A hostile world! I call to GOD, I cry to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; my cry brings me right into his presence—a private audience!- Psalm 18:6 MSG Our Power Comes From Private Encounters with God Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. - John 14:6 NLT "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! - John 15:5-7 NLT **1. The Place of ** For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. - Romans 8:20-21 NIV **2. The Place of ** In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened; he saved me from all my troubles. For the angel of the LORD is a guard; he surrounds and defends all who fear him. - Psalm 34:6-7 NLT But I am trusting you, O LORD, saying, “You are my God!” My future is in your hands. Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly. - Psalm 31:14-15 NLT Desperate, I throw myself on you: you are my God!—PSALM 31:14 MSG “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them. For he broke down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron. - Psalm 107:13-16 NLT **3. The Place of ** Don’t about what you’re not willing to . I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.' - Jeremiah 31:19 NLT But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way. Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world. - 1 Corinthians 11:31-32 NLT God did not call us to be , He called us to be . **4. The Place of ** See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know him. - 1 John 3:1 NLT “This is the way the woman at the well must have felt. This is the way the small children Jesus called to Himself must have felt. This is the way Lazarus must have felt when he exited his tomb. This is the way Peter must have felt when he felt the hand of God as he sank in the water. This is the way Mary and John must have felt when Jesus looked at them from the cross. I am talking about a personal encounter with God.”—Pat Schatzline