God is a Loving Father - July 30
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🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
There is no better father than Creator God. He formed us and knows us. He provides for us, loves us unconditionally, and longs for real, life-giving relationship with us. He runs out to meet us in our sin, clothes us with new identity, and restores to us the abundant life he has always planned for us. As we spend time looking at the father heart of God, may a fresh revelation of his love for you guide you into greater depths of relationship with your heavenly Father.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 3:1, and today's worship is Abba by Jonathan & Melissa Helser.
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| 0:00.0 | There is no better father than Creator God. He formed us and knows us. He provides for us, loves us, |
| 0:10.0 | he loves us unconditionally, and longs for real, life-giving relationship with us. |
| 0:16.8 | He runs out to meet us in our sin, close us with new identity, and restores to us the abundant life he is always planned for us. |
| 0:25.2 | As we spend time looking at the Father Heart of God, may a fresh revelation of his love for |
| 0:30.7 | you guide you into greater depths of relationship with your Heavenly Father. |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our version today. Our verse of today comes from 1st John 31 where scripture says, |
| 0:58.0 | see what kind of love the father has given to us that we should be called children of God and so we are. |
| 1:08.4 | In Brennan Manning's book Abba's child the cry of the heart for intimate belonging. He writes, but we cannot assume |
| 1:15.8 | that God feels about us the way we feel about ourselves, unless we love ourselves |
| 1:20.4 | compassionately, intensely, and freely. In human form, Jesus revealed |
| 1:26.5 | to us what God is like. He exposed our projections for the idolatry that they are and gave us the way to become free of them. |
| 1:35.0 | It takes a profound conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us just as we are, |
| 1:42.0 | not in spite of our sins and faults that would not |
| 1:45.0 | be total acceptance but with them though God does not condone or sanction evil he |
| 1:51.0 | does not withhold his love because there is evil in us. |
| 1:56.0 | May we experience the freedom that comes with a true revelation of God's unceasing love for us. |
| 2:03.0 | Because God loves you with an unconditional love. |
| 2:07.0 | To know God is to know love in its truest form, |
| 2:10.0 | because he is love. |
| 2:12.0 | Love isn't just something that he gives. |
| 2:14.0 | It isn't just something that he feels. |
| 2:17.0 | It is who he is. |
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