Our topic for tonight's teaching is
" God, The Father"
In the next hour or thereabout, I will be sharing what God, the Spirit has led me to write on God, the father
I believe this is for someone, especially for a time like this.
I do pray that as I share, you find the message from God, your father specially for you.
Amen
GOD, THE FATHER
A lot of Christians have various ideas of who God is (of course biblical and correct). From God Almighty, to God the Holy one, God unlimited, unquestionable, self existing, God the creator, God the King.....
The list is endless
Majority of us are far from the truth and reality of God as Father.
Of course, we know He is Father (the Bible says so)
We say and pray itbut most times we forget the direct implication of God being Father.
We see Him as God, the father but in reality, not so much as God, my father
Of course, our ideas of who God is (biblical) are actually true but tonight, for some reason, God is calling us beyond all of these knowledge of Him.
To see Him not just as the father but to know Him as our father
Everyone individually.
Not as the father of Jesus
Or the Father of every believer but as your own father, personally.
Something like me calling God, Daddy Remi and believing/understanding that truly this is who He is: Daddy Remi
For so many of us, we know God the son very well. We know exactly who He is, we learn about Him daily. He is the content of the word we feed on, He is the word himself.
Same with God the spirit.
Even though this one is invincible, He dwells in us, we speak with Him, feel His presence, follow His leading as He orders our stepsm
We make statements like: _the Holy spirit is my best friend, He is my teacher, He reveals all things_
But when we think of the first person of the trinity, we see someone mighty, one big guy up there that no one can stand against.
Here is the gag, we actually do know God, the father (because we know His son) but most of us do not know God as our father
...we do not have a high priest that is out of touch with our reality
Who comes to mind?
Jesus (because High priest)
Remove High priest and say _we do not have a God that is not in touch with our realities_
Who comes to mind still?
God, the son. Jesus.
For some reason we've conditioned our mind to think it is only Christ that can relate.
Like God is just there to oversee all things and now that we keep messing up, He has cane in His hands to flog us but Jesus is there to intercede for us.
Jesus, the sweet first born begging for the rest of the children.
While this image of Christ is correct, the image of God, the father, is a little bit faulty.
God is not the one carrying cane to flog us.
It is sin and its repercussion
I don't know if we have tough kids here. Can you remember that time you did something really bad and your father disowned you?
Do you think it was really your siblings pleas that made him reconsider and accept you back? 😂 😂 😂
Like your father would have actually stood on his ground that you won't be his son if no one had begged
If this is our earthly father, how much more our heavenly father.
This is the same God that has been orchestrating ways for man to be reconciled back to Him since Adam fell.
Let's quickly branch at the parable of the prodigal/lost son (luke 15:11-16)
This son came to collect his inheritance (of course out of foolishness, greed and little or no reverence for the father). The father could have refused or disown him in acceptance but His love excuses even rebellion.
He granted the son's request.
I'm convinced the father was praying and looking down the streets daily, waiting for the son.
A love that waits
Son squanders everything, regained his senses and decided to go back to the father.
The father saw him from afar and ran to him, fell on his neck and kissed him
This is love that doesn't care how much it has been disappointed or left.
Love that doesn't care to go over what went wrong
Love that is ready to pick up
Love that had been waiting regardless
He ran and kissed Him.
A show of affection, acceptance, of deep and raw emotions.
This is our God.
God, your father actually has feelings, deep raw emotions flowing through Him. And He is not forming hard guy about it. He actually wants us to know Him as this
The son wanted to just be a servant on coming back.
I believe a lot of us are just like this son, we do not know how deep the father's love run
That is why some of us still think He is punishing us for something.
The son already gave himself punishment.
He felt he didn't deserve to be in that position again.
But you see the father's love? It is blind to faults.
It doesn't see our wrong.
It is not melted out to us according to what we do or don't.
The father's love is about the father's heart and not our actions
The son felt the only place he deserved was amongst servants. Now the father could simply have said, don't worry, you are still my son o (nothing spoil)
But no, He showed it.
