Father's Day

A PERFECT FATHER (only God!)

Authority - Parents are from God.

Trust - We know Who we can trust.

Values - Modeled by Christ

Affection - God loves us.

Presence - Always there for us

Acceptance - Always accessible

Communication - Incarnation

PARENTS IN THE LORD ARE NEEDED

HEALING FROM A LOVING FATHER

Acknowledge our need of healing.

Confess our negative emotions.

Forgive those who have hurt us. (Matthew 6: 14,15 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.")

Receive forgiveness.(1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness)

Receive the Father's love.

Think God's thoughts.

Endure

THE PRODIGAL SON (LUKE 15)

THE WAITING FATHER

Creator - Acts 17:28 "for in Him we live and move and [a]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’"

Is. 64: 8 "But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand."

Provider - Matthew 7: 11 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!"

Friend and counselor - Jeremiah 3: 4 “Have you not just now called to Me, ‘My Father, You are the [a]friend of my youth?"

Is 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will [a]rest on His shoulders;

And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Ps 73: 24 With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me [a]to glory.

Corrector Hebrews 12

Redeemer Psalm 103

Comforter 2 Corinthians 1

Defender and Deliverer (Ps 91, the Warriors' Psalm)

Father (of lights) - James 1: 17 "Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or [a]shifting shadow."

2 Cor 6: 18 “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.

Father of the fatherless - Ps 68: 5,6 "A father of the fatherless and a judge [a]for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God [a]makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land."

Father of love - John 16: 27 "for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father."

Abba - Mark 14: 36 "And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”

Rom 8: 15 "For you have not received a spirit of slavery [a]leading to fear again, but you have received [b]a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

Gal 4: 6 "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”"