Jack & Trisha Frost of Shiloh Place Ministries laid such a foundation of the Father’s love in my life. As you read today’s post, see if you heart can embrace God’s passion for you.

God is not ashamed to be called your Father. He delights to be a Father to you and to have you as His child. He is passionate in His love toward you. You are the apple of His eye. He rejoices over you with joy and with singing. He is thrilled to be your Father and to have you as His child. You are the child in whom He loves and in whom He is well pleased, just like Jesus.

He’s not ashamed of you, put out by you, nor disappointed in you. You are not a burden to Him. He loves you. His banner or standard over you is love. His total heart response toward you is love. He never thinks a negative thought about you. His thoughts toward you are good and loving, to give you hope and a future.

All things are opened to His eyes. There is nothing you’ve ever done that He didn’t already know about before He created the heavens and the earth. Your failings and short comings do not challenge or threaten Him in any way. He is all powerful and all knowing. He is fully able to finish the work He began in you. His total heart response toward you is love. He is love!

When we lack identity in God’s love we will have fears to deal with since it is love that casts them out. 1 Jn.4:17 Fear leads to control; a lack of vulnerability, having walls up.

“In a shame bound family system there tends to be rigidly defined boundaries. This causes the development of self to get cut off early. Children learn to value defiant individualism over the ongoing dialog of relationship.” (Facing Shame) Most teenage rebellion can be found right here!

Fatherhood is coming to the church and will change everything. Not just fatherhood but a Father’s Love changing the churches very foundations. Bob Mumford says it will give an ethical base to Christianity. Bob Mumford lays out in his book differences between Eros love and Agape love. One is based on self and the other on selflessness. Integrity is coming to the church that will produce a new brand of holiness.

Not a holiness based on law, on rules and regulations but on love. We will ask ourselves the question “have I done anything to misrepresent Father God’s love to another human being?”  

Secular culture will began to see the church as a group of loving fathers rather than holier than thou preachers. In Luke 15 and verse 1 we see that people trapped in sin felt at ease to eat lunch with Jesus, never sensing anything condemning in His demeanor. The church is maturing in this hour through Bob Mumford’s teachings, Jack Frost’s and others to make an offer of love to a hurting world. Love that can heal our hurts and wash away our pain!

Check out The Agape Road at http://www.lifechangers.org

Read Jack Frost’s materials on Agape Reformation are found at http://www.shilohplace.org

Robert Hartzell’s resources are at Fountains of Life www.fountainsoflife.org

Squidoo article http://www.squidoo.com/AgapeReformation

Experiencing Father’s Embrace shows us there are so many things we can look to for identity other than resting in love. Even ministry can be a place of identity. This can be a stronghold that will cause us to use others to fulfill our vision of successful ministry, because without success we feel like we are nobody. We will end up placing ministry ahead of our own families if we struggle in this area. One statistic showed that most children who grow up with a parent in the ministry do not want anything to do with it when they reach adulthood.

Jack Frost goes on to teach that pain seeks pleasure. If we are not comforted by love we will seek it in food, alcohol, drugs, etc.

God has a place of rest and comfort for all His children when we can learn to relate to Him as a loving Father!

See Father’s Love letter http://www.fathersloveletter.com/ 

See Squidoo article http://www.squidoo.com/FathersLove

Check out Shiloh Place and Jack Frost articles www.shilohplace.org

Robert Hartzell’s materials www.fountainsoflife.org