We Christians must adopt an offensive posture if we are to break free from a stronghold.

If you want to ever to be truly free, you must first know the truth about the personality of God.

As Jesus tells us in John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Secondly, you must pursue an intimate relationship with God, who is a real person.

You must hunger for Him and long to know Him intimately, searching for the true knowledge of God's personality.

Our strong-willed determination to overcome our weaknesses and addictions is not our sanctification.

Our sanctification is found in a person: Jesus Christ! He Himself " came to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Cor. 1:30).

How To Understand God's Love For Us

Most Christians have vague, contradictory ideas about God's personality. And our ideas usually come from our relationships with earthly authority figures.

If you think of the authority figures who were the most influential in our earthly years, you will find that many of our ideas of God are connected to these people.

Usually, the most significant person in the forming of these ideas is one's, earthly father.

Also important are mothers or perhaps an athletic coach, a tutor, a schoolteacher or even an athlete, anyone who is looked up to and admired.

Our experience with these authorities figures affects us emotionally.

The Following Descriptions Of Earthly Fathers

The passive or Distant Earthly Father: The emotionally distant or passive father expresses his affections in a minimal way. He assumes you know he loves you, but he rarely speaks it.

When something wonderful or tragic happens, the passive father just nods his head.

You begin to believe God is like that as well. He does not feel your pain or share your joy.

He has little affections to express to you. You may reap strong emotional consequences if you are raised by this kind of father.

The Authoritarian Earthly Father: The authoritarian father intervenes to stop what you are doing. He hands out lists of dos and don'ts.

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