One of our greatest privileges as a child of God is that we can have the heart of our heavenly

Father. We don't have to wonder how He feels about us. We don't have to wonder if you

will guide us. We don't have to question whether He loves us or cares about us. Through

the Holy Spirit we have continual free access to the heart of God. May your relationship

of God go deeper and become freer as we learn how to have God's heart this week. Welcome

to the first 15 podcast. God longs to be known by you. He longs for you to make time to

simply seek His face and get to know His personality, the nature of His love, and the

availability of His presence. You don't have to live without a real, revelatory knowledge

of God's heart. You don't have to live with the uncertainty of whether you are cared

for, provided for, and loved. In the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God proved

His longing to be known by us. Jesus took on flesh not just so He could save and redeem

us, but He could usher in a better, true revelation of who the Father is. In John 173,

Jesus says, now this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, in Jesus Christ

whom you have sent. And later in verse 26, Jesus prays to the Father, I have made you

known to them and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for

me may be in them and that I myself may be in them. Jesus came that we might know the

love of the Father. He came that we might have communion, unhindered relationship with

our Creator. Through Jesus, you've been granted eternal, real access to your heavenly

Father. And in the Holy Spirit, you can search the deep places of God's heart and grow

and restored relationship with Him. Verse Corinthians 2 10-12 says, for the Spirit searches

everything, even the depths of God, for who knows a person's thoughts, except the spirit

of that person, which is in Him. So also, no one comprehends the thoughts of God, except

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