Hello Readers!
I am going to tell y’all a story about what happened to me during Staff Worship this past Monday morning.
Most of the time of worship through song I was hearing the Lord speak to me about my relationship with Him as my Daddy.
Side note: Many children struggle with seeing God as their Daddy because their relationship with their earthly fathers are broken. Some examples are: there are many children who are either abandoned, abused, or neglected. Or also, their fathers don’t know how to love their children in a way that the child receives love. This could be for several reasons, but one that resonates with me personally is that they were never shown love by their own fathers, and therefore they can’t give away something that they don’t have.
Back to the story though. As you may know, God has a lot of names, but Him as Daddy has been one that I have been trying to work on embracing a lot more these past 6-7 months now. You see, I read the book “Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship” by Jack Frost while on the World Race last year… it was a life changer…seriously, you should go read it.
Anyways, through reading that book I realized that I had an orphan spirit instead of a spirit of sonship (daughtership). Shortly after finding the book I decided to write a blog about it, click here to read it!
Then, someone during Worship came up and starting speaking about some of the very things the Lord had been speaking to me personally shortly before. After a few minutes of talking he decided that we were going to do a Baptism right then and there. This Baptism was not your typical Baptism though. Normally when you hear the word Baptism you associate it with professing your faith and view it as a sign of an outward expression of an inward change and is associated with your salvation. This Baptism was directed towards being baptized in sonship/daughtership.
I had been struggling still (sometimes) in believing that Daddy really calls me His daughter. So, Monday I decided to get baptized into that to signify and declare that truth for myself. It has only been a few days since that decision, but I feel like the relationship will continue to grow the more I allow Him to be my Daddy and we spend time together.
If you have any questions, want to know more, or share your story, then please let me know…it is sometimes hard to discuss this topic, but it gets a little easier each time.
Fundraising update: I am a few days away from meeting my end of semester deadline and am in need of $235 to be eligible to attend another semester here at the Center for Global Action. I feel like the Lord still wants to use this program to teach me and train me in a few more things. Won’t you prayerfully consider financially partnering with the Lord? You can make a tax-deductible gift by clicking on the “Donate” link on the left-hand column. Thanks so much!
Keep Lookin’ Up,
Misha
