You may be one of them. God is love and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. He loves you unconditionally.
He loves you with all your faults. You are worthy to receive His love. Through His love and Divine Mercy, He gave His only Son to pay our sin debt and forgive us our sins and transgressions. He took upon Himself spiritually all our sins, all our diseases, all our infirmities, and died for us.
Yes, Christ died for our sins and through His sacrifice on the cross we who invite Him into our hearts and rest on His salvation, will spend eternity with Him.
But, I think we often miss the major benefit of the cross. Yes, Christ made a way for us to get into heaven, but of far greater importance perhaps, He made it possible for the Father to come to us. A woman had written on a prayer card her wants and desires for prayer. I picked up the card, read it, and started to cry. Her face remained stone cold. No signs of emotional change. My heart cried out—Father God, help me to help her know your love. Can you let Him open his arms and hold you close to his heart?
The stone face broke, tears flowed like rivers of healing waters, deep sobs came in waves of emotion. Father, I thank you so much for the privileged to share about your love. To be able to tell those who will listen, how much you really, really love them. I pray now that you pour out your spirit upon them and give them a revelation of this love.
To have an experiential encounter of your love through Jesus Christ. Let your pain come to the surface and release it to God. Open your heart now to receive the love of Father God into your heart. Some of you may experience rejection being broken from your life.
Let his love flow into those wounded areas of your emotions and remove the hurt and pain of those experiences. Maybe you were abandoned as a child. Maybe you were physically abused by alcoholic parents as a child. Maybe you are the year-old girl that was hiding in the closet.
Maybe you had a father that was physically there in your life but not emotionally in your life. Maybe you never were able to experience true intimacy in your relationships. Maybe you have always felt that you are not lovable and no one really cares or likes you. Maybe you have always felt that you were a failure. It is time for you to be healed of your orphan heart.
I believe that I have been created for love, to experience your healing love and to share that love in my relationships with others. I renounce the lie that I am not a lover, that I cannot open up my emotions or allow myself to be hurt again. Instead, I ask You to wrap Your arms around me, to comfort me in those areas of hurt and pain and to fill me up so that I can in turn share Your love with those around me.
In essence, I was missing out on what every human being needs — deep, personal, fatherly love, protection and care. Walking through life with an inner knowledge of His love, was far from me.
I am eternally thankful that all that has changed through a number of incredible encounters I have had with the Heavenly Father. He revealed Himself to me and peeled away layers of betrayal, hurt, mistrust and failure. Reading and sitting under teachings on this subject, and God bringing certain fatherly men into my life, has also helped me to restore a biblical understand of Father God, our Heavenly Father.
Everyone needs someone who believes in him or her, a person who is faithful and who can be counted on. God intended that fathers fulfill that role.
A faithful father has two traits: Faithful fathers instill confidence and security in their children. Unfortunately, even the best dads are not capable of perfect faithfulness. They are finite and have only limited resources. But, our Heavenly Father is without limit. The Father can be trusted to what He has promised. When Michelle and I have prayed for some people with serious spiritual or emotional problems, we have often uncovered abuse from their fathers or authority figures.
In a book by Gary Smalley and John Trent called The Blessing, they state that parental blessing has a profound effect on present and future relationships.