I began to see the love of Father God when I had my own children and grandchildren. It doesn't matter what we do; it doesn't matter how we mess up; it doesn't matter how many spills we make, He just says, "It's okay, Honey," and pulls us right back to His bosom and loves us.

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love" (1 John 4:7-8).

The subtitle in my Bible says above verse seven: "The source of love." That's what God is. We get our similtude of fatherhood from Father God.

I was raised in a loving home and was very close to my earthly father. But if you were not raised in a home where you felt loved and appreciated, then it may be hard for you to see God as a loving God. You have to learn to see Him not only as God, but also as a Father Who has your best interest at heart.

Many of us were born into families of middle-class, lower-middle-class, lower-class, and poverty. Many of us have had to work hard holding down two jobs just to make ends meet. There was always a very limited supply of everything. But when you realize that you've been born into the family of God, you have to change your entire thinking. Your spirit man gets born again and rejuvenated, but it's your mind that has to be renewed.

Paul prayed that we might receive the revelation of this love.

"That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]" (Eph. 3:18 AMP).

When you get a revelation of what family you have been born into, the struggle of faith will cease, and you'll begin to obtain your heritage. You should never again question your self-worth or your value in life. You are a child of the Most High God, and your inheritance is limitless.

Read the following verses, and you will never again question God's love for you. It is immeasurable. You are so special to your Heavenly Father.

See what [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.

Beloved, we are [even here and] now God's children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God's children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.

And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).
(1 John 3:1-3 AMP)

Exactly what is your heritage? How do you tap into it? How do you get what God has stored up?

It's all dependent upon the intensity of your desires. Just how badly do you want it?

I want you to grab hold of this revelation like I have because it has changed my life drastically. I simply do not struggle anymore with my faith. I have become so intense in my prayer life that I see results almost instantly every time.

And God is no respecter of persons. The same thing can happen for you if you'll become intense, focused, engrossed, absorbed and unrelenting in your prayers.

Source: The Intensity Of Your Desires by Carolyn Savelle
Excerpt permission granted by Jerry Savelle Ministries International