BLESSED BY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

My Dear Precious Child, The disciples whom Jesus Christ chose to assist Him in His earthly ministry were so very impressed by His power and His loving actions toward all people that they asked Him to teach them how to pray to Me in order for them to also have the same relationship with Me that they had witnessed in Him. First of all, Jesus taught the disciples that their relationship with Me must not be like it was with their earthly kings and also with Me religiously with Me being known as King of the Jews. It was illegal religiously and politically to address their kings by royal names. Their actual human names were not to be spoken out loud because they were so hallowed and respected. So for the first time in His sample prayer Jesus began the sample prayer by calling Me by His own personal family name of Father in Heaven, even explaining that My royal name was too religiously holy to be used in addressing Me. Instead, My Son Jesus Christ taught them to address Me in prayer by what relationship I was to Him and to His disciples, by Jesus' calling Me their Father in Heaven. That name that indicated a close, personal family relationship with Me was to demonstrate to the Jews that their relationship with Me was one of Father/child instead of king/servant. (Matthew 5:9) Calling Me "Father" was a new and personal relationship with Me as a Father instead of as a king or a deity of some sort. In His addressing Me as "Father in Heaven", Jesus Christ did not demonstrate to His disciples that I was only His personal Father but He demonstrated to them to address Me as Our Father, revealing to them that I was their Father as well as the Father of Jesus Christ who had shown in His ministry to humans that He had more spiritual power than other people. In Jesus' direct address to Me as a Son to a Father elevated His position in the earth but also it elevated the position of His disciples in their importance in what was happening in the earth at the time, that their Savior whom they had begun following had such a close and personal relationship with Me that He could call Me by the family name of Father, but Jesus was indicating that I also had that same family relationship with His disciples. When the Messiah came, the Jews believed that He would set up an earthly kingdom for the Jews, a spiritual/earthly kingdom with a new king whose name indicated the need for reverence. However, Jesus encouraged His disciples to experience a closer family relationship with Me as Father/child. It was necessary for Jesus Christ to establish that Father/Child relationship with Me at the beginning of His ministry to the world because that family closeness is one that was tantamount to the disciples being able to approach Me with confidence instead of being afraid to approach Me merely as the servant of an earthly king. In the first phrase showing the acceptable way for the disciples to approach Me, Jesus' sample prayer showed that My Son of God, the Savior of the world, was not afraid to come to Me as My child, refusing to approach me as a mere servant. He included his disciples in His addressing Me as "Our Father in heaven". That personal relationship with Me, the creator of the world, was new to disciples who were Jews who were taught early in their childhood to revere and honor their kings by not even being able to speak their names. Now Jesus Christ was teaching them to address Me as their "Father in Heaven". The idea was revolutionary in the minds of the disciples. However, Jesus Christ treating the disciples as equals with whom it was acceptable for them to call Me by the personal name of "Father in Heaven" made the Father/child relationship with Me acceptable. To some of My earthly children two thousand years after My Son Jesus Christ revealed My relationship with all of humanity, some of them still refer to Me as the Almighty God instead of the personal family name of "Father in Heaven". That is indicative of their concept of Me as being a king who cannot be approached personally. Before Jesus Christ went to the cross, He explained even more fully My close and personal relationship with humanity. He told His disciples that after He rose from the dead and came to sit down with Me in heaven, relinquishing His eartly ministry to the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ said that My children need not ask anything of Himself, Jesus Christ, but that they should always ask Me, as their Father, and that I would do everything that you and they ask of Me in His name. (John 16:23-28) When you ask Me personally, your being to Me the same as if you were My child Jesus Christ, I will grant it to you so that your joy will be full. You must develop that personal, close relationship with Me as your Father in heaven, with your having the same confidence in approaching Me that Jesus Christ did when He walked the earth. I AM entirely approachable, eager to hear your supplications and prayers because I am your Father in heaven. Your Personal Father In Heaven