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Their spirited, typically evangelical and pentecostal call to people to give your heart to Jesus is such a personal and wonderful call. It is a call for people to take the opportunity to meet God personally. And the words, "Do you know Jesus?" refers to knowing Jesus personally and in your own heart to the point that you can say, "Hello Jesus, hello Father," and He will respond, '"Hi Rob, how are you son?"
But these experiences are only seen like this when personal judgment is suspended, so that faith and genuine love in the willing child-like heart might meet its own Father face to face. Without such authentic willingness, the heart is not pure, and one can never know one's own Father face to face and see God. Not knowing God as one's own Father, one's deepest hunger and thirst for realness and belonging lingers on unabated.
One of the wonderfulnesses of heart is that, when it is moved by our Father's vision, it can discard mind and take its own inspired leading. As a result of the cross-fertilization I received from these evangelists' hearts, my heart has taken its own lead. It has ferried me with great certainty and power into places my timid mind would never dare to venture; places my soul hungered for; places my Urantia Book-saturated intellect had sought for years; places which delivered the sublime personalness and wonderfulness of my Father in Paradise; places wherein I met my father, Jesus, and my mother, the Holy Spirit; places wherein we met as persons and spoke together on personal matters; places which established, once and for all, conscious parent-child relationships and all of that real relationship's privileges. And I like that. It's good. It's true. It's real. And my Father likes my heart doing that too. And I like that.
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