Not just to the son who felt undeserving but to the world who had seen the son's supposed unforgivable sins
The father threw a party, for the son to know He was still son, accepted and loved.
The world and other sons ate of the food of the party. They were never to remind the son that he had no place in the family cos they joined in the welcoming party
The father did not hide the current state of His heart from the world watching or the son, broken.
He did this even with the knowledge that the son could still walk away tomorrow and repeat.
He did this knowing that He'd do it again even if the son walked away a thousand times
God is very much expressive with His feelings towards us
He doesn't just show it to us but to the world watching
But to really know Him in this light, we need to first stop seeing Him only as a strict father
For us to see God as father, we must first see Him as love
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8 ERV
This is His character. This is the motivation for all He does.
This is what makes Him father
Love is why He had to send His son Jesus
Love is why we now have a personal person in the Holy Spirit
Jesus, while on earth was very intentional about seeing God as His father
From when He was found in the temple teaching at 12 ("didn't you know I'd be in my father's house")
To teaching His disciples to pray: our father
Even to the cross, where He commited His spirit back to His father
God, your father is interested in your everyday life.
He delights in fellowship with you
He runs to meet your even before you acknowledge Him
He is more eager to get intimate with you
He practically looks forward to it
Some of us might not have had good experiences with our earthly fathers, Even those of us that have had, God is telling us tonight that He is Our father.
Your father
He is the perfect father
His love and care? Perfect 👌
His attention to details? Super
Imagine if He knows the number of hair on your head, what do you think He is not aware of?
God wants you to see Him as who He has always been, Your Father
He is calling us to a place where we truly see the depth of His love, longing, intimacy, care and where we live the direct implications of these
God is not like a father, God is your father!
God is my Father!
Seeing and knowing Him as this changes a whole lot.
I don't know if we are all familiar with the Apostles creed
I will pick just the first part:
I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth
Usually, almighty and creator carries more weight when we Confess this
Let's pause and start over
I believe in God, that He is my father
I believe in God, my father, that He is Almighty
I believe in God, my father, that He is Almighty and He is the one who created Heaven and earth out of nothing
As the creator of all things, my father has the earth and all of its Fullness in His control
There is a certain way you will behave if your father were to be the president of a country
The president is like a father to me is very different from the president is my father
The narrative changes the implications in our lives.
It changes our reaction to situations
It determines our control of situations
The burden, excess luggage, stress that life brings appear differently.
For those of us who do not really understand what the love of a father means, here is God calling us to His blossom.
For those of us who have lost our fathers, here is God reminding us that He is truly our father and we are not fatherless
For those of us with fathers still alive and active in our lives, here is God telling us that our earthly fathers do not compare for even they have a father in Him
Some of us are walking with so much luggage, burdened by life's expectations (culture, family, friends, church and even the ones we imposed on ourselves), trying to achieve this and that, and it is making us weary
I just saw a picture of a child carrying a heavy lunch box walking with the parent. The child keeps going slow because the lunch box is heavy for him at that point
The parent collects the lunch box from him and helps him with it
The sprit says to not forget that it is the parent that prepared the lunch box and of course knows exactly how heavy it is
So he won't watch and allow the child be slowed down or arrive late to school cos of that box. He helps to carry, not just the box but he lifts the child
God, the father
God, your father is saying tonight that He knows the burdens you carry
He is not oblivous of the weight life's expectations is pulling on you
He is not blind to all that is going on
" God, The Father"
In the next hour or thereabout, I will be sharing what God, the Spirit has led me to write on God, the father
I believe this is for someone, especially for a time like this.
I do pray that as I share, you find the message from God, your father specially for you.
Amen
GOD, THE FATHER
A lot of Christians have various ideas of who God is (of course biblical and correct). From God Almighty, to God the Holy one, God unlimited, unquestionable, self existing, God the creator, God the King.....
The list is endless
Majority of us are far from the truth and reality of God as Father.
