God, your Father

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BenFTW

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God isn't just God the Father, but He is God your Father. Oftentimes we like to categorize things without giving it much thought beyond organization and well, theology. However, we ought to personalize these truths. Consider it for a moment. You are a child of God by the Spirit of Adoption through the Son, Jesus Christ, who God your Father sent to reconcile you to Himself.

He isn't just your Lord, though He is, but He is your Father who loves you deeply, who cherishes you. Allow yourself to fathom that level of intimacy. He isn't just the God you serve, as a servant, but the Father you honor and wish to please. Its a paradigm shift as you begin to see the Lord as your Father, it warms the heart and draws you closer to Him. Know that He is your Father, in who you can trust. See Him as close, nearby, as He watches over you with every breath you take gazing upon you with an everlasting love.
 

BillG

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Amen and that’s the truth.

He loves us so much.
He loves us as much as he loves Jesus.
An everlasting love since the foundations of the earth was formed.
He so longs for relationship with all, he doesn’t want robots.

If we could fathom even 1% of his love for us then I am sure we would be totally different.

If any stuleuggle in their walk with God, seek his love and hold on to it and walk in that love.

Fantastic post Ben.
 
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Zmouth

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You are a child of God by the Spirit of Adoption through the Son, Jesus Christ, who God your Father sent to reconcile you to Himself.
So if a child of God by the Spirit of Adoption then who was the Spirit that gave them life?

He is that is born of the flesh is flesh. There is no life in the flesh without the spirit, or breath of life that is put in the nostril of all flesh. Thus, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

However, the Spirit referred unto is not the pnuema [See; John 7:39] but rather the Word.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
 

DustyRhodes

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And He is not only our Father but our Divine Father. He opens our hearts so
that we can love Him divinely without being divine.
 

BillG

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So if a child of God by the Spirit of Adoption then who was the Spirit that gave them life?

He is that is born of the flesh is flesh. There is no life in the flesh without the spirit, or breath of life that is put in the nostril of all flesh. Thus, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

However, the Spirit referred unto is not the pnuema [See; John 7:39] but rather the Word.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
And your point is what?

John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Jeremiah 31:3-4
3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
You shall again be adorned with your tambourines,
And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

We are all born of flesh, even Jesus was born of the flesh here on earth.
Yet before he came here The father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit coexisted as one in perfect unity and LOVE.

The same love God has for us.
He knew when we would be born and also knows when we will die.
He wishes that no one would perish becuase he loves them.
 

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Amen, He is our lovely Father KJVJohn1:12-13 12." But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."