The Father Loves His Children

Intimacy! What a wonderful word!

A good marriage is when the husband are close and share things...children, experiences, the day, or a game or a race...they enjoy just being together.

 Mothers are certainly intimate with their children...especially with a nursing baby, or a sick child.  

I share thoughts and experiences with sisters or friends that my husband can't relate to...I also shared my heart many times with my Mama...many years ago now.

In order to have this kind of relationship with anyone, there is an element that must exist!

                       T   I   M   E   !  !  !  !

Close relationships do not develop unless there is time spent together.

As we’re thinking on this topic, I’d like to share an excerpt from my book, The Inner Woman of the Heart  (chapter 1, p. 23):

How exciting it is to realize that Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and Earth – is my Father!  He wants me to call Him, Abba Father, which means Father in the context of the very familiar and intimate name, Daddy.  I also believe that it is very exciting when He speaks to me specifically – when He tells me how to treat my children.

          One Sunday night, during the church service, I heard Him speaking to

  me.  I wrote down part of what He said.  Then, when I got home, after everyone else was in bed, I sat down in a spirit of prayer and meditation, and let Him finish speaking to me.

He said,

“I speak concerning Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  They recorded the same story many ways – very much alike and yet very differently.  One gives so much more detail.  Another gives different details of the same event.  They were all called by the same Lord.  They experienced many of the same events, and, yet, they heard and saw things differently because they were different.

Do not try to make your children be alike!  Train them in My Way, but, where I allow you and other Christians to be different, allow each of your sons to develop his own unique self.  All of my children are made in my image, and, yet, you are all very different – different sexes, different colors, different races, different ages, different nationalities, different backgrounds, different personalities, etc.  Yet, you are all ONE IN CHRIST!

Refrain from strife!  Bridle your tongue!  Without strife, power will flow.  Strife stops the flow of the Holy Spirit, because in strife, there is no love.  Remember you can bridle your whole body, if you can bridle your tongue.  Do not talk about anyone, especially my children. 

If you do not agree with one of them, pray for him or her.  Again I say, bridle your tongue.  My children wonder why there is confusion and disorder, when they are trying so hard to please me.  The answer is Christian unrighteousness – strife between body members; gossip about body members; pride (thinking you are smarter and more spiritual than other body members); and jealousy (envying what other body members have materially or the ministries I have blessed them with).

Strife is very dangerous in your home and to my body.  Get your feelings off your shoulders!  Your flesh is crucified with Christ, if you abide in my WORD and walk in the newness of life.  Get your eyes off your brothers and sisters and off your circumstances.  Look at me!  Do what I do!  Imitate me!  I have made you love, joy, and righteousness – let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.”

When I speak of hearing the Lord, I mean I really hear Him – not an audible voice exactly like I hear with my outer ear - but I hear God’s voice way down deep inside of me – in my heart.  When God speaks of the heart in His WORD, He is not referring to the heart muscle.  He is speaking of our inner man, or in my case, my inner woman.  I used to be bound by tradition, believing God no longer speaks today, but, praise God, He’s … the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

This same Jesus Christ, says of Himself: 

And, when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice.  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers…I am the good shepherd… John 10: 4-5, 11a

I wrote this book so many years ago! My 41 year-old son was 14.  The Truth of God’s Word still stands today. 

The LORD is my Shepherd!!! I shall not want!!!

Blessed be the Name of the LORD!!!

Teddi