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As a Little Child: Conversations with the Father

Enter the Presence of the Almighty with the Confidence of a Child

Imagine standing before the Almighty God in reverential fear but with the unwavering confidence of a little child.

As a Little Child: Conversations with the Father invites you to embark on a ten-step journey to spiritual maturity. Through this transformative course, you will experience the warmth of His love, discover the essence of prayer, parenting, Proverbs, and Bible study, while gleaning from His infinite wisdom.

This Christ-centered course is designed to deepen your understanding of God’s heart, help you navigate life’s challenges with His guidance, and strengthen your relationship with the Father. Each step is rooted in biblical truth, offering practical tools for living as a spiritually mature believer.

What You’ll Gain:

• Confidence in approaching God with your thoughts, concerns, and desires.
• Insight into the heart of God through prayer and Bible study.
• Practical wisdom from the Proverbs to apply in everyday life.
• Biblical perspectives on parenting and spiritual growth.

Course Features:

• Engaging lessons to guide you through the ten steps to spiritual maturity.
• Opportunities for personal reflection and group discussions.
• Thought-provoking insights on faith and life.
• Musical enrichment through links to carefully selected songs that complement each step.

Join us and discover the beauty of childlike faith. Let this be the season you experience spiritual growth like never before.

Meet Melanie Lewis

Melanie Lewis, the author of As a Little Child, is uniquely equipped to share this work because of her deep love for the Word of the Living God. She firmly believes that salvation, sanctification, and ultimately transformation begin with an intimate encounter with God, mediated through His Word.

For Melanie, conversation with the Father is an essential aspect of the Christian life. Her emphasis on this dialogue seeks to move believers beyond a simple “good morning, Dad” to an ongoing, heartfelt Father-child connection that persists throughout the day.

Over many years, Melanie has wrestled with how best to convey the truth of living out salvation in a deeply personal and practical way, reflecting the biblical nature of an authentic walk of faith. This work reflects the ideal of her heart: that God desires to be known by His children. She passionately reminds us that unless we come to Him “as a little child,” we risk missing what is most vital in our earthly journey—a transformative relationship with the Father.

Forward 

The heart of As a Little Child is the Christian’s transformation into Christlikeness as we tread the course of this earthly journey. This work challenges us—not to pursue the best version of ourselves, which is little more than self-help—but to reflect Jesus, relying entirely on God’s help. It pleads with us to humble ourselves before the Lord in desperate dependence on the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit to change us.

As a Little Child does not aim to offer a detailed treatise on the spiritual walk. Instead, it provides an entry point to the journey itself. From day one, provided the child is ready, the walk may begin. This work is a compilation of carefully interwoven Scripture, forming a celestial thread that ultimately connects us to the hand of the Father. Along the way, we often sense His divine tug, prompting, and even pulling us closer to Himself.

Whether one is pondering the steps to spiritual maturity or stumbling through life’s jagged challenges, the invitation remains the same: to step onto the path by connecting with God’s Word. All salvation, sanctification, and transformation begin here—with Scripture.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Heb. 4:12 NASB).

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) invites readers to grapple with the grand narrative of the Christian life. In a similar vein, As a Little Child calls us to take the very steps of spiritual maturity, embodying the character of Christian as a little child growing under the Father’s care. The goal is not to boast of completing the climb but to embrace a new way of life. This is the Christian life—the way of Jesus perfected in us so that we may be complete in Him.

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude (Col. 2:6–7 NASB).

Through this journey, we explore the path to spiritual maturity, the purpose of prayer, the significance of parenting, the wisdom of Proverbs, the richness of encountering God’s Word, and the privilege of being God’s child.

This is the point of decision—a place where the Father calls us to come, to join His family, and to embrace our identity as His children.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:12–13 NASB).

From this first step, we learn to walk with Him, and as we grow, we are taught how to live, love, and embrace the perfect law of liberty.

But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do (James 1:25 NIV).

May this journey lead you to walk in Him, deeply rooted, built up, and overflowing with gratitude.

~J. Kirk Lewis