A Father’s Love (Day 8.5)

Welcome back to the Bible Cafe and our current study, Breaking Free Updated Edition as we finish week eight today. This lesson has been painful for me, after witnessing the failure of human love, while simultaneously studying about God’s love-all from the perspective of a child! We’re so close to breaking free..I can feel it in my heart and soul!

From personal experience, a child who believes her father does not love her:

1. Feels self-loathing
2. Experiences low self-esteem
3. Seeks alternative sources to replace her fathers love
4. Experiences depression

In contrast, a child who believes she is loved by her father will:

1. Seek opportunities to share her love with him
2. Enjoy being in his presence
3. Trust him with her fears
4. Praise him before others

In counseling, we learn that we cannot control other people and how they behave to us, but we can control how we react towards them. It is essential for a child who feels unloved by her human father to feel loved by her Father God. Reminding her that she is loved and she is important to Him, and that Jesus died on the cross as a sign of God’s love for her, is a reminder of the security she needs to feel in her heart. We need to remind her that God’s love is not human love.

Prayer Requests

We pray for the young children who feel unloved by human fathers, sometimes hurt with words, physical abuse or obvious hatred. May the light of father God shine through their hearts, showing these children that they are loved and treasured by the Father who created them. Bring the light of the spirit to these children, fill their hearts with a dependable God and His unyielding love-Amen.

Beth Moore Quotes

• Thought many may love us, only God possesses unfailing love-Beth Moore
• Disbelieving God’s love is not only a tragedy, its a sin-Beth Moore
• God’s love is unfailing, so anytime we perceive He does not love us, our perceptions are wrong-Beth Moore
• Christ was never resistant to sinners in the gospel accounts. He was resistant to hypocrites-Beth Moore

Today’s Scripture Verses

In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling. Exodus 15:13

The LORD’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him. Psalm 32:10

Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. Lamentations 3:32

I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Psalm 13:5

In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant. Psalm 143:12

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5

Group Discussion

Fill in the words of this scripture verse, using your greatest hardship… (page 191)

For I am convinced that neither _____nor_____, neither _____ nor _____ neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

Breaking free,