The Mysteries & Privileges Of Divine Sonship (Part 1) - Lucy Cantrell

The Father desires to invite us into His perfect communion with Jesus, sharing His love and oneness. In these teachings we explore both the importance and the wonder of our position in heaven as sons and daughters of God.​
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​So one of the things the pastor asked me to teach for this morning, it's some of the messages that I taught during the trip of Costa Rica, that some of you know that we were able to go there with a team and, and just be able to receive but to also to minister in the church in Costa Rica. So I love how the Lord actually intertwines everything. Because one thing that I couldn't move from when I was in Costa Rica, I, you know, I prayed, and I wrote some messages that I felt like, this is what the Lord is saying, for Costa Rica. And in when we got there, when it was time to teach, there were specific things that I couldn't move from. And one of those things was the message about sonship. I just couldn't move from it. I remember having all these other notes and I'm in the lotus like, Nope, you're gonna, you're gonna cero in this message, about sonship. So I love how we saw this theme, also intertwining the retreat, we saw through the, again, the life changing messages that we were able to receive at the retreat, this weekend, from Nicole's message, of the secret place, to Nancy's message of holiness, inviting us to be set apart to the Lord, to pass around messages, and I quote him probably his most important message in 2021, about spiritual fathers, the importance to be spiritual fathers were also to learn to be spiritual sons, because spiritual sons can become great spiritual fathers as well. So just many of those messages but you could see, just the love of the Father intertwine in this in this teachings, and to finalize the home round revelation, because for me, that's what he was a home run revelation that Tyler brought to us about one God sees in his observatory in about God, God's family business. And I'm not even going to touch that about the family business right now. And I didn't want to touch that, I feel that we are going to spend a lot of time as a family individually to meditating learning, and listening to the Lord about this door of Revelation, that Tyler open for us during the retreat. But one thing that Tyler mentioned, in connection as well with everybody else, was the bad one should be our posture, when we enter that observatory, and one of the points that he made was that we need to enter as sons as beloved sons of the Father. And that's why we're going to concentrate this morning. And as I was, again, as I was telling you, when I was preparing for the trip to Costa Rica, that the Lord kept speaking about this reality on earth, as it is in heaven. I'm like, Okay, Lord, what is it that you want to say? He kept just saying, on earth, as it is in heaven. And then he began to just to be began to just show me his heart about this right now. And I believe that is something then he wants to do, not only in us as a family, but I believe that is part of what he wants to do in the body of Christ. In this season, he was saying, I want to teach you, teach you meaning all of us the body of Christ as well. The reality of what it truly means on earth, as it is in heaven. In part of what the Lord was saying, that is the we have to experience this reality there's an invitation the he the he is always In continuously giving us in it is the reality of entering into the relationship. The Father, God has with Jesus as the Son, in the Holy Spirit. These are relationships, relationship, there has been any ternal relationship, how they relate with one another. And the father is desire is to assess his children invites us into this communion into this relationship. Most of us see, I think our relationship with God, including myself, like, Lord, I want to just commune with you like me from here, and just just I want to have this relationship with you. And it's some of that, but what I felt like the Lord is like, but there is a reality there when you enter in this perfect day is a perfect communion. How the Father as a father feels about Jesus. And we see this throughout the scriptures, we see Jesus saying this in John 17, we see Jesus as we can, throughout the Gospels about his heart, as a son for the father, his honor to the Father, and the Father's love and saying, We I'm in the Father and the Father in me in that oneness, the communion that they have. And I felt like the Lord is in this in this communion that I have with my son, this is the reality that I want to invite you to come in. So you can receive, receive this love, this love that I have for Jesus in that I have for you, this love that the Jesus has for me. So you can see we can love each other in this relationship in this perfect relationship, because this has been my design from the beginning. So most of us, if I were to ask a question right now, if I were to ask who Jesus is, what would you say who Jesus is somebody or savior? Son of God. Okay, we can continue because that was the answer. Know my sharing this week. I know that Jesus, we know that he's our Savior. We know he's our Redeemer. He know him, we know that he's our restore. You may know that he's a healer. But the Father Himself defines Jesus identity as his son, above all else, we see this in Matthew in Matthew three. Let me get my, my Bible. In Matthew three, we see in the baptism of Jesus, when John the Baptist, baptized Jesus, and in it says, Matthew 317. