There Is a River: A Seven Week Guide for Deepening Your Walk with God

By Dan Lemburg

How’s your prayer life? Are you frustrated by a lack of motivation to spend quality time with the Lord? We’ve all been there. It can all change; but how do we start? Interestingly, both Old and New Testaments speak about this. They emphasize the importance of growing in the knowledge of God by means of revelation directly from Him—speaking through the Holy Spirit straight into our heart so that we might come know Jesus in a personal and dynamic way, not just about Him.

There is a River helps uncover the truth of the mystery surrounding God’s uppermost purpose for our lives. Growing in the knowledge of Him is both our responsibility and His—ours in that we must carve out time from our busy day to seek Jesus through prayer and study, God’s in that He provides the means to make it happen. It’s a spiritual thing, and He is always there to meet us as we step toward Him.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664288782

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There is a River

A Seven Week Guide for

Deepening Your Walk with God

Dan Lemburg

CommuningWithGod.org

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900322

WestBow Press rev. date: 2/15/2023

Contents

Foreword

Week 1

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 2

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 3

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 4

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 5

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 6

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Week 7

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Foreword

There is a River is an extension of the ministry of CommuningWithGod.org, whose core objective is, Leading believers into a lifestyle of communing with God for the purpose of building greater intimacy with Him.

Ephesians 3:16—19 depicts the apostle Paul’s heartfelt prayer for every follower of Christ:

"That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

may be able comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

and to know the love of Christ surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God."

We are convinced that this is Jesus’s purpose and calling for every Christian. This book is dedicated to that end. May the Spirit of God enrich your life in Jesus through this study.

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Week 1

Our story begins with an extraordinary individual, a dynamic prophet of God named Ezekiel. In Ezekiel’s day God was dealing with flagrant disobedience in His chosen people by allowing Jerusalem to be conquered by the infamous king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, who killed the majority of the populace and then uprooted and took captive the survivors into Babylon. Ezekiel lived among these exiles. It would be hard not to think of him as really exceptional since he received vision after vision—some dealing with future events and others revealing God’s heart, His intent and purpose for all