The Purpose Driven Life - My Journey Day 12
일요일, 3월 05, 2006

Developing your friendship with God

You must be honest to God. God does not expect you to be perfect, but He expects you to be honest.

To be God's friends, you must be honest to God, sharing your true feeling, not what you think tou ought to feel or say.

Bitterness is the greatest barrier to friendship with God.

Expressing doubts is sometimes the first step toward the next level of intimacy with God.

You must obey God in faith. "I have loved you as the Father has loved Me. Remain in My love. When you obey Me, you remain in My love, just as I obey My Father and remain in His love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with My joy. Yes, your joy will overflow."

God is more pleased when we do small things for Him out of loving obedience.

You must value what God values. The more you become God's friends, the more you care about the things He cares about.

You must desire a friendship with God more than anything else.
"My determined purpose is that I may know Him - that I may progressively become more deeply and intimate acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly."

You are as close to God as you choose to be; and don't be surprised when God allows pain in your life.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.
C. S. Lewis said, "Pain is God's megaphone." It is His way of arousing us from spiritual lethargy.

Your problems are not punishment, they are wake-up calls from a loving God. He is not mad at you, He is mad about you and He will do whatever it takes to bring you back into the fellowship with Him. But there is an easy way to re-ignite your fellowship - it is by ASKING Him for a new relationship bond again.
"When you get serious about finding Me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed."

There is nothing more important than a relationship with God!
"Some of these people have missed the most important thing in life - they don't know God."

James 4:8a; "Draw close to God, and He will draw close to you."

Erwinator wrote at 6:45 오후

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