(Please refer to Tool #7 for some help in this.)

God's Love Language:

God's PARENTAL LOVE

 IS UNCONDITIONAL

HE WILL LOVE US TO THE END

WITH HIS BURNING PARENTAL LOVE.

  Even we, as born-again children of His, can be 'not fun' to be around - even grevious to Him.  That is why we are told to not grieve Him.  (Ephes 4:30)

That is why we need to keep pleasing Him - 

and be sensing His pleasure with us.

Let's try to not be hurting His feelings.

Nor wake up in Eternity realizing we 

could have minimized this a lot more.

He is in a lot of pain

overseeing all mankind - all creation.

Let's help make His job as easy as we can.

          FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD -

 the FRIENDSHIP LOVE OF GOD

                IS CONDITIONAL  (John 14) 

For us to believe in the frequently taught 'Santa Claus' love of God - that God is fully pleased and happy with us at all times - no matter how we live our lives, no matter what we do, or how we behave, or what we say -

Is blasphemous, ignorant, and despicable.

It is a false gospel.

We are clearly taught in the

Old Testament and New Testament

that we should continually be 

'FOLLOWING GOD.'

He is frequently 'on the move'

and doing different things . . .

hoping & expecting us to Follow Him.

It is comforting to know, therefore,

that He will make

that path behind Him for us to follow

- CLEAR to us. -

It would not be right for Him to do otherwise.

Jesus defined the most important activity in all of life:

                                                                                                                     (Luke 10) 

                      1.  Sitting at His feet.

                      2.  Listening to His Word

  So many times we can nobly strive to be in His presence

- actually finding ourselves in God's presence -

but we aren't Listening to Him.

 Close to Him - but still not really Listening to Him.

There are 2 parts to this thing.

Let us strive to always be Listening to Him

- Even when a spouse, a boss, a neighbor,

a family member, a lowly person - even a child - 

is correcting us.

There is a Pure, Raw Church Service every morning,

starting on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S.

and moving westward with the sun . . . 

           It is around His throne in heaven. (Hebrews 4:16)

Let's show-up there as best we can.

     There are a lot of pure-hearted Christians there.

 Jesus described 3 Spiritual Temperatures:

1. HOT   2. COLD   3. LUKEWARM

 Lukewarm  was repulsive enough

to make Him want to vomit.

What temperature

are we deciding to be each day?

10 THINGS

God thinks we should be

asking Him for

and dialoging with Him about

      every day . . . 

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