How to Really Love God as Your Father : Growing Your Most Important Relationship

by Newman, Dr. Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780801065378
• ISBN10: 0801065372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Baker Books

Summary

If people trusted God like a child ideally trusts a dad, what would happen to their prayer life? What does it really mean to have a child-like faith? Deborah Newman says that learning to see God as "Daddy" will help believers grow in their prayer life and gain a better sense of who they are and why they are here. In How to Really Love God as Your Father, Newman shares the spiritual process she went through as she learned how to see God as "Daddy" and invites readers not only to embrace and personally identify with the process, but to actually experience the transformation for themselves. Written for both men and women, this book emphasizes the process of praying to God as "Abba" and thereby unlocks the secret to a more intimate relationship with him.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Foreword	11	(4)
Part 1 The God You Can Know as ``Daddy''
You Can Call God ``Daddy''	15	(15)
The Orphaned Soul	30	(18)
You Are a Child of the King	48	(15)
Part 2 The Process of Knowing God as Daddy
The Basics of Brokenness	63	(18)
The Healing Power of Comfort	81	(13)
Responding to the Light	94	(14)
The Power of Relationship	108	(13)
The Depth of Intimacy	121	(13)
The Discipline of Intimacy	134	(13)
The Journey of Intimacy	147	(14)
Part 3 The Rewards of Knowing God as Daddy
The Path of Divine Regression	161	(17)
Knowing Whose Child You Are	178	(12)
The Heart of a Father	190	(13)
Notes	203