I have 3 married children. In one of their houses, they have a great poster stuck up on the kitchen wall. It reads something like this: “If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your wife told you!” This is really appropriate when trying to figure out just how to live our Christian lives! Try listening to Jesus! He said in John chapter 7,38-39a: Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart…
INTIMACY WITH GOD God created us for intimacy with him! Everything is made ready for you to have that intimate relationship – to sit at the table – to partake – to know his presence, to hear his voice. It matters not how long you have been a Christian – from the start of your life of faith, God wants that intimate relationship with you! And, it is the Spirit that makes the things of God real to us! The key…
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may…