Hearing God's HeartSample

Our Father, in heaven…


These words are too familiar to modern Bible readers to convey the audacity of this statement. The concept of God as a loving, caring Father is foreign to most religions, but it is the foundation of the Christian gospel that God invites us to become His sons and daughters. This relationship is even more astonishing than God’s Fatherhood.

God may be considered a Father, but to call Him our actual Father is to claim a kinship, a bond, a likeness. This is Jesus’ goal - to bring us to be children of the Father and enter into all the wonder of belonging to Him.
Jesus alone among human beings enjoyed this true Sonship, and He died to make us children of God, so that we might call God ‘Father’. This is not a sentimental form of words. This is to be the fact of our beings as regenerated people, that we are like God in nature, and born of His Spirit, bearing oneness with Him in our hearts.

We also read that our Father is ‘in heaven’. In other words, we have an origin in heaven through new birth. New birth interrupts our life at a point in time, and it plants our lives in eternity with God in heaven. The loving, heavenly Father is MY Father. My soul is linked to God like a kite lifted to the skies by strong winds.
Call Him ‘Father’ with the delight and wonder of all that this adoption means for you.