Wounds suffered from your earthly father can cause a distorted perception of your Heavenly Father. Seeing God as Father in the right light will help you to grow in relationship with Him as well as to trust Him.
For years I viewed God through the lens of my own trauma of abandonment and rejection. I seen Him as just another man who would leave me. I spent so much time striving for His love. All He ever wanted to do was just be my Father. God just wants to be your Father.
This post is for the girl who doesn’t understand how to just rest in being a daughter of the King. You will learn how your own father wounds have stopped you from embracing God as Father and how your thought process and vision can be renewed.
It’s time that you are able to receive all of God’s love. I believe that you stumbling across this blog post is not by happenstance but this is a divine appointment with truth. God wants to completely shift you into a deeper relationship with Him by helping you to see Him as Father in your life like He has done for me.
This post is all about seeing God as Father.
Why Seeing God As Father Is Vital
The Enemy Tries To Ruin You In Utero
The enemy is after you before you are born because if he can take you out before you breathe your first breath he can stop purpose from coming forth. When he can’t take you out, he creates circumstances in your childhood that makes it hard for you to have a relationship with God especially when you aren’t properly covered. One example of the ways he attacks a girl in childhood is by abandonment and rejection from her father. Having a healthy father/daughter relationship was intended to be a reflection of how our relationship is supposed to look with the Father. Have you ever noticed maybe in your own life or in the life of someone you may know how hard it is to trust God, obey Him and rest in Him? It may be because of the father wounds that are there.
For years I struggled to believe that God actually loved me. I looked at God like He was this angry man waiting to beat me and scold me every time I messed up. I was convinced that He wanted nothing to do with me based off of my less than perfect behavior. You see my biological father didn’t want anything to do with me. I was conceived out of an affair. I didn’t officially know that the man that was raising me wasn’t actually my father until I was 12. When I finally found out who my biological father was, I was filled with anger because he wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. If he seen me walking down the street he would rush back inside. Hurt was an understatement to how I felt. I felt like someone physically ripped my heart out and said deal with it.
God Is Not Like Man
It took years for me to really understand God was not like man. God had to take me on a journey of forgiveness. I had to forgive my father for not being there for me and for choosing his other children but not choosing me. I had to forgive everyone involved for keeping that secret from me. Then, God encouraged me to forgive Him. I felt so awkward doing that because I mean He’s God. Sis, God is not mad at you for being upset with Him. He wants you to relinquish all that pain and anger you have towards Him. God rather you tell Him how you’re hurting than to carry the weight of all that pain. He once told me to “give it to me I can handle it”. When I say I was undone by those simple words, I was a mess in the best way possible.
Abba doesn’t want you resenting Him. Give all your pain, trauma, and anger to your Father because He can handle it. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make you are His daughter. If you continue to allow the enemy to distort your vision of seeing God as Father, he wins and you won’t get to experience the freedom that comes with being His daughter. God isn’t like man. Numbers 23:19 in the New Living Translation version says God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Though your Father may not have set the best example or maybe he was absent from your life rest assured God is ever present.
He Will Not Leave Or Forsake You
What Happens When You See God As Your Father
The responsibilities of a father are endless. However, I would like to focus on a few of those responsibilities in this section. Protecting, providing, loving, teaching, and showing how a man is to love a woman are all heavy but necessary responsibilities. When those are done right there is safety created for the daughter and a confidence embedded in her that’s hard to take away. Sometimes dads get it wrong because they’re imperfect, but however God does it all perfectly without flaw or mistake. So when that girl comes to know Jesus and places her trust in God she is well aware that her Father set such a great example but God definitely can do it better. She then has no issue in allowing Him to Father her.
When you see God as your Father you can rest. I’m talking about the rest that only He can give. You rest in the fact that your Dad has you covered. There isn’t anything you could ever do to make Him up and leave you. You have such a confidence in the knowledge of you are safe with Him and well taken care of. When he chastises you, you don’t instantly rebel or get upset. Your response is, “whoa my Daddy loves me so much that He wants me to get it right, He was actually protecting me!” Even if you lack the understanding of what He’s doing you smile because you know it’s for your good. The decisions you make will begin to look different not because you are striving to make God love you, but because you don’t want to break His heart.
A Prayer For The Woman Who’s Struggling
Father I thank you for the person reading this. I thank you Lord that you care about her so much. I thank you that you are so gentle with her and you won’t ever force yourself on her. You are such a good Father. I pray that she would get to experience how good of a Father you are. Your word declares in Matthew 6:30 that you care so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow. Thank you that you care for her so much more. Lord I pray that she would come to a divine knowing of just how precious she is to you. Holy Spirit I ask you to do the deep surgery within her heart and heal those father wounds so that her perception of God will be healthy. She may not have known the love of her earthly Father but her portion is to know the love of her Heavenly Father. In Jesus’ name, Amen ♥
This post was all about seeing God as Father.
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