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What God Wants of Us
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
1 Jn. 5:13 KJV
Father is eager to prove to believers that He is living in their hearts, ready to fulfil His word through us. This requires a degree of confident trust, ie. faith that His word is fact, and Father wants His children to rely on Him, on His written word: Not feelings, emotions, impressions, but on Him in us.
For example; a believer may say, “I believe God is in me because I went forward at a meeting, and received Jesus into my heart.”
And that will be true if he really believed wholeheartedly on Christ. But that is a very weak testimony, and such believers are doomed to fail when confronted with temptation and devils.