Blessed be the L-rd G-d, The G-d of our Fathers
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G-d of our Fathers
G-d of our Fathers
Blessed are You L-rd G-d of our fathers, G-d of Abraham, G-d of Isaac, and G-d of Jacob… The great, mighty, and awesome G-d! The Most High G-d. You L-rd who bestows grace and creates all! You lift up the falling, heal the sick, set free those in bondage, and keep faith with those who sleep in the dust. Who is like you master of might deeds? Who can compare to You King who causes death and restores life making Salvation Sprout! You Yeshua our Salvation are faithful to resurrect the dead! You Oh L-rd are a shield about me, and you are the lifter of my head! Blessed are You L-rd the lifter of my head, the shield of my father Abraham!
Yes Abraham is my father, and therefore, I am a son of the promise! Bless me L-rd and make my way straight… bring my back home to the land of my fathers. Bring me back to the land of my promise. Bring me to you and You will be my G-d! Bring me back to You and we shall come! Renew us and our relationship as of days of old!
Behold here is your servant, do not forsake your words, for everything You said will surely come to pass! Your W-rd is True, Messiah Yeshua, He is the way and the truth and He is my life!
Some of you may have heard and some of you may have not heard, but before coming to this point in life, I had a decision to make, and this decision though would have not separated me from the love of my father, it would have determined a series of events that would have changed everything.
G-d called me to begin a ministry, and I knew that I was ready to enter into His ministry, because G-d has enabled me to be His son!
I remember 2 months before I left my job as a grocery clerk, the L-rd spoke to me to leave my work July 2nd. He told me things would take place where He would need my full attention. In between those 2 months, I felt a large burden, because as a son to my father on earth, I wanted to bring something to the table. As a son, I wanted to be like my father, I wanted to be a man (1 Corinthians 16:13-14)
Be on the alert! Stand firm in the faith! Be men of courage! Be strong! Let all that you do be done in love.
All I wanted to do was out of love, but what I realized was that G-d gave me a role that I had to live out, and that role was… being a son!
Many of us young guys want to jump out and be fathers, but there is a reason that G-d has not enabled you to be married.
This is because G-d wants to father you and fashion you to be ready for what He knows lies ahead.
I had a few days left of my job as a grocery clerk, and I sat in my dad’s truck after work. I was discouraged, because very soon I would not be able to bring in what I wanted to bring for my future and my family. I sat in my fathers old truck, and as I am sitting in the truck I hear the truck breathing heavily and a little bit worn, and I am remembering the conversations about the day that I would bless my father for all that He has done for me. But now I am crushed, because for that moment my mind was fixed on leaving all that I had in plan for myself. I kept trying to say to myself that G-d will provide no matter what, but I was having a difficult time believing.
I began to tell my dad, dad, this is hard, and I don’t know how to say it, but that I am sad and it sucks, because my mind keeps thinking of my hope of being successful as a man in this way: To help provide for my family, to be ready for my future, and to be in Shalom. As I was sharing about my relationships and all that had been happening, now my dad speaks and says: “I know it is hard, and being that you are young there is a lot of attention on what you should be doing. usually older people are taking senior positions without any help, because they are financially able to, and most young people in full-time ministry are at least making a minimum, and you are leaving minimum wage behind. Then he said, this is why I am your Father! G-d put me in this role to support you in whatever you do. This doesn't mean you are not working, because you are going full-time ministry, but now that G-d has called you, I get to do this as your dad.
Our Father struggles with us, because He supports us. My father blesses me, because he knows G-d has blessed him, and because he carries G-d’s blessing, I get to see my dad bless me. My Father struggles, because of me, and it doesn’t bring him down… no, he delights in me, because he knows that as he fulfills his role as father to me, G-d will fulfill the role of father to Him.
I can hear Yeshua saying to him… My father blessed me, because G-d blessed Him, and because I carry His blessing, no you my son will see that you are blessed!
I am blessed, because you are my father, and I am blessed because you are my mother! And to all of you here, I am blessed, because you, who do the will of G-d are my brothers and sisters! Young leaders, see that you must not focuse on being a father… that will come in the future! Right now, you must know and understand that you are a son, that you are a daughter. Honor, respect, listen to your parents, for many will be the years of you life!
Of-course, parents, discipline but do not provoke your children. Tell them and remind them that your role is to guide them and support them. Tell me as my father told me in the lowest point before entering into ministry… I am here, this is my role (dad) and this is your role (son), and I want to make sure that you would be enable in accordance to the promise G-d gave me. You will go through many trials, but as G-d has enabled me, He’ll enable you.
Parents, Fathers and Mothers tell them, I want to be your father/mother. I am interested in you. I enjoy being with you. You and I have a relationship that is important to me.
The reason why I say this is because I am a son, and I found shalom when my father spoke over me that he is my dad and wants the best for me. Sometimes I did not like it, but I will tell you that I am where I am, because he cares.
Children want to know what life is like outside the home and what their parents do for work and in life. Each wants to be listened to and included in discussions and decisions. Of-course this does not me give your children the decisions. but demonstrate that they have decision that they can and will make one their own, and tell them, if you need me, “I am here”.
I care enough about you to provide you with the guidance you must have to grow up to be happy and a responsible person. I will use my strength to protect and nurture you. But I am also interested in what you think is important for yourself, because though you are my child, we may not have the same interests and giftings. I will gradually let you make more and more decisions on your own so that by the time you reach the place where G-d wants you to work on your own, you will be able to do it on your own. I respect you, and I know I am worthy of your respect.
