February 27, 2023 GOD – OUR FATHER
Acts 1:12-13 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even 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.”
From Psalms 139 “For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb.” “My frame was not hidden from Thee; when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Thou book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”
One of the greatest life-changers ever is to come to know in the deepest part of our being that God is our real Father. For many years, as a believer, I fully believed in my mind that God was my Father; but one particular night, God revealed in my spirit that He was my Father-and how amazing that was. God used our earthly father and mother for our physical birth, and we can thank God for that, but God is our Father. God knew us eons before we were born physically, and not only did He know us even while we were still in our mother’s womb, He ‘formed our inward parts;’ He even saw our ‘unformed substance.’ We cannot fully grasp such wonderful truth and such amazing power-it’s beyond our comprehension. Sadly, many have unpleasant memories of their earthly father, and some do not even know their earthly father. Even though that is true, one can come to know their real Father who knows them and who loves them with an unfailing and unending love. (Briefly said-God knew us before the foundation of the world; He knew we would be born in sin; He sent Jesus to redeem and restore back to Himself-our true Father! He has been our Father all along. Jesus called us brothers-that’s who He came for!) I said above that truly knowing that God is our Father is a life-changer. That night when God let me see in my spirit that He was my real Father, I immediately had the thought that “What do I have to fear-I do not have to fear death, loss, bad health, bankruptcy-or you name it-not since the God who created the universe was MY FATHER. I came to know that no matter what I experience here on earth, my Father is watching over me and He is more than sufficient for anything I face. There is much freedom in truly knowing God as our Father. Perhaps you are like I was, believing with my mind that God was my Father; if so, read the scriptures that are about God being our Father, and ask God to somehow make it know to you in your spirit that He is indeed your real Father.
1 Corinthians 8:6 “yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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