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There’s nothing like having a child look up at you and call you “Daddy.” But our relationships with our own fathers, and sometimes our own children, can be complicated. When our kids are young, we as parents tend to be slaves to the busyness of life—trying to keep a roof over our family’s heads, making sure there’s enough money  to put gas in the car, food in the ‘fridge and shoes on the kids. In the noise and stress of trying to get ahead and pay the bills, men and women, but sometimes men in particular, can tend to be less than attentive to the thoughts, feelings, and needs of the little ones around us. Maybe you’ve experienced this in your own life with your kids; or maybe you had a mom or a dad who was less than attentive when you were young. Jesus’ Relationship with His Abba The most hopeful model that we can have for our relationships, either as fathers or with our own fathers, is the relationship that Jesus had with his heavenly father. We see evidence of the love that the two of them had for each other at the baptism of Jesus, where God the Father audibly spoke these words: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased” (Mark 1:11). Throughout the gospels we see Jesus responding to this statement of love. He walks with his Father, prays to his Father, and cries out to him as “Abba” (or “Daddy”) during his darkest moments (Mark 14:36). Jesus’ relationship with his father is close, trusting, and intimate. The Abba Experience Brennan Manning, in his book The Signature of Jesus , describes it this way: “The Abba experience is the source and secret of Christ’s being, his message, and manner of life … In order to comprehend his relentless tenderness and passionate love for us, we must always return to his Abba experience. Jesus experienced God as tender and loving, courteous and kind, compassionate and forgiving.” As human fathers, we all have regrets. As sons of human fathers, we all have things that we wish had been different. But God, the Father who loved Jesus so well, stands ready and waiting to share that relationship with us. He longs to speak with us as we look to him for guidance during our happiest and darkest moments. Manning further states, “You and I not only are invited but actually called to enter into this warm and liberating experience of God as Abba  … We are privileged to share in the intimacy of Jesus with his Father.” For Reflection How can you begin today to walk into that same relationship with God that Jesus had? Drawn from the NIV Men’s Devotional Bible .

Exodus 34:6–7 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Romans 3:23–24 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Exodus 33:19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” Psalm 145:8–9 The LORD is gracious and merciful,     slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.The LORD is good to all,     and his mercy is over all that he has made. Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people. 1 Corinthians 1:4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you,       and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.For the LORD is a God of justice;       blessed are all those who wait for him. Ephesians 4:7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Psalm 119:29 Put false ways far from me       and graciously teach me your law! Romans 5:8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This article is adapted from   ESV Bible Promises: 700 Passages to Strengthen Your Faith .

[He will] provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61:3 Mary was born into a dirty and crowded working-class district in Scotland in 1848. Her father sometimes threw her out on the streets when he arrived home drunk. And by age 14, she was working ten-hour shifts at the textile mill to support her family. But God exchanged Mary Slessor’s misery for something better when she began working at a city mission in Dundee. While there, she was inspired to sail to West Africa as a missionary to Calabar. Mary was no richer in Africa than she had been in Scotland—in fact, she now made her home in a mud hut. Throughout her 39 years in Africa, she never married. She was not even always in good health: Malaria and boils plagued her. Yet, despite the pain she suffered, God displayed his splendor through Mary and her work. She found joy in rescuing children from ritual murder. She discovered pleasure and purpose serving as a peacemaker with the Okoyong people. And she adopted a family. “If anyone may testify as to the reality of his presence and power, it is surely this unworthy servant,” she wrote to a friend. “He and his Word are a living bright reality for sure … I mean to glorify him and to magnify his grace.” The Israelites also had their share of misery. The Assyrians swept them from their homeland, destroying all they loved and everything familiar. However, their story, like Mary’s, didn’t end in misery. In fact, Isaiah predicted joy was ahead. God planned to exchange their mourning and despair for gladness and praise. Why? So that once rescued, God’s people would be living demonstrations of his splendor. We each suffer our own miseries, and we think things will never change. Perhaps you’ve experienced burdensome memories, a scarring divorce or a difficult diagnosis. However, can you sense any hope? Can you see God at work, gradually transforming the pain into something you can endure? You never know; up ahead you just might see the possibility of joy. Like the Jews in exile, and like Mary Slessor in Scotland, you can trust that, despite the present pain, God has plans for your future. He can use whatever you go through today to display his splendor through you tomorrow. Reflect How does this Isaiah 61:3 passage bring hope to your times of misery? How might God be planning to display his splendor through your current difficult circumstance? Drawn from a devotional in the NIV Women’s Devotional Bible .

