Faith Walk / William Carroll
We will be talking about the word of God and how he moved in my life as I stood on his word. His signs and wonders that I have seen during the last forty years praying for my needs and the needs of others. I hope to encourage a new generation of believers to pray the word of God and to believe that He will move on their behalf. God answers prayers!
Faith Walk / William Carroll
Ep 84 Faith Walk: Knowing God Intimately
Do you truly know God, or do you just know about Him? There's a profound difference between possessing information about God and experiencing Him in an intimate, transformative relationship.
Drawing from compelling biblical examples, we journey through the stories of those who knew God face-to-face. Abraham engaged in direct conversation with the Almighty. Moses met with God in the tabernacle, experiencing His presence so tangibly that his face radiated afterward. David was celebrated as "a man after God's own heart." These weren't casual acquaintances with the divine—they were deep, life-altering connections where these individuals knew God as thoroughly as He knew them.
The story of Jacob provides our most vivid illustration. Genesis 32 recounts how Jacob wrestled with God through the night, refusing to release his grip until receiving a blessing. This physical struggle mirrored Jacob's spiritual transformation from someone who merely knew about God through family tradition to someone who could declare, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." His very identity changed in that encounter, from Jacob (the trickster) to Israel (one who struggles with God).
How might we develop this intimate knowledge? It begins with salvation but grows through consistent engagement with Scripture, prayer, and attentive listening. God speaks continuously, yet we often miss His voice amid life's noise. Creating space for solitude and seeking His face intentionally transforms superficial religious knowledge into genuine relationship. The same God who led Israel with cloud and fire, who spoke with Abraham and wrestled with Jacob, remains unchanged and available today for those willing to pursue Him beyond surface-level acknowledgment.
Are you ready to be known by God and to know Him as He knows you? This transformative relationship awaits those willing to seek His face with their whole heart.
Hey, welcome to podcast Faith Walk, podcast number 84. And we've been talking about knowing God and being known by God. You know, I wanted to go back and I wanted to say that, you know, god spoke to Abraham and Abraham spoke to God. Do you speak to God? Does he speak to you, he should? And Abraham spoke to God. Do you speak to God? Does he speak to you, he should?
Speaker 1:Moses saw God face to face and Joshua. When Moses would leave the tabernacle, meeting God face to face, joshua would stay and he was the next leader of Israel. Jacob wrestled with God and was blessed. David was known as a man after God's own heart and Paul was known by God. See, paul was known by God. We should be known by God. See, the word of God says that before we were in the womb, god knew us. God knew us before we were created in the womb. Man I mean God has known us all our life. But do we know him? Do we know him? Do we know him the way he knows us? Because God can know us and we not know him. Do you understand that you can know somebody? You can say, oh hey, I know so-and-so Well, you know him, you've been in places where he was in places You've been at the same meetings where they were at, but you don't know them, you don't have a personal relationship with them. You don't have a relationship where you can say, yeah, I know that he likes, you know he likes to eat ice cream, chocolate, ice cream, rocky road. You don't know him. See, we need to be known by God and we need to know him like he knows us, because he does know us, but he's waiting for us to know him.
Speaker 1:We had already talked. I wanted to go here too. We talked about Job last time and I wanted to move on and I wanted to talk about Genesis 32 and 24. It says this is talking about Jacob. Now. It says then Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him into the breaking of the day and when he saw that he did not prevail against him, the man touched the socket of his hip and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said let me go, for the day breaks.
Speaker 1:And he said I will not let you go unless you bless me. So he said to him what's your name? He said Jacob. Jacob meant supplanter, jacob meant the slimy one, the slick one. You know he was a trickster, he knew how to get his way. He said your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed. And then Jacob saying tell me your name, I pray. And he said why is it that you ask about my name? And he blessed him there. So Jacob called the name of the place Phenel, for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved, for I have seen God Face to face and my life is preserved. In other words, he was saved. Jacob said I'm saved, I have become saved Because I've seen God face to face and my life has been preserved.
