Pre Encounter Lesson 8: What You Need to Know About the Encounter

1. WHAT DO YOU NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT AN
ENCOUNTER
Pre- Encounter Lesson 8

2. THE IMPORTANCE OF AN
ENCOUNTER
You will receive
direction and
understand God’s true
purpose for your life

3. THE IMPORTANCE OF AN
ENCOUNTER
You will receive
everything God wants to
minister to you if you
completely open your
heart.

4.  During the Encounter, it is
crucial that you lay aside all
types of arguments, wrong
concepts, and prejudices
about God because those
things may hinder you from
receiving everything God
wants to offer you.

5. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
HAD AN ENCOUNTER
Then they said, "The God of
the Hebrews has met with us.
Now let us take a three-day
journey into the desert to offer
sacrifices to the LORD our God,
or he may strike us with plagues
or with the sword."
Exodus 5:3

6. Moses’ request
reflected God’s
desire to meet with
His people for three
days.

7. PHARAOH’S CRAFTINESS
Pharaoh said, "I will let you
go to offer sacrifices to the
LORD your God in the desert,
but you must not go very far.
Now pray for me."
Exodus 8:28

8. REMEMBER WHAT JESUS
SAID
“Destroy this
temple, and I will
raise it again in three
days.”
John 2:19

9. The Encounter should
last three days,
allowing God to do a
deep work of
transformation in each
one of us.

10. In the encounter, you
will experience death
of the old nature and
the resurrection to
newness of life in
Christ.

11. God wants us to have a
quiet time, where we
isolate ourselves from
our activities for a short
time and avoid any
distraction in order to
hear the voice of God
clearly.

12. WHY GOD ASK FOR THREE
DAYS?
Because that is the time
necessary for the Holy
Spirit to do a complete
work of transforming
hearts.

13. PAUL’S ENCOUNTER
 Before Paul’s conversion to the
Lord, he was a bitter persecutor
of Christians. But then, he had an
experience that transformed his
life completely, changed his
name, and caused him to defend
the very doctrine he once
condemned.

14. What brought this change of
heart?
 Paul has a revelation of the Cross.
May I never boast except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been
crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14

15. Paul said:
I want to know Christ and the
power of his resurrection and
the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in
his death,
Philippians
3:10

16. Paul:
 Desired to feel what Jesus
felt while He was on the
Cross.
 Understood that if he had this
experience, he would also be
able to experience the power
of resurrection.

17. I have been crucified
with Christ and I no longer
live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body, I
live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and
gave himself for me.
Galatians
2:20

18. Acts 26:13-18
 Paul beheld the light, which
was the manifestation of the
glory of the Lord. On that day,
God called Paul to serve Him,
and gave him instructions
concerning what to do and
how to develop his ministry.

19. By attending the Encounter,
you will:
1. Receive vision
2. Experience a genuine conversion
3. Understand that you have gone
from Satan’s control to the lordship
of Jesus
4. Understand that through faith in
Jesus, you will receive forgiveness
of sins
5. Understand your privilege in God