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"...but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba , Father."
Romans 8:15

"Knowing God As A Father" in particular today touched me.   A friend of mines recently shared a similiar story about her father. Though her father has been dead over thirty years when she shares event of her childhood you can literally feel her pain.  It is also obvious that she is still holding on to it. Reason being is because we have been friends over 16 years and during that time any time someone mention the word father or talk about their father, she explodes.  The need to forgive is important for us to grow and move from the pain to hear from God.  I just told her that I was reading a book by Paul J. Meyers called "Forgiveness...the Ultimate Miracle" that I felt she should read. 

I intend to print a copy of  "Knowing God As A Father" for her to read.  I feel in my spirit your testimony will bless her and help her to begin to heal and let go of her resentment.  Your Heavenly Father was in the plan showering you with the love you needed even before you realized it.  For you to endure the emotional hurt from your father and display the forgiving spirit you did- still loving and trying to please him, is evidence your Heavenly Father had you in his care. As you said you just had to grow more spiritually for Jesus to as you said introduce you(smile). 

We should all be thankful for our Heavenly Father.  Because no matter what we go through in life, he is always there to pull us through-pick up the pieces, and show us unconditionally LOVE!  I'm so glad that despite it all you looked beyond your daddy's fault understanding he did the best he could and was grateful to God for him.  You are such a strong person!  I hope you know that.  There is not a time that we have talked that I have not felt that.  You are so anointed, and your willingness and desire to always do the will of God will continue to keep you in his Grace.  He has such Great things in store for YOU!  He also have much more work for you to do for his people.  Continue to answer the call.  Be Blessed!
Love you,
Gwen Roberson - Lafayette, LA

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Enjoyed the testimony and the message. I want to know God as my Father and I too hear His voice. When I look back over my life, I know what he has done for me. He saved me from myself as I was so lost and so caught in the pain of sin. I know that now I am a new creature and I am so thankful to my heavenly Father. Each morning I begin my day with "Thank you God!" and He just keeps blessing me.
JTurner - Fresno, Tx

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Growing up  I had a father in the home but I didn't have a "daddy".  My dad was there physically but mentally he was somewhere else ( street life, friends, etc..) Later I found out it was because he didn't know how to be a dad because he never experienced a physical father-son relationship plus I believe he's never experienced a true father-son relationship with his heavenly father either.  I grew up in a home with both parents but sometimes felt like I was being raised in a single parent home.  

Going to church was rarely experienced with him and as a child was embarrassing at times.  My mother took my brothers and I to church every Sunday and as we got older, we knew that if we lived in her house, even if you went to the club on Saturday night, you BETTER be sitting in church Sunday morning (ON TIME)-paid off in the end because she gave us the gift of God early in life. Proverbs 22:6

Having a father but sometimes feeling fatherless led me to God at a young age. Psalm 68:5  I can recall sitting in my bed late at night and talking to God as if he was my friend.  I held long conversations with God about anything and at a young age had no clue what I was doing or even if he was listening but somehow I knew He was there.  I'm truly blessed because I've had the oppurtunity to get to know my heavenly Father at a young age and I've come to realize that He fulfilled the role of my "Daddy" during that time so now when I go to Him as a woman, I feel as if I'm sitting on the porch talking to my Dad, because we simply talk. Lol - It's truly a sweet relationship to have because He always listens when nobody else does and to experience Him is indescribable.

"A rose in a concrete world"

To God be the glory!!! Thank you for such awesome testimonies from "Gwen Roberson, JTurner, and A rose in a concrete world". What about you? You are reading this and it may be you God is talking to. You too have a testimony that will help many. If this testimony has encouraged you, please let us know.

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