30 Days with Papa: A Simple Journey Deep into the Heart of the God You Really Want to Know
By Tom Wymore
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TAKE A FRESH LOOK INTO THE HEART OF PAPA and experience the more awaiting you.
No matter how well you know Papa God, there’s still all of your infinite God left to get to know. What marvel is this!
Join Tom Wymore as he explores the depths of God’s love for his children. Every day for the next thirty days, share in Tom’s delight in the moments of wonder Papa sends us all every day. Often expounding with reflections from his own encounters with Papa, you can apply and experience the truths he has learned to amplify your own relationship with the Father.
No matter how well you know Papa, you will emerge from this simple journey more drenched in his fatherly love and freshly shaped by deep encounters with him.
Get ready to go deeper into love!
Tom Wymore
Hi. This is where you usually read about accomplishments, degrees, etc. I am old enough to have a few of those, but here’s what I think you should know about me:I have been a follower of Jesus for more than fifty years. Like John Wesley, my heart was “strangely warmed” when I placed my trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. I can still take you to the place where I was standing when that encounter with Jesus happened.I am a husband, father, and grandpa. I am also a spiritual daddy to quite a few people, a truly humbling thing to me! I consider myself to be one of the least of Abba's children, yet I am able to say in clear conscience to any who wish to listen: Imitate Jesus as I imitate Him, love as I love, live as I live. The God I know and love is a God who is always speaking and who continues to work supernaturally. His mission for me is to introduce as many as I can into intimate relationship with him.My most important life markers, in my view, are related to my family: loving and supporting my wife, Charlie (and before Charlie, Jettie, for forty-one years, until she went to be with Jesus in October 2010). By God's grace, Jettie and I raised two sons, Jon and Josh, to love God with all their hearts, souls, and strength. Through my marriage to Charlie, God has added even more amazing family members to my life.
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30 Days with Papa - Tom Wymore
30 DAYS
with
PAPA
A simple journey deep into the heart of the God you really want to know
TOM WYMORE
30 Days with Papa: A simple journey deep into the heart of the God you really want to know
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30 Days with Papa: A simple journey deep into the heart of the God you really want to know/Tom Wymore
ISBN 9781700108685
To Papa God, fierce and unrelenting in his pursuit of my heart, and my amazing wife, Charlie, radiant with Papa’s love and joy
Contents
As the Journey Begins
Who Are You, Papa?
About Tom
As the Journey Begins
A Word Beforehand
You were created for intimacy with the God of the universe! Genesis 1:26–31 tells us that God created us to be caregivers for the earth and its creatures, but we are destined for far more than being mere caretakers. Because we are created in God’s image, we have a built-in capacity for intimate relationship with our Creator. Consider the following:
In Genesis 3:8–9, we read that as God was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, he called out to his missing companions, Adam and Eve, Where are you?
Since God certainly knew where they were and why they were hiding, why did he ask this question? Because he wanted them to know that he valued his relationship with them. He missed his intimate conversations with them!
Later in Genesis, Enoch is highlighted as a man who walked so intimately with God that God snatched him from the earth to enjoy perfect intimacy with him (5:1–24). We see the same relationship with God theme throughout the Old Testament. Abraham is described as God’s friend. Moses had a face-to-face relationship with God. David passionately cried out for deep relationship with God, as seen in Psalms 27 and 63. Other psalmists had a similar passion, such as the sons of Korah (Psalm 42).
The New Testament makes it even clearer that we are created to live in intimate relationship with Papa God. Jesus modeled intimacy with his Father. Jesus often stated that his mission was to restore the relationship between people and his Father, and the apostle Paul described his core purpose in life as living in intimacy with Jesus (see Philippians 3:10–14). Paul also told us that Father God’s purpose in Christ was to reconcile the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:18–21).
So we were made for intimacy with God! Think about this for a moment, and you will be overwhelmed with awe. We tiny creatures are capable of, and destined for, intimate relationship with the infinite One. And the infinitely loving One paid an infinite price to make this possible. What wonder is this?
And no matter how well we know him, there’s still all of our infinite God left to get to know. Deeper intimacy with God is always possible for all his people all the time. This thirty-day journey is meant to give you a fresh look into the heart of Father God (Papa
to me), often by means of reflections from my own encounters with him.
Why a journey with Papa (Father God)? Some believers find it easier to relate to Jesus, or even Holy Spirit, than the Father, but this journey is deliberately focused on Papa. Why? Primarily because Jesus said that his goal was for his disciples to come to know the Father as he did (see John 14:6–10, 21–23; 16:25–28, etc.). Second, many of us need the healing and encouragement that only a father can bring. This especially true for those of us who grew up with father wounds, but we all need to know God as Father more intimately. My own journey with God started with my being able to relate deeply only to Jesus (too much father pain
), then progressed into a season of getting to know Holy Spirit (wow!), and eventually moved to the amazing place of intimacy with my Father. So the journey we take for these is a journey of thirty days with Papa. My hope is that you will emerge from this simple journey drenched in his Father love and shaped by deep encounters with him.
Entering into intimacy
Some Suggested First Steps
Before we begin the actual journey, I offer a few thoughts on how to live in intimacy with God. My wife, Charlie, and I minister to a lot of people who have been believers for a long time but don’t really know how to live intimately with