The Father’s Love

The Father’s Love

Hello everyone. Welcome to “Notes From the Presence.” This past week, I have been watching people around me as they cower in fear. I have learned from experience that fear is a debilitating force. It attracts the very thing into our lives that we are trying to keep away in much the same way that blood attracts sharks. It also stops us from taking positive action, putting us in a situation where we make unsound decisions. Caution and respect is one thing – fear, dread, and terror is totally another.

Job 3:25 For what I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me

For this reason, I would like to write a little antidote to fear today:

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear

I would like us to turn our eyes on the love of the Father for a few minutes. He is made out of love and light. His love is perfect, and if given place, it will remove fear from our lives.

The love of Father God cannot be bought or sold. There is really only one place to find it—in His presence. Relationship and face-to-face time with the Father builds a confidence in His love over us. Because it is so vast, it needs to be absorbed over a period of time. 

1 John 1:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. 

From this verse, we see that the love of the Father is always there for us, but we have to come to a place where we “know” and then “believe” that it is true. The transition to knowing and believing takes time. We need to start today. 

I have a challenge for us that I am going to take on myself this coming week. Let’s turn off our news feeds, put on some worship music, and find the place of the Father’s heart. Then, let’s spend time there, His love washing over us—expediting the process of perfecting and believing. Let’s allow God’s love to stop fear dead in its tracks.

Then, without fear, let’s go out into a highly freaked out world with authority, carrying peace and protection. Let’s put oil on the doorposts of our homes and work places, release protection on our peers and friends, and take His presence to the grocery store. We carry answers, we carry heaven’s kingdom inside of us—and no virus is higher than the name of Jesus!! 

John 17:23 And the world will be convinced that you have sent me, for they will see that you love each one of them with the same passionate love that you have for me.

John 17:26 I have revealed to them who you are, and I will continue to make you even more real to them, so that they may experience the same endless love that you have for me

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Cheers, Dean