If the Father did not spare His own beloved Son, but generously, freely, lavishly delivered Him up to the ultimate death and torment on our behalf, how much lesser are other things in comparison?
Will The Father who did not spare the measureless gift of Christ for our primary need for Eternal Spiritual life and redemption, not give a lesser temporary thing that we need in this life?
How Great the Father's generousity and love for us in giving Christ.
Open your heart and freely receive of the Father's great gerousity and love.
Romans 8:32 paraphrased
If surely all things will be given and provided, why then do we not receive the thing which we have asked of God?
One reason may be because we have failed to believe what the first things that that are said about Christ and God in scriputure, these are the things that the Father says about Himself.
If you can believe in Christ's sacrifice and gift for you on the cross, this prepares your faith to receive and trust in the character of Christ Himself.
If you trust in the character and solidness of Christ, this prepares you to trust in the even more solid character of God who gave Christ, which is even greater in love than Christ.
Faith in the word which teaches us about the Father's great gift in Christ - is primary. The essentials build upon themselves in scripture, one level of faith leads to the next higher level. First - christ's sacrifice and its glory, second - the character of Christ, third, the Father and His glory. if you do not understand yet His atoning love, then go back to the cross. you need to believe it that, but dont end there, go on to the next level of Faith. Trust Christ! then trust the Father!
Read again all the scriptures about the Father and His Gift in Christ and the character of Christ and the Character of the Father and let the Holy spirit then rebuild faith in this wonderful God within you.
Faith in the Character of the Father in giving the Son, unlocks our heart to receive the answer for lesser things in trust. If you can receive a great God into your heart, who loves you and if you can trust in His love, this would expand your heart. Trusting and receiving such a good God will prepare your character and temper it in faith, and prepare you to receive any blessing better than anything else in the world. Faith is the great preparation.
The character of faith and trust in a good God is the primary necessity.
Patient waiting, intimate communing with God, solid trust and ready obedience then speeds the answer and the causes the arrangement of God's will to break into our lives.
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