---
title: "How Is Your Relationship?"
date: 2018-11-24
author: "Birmingham Christian Family"
featured_image: "https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/diana-simumpande-197805-unsplash.jpg"
categories:
  - name: "Encouragement"
    url: "/category/news/spiritual/encouragement.md"
  - name: "Spiritual"
    url: "/category/news/spiritual.md"
tags:
  - name: "Featured"
    url: "/tag/featured.md"
---

# How Is Your Relationship?

**Encouraging Word**

When it comes to God, how is your relationship? Relationship is defined as having a connection; association; or involvement. What is amazing is Almighty God, the Creator of heaven and earth; desires to have a personal relationship with mankind. The question is, “Does man desire to have a relationship with God?”

A relationship with God is made possible by experiencing a spiritual birth. In John 3:3 Jesus says, “… I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” Following a spiritual birth where a relationship with God is established, one must then work to strengthen it. This requires four characteristics. Each will strengthen your relationship with God.

1. **KNOW God.** To know is to be familiar; aware of; acquainted with; to understand clearly with certainty. This requires more than just “knowing about,” it is to “know personally.” Philippians 3:10 says, “I want to know Christ…”
2. **LOVE God.** Matthew 22:37 says, “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”
3. **TRUST God.** Trust is to have confidence in; to depend on; rely on; to believe in. Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
4. **SERVE God.** Serve means to put other’s needs ahead of your own; to consider others more important than yourself. You need to put God first in your life. Psalm 100:2 says, “Serve the Lord with gladness…”

Let’s have a strong relationship with God by – knowing, loving, trusting and serving Him!

[![](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Encouraging-Word-Tony-Cooper-NEW-HEAD-SHOT-Aug-15-201x300-201x300.jpg)](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Encouraging-Word-Tony-Cooper-NEW-HEAD-SHOT-Aug-15-201x300.jpg)

*-Tony Cooper*

*Celebrating 28 Years of Service as Exec. Director, Jimmie Hale Mission*

[www.jimmiehalemission.com](http://www.jimmiehalemission.com/)