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Behold

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Many believers do not enjoy their Christianity as they should because they have a misunderstanding of God, regarding how to deal with Him, and regarding how He deals with them.....you.

There are many born again Saints whose entire idea of fellowship with God is not friendship, is not a love relationship, is not family...is not DADDY.. but its a sort of a "how do i make myself worthy enough for God to be nice to me and accept me".
"How can i perform enough so that God will like me, and maybe even answer a prayer"

This is almost a sort of mild performance anxiety issue, where the believer has not been able to accept or believe that God loves them because God is LOVE and that is what He does, because that is who He is......in reality.
God is Love.
Listen.... you believe that Jesus is kind, loving, compassionate, forgiving, sweet, beautiful, .....
always merciful...........don't you?
Did you ever read in the NT even once, when Jesus didn't help or heal or love someone who asked, or needed it?
Listen..
Jesus said...."if you have seen me, you have SEEN THE FATHER".


So, when a person, a believer has the wrong perception of God.... they are forever straining at the straps, performing, stressing, repenting, confessing, ever seeking to perform enough, for long enough, to be good enough.... so that God can accept them.

And truly, this performance based Christian mentality is a straight jacket of misery, and if you are wearing it, i want to offer you a verse to meditate on so that you get a True Vision of the Always Merciful, Compassionate, LOVING God,.. who saved you, and not because you earned it...... but only because "God so loved YOU" that He sent Beautiful Jesus just for you to save you.

Listen, Goodness exists only because God exists.
Love exists, only because God exists.
Compassion, Health, Joy, Peace, HOPE.....these only exist because GOD exists, as they are a part of GOD's Divine Nature.
Always realize that even if you were the only person in the world, God still would have sent His Beautiful Jesus to the Cross just to bring YOU home to His Kingdom and into His heart and family..
Thats a fact of God's eternal unconditional love for you.
its the TRUTH.

Look at this verse... and see the real God, your Father.

John 16:24

"and hitherto have you asked nothing in my name : ASK and you shall receive, that your JOY MAY BE FULL.""

Now, let me light that verse for you. .........

God says to YOU.... to YOU>....."what are you waiting for?.....ask Me.... im your Father.....I love you... I sent my Son for you.......and i want to give to you my blessings so that your joy may be full that your heart may be at peace and satisfied, always"...

Now, did you notice what you are to perform to earn this fullness of Joy that God wants to give you?

Answer.) = nothing .

You dont earn it. And the reason is, .. God's love for you is not a performance based rewards system. He is not up there taking notes and awarding and subtracting reward points, and if you finally do enough and earn enough heavenly points, you finally get a blessing or a prayer answered.
That is not God.....
That is not how God's love works, or functions.... Yet many believers are working to get God's love., working to get God's acceptance....Repenting and confessing to try to be "OK" with God..... working to get God to love them....and they never feel it, ever.. And that is because God's love is FREELY given, not earned.
Its not worked for, or earned...Its RECEIVED, just like the "gift of Salvation."
God IS Love.... It what He is....Its what He does.., and He loves you so much, reader.

You noticed in that verse... the reward of = "that your JOY might be full"... = IS Blessing.
That is how God LOVES. "Blessing". "Favor".... "JOY".. "WISDOM".... "Peace"... '"Miracles"
God wants all this for you. This is How He loves you.... He loves by GIVING and GIVING, and never is this based on your performance. Its always and only based on God's nature.... As God is a giver... God is LOVE. God loves YOU.

Believe it.
Receive it.
Rest in God's love.
 
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I would tend to agree with you on that @Behold. God loves us regardless of what we do. It's judgment that I worry about really.
 
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"in Deed and Truth".

This is how God loves us...

"In Deed"....... He sent Jesus, who is God wrapped in Human Flesh to the Cross for the fall of us all. And by this Sacrifice of God on the Cross we may partake of God's Spirit, God's Heaven, and God's Eternal life by Faith.

"In Truth"...... Truth exists because God exists. Truth is not a concept, but rather Truth is Jesus Himself, who told us .. "I am THE Truth".

Pontius Pilate said to Jesus......"what is truth".......not knowing that THE TRUTH Himself ...... was standing there in front of Him.

Jesus is "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" and "Christ in you the hope of Glory" provides to the born again, full access to all that God is, all that God has, and all that God can do.