The Father Heart of God

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If people didn't know the title of the book and read it, I doubt that most people would conclude it was about the Father heart of God. The story is left open-ended, perhaps a deliberate invitation to the religious Pharisees to join the celebration of those who have been forgiven of their many sins. What if she had responded like this, "I'll wash your socks, I'll clean your car, and I'll type your letters. Despite being a fairly contented person without any history of abuse or neglect, I found a lot in this book that was helpful and also challenging to me: both as a parent, and simply as a person who sometimes observes others in emotional turmoil but has little idea what to say.

Along with his 400,000 copy best-seller Taking Our Cities for God, John has written a highly acclaimed book Healing America's Wounds followed by Three Nations at the Crossroads, dealing with the issue of national identity facing Germany, Switzerland and Austria.When you don’t see the Father correctly, you’ll begin to see the Son and the Holy Spirit incorrectly. The revelation of the Father heart of God has for many been a major step on the road to true wholeness, and away from the anxiety of performance based striving to please God. It’s possible to be in the house of the Lord and not be made perfect in love because you are rejecting the reality of your sonship or daughtership. But it was his diagnosis of ‘The Saul Syndrome’ in chapter eight that provoked me to pray one of the most dangerous prayers of my life. Any chapter could be read alone; those who aren't interested in God could still find much to challenge them in the sections about parenthood and the ideal which Floyd McClung sees as God's pattern for parenthood, but which secular psychologists would probably approve too.

It’s interesting that Paul was saying to the Galatians that those of you who are trying to be justified by the law which is by works to receive salvation, you actually have become estranged with Christ – you’ve fallen away from grace. I would recommend it to everyone, young and old, mature or immature, but especially to those who are hurting and struggling to see that God loves them, more than any earthly father could. But as he entered the back stretch, Redman was sent sprawling by the ripping pain of a torn hamstring. Somehow, the man whose message about the Father Heart of God had changed me in my teens, had now become a father in God to me in my early thirties.

Your parents may proudly display bronzed baby booties on the mantle, pictures in an album, or trophies on the wall - but how does that compare with God's infinite capacity to be overjoyed with your every success? It’s possible to be flippant with the Father, to take un-seriously what God has done and most of us start there. There are examples in Scripture of people with whom God dealt far more gently than they deserved because he took into account that they were dust.

He's a great swimmer; he just doesn't like the pressure of having to do something in front of a couple of life guards. Having not been raised with a father or a father-figure in my life, this book introduced me to the best Father a girl could EVER know or have! However, a full revelation of God's parental love is incomplete without the presence of the male and female attributes of parental affection. If you’ve grown up thinking of God the Father as distant and angry, it’s hard to immediately think of Him as a loving and gentle Father instead. But in the process of confronting the false prophets, he had humiliated the wicked queen Jezebel, who sent word to Elijah that she was now going to kill him.

He was within the people in close quarters to Jesus and he asked Him “just show us the Father that’ll be enough for us. Having been through Discipleship Training School in the '90's, we found it to be a good review of one of the key concepts of our missions preparation.