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Then after that, in the in Matthew, we see the temptation of Jesus. And again, we share a little bit about this the week before the retreat. And then how Satan, you know, the first temptation that he goes after in this is, is saying to Jesus, we always go to the part of the bread which is, which is good, but I believe that that's the, that is the action that he wanted Jesus to do. Turn this stones into bread, that was the action the he wanted to contented him to do. But really, the first temptation was out of his heart, if you are the Son of God, if you are the Son of God, and I believe that this gives us an example because it's a model to follow that we see that the Father knows he's like, I need I have established you, I have established you as my son who am well pleased. And right after that is the first thing that the enemy is going to come and challenge in his heart. Because this I believe, is foundational for all of us. We can be anointed, we can be called. We can be walking in or calling we can be walking in our in our, in the anointing that God has given us by His grace, we can you there'll be people that hear the voice of the Lord the revelation of the Lord, in yet, miss this foundational, this foundational gift of sonship we can give our word from the Lord in that given from a place as a beloved son. In I believe that the enemy knew how, one how effective this was in the garden. He knew how effective was when he told it, Did God really say? He knew that this tactic of by challenging the very sonship that God has given us has been effectively give him all the power in the garden with Jesus here, right? He knows who he is, because he not only have heard the Father saying it, but he has been in communion all his life with the Father. So the enemy could not move cheeses from this place. I was not planning to share that. So I don't know how we're going to do with with with time with a message. So this is part of what I believe the Lord is inviting us and wants to continue to invite us, not only this morning, but I believe that this is a season where the Lord is like, Do not skip this. Let us let us receive these and this is I believe something that we can only receive from Him. There is no teaching that can teach us that there is no you know, anything, any any, any teaching that we can find that can actually gives us this, there's no person that can say anything enough, except the Father Himself, pouring out his love in our hearts. So something as we continue to see these as he was speaking to me about heaven on earth, you know, before Costa Rica, one thing that the father was saying is like, if I'm going to teach you about the reality of heaven, so he can be on Earth, a citizen heaven, right? We we talk about the invitation of the Father inviting us into this relationship, God Himself inviting us into this relationship that God has with God. God has with the sun and with the Holy Spirit. Right? That's one of them. But also the father was saying, Have you thought ever thought they are the people that you find in heaven, the people they are in heaven right now. They all feel like they are my sons and daughters. There's nobody over there that feels fatherless. There is no such thing as worshiping with the angels, day and night and seeing the glory of God and fall on their faces, and say, Holy, Holy, Holy, to then get up and say, Man, but right didn't sing as well as my sister over there. Man, I really am not that's full of Goddess as they are. They never, they never feel inadequate. They never feel ashamed. He never feel loved. Because they continue, they are overwhelmed. But the Majesty in nature of who God is his very nature, his love permeates and feels everything, including the people that is in front of him in his presence. So they know, the day our sons and daughters is not everything in the heavens is about God in a relationship with him. But it's not about how we feel. Because God feels everything that we are. So we're going to operate in this reality, as Jesus has told us, Jesus, because of Jesus, the reality of he have on earth as it is in heaven can be a reality, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now we are the carriers of the kingdom of God because God Himself has come and live inside of us. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and that relationship that they have to one another leads inside of us through the Holy Spirit is available to us because of the Holy Spirit, so we're going to be the, the carriers of the kingdom of God if we're going to be the ambassadors of the kingdom. We need to become here on earth. What we already are are in our positions in the heavens, heavens, ceaseless sons, and daughters of God. They're like, wow, God Himself lives inside of them. They are the children of God. Heaven knows our position. And this is a reality because of Christ. This is our legal stand in the heavens, because of Christ, the Holy Spirit living in them, they are the sons of God. They are the children of God. But sometimes, that reality of who we are, or legal positions in the heavens, is very different about how we live our life every day. That's why we need to leave from the place of