RELATIONSHIP WITH FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT (PART TWO)

RELATIONSHIP WITH FATHER, SON, 

AND HOLY SPIRIT

(PART TWO)

By Dwight Cunkle

"What good does it do to speak learnedly 

about the Trinity if, lacking humility, 

you displease the Trinity?" 

T.A. Kempis

I in them and you in me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence [to believe] That you've sent me and loved them the same way you've loved me. I have made your very being known to them-Who you are and what you do-And continue to make it known, So that your love for me be in them Exactly as I am in them. (Jn 17:23, 26)

... Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. "The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. (Matthew 11:27 MSG)

Personalize these verses by speaking directly to the three Persons of the Holy Trinity:
[Holy Spirit, You…] will honor  and  glorify Jesus, because [You] will take of (receive, draw upon) what is (in Jesus) and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to (us). (Jn 16:14)

Jesus, It is You who show us the Father.
Holy Spirit and Jesus, help us to know Father God with You.

Father God... (that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give (us) a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of (our) hearts enlightened, that (we) may know what is the hope to which he has called (us), what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward (us) who believe, according to the working of his great might (Ephesians 1:17-19 ESV)

Father, Son and Holy Spirit, fullness of God that fills us in love, unifies us in love and through the church will fill the whole earth with your glory and goodness in love, we abide in holy fellowship and oneness with You. We enter into conversation with You. Open our ears to hear and respond.

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD, GOD, ALMIGHTY How is my relationship with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (listening and responding)? (PART ONE)

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD, GOD, ALMIGHTY

How is my relationship with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 

(listening and responding)?

(PART ONE)

By Dwight Cunkle

Last Sunday I asked how well we relate to all three persons of the Trinity. Is anything hindering our fellowship and intimacy and prayer with them? Is anything hindering us from asking for the gifts God gives us to minister to  one another in love as members of one another in the church, his body, and to people in the world as witness to God’s love and power to save them?

Try placing your hand on your heart or opening them to the Lord as you pray: 
Holy Spirit, Comforter, Teacher, Spirit of the Father, You who have brought Jesus and the Father to dwell in me...
I gently turn inward (he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.... We have received the Spirit...I am filled with Holy Spirit....
I ask Holy Spirit that You help me come to Jesus - open the eyes of my heart to go deeper with you into this union with Christ... Cause the glory of God to shine in my heart in the face of Jesus...

Jesus You are the only mediator between man and God. Whoever sees you sees the Father. Show me the Father. My Lord, My Savior. I was born in sin and lived full of sin and only by your grace am I saved because You are the Friend of sinners. You are my friend so I ask You, with Holy Spirit, to help me experience intimacies with the Father with You.

We have access to the Father through the Son by the Spirit, so, God You are my Father, and in your Son I am also your son/daughter, because I am joined in the same Spirit.

Father, Son the Living Word, Holy Spirit my Counselor, what hinders me, what offends You...

How are You pleased with me?

How do you think of me and what would you say to me?

Glory be to the Father, the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen