I want to know how many here are struggling with their relationship with God. Maybe you feel distant from Him. Maybe he just seems so far away, so unreachable. Maybe you’re trying to reach out, but you feel like you’re in a fog…you just can’t quite think straight, or you can’t see what others seem to see. Maybe you WANT to have a close relationship with Him, but you’re afraid. Afraid what will happen when you get too close. Afraid of what you might lose, or have to give up. Or admit.
Let’s define relationship.
1. a connection, association, or involvement.
So when we want to form a relationship with God, we want a connection. We want our names to be associated with His name, Jesus. We want to be involved with what He’s doing.
2. connection between persons by blood or marriage.
When we are born again, all our previous sins are under the BLOOD of Jesus Christ. And when we believe on Him and receive Him, we are given the power to become the sons of God (
John 1:12). Sons. When a son is born, he takes on the name of his father. And when a bride and bridegroom are joined, the bride takes on the name of the bridegroom.
Isaiah 62:55
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
3. emotional or other connection between people
God loves us. The Bible says that His is a love that passes knowledge (
Ephesians 3:19). He wants us to love Him in return.
I want everyone to learn what I have been learning from God since He has taken me through the places that He’s been taking me through. I want everyone to break off oppositions, carnal desires, and fear, and I want everyone to know what it’s like to feel God’s love, and to be able to share things with Him and have him share things with you. Not just have religion. Not just have a Jesus drive-through window to go to when there’s trouble. The world can have all of that. I want Jesus. His love is “agape,” without conditions, without restraint, without boundaries.
He has a plan for this world as a whole, for the universe as a whole. And for us, each and every one of us, individually, and as a nation. As humans. As His children. I want to be a part of that plan. I don’t want to be left out. And it’s not God’s will that ANY of us be left out of it, and he is incredibly patient with us (
2 Peter 3:9). He knows we’re not perfect. He knows we stumble. But if we seek Him sincerely, unconditionally, He WILL give us answers, and will guide us, teach us, and keep us.
It IS possible to walk with God in confidence. It IS possible to have a relationship with God where you talk to Him, and He talks to you. Don’t listen to the voices that tell you it’s not. Those voices were cast out of Heaven for opposing God. They have already been defeated. But YOU are not defeated. God doesn't want you to be lost, confused, and hurting. He wants you to walk with Him so that you will have righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost (
Romans 14:17).
Talk to me, saints.
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