I SENT YOU A FATHER !

I SENT YOU A FATHER! 
Scripture: Matthew 21:36-37.
Topic: I sent you a Father! 

"Again, He sent other servants More than the First: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son."
Matthew 21:36-37

God sends Fathers into our lives who we often do not recognize. People even fight with their fathers! We must learn to receive the fathers God send into our lives. Receiving an instructor involves receiving the lessons he gives from the Word. Receiving a father involves receiving an all-embracing ministry from someone. In the natural, your biological father affects you in many ways. He teaches you how to eat, how to dress and how to live. He gives you wisdom, advice and little lessons for life. He sets an example for you to follow and serves as a source of inspiration and direction. Compare this with your school teachers. These instructors often do not guide and inspire us as our fathers do. When you come across someone who seems to have this wide-ranging influence on your life, you have probably met one of the fathers that God has ordained for you.

Don’t Make the Mistake of receiving a Father As a Mere Instructor Some people make the mistake of receiving their fathers as mere teachers. They do this by not embracing all the fatherly input coming their way. By receiving only a part of the input of these fathers, we often reduce the role of fathers to mere instructors. There are people God has called me to father. But I relate with them as an instructor because that is what they want. The parable in Matthew, Chapter 21, clearly shows that God will judge us for the way we relate to the people He sends to us.  There are fathers that God has sent to me. 

One day, I was enjoying the message on tape by a man of God and the Lord said to me, “ I sent this man to you as a father.” From that moment, I regarded those tapes differently. I opened my heart to receive all aspects of the ministry that were offered to me through this minister. Suddenly, all his books and tapes were of interest to me. At first, I just enjoyed some of his teachings but now I wanted everything. I knew that I was to be birthed into a new level of ministry through this man. That was really when I understood that you can receive someone as an instructor but then you can go higher and receive him as a father. 


Credits: Excerpt From
My Father ! My Father!
Bishop Dag Heward- Mills.

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