Mary Cassian says you can embrace God as your father, no matter how much hurt an earthly father has caused.

Father is not an abstract word, and how tragic and how very, very foolish and how arrogant of us to shy away from this name because some human males have been a poor example of what

fatherhood is.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of True Woman

101.

For Wednesday, June 11, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. It seems that in every language and in every culture, one of the first words that every

every little one learns to speak is the word Papa or Daddy. You know, the same is true in the family of God. In fact,

Jesus taught us that when we pray, we should say our father. Now, I know that for some women,

that concept of addressing God as father is easier than for others. There are some women who find it

extremely difficult to think of God

as their father, perhaps because of a challenge or a breakdown they've had in their relationship

with their earthly father. In this week, leading up to Father's Day, I wanted you to hear a message

by Mary Cassian, who is a dear friend of mine and no stranger to revive our hearts.

God has given Mary some rich insights from the scripture about how we as women can relate to God as

Father. When I first heard this message, I knew that it would touch a tender and responsive

cord with the hearts of many women because all of us want to know how better

we could have an intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father, regardless of what kind of

earthly Father we may have had. Now let's listen as Mary Cassie and helps us embrace God

as a loving heavenly father.

Tonight, 40% of children in the United States and in North America are going to go to sleep in homes in which their fathers do not live.

40%.

Now, does every child need a father? Increasingly, our society's answer to that question is no or not

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