INTIMACY WITH GOD DEVELOPING A DEEPER INTIMACY WITH GOD (Part two) adapted from a Bible Study of the same title

When You said,
“Seek My face,”
My heart said to You,
“Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
Psalms 27:8

• What matters in the end, is not the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it; the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands; I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him because He first knew me and continues to know me.

• The God who created us has not abandoned us to grope blindly through life. He has provided, at great expense, all that we need for life and godliness. God is our personal Creator, and He wants to be our Shepherd who protects and provides for us. He has proclaimed His love for us, and He waits only for our response.

• “Many, O Lord my God, are your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbered.” Psalms 40:5

1. God’s longing for His children is communicated in Psalms 8, 23, 27, 139. As you read these write down the key thoughts and phrases that express God’s desire for us.

2. How would you describe the psalmist’s responses to God’s care?

3. What specific assurances does the psalmist affirm about God’s involvement in his emotions and experiences?

4. What do the psalmist’s observations of God’s activity reveal about God’s nature and character?

5. Select a favorite passage from your reading in any of these chapters that expresses God’s longing for His people.

• Write it down and meditate on it each day this week. Memorizing this scripture will help imprint its truth on your mind and heart.

• Tell the Lord in a short written prayer your response to this revelation of who God is.

Other scriptures on God’s desire for us;
Jeremiah 24:7, Matthew 11:25-30, Revelation 21:2-4


In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled only plenteousness that desires to give. God who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. C. S. Lewis