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When you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior you become a child of God!  The Spirit of God brings your dead spirit to life and you are a new creation, a new creature, a child of God.  We are joint heirs with Jesus, meaning that what the Father gave Jesus He will give to us!  Romans 8:14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ¹⁵For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.   And by him we cry, "Abba,  Father." ¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. ¹⁷Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.  

I John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves his child as well.
Ephesians 1:5 In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.

The Arabic word "Abba" means "Daddy".  It is a term of endearment for your Father.  We are adopted into God the Father's family!  Prior to Jesus dieing for mankind no man could know God as our Father.  God made Adam and Eve to be His children.  They were given free will to choose to love Him or not.  When they rebelled they and their descendents were no longer .  Now after Jesus we again can freely choose to have God as our father or not.  God has a family again!

What is our Daddy like?  Jesus tells us.  John 14: 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."  ⁸Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."  ⁹Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

If we have seen Jesus we have seen the Father.  Jesus is just like His Father!  Jesus went about helping people, healing people, teaching people.  Jesus was love.  The Father is love.  We can rely on our Father's love!  I John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God, and God in him.

Jesus said that our Father loves us as much as our Father loves Jesus!  John 17:23  I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.  Because we are children we can get close to our Father.  Because of Jesus shed blood we are brought near to God.  Ephesians 2:14  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.  ¹⁴For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, ¹⁵by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, ¹⁶and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. ¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.  ¹⁹Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,

We are members of God's household!  We have easy access to our Father!  See our teaching on Praying in Heaven to learn how to pray to our Father while close to Him, in Heaven.  Whatsoever things you ask, believe you receive!  Be sure and as for more of the Holy Spirit!  Luke 11:9  So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.  ¹¹"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? ¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
 

We pray to the Father in Jesus Name  

Matthew 6:10 This, then, is how you should pray:
   " 'Our Father in heaven,
   hallowed be your name,
    ¹⁰your kingdom come,
   your will be done
       on earth as it is in heaven.
    ¹¹Give us today our daily bread.
    ¹²Forgive us our debts,
       as we also have forgiven our debtors.
    ¹³And lead us not into temptation,
   but deliver us from the evil one.

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