sonship. Tyler pointed out at their retreat, how important was that? The way that we approach again, God's observatory, in that way was a sons of God, in this, how we approach it. But this place of sonship, again, is also the most foundational way we are called by your Father in heaven, to release his kingdom. This is what will define who you are, who I am, who we are, who the body of Christ is. It tells us the motives of why we do what we do, even in the kingdom, even for God, even when God is using us powerful in mighty Why, what are the motives that we're doing this? Why are we doing this that we're doing? And I do believe and we're gonna, we're gonna go more in depth in the in the next minutes about this, in some practical ways, because in why this is so important, because it will have a tremendous effect in our emotional response to others. In our response, in obedience to God, we're going to have is going to have a response on how the Holy Spirit will move in our midst. How will you respond when we gather here and mission house? Every Sunday, when the Lord begins to move in each person, we will pray of counsel and in the words moving in the life of somebody in his given a word. He will, how will we respond to these moments in our everyday life when we go to our job and in that person that has been maybe difficult with us, or the one who gets the promotion that we want? The person that, that you know, that we least expect that he's the one who gets the promotion that there was so much want, all of these things have to do with sonship has to do from where we are leaving our lights from. So let's see a little bit about what the Lord had said about sonship and a few scriptures. We have, First John chapter three and verse one. And he says, Behold, what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. In that is what we are. The reason the world does know know us is that it did not know Him. And here's his John is saying, Behold, we need to behold this manner of the Father's love, the love that He has given us. Now, this is a gift, this is something that is available to us, He has given us this love, let us be hold in this love. In it says that we should be called children of God. But then, he says not only be called children of God because we can be called many things. But then he says in that is what we are. If people were to ask us who you are, describe us who you are lady, who you are, Laurie, who you are, Mike, our response should be. I am a daughter of God. Not because I know it, because I have received it. I'm walking in. I'm seeking this place. I'm seeking to live my life from this place. I'm sonship that has been given To me, that is who we are, we can do many things, we're going to have many, again, many opportunities, many, many things, many things that people call us and in no us. But the very core of who we are. Our very identity is that we are sons of God. Also, in Romans 815, it says, so you have now received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you receive God's Spirit, when he adopted you as his own children. Now, we call him, our father, because the Holy Spirit leaving in us, because God live in in us Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in that communion relationship, that they have one another. And because the whole the Spirit in us is that we can actually call Abba Father, is the Spirit of God enters the Colossus, to become children of God. Now, this is so good, you know, because we all know this, I am not talking it probably anything that anybody in this room doesn't know already. There, I'm not talking about scriptures that they're, you know, like, they're really obscure scripture that nobody knows, you know, this has read so few people. This is scriptures that we all know. And if you are like, anything like I used to, to be about this subject I used to, I used to think about this reality of the Father's love, and say, I'm good in this area. When it's about the love of God, I am good here. I am good about the reality that I know that God is my Father, I know that I know that God's loves me. I know that I even pray to the Father, every time that I pray, I come immediately to the Father in my prayers. I know I'm his child, I have no doubt in my mind, that I am. I am his child. But again, we come again with this with this reality of our legal position that we have in God through Christ. How heaven sees us, that we are His children, God's beloved sons and daughters are legal position there. And the difference between that in our living condition. This is actually one of the first messages that I heard Pastor Rob preaching chapel. Do you remember John and John? Dugan, Disick? John dog? Babies prophetic, John? Okay. John the Baptist. Okay. Anyway, Doug, and Jen news, one of the first messages that we heard from him, he was so good, the difference between our legal position and our living condition, meaning living condition, how we are living our lives every day, that our legal position, how we are living that legal position with our living condition every day. He said, Can we say that in matches? Can we say that our legal position is matching our living condition every day. And that's what happened to me in 2015, where I told you, oh, I'm good here. This, I know, I know that God loves me. When I went to this conference, Nancy actually went with Nancy, and for lack of time, and I'm gonna just