A Divine Appointment with God/ An Encounter

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An Encounter is a dramatic experience that completely changes the course of our lives.  All of us have already experienced many important milestones, or encounters, in our lives: falling in love and getting married, being accepted into a university, obtaining a job, etc.  But of all the encounters we could have, the most important one is an encounter with the living God!  Matthew 16:26 says, “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world , yet  forfeits his soul?”

An Encounter Retreat presents a series of experiences and personal teachings that result in visible, manifested change in the lives of all who participate.  It offers people an environment that allow them to discover how to establish their relationship with God, how to have direct fellowship with Him and how to commit to His lordship in their lives.

Participants are given the opportunity to know and accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior and to receive blessed     assurance.  They are taught the claims of the Gospel and experience forgiveness of sin, deliverance from bondage,  emotional and physical healing, and restoration of worth and value.  They also learn how to walk in the blessings of a covenant relationship with God and His family.  Being a Christian means to live by God’s Word-learning it, personally experiencing it, and obeying it.  The Bible gives us many examples of people who did just that and were radically transformed by their personal encounters with the Lord Jesus.

  Remember the stories of  the Samaritan woman ( John 4:5-29),  Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), the Gadarene demoniac (Matt. 8:28-34), and all the disciples of Christ.  After these had encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, they were never the same again.  Consequently, we can be assured that when we, too, have an encounter with Him, we will never be the same.

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