An Intimate Understanding
“Intimacy must begin with an intimate understanding of who you are talking to. As a young Christian, I had the misconception of God the Father as someone rather austere and far off in the heavens. I had the notion that one of the reasons that Jesus sat before the throne of God all the time was that he had to appease God, because God really wasn’t happy with all these rascals that Jesus was bringing home. Jesus, I thought, had to talk the Father into it like some children do with their parents. Well, Scripture doesn’t teach anything like that.”
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 4.
