WE HAVE A HEAVENLY FATHER

FORGIVE YOUR NATURAL FATHER

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3

I was talking to a co-worker yesterday and we have something in common, and what we share in common is that we both had biological fathers who were absent, to put it mildly.

She and I are by no means the only two on the planet who grew up in a home where our natural fathers were missing in action, so my prayer is that these Words encourage, heal and build the faith in anyone who may be struggling with the question, "Why do people do what they do?"

We know that people do what they do because they have just plain laid aside the way of God.
That's it in a nut shell.

But I am sent to you today to remind you that In Christ Jesus you have a heavenly Father.

And the scripture above has said to you that He has blessed you with (all) spiritual blessings...

Don't spend time taking thought about things like why people did what they did in the past.
You got to press on and look to God to be everything.

I used to ask why my natural Father didn't claim me like he claimed my brothers, by his wife and I blamed my mother and all that jazz and it pulled my mood down and drew me into a pity party.

This is where the devil wants you to be.
(Feeling like you missed out on something and you have unmet needs.)

All it was is that people stopped living life God's way.
All of these things came in when people stopped following God's way.

So don't sit and think on the mindset of those who make or made poor choices.

Recognize that even in the midst of other folks bad choices the Lord has taken care of you all of this time.

He is so good that even after you and I make dumb choices He is faithful when we acknowledge we did something dumb to repair it for us.

Just like He takes care of the birds of the air, Your heavenly Father knows what you have need of.

I know that it is not God's best and plan for children to be without a natural Father in the home.

So don't glamorize it listening to somebody call you a strong black woman because you had to raise them kids "By Your Self" You don't have to raise anyone By Your Self if you do it with God, God's way.

Divorce is not of God, but when it does happen if we look to the Lord He will work it out.

All the divorced women and single mothers hear what I'm saying and know that no one is knocking you or jealous or hating on you, I'm loving you.

I know that not every womans circumstances are the same, and I do know that there is no circumstance that God cannot handle.

If we don't give it to God in the beginning before we make the choices and take the actions, How can He handle it?

If you have already decided to do what you want to do but you want God results, How can that work out for you?
Follow God on it and get His results.
God is merciful yet there is a level of power in obedience that can't be beat.

So forgive your natural father, if he was a deadbeat, abusive, drunk, drugged out, cheated on your mother or whatever he did, forgive him.

I didn't say that you had to go and move in with him, I said forgive him.

I didn't say that what he did was right or deserving of forgiveness but trust none of us deserve anything.
It's all God's Grace.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14
This means your father and mother and anybody else who has wronged you or trespassed against you.

Remember that means you let it go and you lay all of that weight on the Lord.
I know folks like to hold on to wrongs as an excuse for their personality.
Baby it's time to let all of that go.

It's time to turn to the Supernatural Father who has the supernatural love and power to give you beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning.

Study Matthew 18:23-35

Know that you have a Father in heaven who loves you and who knows how to heal you and how to help you and how to gift you with good gifts.

This is precisely why Jesus came.
Thank God.

Speaking to our thinking.
Matthew 6:14-32;Isaiah 61:3, Luke 4:18