Many years ago in Southern California, while attending Pastor Nancy Dufresne’s church, I was home sitting in my makeshift recliner (I will explain that another day) God spoke to me, “I wish you would stop calling Me God and Sir all the time. I AM your father. Call me Father.” 

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I did not have a father in my home growing up. To call God father was a foreign thought to me. 

It was uncomfortable for me. 

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So I started the discipline of calling Him, Father and not God and Sir all the time. 

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After a while, I noticed the change. My heart was softer and more open to Him in a way it had not been before.

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It started feeling like a father daughter relationship of which I really didn’t know what that felt like until I started calling Him, Father.

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In our last service at Solid Front Church, I made this statement; “Synagogue is done. This is the church.”

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The Holy Spirit was dealing with people who embrace a religious spirit. They don’t know God as Father. 

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They serve Him like He’s a hard taskmaster. Some of them serve Him like they’re in bondage to an evil slave owner. 

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There is a constant working of the flesh to please Him under the pressure of never measuring up. It’s a daily, inner struggle with the guilt of not being good enough for the Father. 

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Oh how the Father longs for them to know Him as Father. He is full of goodness for them if they would only embrace Him as Father. When we embrace Him as our Father that puts a draw on His goodness reserved just for us. 

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Instead, they embrace a religious spirit that keeps them bound to the ground of guilt and condemnation of which they believe is humility. 

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Humility is not slavery. . .humility is freedom. It’s the very freedom I am talking about right now. 

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Religion is full of rules and regulations that flow out of an unrenewed mind. It’s man trying to reach God with his own efforts. And if you do not follow their rules, then you are shunned. This is not the nature of our Father. 

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The Father never shuns us for misstepping or sinning against Him. On the contrary, he extends His goodness to bring us back into the place where His goodness flows. 

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Father God gave us His best, His son Jesus to redeem us from the bondage of the sin nature. He gave us His Son Jesus. 

God’s best is our highest. Through Jesus we occupy a place in the Spirit that can’t be explained as much as it can be experienced. 

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I know Him as my Father. By His loving hand, Jesus, He reached down into the eternal pit and conquered hell’s master for all humanity giving us the freedom to choose Him.

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Have a great week everyone and remember Jesus is coming soon!!!