The Character of Abba Father’s Heart – Joy
In Nehemiah 8:10 it says, “the joy of the LORD is my strength.” You can translate that, “the joy of the LORD is my everything.” Knowing the Father = Joy and His Joy becomes everything you need.
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In Nehemiah 8:10 it says, “the joy of the LORD is my strength.” You can translate that, “the joy of the LORD is my everything.” Knowing the Father = Joy and His Joy becomes everything you need.
The Father takes our “YES” to be His servant, and He uses it to unleash His glory through us, as He did through Mary mother of Jesus (Luke 1:38).
Knowing their weakness they asked the Father to speak and heal through them. The disciples could only accomplish these things because they knew they belonged to the Father. The Father loves to answer the prayers of the weak: “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly, (Acts 4:31).
The Father loves to take the weak that “have been with Jesus,” and empower them to turn the world upside down. He is looking to fill them with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
This coming Sunday we celebrate Pentecost, where Abba Father unleashed His empowering Spirit on a bunch of weak men and women who failed Jesus during his darkest moment. But Abba found each of them through Jesus and put his loving arms around them and said, “get ready for the greatest race of your life.”
One of my all time favorite spots in Israel is found in the beautiful area north of Lake Galilee called Tel-Dan. Located at the foothills of Mount Hermon, this area has centuries of Biblical history going back to the time of Abraham. This lush place filled with an abundance of rushing water attracted all types […]