Father Heart of God.

That was the main topic of this weeks lecture phase. Even through I have been in Bible College, I have never been more blessed through a teaching than what I have gone through this week. Our daily topics were this: Gods plan for the world, God as a perfect father, inner healing, Forgiveness, and Pronouncing a blessing.

Why did God create man and women? God wanted parents who would display His good and true characters. Who would show their children, be in God’s place, and show the love. God wanted to institute a family, a family with Godly children. Malachi 2:15. So our children would grow up willing to accept God, by you being good parents. The family was Gods ideal plan for wholesome human development. Where children would grow up knowing they are loved. Them being secure in who they are “Identity”. Where do I come from, where am I going to? Who they will be “destiny”. Their relationship “belonging”. You need to know where you belong. Some don’t have a family, and even though you don’t, that was not God’s plan. You need to belong to a body of Christ, church.

You need to be secure in who you are, who you will be, and secure in who you belong to. There was also many other reasons why we were created.

The speaker asked our class a question, that had stuck with me all week. Is EVERYTHING that happened to you the will of God? Think about it for a minute… We all have pasts, all have backgrounds, all have things that have happened to us. Some people in our class said yes, some people said no. This personally stuck out to me because I was in the middle. But God gave man the freedom of choice, even to be saved you have to make a choice. (Deut 30:15-19). He hates sin (Prov 6:16-19) Everything is not the will of God because he hates sin. God is hurt by our wrong choices (Gen 6:5-6). God allows certain things to happen though they are not his will (Luke 13:34; 19:41-44). God often uses the bad things to bring something good out of it. God can redeem your suffering.

My favorite topic though, was God as a perfect father. God is promising to be a good and perfect father. Romans 8:15, Psalm 27:10, 2 Cor 6:18 “I will be a father to you and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord almighty.” This is a powerful promise. It is up to us to take the promise or leave it. God wants us to see the Christ in our life. We need to receive the promise God has given us. The devil will say “you don’t pray enough, you don’t read enough.” But God still wants to be your father. The one with Everlasting, unfailing, unconditional love. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but he also died on the cross for our pain. And wherever there is sin there is pain.

This week I have learned so many new concepts and ideas. One of them was everyone has gone through pain of some sort in there life. Everyone has a story and we need to comport and show that we care when someone opens up to us. The cries that you  hear from someone, of letting things go from there life, that is a sound you will never forget. I learned the power of letting things be free from yourself. “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” This song has a whole new meaning to me now. Feeling the joy and weight lifted off me that I never knew was holding me down. Things can happen in our childhood and we just push them under the rug, burry them, and never want to go back through the pain of remembering. But once you do, and you truly give it to God, there is something special he does called healing.

 All of the pain Jesus went threw on the cross opened my eyes to see how he understands. That even when he was on the cross his father abandoned him. He died as a human on the cross, Jesus knows pain. I learned to not have your heart be like the dead sea, but to allow forgiveness to flow through you, as God has forgiven you. True forgiveness is long lasting, and by forgiving you are doing yourself a favor not the other person.

It is amazing what we learn in class. Thinking I was coming here to learn all this wisdom about the bible. But really they are breaking you down, building you back up, and filling you with wisdom along the way. This week is one I will never forget. Feeling new.

Isaiah 43:1-4 “But now, this is what the Lord says- he who created you, O Jacob, he who faormed you, O Israel, “Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the lord, your God, the Holy One of Isreael, your Ssavior, I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead. Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life.”