November 5, 2023 … God Is My Father …

November 5, 2023 … God Is My Father …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Avalon singing  … Orphans Of God …  Poignantly, yet powerfully singing of how all Christians are God’s children in the family of God, … our Heavenly Father.    

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Highlight Passage: … 1John 3:1 [NLT] … 

1 See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what 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 

… John assures fellow Christians that they (we) are called by our God to be His children, not like those in the world who reject believing in Christ, choosing to become orphans of the world. . 

Highlight Passage in Context … 1John 3:1-3 (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK ...  

… John, Christ’s beloved Apostle, assures faithful followers of Christ that we, born-again Christians are sons and daughters of God.  

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Reference Passage: …Deuteronomy 32:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… When we rebel against God we are foolish to disobey the Father who created us for Himself.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 23:9 [NLT] …  

9 And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. . 

… Jesus chides the religious leaders that only HIs Father, our heavenly Father, is our real “father.”    

Reference Passage: … John 1:12 [NLT] …  

12 But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. 

… John assures fellow, born-again, Christians that they (we) are the ones who are sons and daughters of our heavenly Father  - i.e., “children of God”. 

Reference Passage: …Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that NOTHING in this life can separate born-again Christians from the love of God, our Heavenly Father.          

Reference Passage: …  Galatians 3:26 [NLT] …  

26 For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.  

… Paul also assures fellow Christians that they (we) are all children of God thru our belief in His Son, The Christ.       

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread< author, Mike Wittmer  … AT THIS LINK …  tells of Deland McCollough,  a young college footballer, who was recruited by Coach Sherman Smith, who treated the young man like a father, … later to learn that Deland was actually his biological son.           

And this story illustrates what is sung in the linked song and taught in the Scriptures above … that we, who know Christ as Lord, can never say that we don’t have a Father who loves us or feel that we are orphans in this world.  Because those of us, who believe in Christ as Lord and Savior, will never be orphans because we are God’s children… and Sons and Daughters of our Heavenly Father … and brothers/sisters in God’s family.   Is God your Father, too?!   I pray so.      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being my Heavenly Father.                                                  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to revel in the reality of being a child of my Heavenly Father thru faith in You, Lord.     … Amen 

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