The Fatherless, The Widowed, the Abandoned- on Father’s Day

This is Father’s Day weekend, and for some, it isn’t an easy weekend, nor is this entire “father” thing an easy concept to grasp. If you’ve had a father in your life who supplied your needs without you having to coax them to provide you shoes, coats, food or provide for your emotional needs, then it’s much easier to have confidence in the truth of how our Heavenly Father provides for all of our needs. 

However, many who suffer the pain of abandonment, by fathers who fail to supply their children with their needs (and I’m not just talking about physical=  physical needs can be met, but if emotional and spiritual needs are left out of the picture, the physical needs feel empty, and the abandonment is still just as real) often marry partners who are abandoners also, in one form or another, and so the cycle continues.  Basically, if you are fatherless, you are abandoned, and if you are abandoned, you are widowed or a widower.

My friend….how did that feel to read that?  How did those words feel to your heart?  Did they ring true?  Did you feel…”Oh, yes, that’s me?!” 

Dear reader, that is NOT for you. You are NOT that.  You may have EXPERIENCED those occurrences in your lifetime, but that is NOT who you ARE.  You ARE a child of God. Period. You are not your experiences.

You have an Ultimate Father in Heaven who is the Father to the Fatherless and who will never abandon you.  Who will supply every single need that you have, if you only let Him.  Here’s a kicker….many people say that you also have to ask, or that you have to do your part and that He helps those who help themselves.   No.  God knows our needs before we know what our own needs are.  He knows His plan for our lives when we were created in the womb of our mothers.  He certainly doesn’t need us to ask, nor does He need us to do a thing.  I’m sure He loves us to ask.  (Matthew 7:11 says for us to ask) Yes.  But He doesn’t need us to, is my point.  Sometimes we can’t ask…..sometimes we don’t know what to do or what to ask for.  Know what I’m saying here?

God knows our needs and He will supply them according to His will.  We just need to believe Him.  We just need to believe not only IN Him…but BELIVE HIM. First, submit into His hands our lives…then believe Him to do HUGE things. 

This Father’s Day….Let Him be the Father of your world for all eternity.

 ”Father to the fatherless, defender of widows-this is God, whose dwelling is holy” (Psalm 68:5 NLT).

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1).

~You are welcome in this place, Mighty God.  You are welcome in this place, Abba Father.~

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