In the heart of our week on being the child of God, we're going to take time today

to look at how we can position ourselves to receive the wealth of fatherly affections God has

for us.

God's love changes everything.

I pray that the Father gives you a profound revelation of that today.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Being the child of God gives us an open invitation into the

endless affections our Heavenly Father has for us.

There is no end to the wealth of His love.

There is no limit to how deeply and tangibly we can experience his heart.

Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we can live our lives totally and completely experiencing the love of the

creator and sustainer of all. Psalm 365 says, your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the clouds. When you look across the horizon as far as your eye can see, picture the arms

of your heavenly father stretching even farther than the faintest speck of blue sky. When you see the

clouds in their immensity and wonder, picture the enormity of your God's faithful love towards you.

So great is the wealth of affections your Heavenly Father has towards you

that He would send his pure blameless son as payment for the sins that have kept you from experiencing his love.

So great was his desire for you to know his heart that Jesus gave his life,

creating a bridge across the vast chasm of sin that separated you and the Father.

1 John 410 says,

In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his son

to be the propitiation for our sins. Most of us wander through life looking for any source of love

we can find. We give ourselves to people, jobs, society, and wrongful expectations trying our hardest to satiate an insatiable need to be loved.

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