Seeing God correctly is essential to centering your life around him and his presence.

Many of us have a tainted view of earthly fathers, but today God wants to renew your view of Him as your perfect Heavenly Father.

As we grow an understanding of God's perfect love and relation to us,

may centering your life around his presence come naturally.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast.

If there's one name for God that has the power to dramatically transform the lives of believers,

it's that we can call God Abba, our father.

To see God as our father changes everything, in Brenning Manning's book, The Furious Longing

of God, he asked a pertinent and powerful question. Is your own personal prayer life characterized

by the simplicity, childlike candor, boundless trust, and easy familiarity of

a little one crawling up in a daddy's lap, and assured knowing that the daddy doesn't

care if the child falls asleep, starts playing with toys, or even starts chattering with

little friends because the daddy knows the child has essentially chosen to be with him

for that moment.

Is that the spirit of your inner prayer life?

When I read these questions, I thought to myself, surely it can't be this simple.

Surely this can't be all God expects of me.

We've missed the mark on what it truly means to be children of a good, near, and loving

father. We've projected our own insecurities, perspectives, and experiences on a God who

is love embodied. There is nothing we can ever do to make God love us anymore than he already

does. There's nothing we can do to make him love us any less. God loves us because he loves us.

He enjoys us because he enjoys us. He wants to be with us because that's how he is, not because we

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