share everything. Some of you have heard me share this, this testimony. And I won't be able to tell the whole story, but just gonna tell you a few of the highlights. And what in this conference, there was a point when the speaker one of the speakers got up, and I'm telling you, this man, it was like, the love of God, like will, like, Come out of him. Almost like he when he began to speak it, you couldn't, it's like the dog and you have to cry. You just feel so much the love of God. But there was I know that there was in here, this is his his calling as well. All his life. I mean, he's in his probably, I want to say like close to his 80s at this point. But all his life was to be calm, a spiritual father was to race up a spiritual son. So the man was just you can feel the love of God coming out of him, you know, even before he pray for us, but when he hit Hold us, he told us this is what's going to happen. As I pray, the Holy Spirit is going to do this in each one of you. And in his like, you're going to be baptized in the love of God. And I'm like, I mean, I'm believing in that moment. And so yeah, man, but it didn't know what is going to hate me. When that happen, I'm telling you, just as the man has said, the Spirit of God was tangible. I mean, you're very body had to respond to it. It was so overwhelming. It was so overwhelmed. And I'm like, How can you love so much a person? I couldn't believe it like, I was receiving it. And I'm like, How can this love be possible? And I'm telling you that even when I was overwhelmed again, in spirit, soul and embody in that moment, again, I heard that whisper of God, the whisper of the Father, saying, but it's only a glimpse. I'm telling you, that ruined me. I said, there's a lot. This in concert with that I'm ruined forever. Because there at that moment, there is a point of no return. And again, I felt like that moment just really meant how could I go back to a different standard than this kind of love? If I know that this is a bail available, how can I settle for less? That moment, healed, I'm telling you healed miraculously, in instantly many places in my life. And at this point, I have done a lot of inner healing already. I mean, I have gone through a process of healing, I have the Lord, we have gone through a process of healing father wounds, we have, like done this already many times. I mean, we still, I always believed that we always are in the process of more healing ride. By that moment, he was, it was that moment, that space in time, they became a strategic point in my life of no return. I believe that we all have this moment that become marks in the timelines of our lives, when God meets us in certain way. I mean, we always are experiencing, we should be experiencing more of the of God right there in your everyday walk. But there are just time still, they become marks, we just say, I cannot go back to this, I can now go back to this. And that's what happened in that, in that time. And I'm going to, I'm going to go back and circle around this this specific moment as we continue with the teaching. But I was able, I believe, to experience the reality that we see here in Galatians 467. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son in your hearts, crying out. Father, therefore you no longer slaves, but sons, and if a son, then an heir of God, through Christ, my legal position in the heavens began to match in that moment. And I'm not saying that it is right now. It was the opening of a journey, that I'm still in it. But in that moment, in that moment, I believe that he began to match the living condition that God was inviting me. He was not only that moment, transformed my life in a powerful way, but it began to transform my family, in my surroundings, on earth, as it is in heaven. This is the place sonship is the place of transformation, it is the place of becoming. So I wanted to ask us, I want to ask ourselves the following questions this morning too. Am I operating from this place of sonship? Or no? Do my everyday actions, responses, thoughts towards myself towards God? towards other show that I'm leaving a beloved son or not? Before you answer this, I want to read to you a booklet from kill car March sick. I got the privilege to know Carol and just sweet sweet lady in one of my trips in to North Carolina. She was friend from it. She was She She was a friend of Teresa, a friend from from North Carolina. But Carol was mentored by Jack Frost, if you know Jack Frost, you can see his books. He talks so much about sonship. He was one of the first ones to introduce this, you know, in this way, the concept of sonship and the importance of sonship. To the body of Christ. He's not with with us anymore, is with the Lord. But so she created this booklet. So I'm going to read to you a few things, just kind of like to help us answer these questions, right? Because again, we tend to think that we're good there. Okay, talking about the image of God, when you are not operating from a place of sonship, you see God as a master, when you are operating from the place of sonship, just see God as God, as a loving father. How you see the pendency when you see it from this place, not as a son, you very independent, and self reliant. But when you are operating from the place of sonship, you are interdependent, you are knowledge the need in your life, not only of God, but of others. How you see how you are in the