My fantastic wife in a recent Sunday teaching challenged her audience to change how they addressed God Almighty. She said God is our Father and that is how He wants to be recognized. We are His children, so we call God, Father.
It was an inspired moment that flowed with her sharing. Its magnitude became more evident after attending a Christian concert featuring several prestigious music groups. I appreciated her challenge even more. The performers called our Heavenly Father, God, virtually the whole evening.
God in His Word addresses Himself over 80 times as Father in Acts through Revelations. What titled is most approachable, God or Father?
The whole eternal purpose and passion of the Heavenly Father was to have children that called Him Father. This intimacy makes believing Him much easier.
My Father’s promises ring much clearer and more personal than saying, God’s promises.
I encourage you to listen to the audio teaching at: www.actsnowfellowship.net or watch the video on our Acts Now Fellowship Facebook page, and take the one week challenge of not calling God, God, but Father!
1 John 3:1 (NLT):
See how very much our Father loves us, He calls us His children, and that we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. (Jesus Christ)
Agape,
Bob Lindfelt