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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
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Happy Fathers Day!
- Thread starter Angel
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Classik
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Thanks to you, Angel. I was going to start a thread on this until I saw your thread. I was like, why is no one remembering the fathers; have they been so unfair to both wives and children?
Nevertheless I can't understand why the replies are taking so long. Perhaps girls ain't happy. Lolz
Nevertheless I can't understand why the replies are taking so long. Perhaps girls ain't happy. Lolz
LovethroughDove
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- Sep 30, 2014
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Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Ephesians 6:2-3 "Honor your father and mother" - which is the first commandment with a promise - "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
I'm a nerd and had to post this. Love to all fathers, especially our Father in Heaven!
Ephesians 6:2-3 "Honor your father and mother" - which is the first commandment with a promise - "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
I'm a nerd and had to post this. Love to all fathers, especially our Father in Heaven!
Wrg1405
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Happy Fathers Day.
A quick history lesson.
Father's Day originated circa 1905-1910 in the U.S.A.
In fact in 1913 the US congress designated that the third Sunday in June would be Fathers Day.
I don't actually hold much store with Fathers Day. In this day and age our children are bombarded with "show your father you love them" not with a hug or a card but with an IPad Pro or the latest T.V. on the market (2 e-mails I received this week encouraging me to show my father I love him)
Where on earth are my kids going to get the money from to show me they love me? Hmm let me guess. The main issue here is that if your kids don't do this they obviously don't love you. Really?
Happy Fathers day will invoke different thoughts for different people. Some will be good and some will be bad.
I had three father figures growing up and I have to say those memories are not good. The memories of my real dad are quite frankly frightful and shocking and painful. The memories of the other two are not much better.
Some people will have never known their father, some will have done but with a distant non loving relationship and some will have had a loving relationship with their father.
I'm not a psychiatrist but I think I know the scenario when someone goes to see one, they are told to lie back and talk about their childhood. Let's talk about your relationship with your mum, your dad.
I reckon that if ever I had gone to one they could have earned an awful lot of money from me over the 1000's of sessions that would have been needed.
The relationships we had with our parents whilst growing up will affect our relationships with other and certainly with God, I know mine did. How are parents related to us will affect how we relate to God.
Mine was waiting for the beating, the rejection, the hard words, working hard to earn their love. The list could go on. This not only affected my relationship with God but others as well.
I started with a quick history lesson that Father's Day started circa 1905-1910.
I would actually say that Father's Day actually started well before that. I would say that it started on the 6th day of creation.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.
Yes on the 6th day God became a Father. A relationship between his kids and him started. It was a relationship based on pure love, the Father provided all that his children needed, spent every day walking with them, talking to them, feeding them. That relationship was perfect.
We all know the story, that relationship was broken but not from God's side. His kids thought they knew better (maybe they were teenagers at that time ) as a result they became fearful, hid from him. There were consequences and that was a broken relationship with God but also between his created children and their generations.
However God had a plan in place. A plan to restore the relationship he had with his children on the 6th day.
When Jesus said on the cross "It is finished" he was saying "Father no longer do your children need to fear you, I have shown them that you love them so much, from the beginning of time you appointed this time, the relationship between you and your children has been restored, they can now walk with you and talk with you."
Then he gave up his last breath, but it did not end there. He rose again, but before he left us he promised our own psychiatrist as such. The Holy Spirit. He is the one who says "Now sit back and let me tell you about your Father, I'm not gonna charge you, it's free and this is what he says about you"
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Our Father in heaven will never leave us, never forsake us, he will never beat us, make us feel small, he will never reject us.
Sorry if it's too long
A quick history lesson.
Father's Day originated circa 1905-1910 in the U.S.A.
In fact in 1913 the US congress designated that the third Sunday in June would be Fathers Day.
I don't actually hold much store with Fathers Day. In this day and age our children are bombarded with "show your father you love them" not with a hug or a card but with an IPad Pro or the latest T.V. on the market (2 e-mails I received this week encouraging me to show my father I love him)
Where on earth are my kids going to get the money from to show me they love me? Hmm let me guess. The main issue here is that if your kids don't do this they obviously don't love you. Really?
Happy Fathers day will invoke different thoughts for different people. Some will be good and some will be bad.
I had three father figures growing up and I have to say those memories are not good. The memories of my real dad are quite frankly frightful and shocking and painful. The memories of the other two are not much better.
Some people will have never known their father, some will have done but with a distant non loving relationship and some will have had a loving relationship with their father.
I'm not a psychiatrist but I think I know the scenario when someone goes to see one, they are told to lie back and talk about their childhood. Let's talk about your relationship with your mum, your dad.
I reckon that if ever I had gone to one they could have earned an awful lot of money from me over the 1000's of sessions that would have been needed.
The relationships we had with our parents whilst growing up will affect our relationships with other and certainly with God, I know mine did. How are parents related to us will affect how we relate to God.
Mine was waiting for the beating, the rejection, the hard words, working hard to earn their love. The list could go on. This not only affected my relationship with God but others as well.
I started with a quick history lesson that Father's Day started circa 1905-1910.
I would actually say that Father's Day actually started well before that. I would say that it started on the 6th day of creation.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.
Yes on the 6th day God became a Father. A relationship between his kids and him started. It was a relationship based on pure love, the Father provided all that his children needed, spent every day walking with them, talking to them, feeding them. That relationship was perfect.
We all know the story, that relationship was broken but not from God's side. His kids thought they knew better (maybe they were teenagers at that time ) as a result they became fearful, hid from him. There were consequences and that was a broken relationship with God but also between his created children and their generations.
However God had a plan in place. A plan to restore the relationship he had with his children on the 6th day.
When Jesus said on the cross "It is finished" he was saying "Father no longer do your children need to fear you, I have shown them that you love them so much, from the beginning of time you appointed this time, the relationship between you and your children has been restored, they can now walk with you and talk with you."
Then he gave up his last breath, but it did not end there. He rose again, but before he left us he promised our own psychiatrist as such. The Holy Spirit. He is the one who says "Now sit back and let me tell you about your Father, I'm not gonna charge you, it's free and this is what he says about you"
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Our Father in heaven will never leave us, never forsake us, he will never beat us, make us feel small, he will never reject us.
Sorry if it's too long