need of approval. When you are operating from a place of, of not sonship we strive for the praise for the approval in the acceptance of man. But we operate from the Spirit of sonship. We know that we total totally acepted in God's love. Thy was justified by his grace in that is enough, the approval of God becomes enough. Even when you still have the feelings I was sharing remember Nicole, and in our table and a dev retreat, I was able to share some times you know, I do things when I share a word or something that the Lord wants me to share. I truly do it in a pure obedience. Most of the time, I if I don't fight it, I learned not to fight it too much, because I know that he's just going to do it. But afterwards, after I share a word immediately, the moment that I leave. The attack comes I start to feel inadequate. And I was too loud. I say too much I was to Baba, Baba Baba is start. And I have to change the focus of what I'm hearing in that moment. To the heart of the Father, I was obedient to you. And you are well pleased. So I'm not going to listen to this. That's all that matters. That is all the matters. That I partner with you in what you wanted me to partner with you. So it's always a fight that doesn't think that it's just Oh, yeah, you know, we just come in. You know, we love doing this. It's hard. It's hard guys, well, at least from pizza. But I am learning to come to this place I'm learning to because I want to operate from this place of sonship. Okay, what about Modi's for service, and we are now operating from the place of sonship we have a need for approval achievements, as you seek to impress God or we want to impress others or no motivations to celebrate or at all. But when we are operating from the place of sonship service, that is motivated by a deep gratitude for being unconditionally loved and accepted by God, then you know that it's like the father has so much delight in me in part that he wants me to partner with him. And we're going to experience our delight us together, we do this for others, as together we do this we share this word we we do this, you know, cake or, or pie, you know, that somebody brings into our lives into our houses. What about self image? When we are operating from a place of not sonship we have self rejection. Meaning we compare ourselves to others and I am not as good at this person. I cannot pray like this person. I don't hear from the Lord like that person hears. But when we operate from the from this place of sonship paisa positive we feel positive we feel affirmed by the Lord by by the Holy Spirit because you know that you have such a value for God, he delights actually in doing this with you. And the list goes on and on and on. If you want to just see me later, I can show to you the little booklet, but this gives us an idea of how sometimes, you know, we think they were good in this area, I have to constantly these even these things helped me of like when I have certain feelings, I just like, Okay, Lord, I need to be again, you know, align, I need to be, you know, readjust again, in my place of sonship with you. sonship is our plumb line, or source of wellbeing and transformation, that design of God from the beginning. So go with me, I'm gonna try to do this in 10 minutes. If not, that's okay. But this is actually the main point of the message this morning. So bear with me to hold the book of Hosea. Hosea chapter 11. Chapter 11, Hosea chapter 11. And I, I love that how the Lord puts everything together. Because here in chapter 11 Oh, Hosea is a good picture of the heart of the Father. And I believe that there is an invitation that God is giving us to return even today to the Father's heart. Especially in these season they we are in the Hebraic calendar for tomorrow, most of you know is the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah meaning head of the year Roschmann in the head, and hashanah of the year, is usually this this feast that starts tomorrow a sundown is usually no as well as the New Year's Day, kind of like our December 31. But it's different, although it's a day of celebration, because it marks almost like the end of the year, right in the beginning of the next one. So there's some celebration that is a day of celebration, but also is a day of introspection. It's a day of truly allowing the Lord to search our hearts is the beginning of 10 days. So tomorrow from 10 days. You wish people around the world will begin this 10 days of repentance of teshuva. Shula meaning returning. Can you see how even the song with the songs that we sang with a day called the Lord is just even speaking into this. It begins this. Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets begins with the sound of the shofar. And he said call to awaken the hearers from spiritual slumber to make them aware of their action throughout the year in the repercussions. They are leaving because of their choices. Russia nine Jewish tradition is also the day they celebrate the creation of the world. This is just in Jewish tradition. I mean, there's nothing really in the Bible that was I think we'll anyway, but this part of the tradition and they celebrate the creation of the world in the creation of man, the creation of Adam and Eve. And we will see how this somehow is connected with today's message is connected with Hosea 11. When the Lord took me to Hosea 11 This week, I was like, you know, I was like, Lord, no, I have to have to talk in in terms of what I spoke in Costa Rica, and the Lord is like, No, I want to talk about something else. And I'm like, why? I don't have a lot of time to write. And he began to just speak about Hosea 11. And then when I begin to just receive what he wanted to show me I was like, Oh, my goodness, this is why, okay, so we read, we're gonna read verse one, and then verse three, and four. Okay. So it says, when Israel was a child, and this is God talking, I loved him. In Out of Egypt, I called my son. Then in verse three, I taught Efraim to a friend Every frame to walk. A frame is another name for Israel to meaning us the another kingdom when Israel divided the southern kingdom. So the southern kingdom, it was Judah in the northern kingdom, Israel. But this is another name for the northern kingdom a frame to walk. So I taught that for him to walk, taking them by their arms, but they did not know that I heal them. And then read that again. I taught a frame to walk, taking them by their arms. Think about the Lord has given us a picture of a childcare. I cannot stop thinking about Liam. Liam, that is just learning how to walk. Yeah, they're so cute. They're so wobbly. And they just melt your heart. Right? I actually have something I want to share with you. Because I do believe that sometimes, you know, we miss this, this emotions in the heart of the Father how he feels about US and abroad. With me. I asked calling permission to embarrass him this morning. And he said yes. So mean, sorry, for those who are gonna hear in the pockets later, you cannot see this goodness. But I have to share with you. This was calling learning how to walk. He was the to the business call him kissing his daddy's picture when he went when he was deployed. And he will look at the picture. And you see that, that face there? laughing He will say every time that he will see that picture. So this is just cuteness of Collins, you can pass it around if you want to see some more cuteness there and embarrass Colin ban later. But I also brought some of like cards that enjoins the calling will do. This was his first drawing when his daddy was deployed. And you can see this was Brad big head. The second biggest head was my head. And then the third head, it was his, he was crying with his head. So naturally, this was this was my head. And this is the second this is calling right right there with us. So this and I still every time that I see this, I just cry. I just melts my heart. Because he was so little, and he was so cute. And he this is this is his way to expressing his love to to us. There are these cards here. And and he says have is a Mother's Day, it says to mom. And he says he was always to the point if you know that about calling Ryan. So it very specific. So he says Dear Mom, I love you. I would never want any other I would never want any other mom in the world. I'm so happy. Love calling this in a time when I was still in a process of healing. This was in a time when it was hard for me to be like the mom that he needed me to be. There were things that Lauren needed to heal from anger. There were many things. But this is what it came out of his heart. I will never want any other mom in the world. I am so happy. And this other one just was later on. Things that I love about mom, her love cooking, like boy, I don't know where that came from. Maybe he just saw the other kid writing cooking. It could have been mom her prayers, her joy. And you know, this is us and like the Scripture says, If we been evil, know how to give good gifts to our children, how much your Father in heaven will not give you everything if we ask. And I believe that as we read this scripture, and I'll definitely go not gonna finish it on time. So maybe we just I'm just gonna pause this for a second in because there's so much here and we're going to finish in for 45 minutes. So we can see here, the heart of God. He's saying this is how you were a child. This is how I see you. I see you all a time in my heart as a father, this is how I'm seeing you right now. This is what I was seeing you at your worst because notice that he says, when Israel was a child, a lot of the commentaries that I read about this specific scripture to the saying the tone, and everything was written in the Hebrew is saying that as more like a mature child, like can come like an ungrateful child, honestly, right, and say, when you were a child, my heart towards you never, never changed. I always felt like this, like we're talking about this ways that we feel about our children. I loved you, at your worst. And out of Egypt, I called my son, Hussein, when you were in your place of bondage, that's what Egypt represent. The place of bondage is a place of slavery, when you are there, and you are not even relating to me as a son. I called you, my son. And I called you with this love that I have for you. I called you when you were a slave, I called you a son. And from that place of slavery, I called you on to me, I call you, from that Egypt onto me, as a son. There is so much in this, I'm telling you, we will continue next next week about this because there is so much to go. In, I feel like the father has for us and he wants to, to to impart and I wanted these that we've been talking, please let it be a teaching, please let it be a words that you have heard, put seek his heart, his heart for us. I remember remember, they