Children want their parents to be strong. they need to feel protected from a sometimes threatening world and from their own immaturity and loss of control. My father in that very moment spoke to assure me that in a threatening world, we have each other. how much more can you ask for? However, you must be-careful not to overwhelm by dominance. My father knows that I will struggle, but he knows that i will go to him in those situations. And if I have any problems with relationships, I go to my mom, because I find that only girls can really understand these relationship things that happen. For their own self-respect, children need a measure of personal influence.
Where are you getting your influence?
Wether you realize it or not, sons learn about being a man primarily by watching their fathers. A father’s influence on their son’s personal development is often unseen but nonetheless real. As young men watch their fathers interact with others including their spouses, they learn about respect (or disrespect), about how men interact with others, and about how men should deal with conflict and differences. Understanding that a father’s influence on their son is unmatched will help you think more deeply about your relationship with your son and take responsibility as a good role model seriously.
As a father has compassion
on his children,
so Adonai has compassion
on those who fear Him.
I go back to that moment in the truck, and see my dad lookin at me as his son. I see G-d looking down on me as His son. Again, inside of me I was trying to act as a father, when my role was to be a son. Congregation, some of you need to hear this..... you are not the father! no, you are the Father’s son, you are the Father’s daugther, and He has compassion on those who see Him as their Father.
Because I was able to open up to my father, my father was able to have compassion on me. Because I was able to say, Dad, He was able to say son!
Train up a child in the way he should go,
when he is old he will not turn from it.
One day, after hearing the words of my father, I will be able to share these same words with my children. Some of you here are like my spiritual children, and I am so blessed to be able to share the W-rd of my Father to you. He is also your father! The blessing of life He gave to me, I give to you!
These words, which I am commanding you today, are to be on your heart. You are to teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.
Listen up, this is our G-d who took us from slavery and into the promise land. I was hurt and broken, and I was lead through the wilderness. However, my Father gave me food to eat, water to drink, He gave me clothes to wear, and He made sure that I walked on the path to the land of the living!
He who spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him
is diligent with discipline.
On that path, He showed me that these old ways from Egypt were no good! He used His rod to open seas and open the earth, and showed me that beauty of doing what is good for me - that is following His W-rds!
My son, never despise Adonai’s discipline
or dread His correction.
For Adonai loves those He reproves,
even as a father, the son
in whom he delights.
My dad showed me through his words that if I chose to walk in the way of the L-rd, that he would not step back, but that we will struggle together.
For you know how, as a father with his own children, we exhorted and encouraged and urged each one of you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
In sharing his struggle, he shared with me his Faith, that G-d makes everything work for the good of those who love Him and are called be His Name
Deuteronomy 1:19–31 (TLV)
“Then we journeyed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Adonai our God commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh-barnea. I said to you: ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Adonai our God is giving to us. See, Adonai your God has set the land before you—go up, take possession, as Adonai God of your fathers has promised you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.’
“Then all of you came near to me and said: ‘Let’s send men ahead of us to explore the land for us and bring us back word about the way we should go up and the cities we will enter.’
“The idea seemed good to me, so I took twelve men from among you—one man for each tribe. They turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Wadi Eshcol and spied it out. They took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us. They also brought back word to us and said, ‘Good is the land that Adonai our God is giving to us.’
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Adonai your God. In your tents you grumbled and said: ‘Because Adonai hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites, to destroy us! Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts saying, “The people are greater and taller than we are! The cities are great and fortified up to the heavens! Besides, we have even seen the children of Anakim there!” ’
“Then I said to you, ‘Don’t tremble or be afraid of them. Adonai your God, who goes before you, He Himself will fight for you—just as He did for you in Egypt before your own eyes, and in the wilderness, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.’
In the fear of Adonai
one has strong confidence.
It will be a refuge for His children.
Therefore children of G-d listen to these words:
Hebrews 12 (TLV)
Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us, focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.
In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed. Have you forgotten the warning addressed to you as sons?
“My son, do not take lightly
the discipline of Adonai
or lose heart when you are corrected
by Him,
because Adonai disciplines
the one He loves
and punishes every son He accepts.”
It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons—for what son does a father not discipline? But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share—then you are illegitimate and not sons. Besides, we are used to having human fathers as instructors—and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? Indeed, for a short time they disciplined us as seemed best to them; but He does so for our benefit, so that we may share in His holiness. Now all discipline seems painful at the moment—not joyful. But later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble! And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be pulled out of joint but rather be healed. Pursue shalom with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled. Also see to it that there is no immoral or godless person—like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He found no chance for repentance, though he begged for it with tears.
See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven. His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” Now this phrase, “Yet once more,” shows the removal of those things that are shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude—through this we may offer worship in a manner pleasing to God, with reverence and awe. For our God is a consuming fire.
You, however, continue in what you have learned and what you have become convinced of. For you know from whom you have learned, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise, leading to salvation through trusting in Messiah Yeshua.
For all who are led by the Ruach Elohim, these are sons of God.
Just then, some people brought to Him a paralyzed man lying on a cot. And seeing their faith, Yeshua said to the paralyzed man, “Take courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
“Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that is mine is yours.
This charge I entrust to you, Timothy my son, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, so that by them you fight the good fight,
While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Yeshua spoke these things, then left and hid Himself from them.
But whoever did receive Him, those trusting in His name, to these He gave the right to become children of God.
So you are no longer a slave but a son—and if a son, also an heir through God.
I will be a father to you,
and you shall be My sons and daughters,
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”
Congregation Rebirth, Remember that you are not the father, but you are children of the Most High G-d. Submit to Him, allow Him to support you!
Submit to you parents, honor them, because G-d has placed them here to support you and bless you according to the promise of G-d given to them! And because of them, you will be a blessing wherever you go!
Allow Him to be L-rd and King. And He will Fight for you! He will give to you all your needs according to the riches of His Glorious kingdom.