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    Abiding in the Father's Love
    Abiding in the Father's Love
    Abiding in the Father's Love
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    Abiding in the Father's Love

    By Joe McIntyre

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    Many believers struggle in their walk with God. Their imperfections haunt them and make them feel
    unworthy before God. Christianity is relationship before anything else. It is our heavenly Father's
    invitation to come and fellowship with Him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 21, 2009
    ISBN9780991013654
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      Abiding in the Father's Love - Joe McIntyre

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      INTRODUCTION

      The Father of Lights, with Whom there is no shadow of turning, invites you into deep, rich fellowship with Him. You were created for this. Your life will never know the security and significance for which you were brought forth without the experience of your Father’s love for you.

      Our walk with the Lord is hindered to the degree that we fall short of entering into the place of loving acceptance prepared for us in Jesus Christ. We end up striving for approval instead of basking in our God-given standing in grace. We work hard instead of trusting much. We wear ourselves out trying to please a Father we’re not sure accepts us, when He has made every provision for our complete acceptance now.

      This book beckons you to learn to receive your Father’s love. Father has prepared a place of rest for you. Only you can fill that place. If you don’t fill it, it will remain unfilled because it was created for you alone. Your Father grieves when you struggle and strive to find worthiness before Him when He placed you in Christ where there is no condemnation.

      Many are concerned with the amount of sin in the Church. They are contending for a revival of repentance. Sometimes, however, these attempts are misguided. When Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit coming to convict of sin, He only mentions one particular sin.

      John 16:8-9

      And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me.

      The sin that the Holy Spirit comes to convict men of is unbelief. This is the root of every other sin. This doesn’t apply only to the lost. What Jesus has done for us, we only partially apprehend when we are Born Again. Jesus has accomplished a perfect work that meets every need of mankind. He now ever lives to intercede for us and is able to bring us to full salvation. He has opened up a new and living way into the presence and fellowship of the Father. It is not related to how sanctified we are but is available to the youngest new believer. It doesn’t depend on how holy our works are, but how holy His work is.

      The real key to lasting change is beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The Father drew us to the Son and revealed Him to us. You could not have come to Jesus unless the Father had drawn you. Now the Son desires to reveal the Father to you. He has opened the Way by His blood, for you to draw near with confidence. We grow in faith as our fellowship deepens with the Father. To know Him is to love Him. To love Him is to trust Him. To trust Him is to believe His Word.

      The purpose of this book is to stir up your hunger to know the Father. Deep within all of us is a longing that can’t be satisfied with anything else except the knowledge of Him. The good news is that this longing is not one-sided. He longs to know you intimately as well. He created you for this relationship and fellowship. He won’t be satisfied until you know Him and enter into the rest predestined for you. Out of that rest will flow everything the Father desires to see in your life.

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      THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF OUR FAITH

      When I was a boy, I went to a religious school. We were taught to memorize many statements about God. These statements were often brought to us in question-and-answer form.

      Why did God make us? Answer: God made us to know, love and serve Him.

      One of the great causes of guilt and condemnation in the Church today is the lack of desire many have to serve God. They know they should want to serve Him, but don’t find it in their hearts to give God their whole-hearted devotion. Could this be rooted in an image of God that is a distortion of the biblical picture of our Father? Many see God, not as a loving Father who longs for a deep relationship with us, but rather a just, austere, holy Being who is ever on the alert to show us our sin. Many think if I could get a revelation of how sinful I am, maybe I would find lasting change.

      Certainly our Father wants us to walk in holiness. But is a deeper conviction of our sinfulness the key to lasting change? I want to suggest that the revelation we need is not one of our sinfulness. Rather, we need revelation of who He is and what He has provided for us in His Son. It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance (Rom.2:4). We can’t expect to love and serve a God whom we hardly know, or One we have greatly misunderstood.

      The Revelation of the Father

      Part of the problem we face is that the Father can only be known by revelation. Since He is an invisible spirit being, we can’t image Him. Most of us, then, call to mind some image of Jesus

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