If you don’t understand the true nature of Our Heavenly Father, He can be misrepresented to you and you will be powerless.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Galatians chapter 5:
6 When you’re placed into the Christ Jesus, Anointed One and joined to Him, circumcision and religious obligations can benefit you nothing. All that matters now is living in the faith that is activated and brought to perfection by Love.
The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st John chapter 4:
8 The one who doesn’t Love has yet to know God, for God is Love.
9 The light of God’s Love shined within us when He sent his matchless Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 This is Love: He Loved us long before we Loved him. It was His Love, not ours. He proved it by sending His Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins.
11 Delightfully Loved ones, if He Loved us with such tremendous Love, then “Loving one another” should be our way of life!
12 No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor. But if we Love one another, God makes His permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in Him, and His Love is brought to Its full expression in us.
13 And He has given us His Spirit within us so that we can have the assurance that He lives in us and that we live in Him.
14 Moreover, we have seen with our own eyes and can testify to the Truth that Father God has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Those who give thanks that Jesus is the Son of God live in God, and God lives in them.
16 We have come into an intimate experience with God’s Love, and we trust in the Love he has for us. God is Love! Those who are living in Love are living in God, and God lives through them.
Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Peter chapter 1:
2 May grace and perfect peace cascade over you as you live in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
What you don’t know is hurting you. Grace and peace are linked to your knowledge of God.
And:
3 Everything we could ever need for life and complete devotion to God has already been deposited in us by his divine power. For all this was lavished upon us through the rich experience of knowing Him who has called us by name and invited us to come to Him through a glorious manifestation of His goodness.
4 As a result of this, He has given you magnificent promises that are beyond all price, so that through the power of these tremendous promises you can experience partnership with the Divine nature, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world.
If you have a wrong concept of who God is and how He relates to us and deals with us, it’s going to hinder you from receiving from Him.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm 138:
If you can’t keep your word, it is a reflection on your character. Father keeps His Word without exception so we can fully rely on His Word in every circumstance we encounter. His Word is not the issue, it is our word and our character that must be matured through immersing ourselves in His Word.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in his Epistle, chapter 4:
7 So then, surrender to God. Stand up to the devil and resist him and he will turn and run away from you.
We are to stand up to the devil and resist him, not God. If we didn’t have the needed power and authority then this passage would not have been written.
And in verse 3:
And if you ask, you won’t receive it for you’re asking with corrupt motives, seeking only to fulfill your own selfish desires.
As we take on the Character of Our Heavenly Father, we will have no corrupt motives.
Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Peter chapter 3:
9 This means that, contrary to man’s perspective, the Lord is not late with His promise to return, as some measure lateness. But rather, His “delay” simply reveals His Loving patience toward you, because He does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance.
It is FATHER’S Divine Intent for all mankind to repent. However, that is not happening since man has been given a choice. HE wants us to know HIM intimately through HIS Word and The Holy Spirit.