Getting to Know the Father

Isaiah 45:4-5 

⁴ “I do this for my servant, Jacob.
    I do it for my chosen people, Israel.
Cyrus, I am calling you by name.
    You don’t know me, but I know you.
⁵ I am the Lord, the only God.
    There is no other God except me.
I put your clothes on you,
    but still you don’t know me.” ERV (Bold emphasis mine).

Adam lost his position in the Garden of Eden from which he obtained his empowerment, authority and his ability to be a blessing. He could no longer co-rule and co-reign with our Lord. The serpent stole that from him by luring him through Eve to disregard God’s Sovereign command to them of not eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He also abdicated his authority to her and allowed her to use his authority for disobedience.

But even more than that, he lost something that was far more precious—his relationship with God the Father. The serpent made him forget what he had in his relationship with God—a Father who took good care of him, protected him, provided for him, and established him in his purpose on earth. He also told Adam how to prepare for things to come so he would always be aware of how He would move to bring more enlargement to him in the earth whether in the area of family, or to continue to be His conduit of the glory that brought His supernatural power on earth.

Apart from having knowledge of God as our Father, many of us have resorted to wanting to protect ourselves, provide for ourselves, and establish ourselves in our destiny in our own way and timing. This certainly does not create things for eternity that can transcend generations in a positive and godly manner. God is our Creator and many people seek Him for that in their lives. They also know Him as deliverer, healer, provider, a strong tower who covers and defends them, but they do not know Him as Father.

This has been in a lot of ways the lot of men and women who were stolen from even a glimpse of a relationship with an earthly father due to the lies of the enemy. These lies caused many men to abandon their families, perhaps because they too were abandoned by their fathers. Some fathers have been present in their children’s lives but absent in their emotions and reluctant to have a meaningful relationship with them. Instead, the children and spouse faced abuse, neglect, and learning the twisted idea that caring for someone only meant to have material needs met but not emotional or relational needs supplied. Psalm 27:10 says to us that the character of God our Father is not to abandon us. It says,

“Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].” AMP

Hebrews 13:5 also says,

“Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, ‘I will never [under any circumstances] desert you [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], nor will I forsake or let you down or relax My hold on you [assuredly not]!’” AMP

The attacks and brokenness the enemy has brought in the area of family have been relentless and started in the Garden of Eden when he took from Adam the priesthood and the authority needed for him to represent God in the earth not only as co-ruler with God, but also as head of his family. But we cannot have this brokenness fixed without a relationship with God our Father. He is a God of relationship and His Son Jesus died on the Cross so we could be reconciled to Him.

Jesus Himself brought back the doctrine of relationship and communication lost in the Garden when He demonstrated His relationship with the Father, and taught us to communicate with Him through prayer acknowledging Him as the source of our life in every area by first praising Him and thanking Him for being our loving, merciful, and awesome Father. Matthew 6:9 tells us,

⁹ “Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father, who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
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‘Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
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‘Give us this day our daily bread.
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‘And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment].
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‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’ “AMP

After Jesus ascended to heaven He sent the Holy Spirit to help us have this communication and relationship with the Father. Romans 8:14-16 shares,

¹⁴ “For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God’s judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, “Abba! Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God. AMP

Having this relationship with God our Father is what helps us receive the revelations we need in order to walk in and advance in our destiny as sons and daughters, co-rulers, priests who spend time in His presence and kings that defend the kingdom or sphere of authority and influence given to us on earth. Matthew 16:16-19 says,

¹⁶ “Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ¹⁹ And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’” NKJV

Having this relationship with the Father through the Holy Spirit opens the way for us to receive these revelations to enforce His Kingdom and rulership on earth and see His overcoming power in our lives against the gates of hell that rise up against us to steal, kill, and destroy us and our purpose. It also helps us receive the keys or strategies to execute and enforce His authority and become more and more like His image and likeness. Genesis 1:26-27 explains,

²⁶ “Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.” AMP

In addition, Genesis 22:17 says,

¹⁷ “blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.” NKJV

The Scripture says that God blesses us and multiplies us. However, multiplication in the natural is not the same as multiplication in the spirit. In arithmetic, it is said that when multiplying, the order of the factors does not alter the product. But when doing things in the Spirit, the order of the factors does affect the product or results for God is a God of order, not of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33).

This order referred to here is the order that recognizes God our Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as our spiritual head with us as sons and daughters, servants, priests, and kings in the earth who also acknowledge the established order in the earth with man as the head. 1 Corinthians 11:3 highlights this,

^“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head (authority over) of every man, and man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.” AMP

Therefore, the spiritual order established for us is God the Father as the head of Christ the Son. The Son (Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit) as the head of man, and man as the head of woman. Men and women, out of ignorance have ignored and even come against this established order which has brought chaos and even abomination to their lives.

But God is calling us to turn from this confusion and seek Him acknowledging Him as our head and to respect the headship He established in the earth for us to avoid storms in our lives that remove His glorious presence which protects, provides, and establishes us in His purpose with authority and empowerment for He is the source of life for us.

Let’s pray:

Heavenly Father, we worship and exalt you for you are the Sovereign ruler of our lives, our Lord, and source of life. Through the righteousness of your Son Jesus you gave us back access to you and for that we give you thanks. You are a merciful God who forgives us our trespasses and help us walk and live as you have planned and purposed for us in the earth. There is no other God like you and no one can compare to you. We give you the honor and the glory you deserve for you alone are worthy of our praise. 

We also seek your face with humbleness and ask you to break us of every hard place in our hearts, restore us in our broken areas so we can live in the order you have established for us with you as our spiritual head and man being the head of every family where the man seeks your presence with prayer and intercession for his family, and with you he becomes the authority, the provider, the protector and the one who seeks you to know what is to come for us. Help us Father and our families be restored back to you and back to one another with honor first to you. We also thank you because you never leave us nor forsake us and help us get to know you more as our source of life and godliness. We ask you this in the name of your Son Jesus. The name above all names. Amen.

To God alone be all the glory.▪

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