Love Letter from The Father

Father's Love Letter

         

My Child,

You may not know me,
but I know everything about you.
Psalm 139:1
I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
Psalm 139:2
I am familiar with all your ways.
Psalm 139:3
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew 10:29-31
For you were made in my image.
Genesis 1:27
In me you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:28
For you are my offspring.
Acts 17:28
I knew you even before you were conceived.
Jeremiah 1:4-5
I chose you when I planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11-12
You were not a mistake,
for all your days are written in my book.
Psalm 139:15-16
I determined the exact time of your birth
and where you would live.
Acts 17:26
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14
I knit you together in your mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13
And brought you forth on the day you were born.
Psalm 71:6
I have been misrepresented
by those who don't know me.
John 8:41-44
I am not distant and angry,
but am the complete expression of love.
1 John 4:16
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you.
1 John 3:1
Simply because you are my child
and I am your Father.
1 John 3:1
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
Matthew 7:11
For I am the perfect father.
Matthew 5:48
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.
James 1:17
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.
Matthew 6:31-33
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
Because I love you with an everlasting love.
Jeremiah 31:3
My thoughts toward you are countless
as the sand on the seashore.
Psalms 139:17-18
And I rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
I will never stop doing good to you.
Jeremiah 32:40
For you are my treasured possession.
Exodus 19:5
I desire to establish you
with all my heart and all my soul.
Jeremiah 32:41
And I want to show you great and marvelous things.
Jeremiah 33:3
If you seek me with all your heart,
you will find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29
Delight in me and I will give you
the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
For it is I who gave you those desires.
Philippians 2:13
I am able to do more for you
than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20
For I am your greatest encourager.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
I am also the Father who comforts you
in all your troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
When you are brokenhearted,
I am close to you.
Psalm 34:18
As a shepherd carries a lamb,
I have carried you close to my heart.
Isaiah 40:11
One day I will wipe away
every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4
And I'll take away all the pain
you have suffered on this earth.
Revelation 21:3-4
I am your Father, and I love you
even as I love my son, Jesus.
John 17:23
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
John 17:26
He is the exact representation of my being.
Hebrews 1:3
He came to demonstrate that I am for you,
not against you.
Romans 8:31
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
His death was the ultimate expression
of my love for you.
1 John 4:10
I gave up everything I loved
that I might gain your love.
Romans 8:31-32
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus,
you receive me.
1 John 2:23
And nothing will ever separate you
from my love again.
Romans 8:38-39
Come home and I'll throw the biggest party
heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7
I have always been Father,
and will always be Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15
My question is…
Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13
I am waiting for you.
Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad
Almighty God




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No Dream is too Big for God

I had a dream as an adolescent. I just knew my life was going to pan out just like this: graduate high school, with honors, go to college, meet the man of my dreams in college, marry the man of my dreams after college, find the job of my dreams (working in an acute care setting with children) after college and start this amazing life with the man and job of my dreams, then start a family with said man.

Boy oh boy. Was I ever naïve and wrong. Did I graduate and go to college? Yes. Did I find a job in the career that I love, yes. But. That whole time, in case you missed it, was all about me. Did I pray about it, yeah, sometimes. Did I talk about it, yeah, all the time. I was so proud of myself, having my whole life planned out by the 7th grade, while everyone else couldn't even decide what their dream career was, or which college to attend. I did everything according to plan, well everything that I could control happening, and with God's will.

Life will not always go as planned, in fact it is rare. Tragedy happens, hearts are broken, relationships end and begin, feelings hurt, emotions are played with, loved ones lost. Your body changes, your family changes, dynamics of the life you once knew shift. Life just happens. If life didn't change, you would get bored. Change is great, change causes growth, change is necessary and eminent. Is it always for the better? Not always, but there is always a purpose. God always has a plan, and His plan is always best.

I don't know what the thing is in your life is that seems so impossible right now that you would throw doubt towards God's ability to help you overcome it. And maybe you are even laughing at the mere thought of God doing something to change your current circumstance.

Even if you're laughing. God can do it. No matter the extent of the ridiculousness that you feel it may be. And if you are laughing because it is something so incredible or amazing that you don't think God would ever bless you in that way, think again. But also, don't expect incredible amazing extravagant things to be the only blessings in your life. The fact that you woke up today, that your lungs kept breathing while you slept, that your heart beats and your brain functions 24/7. That alone is a blessing.

I think back to some of the astonishing and crazy moments in my past. No matter the outcome of what happened, in hindsight I always knew God had a reason, He always has a reason for everything that happens in your life. Though this is always a struggle with me, being 24, and still single, I pray for peace and patience over me and my expectance for my life at this point. So often I get caught up in what I want, the way I wish my life was, the fact that I don't have the man of my dreams yet, and many other things that I feel should be the way I want them to be at this point in time, but the reality is, God is in control, and He knows what I need when I need it and how I will obtain or receive such things. He knows my every want, and He know those that He will let me have, and those that He won't. I am slowly learning to trust Him more and more in this aspect.


"For I know that plans I have for you,  declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV