Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning indeed. We're

picking back up with new morning mercies so without further ado, Tori's just going to take it

from here. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. Today's original says this. Matthew 6.9, our father in heaven.

There is no situation or location where I am ever alone because my heavenly father is always

with me. It is such an astonishing reality that it is almost impossible for us to comprehend the

full meaning of it. It assaults the way we so often think about our identity. It confronts our

discouragements and fears. It exposes our self-oriented neediness and our addiction to the

acceptance of others. It is the only place where we can find security that stays that doesn't

ride that scary roller coaster of ever changing people and situations. It is one of the most

amazing life-altering gifts of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a deeply personal,

heart-satisfying recognition that we must carry with us wherever we go. The opening line of Jesus

his model prayer for his disciples teaches us this unspeakably marvelous truth. If your God's

child, you have a father in heaven. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. What a glorious and

encouraging way Christ instructs us to begin our prayers. We are to begin with the most shocking

and encouraging of all things that our minds could ever consider. That being who has such

incomparable wisdom and power that he was able to design and create everything that exists,

that being is our father. That deity who has been able by the exercise of supreme authority

to control every event of history, to have his will done in every location, and to completely

control every life of every person who has ever lived, that deity is our father. That one who

in magnificent love put the plan of redemption and motion so that at the right moment his son

came to live, die and rise again so that we would have new and eternal life. That one is our father.

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