Of course, we know He is Father (the Bible says so)
We say and pray itbut most times we forget the direct implication of God being Father.
We see Him as God, the father but in reality, not so much as God, my father
Of course, our ideas of who God is (biblical) are actually true but tonight, for some reason, God is calling us beyond all of these knowledge of Him.
To see Him not just as the father but to know Him as our father
Everyone individually.
Not as the father of Jesus
Or the Father of every believer but as your own father, personally.
Something like me calling God, Daddy Remi and believing/understanding that truly this is who He is: Daddy Remi
For so many of us, we know God the son very well. We know exactly who He is, we learn about Him daily. He is the content of the word we feed on, He is the word himself.
Same with God the spirit.
Even though this one is invincible, He dwells in us, we speak with Him, feel His presence, follow His leading as He orders our stepsm
We make statements like: _the Holy spirit is my best friend, He is my teacher, He reveals all things_
But when we think of the first person of the trinity, we see someone mighty, one big guy up there that no one can stand against.
Here is the gag, we actually do know God, the father (because we know His son) but most of us do not know God as our father
...we do not have a high priest that is out of touch with our reality
Who comes to mind?
Jesus (because High priest)
Remove High priest and say _we do not have a God that is not in touch with our realities_
Who comes to mind still?
God, the son. Jesus.
For some reason we've conditioned our mind to think it is only Christ that can relate.
Like God is just there to oversee all things and now that we keep messing up, He has cane in His hands to flog us but Jesus is there to intercede for us.
Jesus, the sweet first born begging for the rest of the children.
While this image of Christ is correct, the image of God, the father, is a little bit faulty.
God is not the one carrying cane to flog us.
It is sin and its repercussion
I don't know if we have tough kids here. Can you remember that time you did something really bad and your father disowned you?
Do you think it was really your siblings pleas that made him reconsider and accept you back? 😂 😂 😂
Like your father would have actually stood on his ground that you won't be his son if no one had begged
If this is our earthly father, how much more our heavenly father.
This is the same God that has been orchestrating ways for man to be reconciled back to Him since Adam fell.
Let's quickly branch at the parable of the prodigal/lost son (luke 15:11-16)
This son came to collect his inheritance (of course out of foolishness, greed and little or no reverence for the father). The father could have refused or disown him in acceptance but His love excuses even rebellion.
He granted the son's request.
I'm convinced the father was praying and looking down the streets daily, waiting for the son.
A love that waits
Son squanders everything, regained his senses and decided to go back to the father.
The father saw him from afar and ran to him, fell on his neck and kissed him
This is love that doesn't care how much it has been disappointed or left.
Love that doesn't care to go over what went wrong
Love that is ready to pick up
Love that had been waiting regardless
He ran and kissed Him.
A show of affection, acceptance, of deep and raw emotions.
This is our God.
God, your father actually has feelings, deep raw emotions flowing through Him. And He is not forming hard guy about it. He actually wants us to know Him as this
The son wanted to just be a servant on coming back.
I believe a lot of us are just like this son, we do not know how deep the father's love run
That is why some of us still think He is punishing us for something.
The son already gave himself punishment.
He felt he didn't deserve to be in that position again.
But you see the father's love? It is blind to faults.
It doesn't see our wrong.
It is not melted out to us according to what we do or don't.
The father's love is about the father's heart and not our actions
The son felt the only place he deserved was amongst servants. Now the father could simply have said, don't worry, you are still my son o (nothing spoil)
But no, He showed it.
Not just to the son who felt undeserving but to the world who had seen the son's supposed unforgivable sins
The father threw a party, for the son to know He was still son, accepted and loved.
The world and other sons ate of the food of the party. They were never to remind the son that he had no place in the family cos they joined in the welcoming party
The father did not hide the current state of His heart from the world watching or the son, broken.
He did this even with the knowledge that the son could still walk away tomorrow and repeat.
