Let's pray,
Dear Lord, our Awesome Father God, I firstly want to thank You for this new day, for the amazing never ending beauty all around that You created by Your hand alone. Thank You for health and for loving relationships and for the blessings of everything we need to live by. Thank You for who You are to us, for Your love of us and for preparing our way as we surrender our lives to You.
Please forgive us Father, for the ungodly ways that we stray away from Your will, and help us to keep on the narrow path, to follow behind Your wonderful guiding footprints.
Lord, I ask of this day that You bless every step we take, every breath we make and every thought we partake. Let them all be in Your control and of Your and will not our own. Keep us all under the ever caring and non wavering shadow of Your loving hand, and allow us to forever live in You and with You.
In Jesus precious name I pray, amen.

My Dad!

Can’t help but love my Dad!

I go to His house generally on the weekend, and every time I do, I cherish that time and more than often, I want to stay and not go back to my own home. I meet up with other family members who also visit His house on a regular basis. It’s amazing, every time I visit, there is a new adopted child, and there are now so many additional brothers and sisters, of all different races, that I don’t even know all their names. And, what I truly love about my Dad is that He is not racist at all and there are no favourites, He shows us all the same love. I always feel like we must surely all have the same biological blood flowing through our veins, which is obviously why it is very easy for me to love my growing family.

More that often, there is the same family member who ‘takes the stage’ so to speak, and he shares stories with all of us about our Dad’s life and all those people that crossed in His path. I love those stories, and through them I learn how He has been so successful, and because of that I inevitably try and follow in His wise footsteps.

I did not always love my Dad, which hurts because He always loved me regardless of how I felt or behaved, and I didn’t know this. I only realised late in life how awesome He was, and when I started spending time with Him, it made me sad that I did not accept Him sooner. He was there watching me being born, and He was with me from that day on till now, and He never ever pushed me aside or forgot I was there. I wish I could have loved Him from that precious moment and I wish I could have known how much He loved me. Gosh, how my life would have been so much better if I had not rebelled against my Dad…sigh!  But when I told Him my story and asked for forgiveness, I felt an inner peace and as if He opened His arms wide and invited me to sit with Him to hold and love me like none other before. And then I got emotional with tears of sheer joy as I felt like chains had been broken, that there was conviction but no more soul destroying condemnation, and a sense that I was truly loved from even before I was born”. From that moment on I have never looked back, and the more I love Him the more I feel loved, it is so cool.

I have to admit I do get excited when I hear the story about how our Dad is busy building houses for each of us, on His property, just so all of us can live close to Him forever. I know I sound like a gold digger but I did not ask, He offered, and all He wants in return is for me to keep on loving and visiting Him to listen and learn from His stories, it’s that easy. He is such a cool Dad, and I know if you feel orphaned and alone, He will definitely adopt you too, because the more children He has, that will love and accept Him, the happier He is, and I can guarantee, through my own experience, you will never ever look back.

My wonderful Dad has a Son called Jesus, and to think, He sacrificed His only Son to be crucified just so that I could have Him as my Dad forever. But this act of love was not only for me, but for anyone who wants Him as their Dad too. All you have to do is surrender your life to Him, accept Him as your eternal Father, repent of your sins, allow transformation from old self to new born, receive salvation in Him, live according to His Word, and hey hoe; you will be adopted just like I was. I would recommend you do this without delay, all because life with Him is so amazingly awesome, and life without Him truly sucks!

Oh by the way, my Dad resurrected His Son Jesus, after the crucifixion, to sit with Him on His throne, and then when He is ready He will send for us too…so cool hey? 

Hope you too will decide to claim your piece of awesomeness from our Awesome Father. You have nothing to lose and eternal life with Him to gain!

John 14: 18 – 19 (NKJV) 18 “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 19  A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also”.

©Cheryl D. Robins 2011