said I was going to circle back to that story in that conference. That became my journey. And I telling you, and I'm telling you this just to Oh, the only reason that I want to share this is that we all have a journey with the Father's heart. And I every every time that I'm going to teach something, I since that day, I say Okay, Lord, what is your revelation? One thing is the revelation. But then, you know, branding, calling on my witness that after that, I, when I'm seeking nice spend times just in the presence of God, Lord, what is your heart for them? I cannot go just in Teach, if I don't have your heart for them. What's the point? What's the point? I want to be transformed in your heart? For my brothers and sisters in that very revelation that be transformed in me first, Lord, let me feel your heart. Let me let me be just feel with your heart for this. And the second thing is that every day, before I get into Word, before I worship before anything, I usually put like, like soakin worship music, that's just me. But just understand, do this, just just just, this is my journey. This is my secret place with God that we have developed. So I just come with a worship music. In I just come to his presence, no words, just coming to his presence in I don't move from that place until I'm feeling his love for Me, His nearness until I don't feel like like I'm close to him. It's almost like he washes everything and prepare me for the day. And I'm telling you, I don't do this. My family knows what I have not done this. I go back to many things. It's just like, it's evident when I have not been in this place. But these plays have helped me. So when the times of trouble that A times of trial cane. And it was painful, it was difficult. It was sometime agonizing. You know what even in the midst of that, I would just run to that place. I was like, I need I just need you. I need to feel you right now near me. And I will run to those places. And the pain was not less. The store was to raging that didn't remove the store, but I could come to this places and just be filled with His love. Feel with his heart, even for for everybody around me for for for me for how he felt in that moment. how he felt about the situation in that moment. He was the the safe place he was the secret place. But he came as a as a product as a fruit of seeking this journey and I'm still seeking that journey is still a fight sometimes to come to this place. Still is my heart desire. it that, that I can walk this way because I again, I can see that reality, then I'm then definitely not walking in sonship right now, you know, I am not walking from this place floor. So I need you. So this is, this is what I just want to finish and pray for us. And there is a lot of like moms and hearts of moms and fathers in this room. So what do they do, just join me. And let us pray that we will receive this and our children are going to receive this, the Father's love, the one thing that only he can, can be Puranas. So where then we can become two beloved sons and beloved fathers beloved spiritual fathers. And again, we're going to have others that are going to help us with this that just like pastor was teaching as the other side when we walk with spiritual, earthly spiritual fathers in order to help us into this. But I just wanted to just come into this other aspect as well to be fathered by God. So Father, God, papa, papa, we come to you. Because we know that we are your sons and your daughters, your beloved sons and donning whom you delight. And Father, we come in ask you, Lord, to come into our hearts, coming to the heart of our family, how we interact with one another in our homes, how we interact with one another as a spiritual family, having to ride with others, Lord, that they no no you Lord, in your everyday life. Father, we need your love. We want to be in abide in this place of sonship that it is in your heart, in your heart, follow. That's what we want to avoid. Father, I pray, Lord, that you do what only you can do, that you love, be polarized in a miraculous in a powerful way by your Spirit, Lord, and then Lord, from this day, and every day, we're going to be in this journey of seeking more of your heart, seeking more of your love, Lord, that we will be established in sonship. So everything whether you call us to, to pray for somebody, let it be from this place of sonship. If you call in us to share revelation, let it be from this place of sonship. If you call us, Lord, to just bring a meal to somebody is Let it be from the place of sonship father, you are enough and your love is enough for us and who we are, let it be established that who we are, is that we are sons and daughters of God in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Thank you for joining us today. Aaron ova is raising up spiritual leaders in many nations through our spiritual enrichment events, syndicated NetCast international prayer Council network and numerous international seminary scholarships. Together, we are lighting the fires of revival, fueling prayer movements and raising up friends of Jesus in the nations. We invite you to partner with us in this extraordinary movement. You can sign up as a prayer and financial partner today by going to Aaron nola.org and clicking give. Please include your email address so that we can send you updates. That's era nova.org. 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