‘For I seek not to please Myself but Him who sent Me.’ John 5:30 NIV Obedience is the third thing that defines Jesus’ relationship with His Father. Jesus said, ‘By Myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear… for I seek not to please Myself but Him who sent Me.’ (John 5:30 NIV) Note the words...

‘The Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees his Father doing.’ John 5:19 NIV Dependency is the second thing that defines Jesus’ relationship with His Father. Corrie ten Boom used to say, ‘I am just the glove, Jesus is the hand that fills it and works through it.’ That’s a...

‘For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.’ John 5:20 NIV These three things define the relationship Jesus had with His Father, and they are a blueprint for the kind of relationship you need to build with God: intimacy, dependency, obedience. First: let’s look at intimacy. Jesus...