God My Father: Developing a Personal Relationship with God Our Father

By C. A. Campbell

Each one of us either know our earthly father personally, or we have a vision of him from what we have been told about him. The same applies about our heavenly Father.

We go to church and conventions, and listen to messages about how good our heavenly Father is and what He will do for us, yet many of us need to develop a personal relationship with Him. Some of us have a relationship with our heavenly Father; however, there is a need for a more intimate relationship, but we are afraid to draw closer because of our mistakes and unfaithfulness.

God My Father talks about where we first began spiritually, our natural birth, and the stages to our rebirth in the Spirit. God’s unconditional love is shown through the struggles of life before and after rebirth as the author shares her spiritual journey and God’s mercy shown to her. Your heavenly Father loves you; He yarns to have an intimate relationship with you too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973684190

C. A. Campbell

Many women like Charlie Ann Campbell have struggled with their walk with God, wrestling with familiar spirits they feel they can conquer on their own. Charlie Ann Campbell has lived a long time; however, she has not had a steady walk with the Lord all those years until she made up her mind to seek a deeper relationship with God. After being delivered, God commissioned her to write about having a relationship with Him. Charlie Ann knows that just because you are saved, walking in ones calling, does not mean that one has overcome all of their demons. Therefore, she has shared things in her life that will show how much God loves us and how He wish none to perish (2 Peter 3:9). Charlie Ann Campbell has been a minister for 22 years and served as her pastor’s assistant for 14 of those years. She had a correspondence ministry for about 5 years, where she sent messages of God’s Word to inmates. She is also a graduate of Ohio Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Leadership & Ministry and Biblical Studies Concentration.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020901072

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Before I Knew God The Father

My Spiritual Formation And New Birth

Stages of My Spiritual Formation Before My Rebirth

Learning About God My Father—The Stages After The New Birth

The War Between The Flesh And The Spirit

The Things The Heavenly Father Teach His Children

Using the Armor of God

Building A Deeper Relationship With My Heavenly Father

About the Author

Dedicate

d To

Pastor Deborah Walker Lucas

You have been a great inspiration in my life.

INTRODUCTION

We go to all sorts of efforts to build friendships, partnerships, our marriages, good relationships with our children, even relationships with our pets. But do we do the same with our heavenly Father? How deep is our love for Him? Just like it take work to have a good relationship on earth, it takes commitment to have a good spiritual relationship with our heavenly Father.

This book is about having a relationship with God, our Father. Our earthly parents are only stewards over us. They were used to transport us into the earth. Jeremiah 1:5a states, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart: —that is, He set you and me apart for a specific purpose in the earth.

Before and after becoming saved, we go through different stages of spiritual formation. Spiritual formation does not just start when we are born again; it begins as we are formed in the womb (Jeremiah 1:5a). After we are saved and born again, we go through stages of spiritual transformation before we establish a stable relationship with our heavenly Father (Romans 12:2; Ephesians 5:1-21). I have laid these stages out using the three trimesters of a pregnancy before a woman is full term, as well as used my journey before and after salvation as an example.

You might not have struggled with the same issue I have but have battled with other problems; nevertheless, I believe this book will help you. God wants to show us just how much He loves us in spite of our mess, and if we have a sincere desire to come out, He will bring us out and wrap us in His loving arms of forgiveness, peace, and joy. He will cleanse us up and destroy those yokes that have us bound as we grow closer and closer to Him—letting go of the past and embracing our new life.

I discuss some things that took place in my life from childhood to the present that helped me to seek