The document discusses pursuing God through spending time with him. It contrasts Martha's busywork with Mary spending time at Jesus' feet listening. True service to God comes from devotion to him through prayer, intimacy, and obedience. The acronym DIGONG outlines pursuing God through devotion, intimacy, goal-setting, obedience, nurturing the relationship, and going to share him with others. The conclusion emphasizes that God desires relationship with us above all else and calls us to experience him personally.

1. Pursuit of
God

2. Pursue
- To chase after someone or something.
- To follow and try to catch or capture
(someone or something).
- To engage in.

3. Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and the disciples continued
on their way to Jerusalem, they came to
a certain village where a woman named
Martha welcomed him into her home.
39 her sister, Mary, sat at the lord’s feet,
listening to what he taught.

4. Luke 10:38-42
40 But Martha was distracted by the big
dinner she was preparing. She came to
Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem
unfair to you that my sister just sits
here while I do all the work? Tell her to
come and help me.”

5. Luke 10:38-42
41 But the Lord said to her, “My dear
Martha, you are worried and upset over
all these details!
42 There is only one thing worth being
concerned about. Mary has discovered
it, and it will not be taken away from
her.”

6. Personality
Profiles

7. MARTHA MARY
STRENGTHS &
ACCOMPLISH
MENTS
 Hospitable
homemaker
 Had a strong desire
to do everything
exactly right
 Was able to
anoint Jesus
while he was still
living. (Matt
26:6-13)
 Learned when to
listen and when
to act.
WEAKNESSES
& MISTAKES
 Was overly
concerned w/
details
 Expected others to
agree w/ her
priorities
 Limited Jesus’
power to this life.

8. MARTHA MARY
LESSONS
FROM
HER LIFE
- There is a proper
time to listen to
Jesus and a proper
time to work for him
- Busyness of
serving God can
become a barrier
to knowing him
personally.

9. Are you so busy doing
things in this world that
you’re not spending any
time with Jesus?

10. What kind of hospitality
does Jesus receive in your
life?

11. Are you busy planning &
running your life that you
neglect precious time w/ Him?

12. Or do you respond to Him by
listening to his Word, then
finding ways to worship Him
with your life?

13. Do not let your service
become self-serving.

14. Service to Christ can
degenerate into mere
busywork that is totally devoid
of devotion to God.

15. It is the enemy's way to make us
busy with our lives and with our
own pursuits so that we will not
have time to seek God. If we're
not making the habit of seeking
God, little by little, we're stepping
away in the presence of God.

16. We're doing things in our own
knowledge, in our own ways, in
our own perspectives that's why
the burden/yoke becomes to
hard for us to bear. -Ministry,
work, family, relationships,
finances, health.

17. Come to Me, all you who labor
and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. Take My yoke
upon you and learn from Me, for I
am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your
souls. For My yoke is easy and
My burden is light.” Matt 11:28-30

18. THE TRUTH

19. The yoke,man's burden
comes as a result of the
things we do ok our own
strength, our own plans,
our own wisdom.

20. The yoke is destroyed
because of the anointing-
and the anointing comes
in the presence of God.
Isaiah 10:27

21. Jesus is inviting us to
come to him in our daily
lives. He wants us to
pursue Him first before
anything/anyone else.

22. Acronyms on how we can
pursue God in a right way:
DIGONG

23. DEVOTION

24. Martin Luther understood the
importance of time spent with God.
The more he had to do in a day,
the more time he spent in prayer.
He said, “I have so much to do that
I must spend the first 3 hours of
each day in prayer.”

25. INTIMACY

26. John 15:5
5 Without him we can do nothing

27. The life we live, we live thru Christ,
living out through us. Everything
we do is based on Christ in us, and
in Christ in us is based on time
spent with him.

28. GOAL

29. To know God and make him
known.

30. OBEDIENCE

31. John 14:15
15"IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL DO WHAT I
COMMAND.”

32. NURTURE

33. Many of us don't want to bother
God too often with our problems
and worries so we store up
problems and don't bother God
unless we have crisis. He sets it up
so we are in constant need of him-
so that we can be in a constant
fellowship with him.

34. GO

35. Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
teaching them to obey everything
I have commanded you. And
surely I am with you always, to the
very end of the age.
Matt 28:19-20

36. When we seek God, all other
things will come.

37. Any time we seek a
characteristic or ideals, we get
out of balance and a truth
replaces THE TRUTH. All balance
is rooted in HIM.

38. Most people only come to God
in crisis situation, when they
FEEL THE URGENCY.

39. The truth is, every moment
leaves us completely helpless
without Him.

40. CONCLUSION

41. God is calling us to Himself. More
than anything else he wants what
every child wants from their
parent. He wants what every wife
wants from her husband. He wants
what every lover wants from his
love- TIME. He wants to spend time
with you,
He wants your love.

42. The heart of God beats to spend
time with us. His great desire is to
have n intimate relationship with
us. God is more interested in us
doing something WITH HIM, than
doing something FOR HIM.

43. Imagination is not enough.
Doctrine is not enough. Preaching
is not enough. God must be
experienced, gazed upon,
enjoyed. God meant for us to
experience him in a personal way
so that we can also share Him in a
personal way.