101 Healing Scriptures These scriptures in the Bible are promises for the healing of our soul and body. They provide great benefits when we speak them forth daily. It's like taking your medicine (Gos-pills) every day, even three times a day! Try beginning each promise with, “God said.” I pray they bless you, mightily! Old Testament God said… 1) I am the Lord that healeth thee (Ex. 15:26). 2) Your days shall be one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3). 3) You shall be buried in a good old age (Gen. 15:15). 4) You shall come to your grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season (Job 5:26). 5) When I see the blood, I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you (Ex. 12:13). 6) I will take sickness away from the midst of you and the number of your days I will fulfill (Ex. 23: 25, 26). 7) I will not put any of the diseases you are afraid of on you, but I will take all sickness away from you (Deut. 7:15). 8) It will be well with you and your days shall be multiplied and prolonged as the days of heaven upon the earth (Deut. 11:9,21). 9) I turned the curse into a blessing unto you, because I loved you (Deut. 23:5 and Neh. 13:2). 10) I have redeemed you from every sickness and every plague (Deut. 28:61 and Gal. 3:13). 11) As your days, so shall your strength be (Deut. 33:25). 12) I have found a ransom for you, your flesh shall be fresher than a child’s and you shall return to the days of your youth (Job 33:24, 25). 13) I have healed you and brought up your soul from the grave; I have kept you alive from going down into the pit (Ps. 30:1, 2). 14) I will give you strength and bless you with peace (Ps. 29:11). 15) I will preserve you and keep you alive (Ps. 41:2). 16) I will strengthen you upon the bed of languishing; I will turn all your bed in your sickness (Ps. 41:3). 17) I am the health of your countenance and your God (Ps.43: 5). 18) No plague shall come near your dwelling (Ps. 91:10). 19) I will satisfy you with long life (Ps. 91:16). 20) I heal all your diseases (Ps. 103:3). 21) I sent My word and healed you and delivered you from your destructions (Ps. 107:20). 22) You shall not die, but live, and declare My works (Ps. 118:17). 23) I heal your broken heart and bind up your wounds (Ps. 147:3). 24) The years of your life shall be many (Pr. 4:10). 25) Trusting Me brings health to your navel and marrow to your bones (Pr. 3:8). 26) My words are life to you, and health/medicine to all your flesh (Pr. 4:22). 27) (My) good report makes your bones fat (Pr. 15:30). 28) (My) pleasant words are sweet to your soul and health to your bones (Pr. 16:24). 29) My joy is your strength. A merry heart does good like a medicine (Neh. 8:10; Pr. 17:22). 30) The eyes of the blind shall be opened. The eyes of them that see shall not be dim (Isa. 32:3; 35:5). 31) The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. The ears of them that hear shall hearken (Isa. 32:3; 35:5). 32) The tongue of the dumb shall sing. The tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly (Isa. 35:6; 32:4). 33) The lame man shall leap as a hart (Isa. 35:6). 34) I will recover you and make you to live. I am ready to save you (Isa. 38:16, 20). 35) I give power to the faint. I increase strength to them that have no might (Isa. 40:29). 36) I will renew your strength. I will strengthen and help you (Isa. 40:31; 41:10). 37) To your old age and gray hairs I will carry you and I will deliver you (Isa. 46:4). 38) I bore your sickness (Isa. 53:4). 39) I carried your pains (Isa. 53:4). 40) I took sickness for you (Isa. 53:10). 41) With My stripes you are healed (Isa. 53:5). 42) I will heal you (Isa. 57:19). 43) Your light shall break forth as the morning and your health shall spring forth speedily (Isa. 58:8). 44) I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds saith the Lord (Jer. 30:17). 45) Behold I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure you, and will reveal unto you the abundance of peace and truth (Jer. 33:6). 46) I will bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick (Eze.34:16). 47) Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live. And I shall put My Spirit in you and you shall live (Eze. 37:5,14). 48) Whithersoever the rivers shall come shall live. They shall be healed and every thing shall live where the river comes (Eze. 47:9). 