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    How to Relate to God: So That God Will Relate to You
    How to Relate to God: So That God Will Relate to You
    How to Relate to God: So That God Will Relate to You
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    How to Relate to God: So That God Will Relate to You

    By Sandy Stansell

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    Why don't we believe God? And why, if we are related to God, don't we relate? Even though the Bible is filled with God's promises we fail to take God at his word. In How to Relate to God, you will find that it is easy to:

    Know what it means to exercise your faith. Have your needs supplied for life and godliness. Be confident that God's demands are being met. Discover how to affect God's response to you. Be able to recognize God's voice. Be able to recognize Satan's voice. Achieve a close, personal, relationship with Jesus Christ.

    My sheep hear my voice. And I know them. And they follow me, is God's promise to us. Take this opportunity to know God as you've never known him before intimately.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 8, 2012
    ISBN9781449740023
    How to Relate to God: So That God Will Relate to You
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    Sandy Stansell

    Sandy Stansell is a Bible scholar, having intensively studied Scripture, being taught by the Holy Spirit. Her ministry of Christian education is in verbal communications, both written and spoken. Sandy is a wife, the mother of eight children, and grandmother of twelve. She is a bookbinder in her family's business.

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      How to Relate to God - Sandy Stansell

      Chapter 1

      ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

      Keys to growth

      Addressing the situation:

      What are some of the most important things to learn concerning our relationship with God?

      There are three things that come to mind that I would like you to see as a result of your having read this chapter. They are:

      1) Everything that God demands of us is provided by him.

      2) Everything we need for life and godliness is through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of God, and

      3) Everything we say and do affects God’s response to us.

      Against all odds:

      Should men clean up their act before turning to God?

      The reason that men do not respond to God is mainly because they believe that God will demand more of them than they can give, or more of them than they can give up.

      The desire to be good enough to be acceptable to God before going to him is an honorable reason in itself for staying away from him, but is fraught with error. It’s the equivalent of saying that you’ll get a housekeeper to do your cleaning for you as soon as you get the place spotless. Or, better yet, that you’ll make an appointment with a doctor as soon as you’ve healed yourself of your ailment.

      Accurate accounting:

      In the beginning what is our standing before God?

      1) Everything that God demands of us is provided by him.

      To be in right standing before God in the first place, and to be able to act, and react, properly, according to God’s standard, we need God, himself. We can never hope to be able to go to God as someone who is pure enough to stand in his presence based on the merits of what we have done.

      Scripture says, All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one. We’re all sinners, from the meanest of us who have maligned, maimed, murdered and misappropriated to those of us who have dishonored our parents by not being perfectly obedient, or who have lied, or cheated, ever.

      Our sin, however great, or small, has separated us from God. The wages of sin is death, spiritual separation from God. And we know it. That’s why we stay away from him. This is the payment for sin that many of us are content to live with while upon this earth. And what about in the hereafter, in eternity when we meet God face to face to be judged? People see themselves as being in the same boat as everyone else, not much worse, and perhaps sometimes a little better. So, together with everyone else is also how they see themselves being judged on that day. But can you really take comfort in the fact that there is a boat filled with miserable people going to hell so you don’t mind being one of them?

      When you’ve been ill and in a hospital bed how comforting was it to you that all the other beds in all the other rooms also contained people who were just as ill as you were? Did you view them as sharing your suffering? And did it lighten your load? Would you not want to go the opposite direction, even if it meant going alone?

      It doesn’t have to be that all men are going to hell and that you just happen to be one of them. God doesn’t expect us to be able to put ourselves into the position of being acceptable to him. God’s standard is that of perfection. Each and every one of us is quite beyond that stage from the moment we even take God into consideration.

      Able-bodied:

      Does God have the power to keep us from sinning?

      God is capable of just zapping us and making us perfectly obedient from this day forward himself. He could have chosen that for us from our birth, from the very first day of our lives. We’d have been like the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air which are all obedient to God. Maybe that’s why God chose not to.

      And you know how our enemies think up ways to put the screws to us to break us and make us obedient to them? Well, God could do that, too, if he so desired. He surely knows what it would take to bring us to our knees before him.

      Abiding patience:

      Does God always wield his power?

      While you are cowering in fear while waiting for the other shoe to drop have you considered that perhaps the reason that God hasn’t done a thing is because it is not his desire to? Someone has been giving God a bum rap. It’s just that plain and simple. God is not like we have imagined him to be.

      God has judged us all sinners. This is true. And his judgment is that our sin separates us from him. So, we’re all in that position to begin with. But remember that boat that we’re all traveling in together? Well there is one that is headed in the opposite direction. And all we need do is step over into it. It is that easy.

      If we’re all out in the storm together and the boat is sinking, going you know where, and a lifeboat pulls up, are you really going to stand firm where you are for any good reason? You’d likely jump into the boat and take up discussing the terms of the rescue at a latter time. And in this case, the terms are probably far different from anything you had imagined.

      Amazing grace:

      What is God’s provision to change our standing?

      But the gift of God… A gift is something which cannot be earned or it is no longer a gift. And if God gives us something it might be best not to say that we’ve earned it.

      Is eternal life… Since no one lives physically forever, the eternal life being spoken of here is that of being spiritually connected with God for eternity.

      Through Jesus Christ. The payment that God requires as wages for our sin, that of being separated from God for eternity, has been made by Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. But it is not automatically applied.

      Agreeing and acting:

      What part do we play in our salvation?

      In order for a gift to be passed from the giver to the recipient it has to be accepted and received. Even though Christ has died for all the sins of mankind, it is still possible to have not had the payment applied to our debt. One can either be in the position of not knowing that there is such a gift available, or one can choose not to accept the gift after they are aware of its existence. And there are a number of reasons why man does this, but the usual one is that men believe that they would have to have their act together first, or they’d be obligated to God

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