Our first purpose of our life is to be LOVED BY GOD. Our first calling is to ENJOY A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. That relationship that God wants you to have is to be His SON or His DAUGHTER.
1 John 3
God's love is wide enough to be anywhere - no place on the planet where God's love doesn't exist.
Because we are God's children, He will share His inheritance. We have total access to God because He loves us that much. We can go boldly to God anytime we want and talk to him. We can go to Him with confidence in our time of need. We are daughters and sons of God and we can ask for anything in Jesus' name.
When I stopped having a religion and started having a relationship with God, I could then experience peace in the mist of the pain. That's the difference between having a "religion" versus having a "relationship". Our God is a LIVING GOD, He is available 24/7 if we acknowledge Him and pray. It doesn't mean He will give us everything we ask, because some of the things we ask for are not the best thing for us and we don't even know that because we can't see the bigger picture. There are just going to be some things that happen that we can't explain that are negative life events, God promises to give us the "peace that passes all understanding" if we go to him with thanksgiving and supplication (earnestly asking for help).
