A Prayer to Know God As Father
By Lynette Kittle

“Jesus answered, ‘I’m the way in which and the reality and the life. Nobody involves the Father besides by Me’”– John 14:6

Many individuals who ask Jesus to be their Lord and Savior cease there. Grateful and relieved to have their sins forgiven with the hope and promise of Heaven, they by no means transcend their Salvation expertise to grasp how Jesus is the Technique to have a detailed and private relationship with our Heavenly Father.

However as great as being free of sin’s grip, God doesn’t need us to cease there as a result of Jesus is the door, the gate to realizing Him as Father.

John 10:9, “I’m the gate; whoever enters by Me might be saved. They may are available in and exit, and discover pasture.”

Likewise, John 6:44 explains how God the Father is the rationale, the drawing power to why we’re in a position to invite Jesus into our lives and obtain everlasting life, as “Nobody can come to me except the Father who despatched me attracts them, and I’ll increase them up on the final day.”

Fatherless Believers
Many women and men on this planet have had hurtful, wounding experiences with imperfect earthly fathers. In addition to there are numerous people who’ve by no means recognized, met, and even know who’s their organic father, a lot much less skilled a loving father determine of their lives. Due to rising up upset, damage, or fatherless, many reject seeing God as their father, not realizing how or eager to relate to Him. But God calls us to be His little kids. Because of many earthly fathers failing or abandoning their kids or simply not realizing the right way to be a father to their children, many people wrestle with regarding Him as their Heavenly Father.

Jesus Is the Technique to Our Father
However God the Father’s coronary heart all alongside, ever since man and girl’s Fall within the backyard, has been to revive us as His little kids, and Jesus is the way in which He supplied to carry us again to Him. Ephesians 2:13 explains, “However now in Christ Jesus you who as soon as had been distant have been introduced close to by the blood of Christ.” Via Christ’s struggling, loss of life, and resurrection, Jesus achieved God’s will on earth to redeem and restore us to His Father. As 2 Corinthians 6:18 explains, “And, “I might be a Father to you, and you may be my little kids, says the Lord Almighty.”

Jesus fulfilled His mission on earth, to return and restore us as little kids to the Father. “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him within the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus”(Ephesians 2:6). Due to Jesus’ life, loss of life, and resurrection, “Reward be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us within the heavenly realms with each non secular blessing in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3).

Let’s pray:

Pricey Father,
Thanks for loving me and sending Jesus to the world to free me from my sins and provides me everlasting life by Him (John 3:16). My coronary heart is without end grateful to You for offering a approach to be reconciled to You (2 Corinthians 5:18). Via Jesus, You supplied the way in which for me to be Your youngster and to know You as my Father.

Mend my coronary heart, Father, from earthly fathering wounds. Take away all partitions and obstacles that constructed up through the years to withstand receiving Your love and presence in my life. Put together me to be keen to welcome you into my life as my Father. Present me the right way to be in a father-child relationship with You. Open up my coronary heart to narrate, obtain, and attain out to You as my Father. Educate me to see myself as Your youngster.

Thanks for calling me one among Your kids. As 1 Peter 1:3 explains, “Reward be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His nice mercy, He has given us new start right into a residing hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the lifeless.”

In Jesus’ title,
Amen

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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Concentrate on the Household, Resolution, At the moment’s Christian Girl, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Verify TV.

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