As you begin to read this, you need to know that this is not an a+b=c plan. While sometimes I wish that God would move that way, I feel like it would take away the mystery and turn God into our vending machine. That is not what we should want, nor is it what He wants. God is in this for a long term relationship. The question my friend is, "What are you in for?" If you are in for relationship, understand that it is God who reached out first to you. We call this reaching out 'prevenient grace'. He does this because we can not grasp Him without it because we are totally depraved, unable to connect with God. So God reaches out, and as He does He supplies all that is needed for us to reach back. We call that moment conversion. It is when we come to the conclusion, "I am a sinner and I need a savior. Jesus is the savior that I need." This is the beginning of relationship, but certainly not the last time that God reaches