Embracing Our Divine Relationship: Creator, Father, Husband

do you guys believe I mean seriously think in your heart because I I love what Vanessa started with how sometimes we can take something so sacred and becomes common and prayer is certainly one of those those things in our lives where we can just throw words up there with a lack of faith and we know what James says you know the Book of James says if you doubt you're going to receive nothing and so it's so easy to get in this habit of half believing our prayers and then God guarantees well then those prayers won't be answered because I don't answer the person who doubts James 1. [00:00:04]

I realized that there were certain you know the Bible describes God as our creator it talks about God as our um our father it talks about God as our husband or groom and we're the bride of Christ and and as we start talking about some of these things I thought okay when I address him do I think of him in these ways and God was just showing me that sometimes I'm not thinking through who I'm speaking to based upon scripture and he's also showing me that sometimes our Earthly relationships can distort that picture that we're supposed to have with God. [00:03:37]

but how many of you have really meditated on that thought of the creator you know in Psalm 139 verse 13 it says for you formed my inward Parts you knit me together in my mother's womb could you believe this do you believe that God knit you together in your mother's womb because it's very easy to just from a secular fleshly perspective go well yes but it physically I learned in in human biology or anatomy class I learned how that works and and how things come together and you just think about the physical element of it. [00:09:02]

and if that is true that someone else created you made you how do you speak to him sometimes I try to imagine uh what it was like for Adam the first human being and God creates this man out of the dirt and then breathes life into him okay it seems like this was a very intimate Act where he literally just in his face breathe life into Adam now we're Madam imagine Adam suddenly appears here's this human being he does he know what he is I mean does he all he knows is he's standing before this being who just breathed life into him. [00:11:19]

I love Psalm 68 it's one of my one of my life verses I have a lot of them but where he says father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation so talking about our creator in heaven right now he defines himself as a father and like his very nature is to be a father to the fatherless um and I think for those of us who who don't have dads or didn't have dads growing up or or we just have a horrible relationship or no relationship even though they're still alive obviously that passage means a lot to us. [00:20:41]

see what kind of love the father has given to us that we should be called children of God and so we are see what manner of love the father has given unto us it's like look at the amazing opportunity the amazing love he's shown that we could be called children of God sons of God foreign so I've been out of town I've been out of town a lot and leaving town again and I came back this morning and immediately my son Silas comes running out the door and jumps into my arms you know. [00:21:39]

and that is our creator who created the Garden of Eden and now he calls himself a father because it's about this relationship this is so fascinating that's why he says behold what manner of love the father has given unto us that we should be called Sons God that I get to take on the name a son of God a child of God and I'm guessing for a lot of us we never some of us never jumped into our dad's arms that's like the furthest thing from our minds so how can we understand God as father right and I've shared I've wrestled with this. [00:25:08]

and because you are Sons God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts crying Abba father this is what I'm praying for tonight okay it's not like hey let me give you one of my kids and have them jump on your lap so you feel you know no there's some miracle that can take place for those of us who when we hear the word father doesn't it doesn't give us a sense of security and rest and Love and Desire the Bible says there's this miracle that takes place where inwardly even though we've never felt it. [00:27:29]

I wanted them up here because some of you haven't gotten to taste this and I'm so sorry and this is where living in a broken world with Fallen people a lot of us didn't get this a lot of us didn't get the security but so many people come up to me in the past that just say oh I just see your girls they come they sit on your lap at that age and I'm just going I wish I just had some of that at some point and there's a redeeming there's something that God did in my heart to where I knew how to be a father even though I didn't have that picture. [00:31:42]

and Isaiah 54 verse 5 says for your maker is your husband the Lord of hosts is his name and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer the god of the whole earth he is called revelation 19. verses 7 through 9 says let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous Deeds of the Saints and the angel said to me write this blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb. [00:37:18]

and that word Koinonia is the same word for intercourse now to make this a sexual thing but the idea is that it's a level of intimacy that God our creator who spoke Adam into existence who says okay I you gotta I'm using the best of the the world can of like a father to a child and a a wife to a husband and this this this Fellowship that I'm inviting you into and I'm learning I'm trying to understand what it means to see God as my husband and us together being his bride. [00:43:19]

these are beautiful pictures they're pictures of dependence especially back then the way a wife had to depend on the husband the way a child has to depend on the father the way a creative being has to depend on his creator to actually create him and breathe life and give life to him and so this picture of the Bride is very important it's important for us to understand that we're not in the place of authority over God and we joyfully come under his leadership we choose this we choose to be the bride of Christ. [00:48:34]