TRANSFORMED: How To Create Spiritual Intimacy

Focal verse for the year:

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. —John 15:5

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” —John 17:20-23

How To Create Spiritual Intimacy

Intimacy is a connection of closeness.
Emotional Intimacy - connected through feelings. Letting your heart be seen.

Mental Intimacy - connected through thinking together about something.

Physical Intimacy - our normal default when we hear the word.

Spiritual Intimacy - in a relationship it is a sense of mutual commitment to God’s purpose for our lives.

Switch Minds

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. —John 17:16

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. —Philippians 2:5

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. —Romans 12:2

Speak His Language

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. —John 17:17

Strengthen His Asset

As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you —John 17:18, 21

Share His Passion

…so that the world may believe that you have sent me. —John 17:21b

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