God - An Intentional Father
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.
Ephesians 1:3-6 NLT
· An intentional Father
· Some men plan to have Children
· Some have them by accident
· Some have them and then decide they don't want to be fathers after all
· Some have them but don't know how to be fathers
7 Truths from these 3 verses
1. Even as in His love
2. He chose us, actually picked us out for Himself as His own
3. in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy consecrated and set apart for Him and blameless in His sight,
4. even above reproach, before Him in love.
5. For He foreordained us, destined us, planned in love for us to be adopted as His own children through Jesus Christ,
6. in accordance with the purpose of His will because it pleased Him
7. and was His kind intent
Ephesians 1:4-5 AMPC
https://bible.com/bible/8/eph.1.4-5.AMPC
Questions
· what's your relationship like with the Father?
· do you know the love of the father and his acceptance like Jesus did?
· What truth from the list is easy to believe and hard to believe?
· How do they affect your relationship with the Father?