Fellowship with the Father.

We can be children of God, but without real fellowship with the Father, we will not feel satisfied in our hearts, and neither will the Father's heart be satisfied.

That was the reason that the Father created man in the beginning, to have fellowship with Him!

Fellowship must be based on a firm foundation, so that the child of God can come into the Father's presence with the same freedom and confidence that your child enters into your presence (Hebrews 4:16).

Fellowship should not be based on emotions of pity or suffering, but rather on the legal grounds of the Word, and on the grounds of love and confidence in the Father's goodness.

The old idea of prayer is that a lot of begging, crying, and pleading with God, will somehow make Him have mercy on us and answer us, because we somehow managed to get His attention. This is out-of-date and unscriptural!

The Father is Love, and He has given us His love nature, so for us to fellowship with Him should be as natural as breathing.

The Word of God also teaches us how to maintain our fellowship with the Father, and how to regain it if we lose it. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7).

We can have real fellowship with God and also with each other!

Fellowshipping with the Father should be the very heart and motivation of our daily prayer life!

We cannot really exercise vigorous faith without also having a rich fellowship and communication with our loving, heavenly Father.

We can know that we are God’s children. We can know that we have legal rights. But if our fellowship has been broken, this will destroy our faith and fill us with fear.

To grow spiritually we must maintain our fellowship with the Father through prayer, daily meditation, and actions of faith on the Word of God.

Roger Wågsjö