Born Again Into A Relationship With The Father #22

Summary:

It’s one thing the be saved, or born again, where you know you are assured a place in heaven. But why would you want to stop there, when the door is completely open for us to start talking to Him and listening for what He has to say back to us? That’s what starts cultivating a personal, close relationship with the Father. God is not this distant being in the sky who cannot be related to. He’s a loving Father to every one of us, who wants to be in every aspect of our lives, to guide and help us to become just like His Son, Jesus.

 

Show Notes:

• As much as Jesus referred to God as a Father throughout His ministry, it is not talked about much around the country in Christian circles.

• If Christians don’t really know God as a Father, they tend to disengage when they hear this being talked about, because they know God conceptually, but they never really connected with God as a Father personally.

• Having a true relationship with the Father is not quite the same as a relationship with one another. We can touch, feel and even hug one another, but with the Father, it has to be a spiritual thing.

• A true relationship with the Father doesn’t just happen when you become saved, it starts to come when you make it a priority, not just to pray or talk to Him but also in learning how to listen for what He has to say back to you.

• Being into and learning the Bible is a wonderful thing, but it isn’t meant to be a substitute for our relationship with the Father.

• We as Christians have all the faith we need, but it still up to us to activate it. You can use it to move a mountain, or you can choose to let it lay there dormant but you do have it. It is a matter of us moving in the spirit, with the help of the Holy Spirit that gets your faith going.

 

Quotes:

• Jesus said to Nicodemus, “you must be born again, or you can’t see the Kingdom”. When we’re born again, we step into the plan that God has for our life, and if we’re not born again, we don’t. So, you can’t fulfill the plan that God has for you.

• When I had the encounter with the Father, my prayer was, “God, if You’re out there, You’ve got to help me”. When I prayed that prayer, something obviously happened for me.

• God could be anything He wanted to be. It was His choice to be Father. God reveals Himself as Father, because that’s who He really is.

• Knowing He is Father is not the same as knowing Him as Father. It’s the relationship aspect of that. That’s where the magic happens. It happens in the relationship with God the Father. Don’t complicate it. It’s really, really simple.

• You can check out a book on Abraham Lincoln or anybody like that, and you can learn a lot of stuff about them, but you can’t know them, because you can’t interact with them anymore. It’s different with the Lord.

• One of the greatest opportunities of our lives is that we can communicate with God . I don’t mean just talk. We can also listen and discern what God is saying to us. As we do that, we develop what we call relational equity.

• If we will start listening and make it a priority to hear what it is that God’s saying, it trims our list of what we need to ask Him way down, because God will talk to us about the things that are in His heart, the things that are pertinent to us. If you give God a little time, He will confirm that it’s Him who you are dealing with.

 

References:

Philippians 4:6-7

John 10:27

Galatians 5:25

Romans 12:3

 

Takeaways:

Being born again is not the end of a walk with God, but just the beginning. Having a true, close relationship with the Father is what our hearts should be desiring, where we can talk with as well as listen to Him, and truly become and walk in all that He has for us.