I have to tell you that really made me think. While I haven’t
had the closest relationship with my father, I had to acknowledge the most
difficult part of my relationship with my heavenly Father is my failure to be
close to Him, which of course the most intimate place you can be with God is to
spend time with Him in prayer.
I watch other women in their relationships with men in their
lives, notwithstanding knowing that they had unhealthy relationship with their
earthly father, and I see the correlation. I see the disconnect. I see the
unhealthy pattern day after day, month after month, and year after year. Ladies
we need to fix this! Men we need to fix this! That’s right men too. The
relationship with God is one that is supposed to be loving, kind, merciful, and
downright special. But I will submit that if we look deep down and ask our
heavenly Father to reveal our hearts to ourselves we will find that the reason
we are not close to God is because of the loss we feel from our earthly father.
Whether we never met him, whether we were hurt by him, whether we were never
able to establish a relationship with him, we find that we are transferring
those deep lost feelings over to our heavenly Father. And guess what that does?
That prevents us from living in victory. That prevents us from having a loving relationship
with someone who loves us unconditionally. Someone who has promised that He
would never leave us neither forsake us. Someone who has promised that nothing
could separate us from His love. Nothing!! No matter what you do, your heavenly
Father will never dismiss you, or disown you!!
My New Year’s resolution this year was Lord I want more of
you. In order for me to get more of Him I need to give more of myself. I need
to open up my heart and lay prostrate before Him. I need to empty me out--- and
allow Him to fill me with Him. I need to trust Him – knowing that my trust will
not be despised, trampled on, or taken advantage of. I need to spend quiet time
with Him and let Him minister to me. I need to soak up His love and accept it
as my reality, and the best part of it, is it’s free for me to have. There are
no qualification except that I accept that He loved me so much that He gave His
only begotten son to hang on the cross in my place so that I could have bold
access to Him! Are you kidding me!! He laid down His life so that I might reign
with Him???!!!
I have committed within my heart to spend time in prayer,
lavishing my love on my heavenly Father and allowing myself to receive His
lavish love for me.
I promise you this, once you begin to allow God to love on
you, you will make better choices regarding all your relationships. You will
realize that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, marvelous are His works
and that your soul will knows all too well. You will begin to realize that God
only wants the best for you and if someone in your life doesn’t treat you like the
king and queen you were made to be --- you will tell them to step off!! You
will accept that you are the apple of His eye and that you are complete in Him.
So at the end of the day no one, male or female, will be able to harm you,
reject you or talk badly about you because you will have a picture of yourself
and no one, I mean absolutely no one will be allowed or able to come into your
space and see you any other way but through the eyes of God.
Remember you are the Righteousness of Christ and as Christ
is in Heaven so are you!! What a lovely way to remember yourself. I see you
that way!! More importantly God sees you that way and so let that be your
reality—your truth!!
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