Knowing God
- What is Father's Love Letter to Kingman?
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Introducing Your Heavenly Father
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God's Original Intent
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Understanding Our Need For Love
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Having A Personal Relationship With God
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Finding Our Way Home
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Your New Relationship With God
What is Father's Love Letter to Kingman?
Father's Love Letter is a compilation of bible verses from both the Old &
New Testaments that are presented in the form of a love letter from God to us.
Written For You
This letter was written for you, and its words are penned from a God who loves
you and desires to be the father that you have been looking for all your life.
Wherever you are in your journey, we hope that this love letter will encourage
you, comfort you and guide you on your way home.
Introducing Your Heavenly Father
God is not distant and angry as many of the renaissance paintings portrayed
Him, but is loving, kind and gentle. In fact, He is the nicest person in the
universe.
God Has Been Misrepresented To Us
Over the centuries there have been many misconceptions about God and His true
nature. He has been misrepresented to us by legalistic religious leaders and
angry earthly fathers who have, by their lifestyles, distorted His true image.
God Is Love
The bible says that God is love. Pure love. And He wants
to lavish His love on you. He is not looking for more servants to add to His
Kingdom but more children to fill His house. He wants to be in relationship
with you, not because you deserve it but just because He made you, and is "head
over heels" in love with you. It is our hope that after visiting this website,
you might have a better understanding of His heart for you.
God's Original Intent
It was God's original plan in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve would live
all the days of their lives in the presence of a loving Father, and would in
turn reflect His love to their children. It was the Father's hope that each
generation would grow up in the light of His love never knowing a day of
rejection or pain.
Love Cannot Be Forced
However, love is not something that can be forced so God gave Adam and Eve the
privilege of a free will. They had the freedom to trust God and stay in the
garden or disobey Him and leave. In Genesis we read that the latter happened
and as a result of their choice to become independent, they became separated
from God.
Broken Relationships
As a result of Adam and Eve's actions, a new deadly disease called 'sin'
infected humanity. The world that God originally intended to be perfect and
full of love, was now wrought with pain and suffering because of the
consequences of sin. Hurting people tend to hurt others, which is a legacy that
has been passed on from generation to generation.
Understanding Our Need For Love
Since God created us for love, we are born with a great expectation to be loved
and accepted. It is a scientific fact that babies who are not shown loving
touch in the first few months of their lives can be physically and emotionally
affected for the rest of their lives.
We All Have A Love Deficit
Unfortunately our parents could only express the love that they had first
received from their parents. As a result, many of us have grown up with love
deficits in our hearts. While we may know we are missing something, we might
not be able to identify the emptiness that resides in the deepest part of our
being.
Filling The Void
All we know is that we need to try and fill the emptiness somehow. Some try to
fill this void in relationships, others in performance and success. And others
seek to dull the emptiness with addictions. No matter what we do, if we do not
encounter the real thing, we will always be left with a feeling of emptiness
and unfulfillment.
Having A Personal Relationship With God
There is only one place where we will find the true love and acceptance that we
are looking for and that is in a personal relationship with God. We were all
born with a God sized "hole in our soul" that can only be filled by God
Himself. Many of us have tried to fill this void with other things, but it is
like putting a square peg in a round hole...it just doesn't fit.
The Good News
The good news is that God wants to be in a relationship with us more than we
want to be in a relationship with Him. The One who knew us before we were
conceived (Jeremiah 1:4) and knit us together in our mother's womb (Psalm
139:13) wants to be our Father. While we are His offspring by creation, His
desire is that we might become His children through redemption.
Finding Our Way Home
While we were still estranged, God the Father made a way for us to come home by
sending His only son, Jesus Christ, to earth two thousand years ago to take
care of the "sin" issue that had kept us separated. In obedience to His Father,
Jesus bore upon Himself the weight of our sin, nailing it to the cross so that
we could be born into His wonderful family.
Jesus Is The Way To The Father
His resurrection from the dead signalled the
victory that would allow many sons and daughters to come into glory! In John
14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the
Father except through me". Our access to the Father is through Jesus alone. His
sacrifice was the one and only price that could be paid for our redemption and
restoration into the family of His wonderful Father. If we receive God's gift
of His Son Jesus Christ, we receive the right to become children of God!
Would You Like To Receive This Gift?
If you would like to accept this gift (eternal life in relationship with God),
Jesus Christ has secured it for you. All you need to do is to tell God that you
want to be saved. You are saved by believing, and the words below might help
you express your thoughts to God. It's not these exact words that will save
you, but the attitude of your heart towards God.
A prayer to accept or reaffirm your relationship with Jesus Christ:
Father, I'm coming home. Please make me your child. I turn from
my sin. I accept your forgiveness made possible through Jesus Christ by his
death and resurrection. I place my faith and trust in Jesus alone. I receive
him as my Savior and Lord. I want to follow and serve you. Let today be the
beginning of my new journey as your child and a member of your family. Thank
you for making a way for me to come home. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
Your New Relationship with God