What Father is Like

What Father is Like What really is God's attitude toward a Christian? Most Christians have a warped view of God. We do not view Him as a loving, caring Father. Instead we believe in a God who is critical, punishing, or distant. These views of God come from family background, religious traditions that don't understand grace, or pre-Christian experiences with God. We need to allow God to reparent us in the true image of who He is.

The following "What is Father Like" Scriptures have been very helpful to many people in our church. The Word of God has a unique ability to go deep into our soul and transform our thinking. Print these Scriptures, read them once a day for 30 days, and let the Word of God reparent you into a new view of the Father. Here is what Father is really like. Key phrases are highlighted in red.

Jesus' words are used in some places, because Jesus said, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father" (John 14:8-9): Isaiah 54:10: Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you. Matthew 7:11: If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Mark 6:34: When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

So he began teaching them many things. Luke 6:35b-36: But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because your Father is merciful. Luke 15:20,22,23,31 (Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Loving Father): So the son got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

And the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate." "My son," the father said, "you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

" Luke 18:7-8: And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? No! I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. John 14:18: I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you. John 16:27: Jesus said, "The Father Himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God." Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.

” Romans 8:32: God who did not spare his own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will the Father not also, along with Christ, graciously give us all things? Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 15:7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ has accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. Galatians 3:26: You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 4:4-7: But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.

” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. Ephesians 1:4-8: For the Father chose us in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love God predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will—to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. Ephesians 2:4-7: But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even while we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace to us, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 4:32: Be compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Hebrews 4:15: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Hebrews 12:7,10: Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.

[See The Difference Between Punishment and Discipline.] Hebrews 13:5b: God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” James 1:5: If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 1 Peter 5:7: Cast all your anxiety on God because He cares for you. 2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.

1 John 4:16-18: And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him. There is no fear in love.

But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 5:3: This is love for God: to obey his commands. And His commands are not burdensome.