yesterday

I'm going to share a little testimony about my day!

Last night was the first prayer meeting of the year. It's called the Trench and it's ran by my brother-in-law. So, of course I was freaking HYPED! I was so excited to see God move and change hearts! In preparation for the night, I was praying a lot about it, hoping that everything would go well. During my quiet time with Jesus, I decided to do some of my devotional, Journey Of A World Changer by Banning Liebscher (a jesus culture devotional). That was kind of strange, since the last time I had done this devotional was the week before school started, just because it was very time consuming (in a good way) and my free time hours were slowly turning into what I call "rest hour", the time in-between another activity. 

Anyways, I started reading where I left off, Day 21:Loving Father, Not Employer. The devotional continued to talk about how many Christians view God as "a boss" who is yelling orders and looking their performance, and that unfortunately this reduces peoples connection with Him to that of an employee. I mean, how much more further could that get from the truth? God is a Father! He yearns to know us before we do anything for Him! Basically what this devotional did for me was took me out of that mindset and shouted to me, that God is my Father I "never had". The best dad out there! And then towards the end of my time with Jesus, he told me specifically that he would reveal to me the broken hearts of this nation to preach to! I had breakthrough at this time in the day with the Lord! God was preparing my heart for the night, which I am so thankful for!

Flash forward a couple hours, now! The Trench is starting up, I brought with me 3 of my high school friends that have had little experience in the presence. So, we start off with communion and then ease into a good hour of worship! Jesus revealed so much in me and to me during that hour, I just soaked in His love and mercy, and He gave me a couple prophetic words. Earlier my brother in law, Tom, had asked me to maybe share a testimony of breakthrough. I was down, though I had NO idea what I would say. In worship, the Father helped me and told me what I needed to speak about! It was amazing, God told me to talk about God being a FATHER to the FATHERLESS! Only after sharing my testimony, I remembered my devotional from earlier on in the day! Praise, God! He is so good to me! 

So yeah, I'm not sure who this is for, but if anyone is struggling with not having a father figure in their life, or maybe they don't the relationship they want with their dad, I just want to let you know, there is freedom in Jesus' name! God is a good father, who longs for a fatherly relationship with us! He is the only true provider for our hearts and our lives! He is the Father to the fatherless and He LOVES you soooo so so much!