Speaker 1:Now listen, jacob knew of God. Jacob had been taught of God all his life. He'd been taught of God. He'd been taught the word of God, he'd been passed down unto him and he knew God and he walked with God. But he didn't know him in a personal relationship. See, a personal relationship means that I know God in the same way that he knows me. I know God in the same way that he knows me, and that's how I have to know God.
Speaker 1:So how can we know God? How do we know that we know God and that we are known by Him? Because there's a difference. We need to be known of Him. It needs to be a relationship. Do you understand what I'm saying? We need to be known by God.
Speaker 1:All right, so how does that happen? Well, first off, you've got to know that. You know that. You know that, you know that you've been saved. You've got to know that you're born again, that you've asked Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, into your heart, that you believed he died upon the cross, rose from the grave and is seated at the right hand of the Father. And if you believe that and you call upon the blood of Jesus to wash your sins away and you repent and you turn from the direction you're going to the opposite direction, to start following him, to take up his cross daily, then you shall be saved. Right, saved, right.
Speaker 1:Well, jacob knew God face to face, and that's our walk. We need to come to know. In our faith walk, we need to come to know. We need to come to know God face to face. We need to learn of His ways. How do you do that? Through His Word, you meditate on His Word, you read His word. You ask the Holy Spirit to lead you, to guide you, to teach you the word of God that you might understand and that you might know. And in the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. That means when you're reading his word. When you're reading his word and you're following the trails and you think that he's saying one thing, find it in three more places, two or three more places, that it speaks exactly the same thing.
Speaker 1:Listen, you've got to learn of God and he will learn of you. All right, you've got to know him like he knows you. That's the thing, that's the whole key. That's the whole key that I believe that a lot of the church is missing. They know of him, but they don't know him as he knows them. He knows everything about you. You need to know everything about him and you can say well, you know, we'll never understand the mysteries of God, brother, oh, we just don't know everything that God knows. Well, why not? He says to ask me and I will show. He said ask me and I will show you my ways, for my ways are higher than your ways. I want to know the ways of God. I want to know the things of God. I want to push into to know God and I to know the things of God. I want to push into the know to know God, and I've been pushing in for over 40 something years now and reading his word and knowing his word.
Speaker 1:You don't need a man to teach you. It's okay to have teachers that teach you, it's all right, that's what God puts them there for. But they ought to just spoon feed you a bite. You ought to get so excited, you go far, but they ought to just spoon-feed you a bite. You ought to get so excited you go, dig and open up the Word of God and you start digging through there and you start finding out that bite that they gave you.
Speaker 1:You know Jacob. After that changed his life. Jacob, god knew that he was known by God and he knew that he knew God and he had seen him face to face and God had preserved his life. You need to seek God face to face. You need to hear him when he speaks. Do you know God speaks? He speaks every day. He's speaking all day long. We're just so tuned out unto the voice of God that so many times we don't hear Him. You say, well, God, don't speak to me. Well, brother, maybe you better open up your dadgum ears. Maybe you need to get in a place alone. Maybe you need to lay on your face before God and call out for Him and cry unto Him and get to know Him as he knows you.
Speaker 1:It's all about personal relationship. I know he knows me because he answers me when I call. I know he knows me because when I pray and I ask Him for Him to reveal unto me the Word of God, the truth and the Word he reveals unto me, sometimes little by little, but he reveals it unto me. If I'm praying for somebody and I know he says go over there and pray for them, that I'll heal them, and I go over there and I pray for them and I see them healed. I know it was God that sent me. I knew it was God that said go lay hands upon them. That's what his word says.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we need to start walking in the knowledge and the understanding that God is who God has said he was. He's still the God of Genesis. He's still the God of Exodus. He's still the God of Moses. He's still the God of Abraham. He's still the God of Jacob. He can still give you a cloud in the day to work by and a fire at night if needed. God is God and he moves. The same. He never changed. He says I am God and I change not. Do you believe in that God? Do you walk with that God man? I want to encourage you. If you don't know him, call out upon him today. Say, lord Jesus, come into my heart, give me that type of relationship where I know you as I am known. Call out unto him Until next time. God bless you.
