THE CURE
A child is no different to a poor person even though they have billions in a trust fund.
Galations 4:1 What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2 The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
In other words, nothing ever changes until you understand how loved you are. Until you know it, you are no different to someone who isn’t loved.
In the law a child doesn’t get access to a trust fund till they are 18.
- Because the law thinks that until that child is 18, they aren’t mature enough to handle their inheritance properly
- But even more so they could be susceptible to the manipulation of older adults to give away their inheritance.
1. The way you feel is different.
2. The way you approach PAIN and Injustice changes.
3. The way you pray gets better results.
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, the very first word was the word Father. Prayer means nothing and does nothing if you aren’t really praying to your father. The whole of Jesus teaching on prayer depends on the Fathers love.
The bible says that Whatever you pray for….. believe and you will receive. Maybe he’s not just talking about the thing you are believing FOR, but the person you are believing IN.
The 2 times God speaks audibly that is recorded in the NT, he says the same thing. He leaves nothing on the table. It’s not I love you if…or I love you because.
Matt 17 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
It was a revelation of God’s love for him that created unreasonable trust. A trust beyond the normal.
Paul takes up the concept again in the book of Romans where he is trying to explain the grace of God. Where he is trying to explain the radical concept that God your Father loves you.
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. 12 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children
Now we call him, “Abba, Father.
NOW……we call him……and he writes Pater, which is greek for father. But then he stops. I can imagine him sitting there after he has written the greek word for father and his mind is in a spin so after much thinking and praying, Right in the middle of his greek text, he inserts an Aramaic word called ABBA which was used by a child in that culture calling out to his Papa, his Dad.
I love what one dictionary says about Abba. Whereas Father expresses an intelligent apprehension of the relationship, Abba is the word framed by the lips of infants and betokens unreasoning trust.
We have to stop praying to G.O.D and start praying to D.A.D
4. The fullness of God comes to those who know they are loved
I want you to turn in your bible to Ephesians 3:14 and read what Paul wrote about this:
14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family£ in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp(it’s something you have to grasp and grab hold of) how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—unto youa re filled with all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and [h]become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
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