A partial list of notes and Scriptures: 

Job 42:1  Then Job answered the LORD and said: 
Job 42:2  "I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. 
Job 42:3  You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 
Job 42:4  Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, 'I will question you, and you shall answer Me.' 
Job 42:5  "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. 
Job 42:6  Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes." 

Does God brag about us?

(Mat 7:21)  "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
(Mat 7:22)  Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
(Mat 7:23)  And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

(Jas 2:23)  And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS." And he was called the friend of God.

What was about Abraham's belief that was so powerful??

Let us consider some of the Promises He makes with an eye to coming to really KNOW WHO GOD is... 

Background of Abraham.
Gen 11:27  This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 
Gen 11:28  And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 
Gen 11:29  Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 
Gen 11:30  But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 
Gen 11:31  And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 
Gen 11:32  So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. 
Knowledge of God passed down in generations from Noah to Abraham.

(Gen 12:1)  Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
Gen 12:2  I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 
Gen 12:3  I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." 
Gen 12:4  So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 

This is NOT just about "knowledge" ... 
DO YOU HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with GOD?  Has HE intervened in your life in the past in ways that you KNOW it was PERSONAL and IMMEDIATE?

(Exo 33:11)  So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

GOD wants a personal FAMILY and Friendship relationship with US... 

Do you still have a HOLE in your being, meant to be filled with GOD and HIS WORD... but being filled to some degree with other things... with the distractions of this world?

WOULD GOD call you: Friend?  Friends talk about facts but also about feelings, concerns, emotions, anxieties??

(Gen 12:2)  I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
(Gen 12:3)  I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Gen 12:4  So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 
Gen 12:5  Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. 
Gen 12:6  Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. 
Gen 12:7  Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. 
Gen 12:8  And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. 
Gen 12:9  So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. 
Abraham is soujourning in the land, getting acquainted with it. There is a TRUST that he has over what God is doing in His life.

Abraham keeps GOD's COMMANDMENTS!

Gen 26:1  There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. 
Gen 26:2  Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. 
Gen 26:3  Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 
Gen 26:4  And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 
Gen 26:5  because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." 

Were these the laws given in Sinai?  Things preserved from the beginning via Noah through the FLOOD and Abraham still kept them.

1Jn 2:3  Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 
1Jn 2:4  He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 
1Jn 2:5  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 
1Jn 2:6  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 

It does not matter how skilled, charismatic one is... what matters is the KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS>

IF you want to KNOW GOD, you need to keep HIS COMMANDMENTS as contained in the Scriptures... 

I am NOT going to judge WHERE God is working... but IF I do NOT keep HIS commandments, I am a LIAR.

It is a very HIGH Standard... 

(Jud 1:9)  Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
(Jud 1:10)  But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

In the news today all we see are accusations one on top of the other...  Connecting too much can ""RUB OFF IN US" " ... 
We should not bring accusations... should give people the benefit of the doubt... 

TO KNOW GOD is to know GOD will be faithful in HIS TIME and HIS WAY.

Gen 13:1  Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. 
Gen 13:2  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 

HOW many promises were actually fulfilled in ABRAHAM's LIFE TIME???

From www.Bible.org   on fulfillment of promises of GOD to Abraham.

(Gal 3:7)  Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
(Gal 3:8)  And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."
(Gal 3:9)  So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
As best as we know Abraham never saw this in his lifetime.

Gen 15:1  After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." 
Gen 15:2  But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" 
Gen 15:3  Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!" 
(Gen 15:4)  And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."
(Gen 15:5)  Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
(Gen 15:6)  And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

WE need God's Spirit to know WHO GOD IS.

(1Co 2:11)  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
(1Co 2:12)  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

DID Abraham have God's Spirit?

(Gen 14:18)  Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
(Rom 4:20)  He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

1 Cor points out that without GOD's Spirit we can't know WHO GOD IS. 

Gen 25:1  Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 
Gen 25:2  And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 
Gen 25:3  Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 
Gen 25:4  And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 
Gen 25:5  And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

Gen 17:5  No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. 
Gen 17:6  I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 
Gen 17:7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 
Gen 17:8  Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." 

Some will say, that is the OT. I am NOT Abraham... 

Joh 15:12  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 
Joh 15:13  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. 
Joh 15:14  You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 
(Joh 15:15)  No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
(Joh 15:16)  You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
(Joh 15:17)  These things I command you, that you love one another.

Question is for us... Heb 1 HE speaks via His Word.

Let us CULTIVATE THE RELATIONSHIP.