49) Seek Me and you shall live (Amos 5:4, 6). 50) I have arisen with healing in My wings (beams) (Mal. 4:2). New Testament 51) I will, be thou clean (Mt. 8:3). 52) I took your infirmities (Mt. 8:17). 53) I bore your sicknesses (Mt. 8:17). 54) If you’re sick you need a physician. (I am the Lord your physician) (Mt. 9:12 & Ex.15:26). 55) I am moved with compassion toward the sick and I heal them (Mt. 14:14). 56) I heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease (Mt. 4:23). 57) According to your faith, be it unto you (Mt. 9:29). 58) I give you power and authority over all unclean spirits to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease (Mt. 10:1 & Lk. 9:1). 59) I heal them all (Mt. 12:15 & Heb. 13:8). 60) As many as touch Me are made perfectly whole (Mt. 14:36). 61) Healing is the children’s bread (Mt. 15:26). 62) I do all things well. I make the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak (Mk. 7:37). 63) If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mk. 9:23; 11:23, 24). 64) When hands are laid on you, you shall recover (Mk. 16:18). 65) My anointing heals the brokenhearted, and delivers the captives, recovers sight to the blind, and sets at liberty those that are bruised (Lk. 4:18; Isa. 10:27; 61:1). 66) I heal all those who have need of healing (Lk. 9:11). 67) I am not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them (Lk. 9:56). 68) Behold, I give you authority over all the enemy’s power and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Lk. 10:19). 69) Sickness is satanic bondage and you ought to be loosed today (Lk. 13:16 & II Cor. 6:2). 70) In Me is life (Jn. 1:4). 71) I am the bread of life. I give you life (Jn. 6:33, 35). 72) The words I speak unto you are spirit and life (Jn. 6:63). 73) I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly (Jn. 10:10). 74) I am the resurrection and the life (Jn. 11:25). 75) If you ask anything in My name, I will do it (Jn. 14:14). 76) Faith in My name makes you strong and gives you perfect soundness (Acts 3:16). 77) I stretch forth My hand to heal (Acts 4:30). 78) I, Jesus Christ, make you whole (Acts 9:34). 79) I do good and heal all that are oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38). 80) My power causes diseases to depart from you (Acts 19:12). 81) The law of the Spirit of life in Me has made you free from the law of sin and death (Rom. 8:2). 82) The same Spirit that raised Me from the dead now lives in you and that Spirit will quicken your mortal body (Rom. 8:11). 83) Your body is a member of Me (I Cor. 6:15). 84) Your body is the temple of My Spirit and you’re to glorify Me in your body (I Cor. 6:19, 20). 85) If you’ll rightly discern My body which was broken for you, and judge yourself, you’ll not be judged and you’ll not be weak, sickly or die prematurely (I Cor. 11:29-31). 86) I have set gifts of healing in My body (I Cor. 12:9). 87) My life may be made manifest in your mortal flesh (II Cor. 4:10, 11). 88) I have delivered you from death, I do deliver you, and if you trust Me I will yet deliver you (II Cor. 1:10). 89) I have given you My name and have put all things under your feet (Eph. 1:21, 22). 90) I want it to be well with you and I want you to live long on the earth. (Eph. 6:3). 91) I have delivered you from the authority of darkness (Col. 1:13). 92) I will deliver you from every evil work (II Tim. 4:18). 93) I tasted death for you. I destroyed the devil who had the power of death. I’ve delivered you from the fear of death and bondage (Heb. 2:9, 14, 15). 94) I wash your body with pure water (Heb. 10:22; Eph. 5:26). 95) Lift up the weak hands and the feeble knees. Don’t let that which is lame be turned aside but rather let Me heal it (Heb. 12:12, 13). 96) Let the elders anoint you and pray for you in My name and I will raise you up (Jas. 5:14, 15). 97) Pray for one another and I will heal you (Jas. 5:16). 98) By My stripes you were healed (I Pet. 2:24). 99) My Divine power has given unto you all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Me (II Pet. 1:3). 100) Whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely (Rev. 22:17). 101) Beloved, I wish above all things that you may…be in health (III Jn. 2). 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