Promise: I Participate in an Intimate Relationship with God

This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us:

He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God.

1 John 4:13, 15 MSG

Excerpted from: The Surprising Joy of Embracing God’s Promises: 365 Reminders of His Faithfulness.

Steps on Your Journey to Embrace God’s Faithfulness:

• Think about this: we can have an intimate relationship with God, because His Spirit lives in us and gives us life.
• We have the choice to abide in Him, to live in Him. Are you doing that? Why or why not?
• What do these verses add?
• 2 John 1:9 (NLT): “Anyone who remains in the teaching of Christ has a relationship with both the Father and the Son.”
• 1 John 3:24 (ESV): “Whoever keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.”
• Romans 5:11 (NLT): “We can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.”
• What does it mean to you that you get to have an intimate relationship with God?
• What does that look like for you? If you’re not sure, ask Him to show you.
• The condition for this promise is we must confess that Jesus is God’s Son. Have you done that? If not, then this promise is not for you. However, you can make that choice today.
• I’m so blessed having an intimate relationship with God. I spend time with Him every day, because He is my closest friend. Not only do I talk to Him, but I also take time to listen to what He says. Sometimes He talks to me from His Word, sometimes it is His word directly to me. How about you?
• Speak this truth out loud: “I declare that I have an intimate relationship with God.”

A Prayer for You:

Spirit of God, thank You that because You live in me and are giving me life, I can participate continuously in an intimate relationship with God. Show me more of what that means and how to live in it.

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