He did this knowing that He'd do it again even if the son walked away a thousand times
God is very much expressive with His feelings towards us
He doesn't just show it to us but to the world watching
But to really know Him in this light, we need to first stop seeing Him only as a strict father
For us to see God as father, we must first see Him as love
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8 ERV
This is His character. This is the motivation for all He does.
This is what makes Him father
Love is why He had to send His son Jesus
Love is why we now have a personal person in the Holy Spirit
Jesus, while on earth was very intentional about seeing God as His father
From when He was found in the temple teaching at 12 ("didn't you know I'd be in my father's house")
To teaching His disciples to pray: our father
Even to the cross, where He commited His spirit back to His father
God, your father is interested in your everyday life.
He delights in fellowship with you
He runs to meet your even before you acknowledge Him
He is more eager to get intimate with you
He practically looks forward to it
Some of us might not have had good experiences with our earthly fathers, Even those of us that have had, God is telling us tonight that He is Our father.
Your father
He is the perfect father
His love and care? Perfect 👌
His attention to details? Super
Imagine if He knows the number of hair on your head, what do you think He is not aware of?
God wants you to see Him as who He has always been, Your Father
He is calling us to a place where we truly see the depth of His love, longing, intimacy, care and where we live the direct implications of these
God is not like a father, God is your father!
God is my Father!
Seeing and knowing Him as this changes a whole lot.
I don't know if we are all familiar with the Apostles creed
I will pick just the first part:
I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth
Usually, almighty and creator carries more weight when we Confess this
Let's pause and start over
I believe in God, that He is my father
I believe in God, my father, that He is Almighty
I believe in God, my father, that He is Almighty and He is the one who created Heaven and earth out of nothing
As the creator of all things, my father has the earth and all of its Fullness in His control
There is a certain way you will behave if your father were to be the president of a country
The president is like a father to me is very different from the president is my father
The narrative changes the implications in our lives.
It changes our reaction to situations
It determines our control of situations
The burden, excess luggage, stress that life brings appear differently.
For those of us who do not really understand what the love of a father means, here is God calling us to His blossom.
For those of us who have lost our fathers, here is God reminding us that He is truly our father and we are not fatherless
For those of us with fathers still alive and active in our lives, here is God telling us that our earthly fathers do not compare for even they have a father in Him
Some of us are walking with so much luggage, burdened by life's expectations (culture, family, friends, church and even the ones we imposed on ourselves), trying to achieve this and that, and it is making us weary
I just saw a picture of a child carrying a heavy lunch box walking with the parent. The child keeps going slow because the lunch box is heavy for him at that point
The parent collects the lunch box from him and helps him with it
The sprit says to not forget that it is the parent that prepared the lunch box and of course knows exactly how heavy it is
So he won't watch and allow the child be slowed down or arrive late to school cos of that box. He helps to carry, not just the box but he lifts the child
God, the father
God, your father is saying tonight that He knows the burdens you carry
He is not oblivous of the weight life's expectations is pulling on you
He is not blind to all that is going on
Tonight, I have been sent to remind you, to remind me, that God, our Father is indeed our Father.
That we should never forget. We should live this
He will lift the weight
He will ease the burden
But first, we should know that He is Our father. That we may rest in His blossom, in reckless abandon just like every child.
Without fear
Without worry
All because we know and see Him as GOD, OUR FATHER
I pray for everyone tonight, that we accept God as our father and live out the direct implications of this.
That from this day, we believe and live truly as Children of God, the one who is almighty and creator of all things.
That we learn to just BE in the father's love.
Amen
Thank you all for your time.
God bless
That we should never forget. We should live this
He will lift the weight
He will ease the burden
But first, we should know that He is Our father. That we may rest in His blossom, in reckless abandon just like every child.
Without fear
Without worry
All because we know and see Him as GOD, OUR FATHER
I pray for everyone tonight, that we accept God as our father and live out the direct implications of this.
That from this day, we believe and live truly as Children of God, the one who is almighty and creator of all things.
That we learn to just BE in the father's love.
Amen
Thank you all for your time.
God bless
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