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Relationship Over Religion: Finding True Connection with God

Alicia Graham

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What happens when we move beyond religious obligation and into genuine relationship with God? Today's Faith Bit explores this transformative shift and the healing it brings to those who've been hurt by religious experiences.

After celebrating the growth I've witnessed in my mentees who are intentionally cultivating relationship with God, I dive into why this matters so deeply. Many of us have been taught religion without experiencing relationship - following rules without knowing the Ruler. But God desires more than your Sunday attendance or religious performance; He longs for authentic connection with you.

For those carrying church hurt, rejection, or trauma from those who misrepresented Christ, today's episode offers hope and healing. God isn't the source of your religious wounds, and He's waiting to restore what was broken. Through heartfelt prayer, we address the spirits of fear and anxiety that have kept many believers from experiencing God's love as He intended.

The episode culminates with a powerful perspective shift: you are not an orphan striving for acceptance but royalty and a co-heir with Christ. This kingdom identity releases you from poverty mindsets and invites you into the abundance that's your spiritual birthright. As you embrace who you truly are in God, peace and stability become your portion.

Ready to experience the difference between knowing about God and knowing God personally? Listen now, and let the transformation begin. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear that relationship with God changes everything.

Speaker 1:

Hey everyone, welcome back to Faith Bits with Allie. I'm your host, allie, with your daily faith bit, so today we're just gonna flow. I just got off a call with my mentees and they are so awesome. I just want to shout them out for what they've been doing in this season of just growing and making this an intentional lifestyle with the Lord. You know a lot of us.

Speaker 1:

We are taught religion and don't have relationship, and so just to see the dynamic shift in their lives and how they're making an intentional effort to grow close with the Lord and and to seek his face and to just genuinely know him has been beautiful to watch, and I desire that for you as well. God desires a relationship with you. He wants to know you, and I cannot stress how much your life will be different if you have a relationship with God. If you have a relationship with God and so you know spirits of fear or anxiety that has kept you outside of alignment with God because of what religion has taught you. That is no longer your portion. God is going to bring you complete healing from church hurt. God is going to heal you from rejection and those who represented Christ in the wrong way.

Speaker 1:

I'm praying for godly alignments and connection for you. I'm thanking God for a new season that you're entering into and even now, god is revealing the heart of the Father to you. He's encompassing you with his love right now. I thank you that peace and stability is your portion. I just went right into the prayer y'all, but yeah, let me pray for you, god. I thank you for healing the hearts of your people. I thank you for genuinely transforming them into the child of God that they are. They are sons, they are daughters, they are no longer orphans. God, I thank you that you're renewing their mindsets and that they would walk in their kingdom identity, that they will know that they are royalty Co-heirs with Christ, no longer living from a poverty mindset, but walking into the abundance of Christ that you've called us to. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen. Peace, love and blessings.