The Lord began to speak to me about the question I had been asking, "What are the pillar revelations for sonship?" I sensed the Lord pointing to Father's Unconditional Love, having faith and humility like a child (believing in the impossible), the importance of the heart and opening your heart, bringing things in your inner world into the light and walking in the light, allowing Father to touch the areas of inner core pain in your life, a lifestyle of intimacy and worship, and being a natural son to your father and mother living in honor towards them. I am sure there is more but I believe these are pillars in experiencing Father's love and walking in our identity as sons and daughters. I have blogged about many of these revelations and will continue to unpack what I believe the Lord is speaking in these areas, I believe it is time for the Body of Christ to rise up in her true identity throwing off the deceptions planted in the past, the failures they have experienced, and the timidity brought about through fear that the world and the Enemy continue to perpetuate. There are dimensions of who God is as Father that are very unique to this dimension of the Trinity. A father nurtures his children and grows them up very differently than mothers, a good father oversees the big picture of a son or daughters development into the fullness of their destiny. Good discipline that is strong in building up a child is key in a father's approach, in Hebrews 12:5-13 gives us insight into how God the Father disciplines His children. I find that many in the Body of Christ who are struggling can only see the problem, difficulty, or barrier in front of them but have not received the revelation of how Father is working this in their life for their building up and growth. I believe the reason this occurs is because we have fallen short of intimacy with the Father, father's mature and raise up their children. Isn't it time we know the Father and what the Father is doing in our lives so we can come into greater fullness and growth. We again see the sovereignty and the building up of His people through Romans 8:28-30, I believe many of our prayers to change our circumstances are premature because the Father has not completed the work that this thing is part of and thus we have not been conformed into image of His Son. I have found that Father is much interested in my growth, freedom, and influence then He is in my convenience. We live in a culture that glorifies convenience as a supreme value to the point that we idolize ourselves, our comfort, and our feelings. Father is much more interested in my worshipping Him as Jesus says in John 4:23 & 24. I recently heard a speaker, James Jordan, who has traveled the world sharing and impart the Father's love since 1976 and he said we are just beginning this revelation of the Father's love. Since all of creation groans, we are groaning inwardly, and the Holy Spirit is groaning for the revealing of the sons of God we need a revelation of the Father's love for this to happen on the earth (see Romans 8:19-27). The emphasis on the heart as the seat of the deepest affections and the place where the rivers of the Spirit will flow out of, makes how we handle our heart of supreme importance (see John 7:38, Proverbs 4:23, Mark 12:33, Ezekiel 36:26 and many others). In culture in our world the heart is pulled, manipulated, enticed, and neglected but not watched over and guarded. Even our culture in the Body of Christ can tend toward a religious spirit which values head knowledge and intellect over the heart, yet Jesus said that we are to love God with all our heart first. I believe the Body of Christ is to have people who's hearts are aflame with a deep love for God that spills out into every dimension of their life and being. I believe it's time for us to exchange things like unforgiveness, unbelief, and sinful choices that have hardened our hearts and receive what Jesus has in giving us a new heart of forgiveness, faith, and righteousness.
In Father's Love,
Bret
CHECK THIS OUT: Our pastor (Peter Young) gave an awesome sermon on Sunday about "Adoption" and here is the link: http://www.bridgeway.us/media.php?pageID=5
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