”

The 70 – the place of “working & serving”

The 12 – the place of “leaving all & following”

The 3 – the place of “joys & sufferings”

The One – the place of “sacrificial love.”

Matthew 16:24  //  Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

The closer call is a call to intimacy

The closer call is a call to surrender

The closer call is a call to loyalty

How Far Have You Followed Him?

John 15:14-15  //  You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

How close can you come to Jesus?

How close do you want to come?

James 4:8  //  Come near to God and he will come near to you.

Jeremiah 29:13  //  “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”