Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
11/16/2021
Do You Really Know God and His Character?
Having faith in others means developing relationships with them to the point where you know them so well, you just completely trust them. A minister friend once said that when he carries his little girl around, she never has to say, “I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that my dad will not drop me. And I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that my dad‘s going to feed me.” For that daughter, there is no striving to believe her father is going to be good to her. She just rests and relaxes in a loving relationship with him. She knows he’s going to take care of her because she knows him and his character.
One of the reasons the Christian life has been so hard for a lot of people is because they haven’t really developed a personal relationship with God. They don’t know him intimately. When you really know the person is trustworthy, it’s not hard to believe him or her.
I personally believe that faith is a direct response of knowing God better.
It’s not hard for those who really know God to believe him and his word. And when they believe God‘s word, it’s not hard for them to receive from him. But if they don’t know God very well, Satan can discredit him and say all kinds of false things about him because they don’t know any better.
The word of God is simple. Someone once said it’s so simple, you’ve got to have somebody help you to misunderstand. There’s nothing hard about the word of God. The biggest problem is that people don’t really hear it. They are thinking about breakfast or lunch or visiting a friend.
There is no time to grow a relationship with God.
Most of us know about faith teaching, how to confess the word, and all of the related principles; Yet you’ve got this nagging doubt that you can’t overcome. It’s a fear inside that makes you wonder, is God really going to heal me? Did you know fear would be totally cast out of peoples thinking if they understood the perfect love of God for them? 1 John 4:18 says that “perfect love cast out fear.”
The truth is when people become fearful, wondering if God‘s will for their life is actually going to come to pass, then they don’t really understand and know God and his immense love for them.
Think about this from a father’s perspective. If God loved us enough to send his only son to die for us, then doesn’t he love us enough to bring about his will in our lives if we are being obedient to him?
We may know some things about God, but if we really knew God‘s love for us, we wouldn’t doubt him so easily and question his willingness to help us. He couldn’t be discredited so easily if we really understood how much she cared for us. I pray that you see that.
The first and greatest Commandment is all about our relationships: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27).
A person’s love for God must show itself in
how much one trusts God and his Character.
** The Father’s House – Cory Asbury (Lyrics)
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** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVi0CDicEQ
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Excerpts are taken heavily from the true nature of God by Andrew Wommack
