Living The Childlike Life

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Volume 110 - 20, August 2020

Living the

Childlike Life Pastor Nkechi Ene (Mrs.)

At the point of salvation, God became your Father, and you became His child. To enjoy and get the best out of this Father-Child relationship, there are certain ways you should relate with Him. You have to be like a little child to benet maximally from the Kingdom of God. It is worthy of note that living a childlike life is different from living a childish life.

In the course of this article, you will understand how best to relate with God, your Father.

19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Numbers 23:19

Everything in God is true and truth alone. You can only bring out what you've got within you. So, God Almighty cannot lie. It goes completely contrary to His nature to lie.

15 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whoever does not receive and welcome the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

Mark 10:15 (AMP)

Believe Every Word Of The Father In relating with the Father, believe every Word He says. A little child believes every word the father says. A little child in this context refers to a toddler. Although some fathers may have repeatedly broken promises made to their children, this goes to prove that such fathers may not be worth believing in. However, the natural response of a child is still to believe every word the father says.

When you got born again, you became a child of God, and God became your Father. God is not just the creator of the universe; He's not just some big bad God who is waiting to hit you on the head each time you sin. He is your Father. If a father has three children, and he is going bald, and one of the children asks: “Daddy, why are you losing your hair?”

And he says to the child, “When you grow up, and you have three children, you begin to lose your hair”, though he just said that to get this little child off his case, the child believes this story. So, what happens?

This child meets Uncle Tony, who has three children. The rst thing he is going to think is, “Uncle Tony stole those children” because Uncle Tony is not going bald, so those three children can't be his. If you have three children, you go bald because that's what daddy said. He proceeds to ask Uncle Tony: “Uncle Tony, why are you wearing a wig?”

Uncle Tony is wondering: “What are you talking about?” Uncle Tony must be balding because he's got three kids, and daddy said once you have three kids, you begin to bald. The child at that point slowly begins to nd out that some daddies lie. A child's natural response is: anything contrary to what my father has said is an abnormal situation. God, your Father, doesn't lie, so, you have to believe every word He says.

So, like a little child, if you see something contrary to what your Father has said, it is an abnormal situation. It's a situation you cannot accept because it goes contrary to what your Father has said. You have to understand that everything your Father says must come to pass. If your Father tells you that you are healed by the stripes of Jesus, and you see something contrary, you have to speak to that situation: “Daddy said I am healed, these symptoms are contrary to what Daddy says”. You declare that you are healed because your Daddy cannot lie.

Every word from God has a mission and a purpose. Every word from God is going somewhere, and until it purchases that which it is set to purchase, it cannot go back to God. So, many words are oating around you, words that have not accomplished the thing they were sent to accomplish. Reach up, hold down that Word, and hold on to it; God assures you that the Word has a mission, and it will succeed. Until it succeeds, it's like a robot whose battery will not run down; it's going to keep moving until it accomplishes that thing, then it takes the result back to the Father.

Raise Your Expectations In relating with the Father, raise your expectations. It is normal for fathers to provide for their children, and children to expect provisions from their fathers. The expectation of a little child is so high that the child does not even think about how the father provides for him or her; this may differ from the expectations of an older child, who may know the challenges the father goes through to provide for them. The older child may sometimes doubt the father's ability to provide whereas, the little child doesn't even think about it.

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

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26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the eld, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the eld, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

33 But seek rst the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Matthew 6:25-33

A little child so trusts his father that he or she is ready to receive very expensive and exceptional gifts without asking: “Daddy, how much do you earn?” A child who doesn't depend on his father for food, shelter, and clothing can't receive such gifts. It's not possible. If you don't trust God to provide your basic needs, when He sends somebody with a big, mighty, and exceptional blessing designed just to spoil you, you may be in doubt, believing that there's a catch somewhere. When you recognize how wealthy your Father is, you know there is no exceptional blessing He can't give you.

Some time ago, I was taking a ight from Lagos, Nigeria to London, and it was a business class ticket. In most international ights, you have an economy class, business class, and rst-class. I didn't even know what the rst-class cabin looked like because you were shown the area you are meant to occupy when you are buying the economy ticket. They don't even guide you. They just tell you your number and you'll have to go down and nd it. It's more like a “don't disturb our rst class” attitude they put up. I was given seat number thirteen in the business class. First-class is normally from 1-6 (the select few), 6-20 is business class, then 20 and the rest is economy.

So, I got my business class ticket, and I was feeling very cool with myself. I went to the lounge and stayed for some hours. When it was time to go up the plane, I gave the attendant my ticket. She punched it in, and I started walking up to get on board. The next thing I heard was, “Madam, madam. Oh, there must be a mistake. The computer came up with seat number 1A”. So, I said, “1A? Well, my boarding tag says 13A”. She said, “Yes, but the computer says 1A”. I said, “There's no problem”.

I was greatly overwhelmed. There is nothing wrong with a father wanting to spoil his child sometimes.

A Little Child Responds To Good Training In relating with the Father, respond to good training just like a little child. A little child responds to good training. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart

from it”. When you train a child in a balanced way according to the Word of God, that child will respond to it. Good training is like a good seed in good ground. Sometimes, it hurts when God trains you. I'm not talking about if you got sick and you say, “God is training me”. God cannot reduce Himself to using sickness to teach you a lesson. He doesn't do that. I'm talking about receiving instructions from the Lord.

These instructions come from the Word you hear from the pulpit, the Word you read, and they come in your heart when the Holy Spirit ministers to you. They also come through those whom God has put over you.

Allow God's Word to mould and form you because all the Father wants to do when He trains you is to bring out the best in you. When I tell my daughter: “You are having a time out. Go into your room, don't come out for the next ve or six minutes”, and then I make sure there is a lot of fun going on in the living room without her, something changes within her.

When God gives you instructions, there's something He wants to do within you. Allow Him to work on your inside. Don't assume an attitude of “I can't learn, I'm already a diamond”. Nobody is fully chipped off yet. We've all still got some stone that needs to be knocked off, and when that stone is knocked off, the diamond will come out.

Don't Get Attached To Material Things In relating with the Father, don't get attached to material things. A little child will easily give some expensive toys for something else he or she values more. The parents try to get in the way most times when a little child decides to give out a very expensive toy or exchange a very expensive toy for a rickety, old toy his or her friend has. The reason why a little child can give out anything irrespective of the cost or value is that the child knows you can get him another toy. You have to be willing to give up whatever it is God demands of you, knowing that He will always give you so much more.

Live To Please The Father A little child does anything just to get the parent's attention and just to please them. The child even does silly things just to make you laugh or get you to tickle him or her. When you are pleased with a little child, that child is satised for the day. As a child of God, what would you do to get your Father's attention and please Him? His Word says that without faith it's impossible to please Him, so you have to live by faith to please Him. Even if it seems tough and everything within you is going against it, because He has told you what gets His attention and pleases Him, do it. It doesn't matter how silly you look when you say you are healed and you are seeing symptoms all over your body. You have to make up your mind to trust your Father and live to please Him as you live by faith.

God is your Father, and He has made all He has available to you through Jesus Christ. Reach out in faith and trust him like a little child.

You will experience fulllment and enjoy true satisfaction when you do.

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