Voice of a Father
Today’s Focus: The
Father/Son Model Part 1
Scripture: Joel
2:28; Malachi 4:5,6; Luke 1:17
Greetings Sons of
God:
The father/son
model is the way the Father desires to interact and have a relationship with
His sons. In the early days of Adam, God
would speak to Adam in the cool of the day and His voice would usher in His
presence and there Adam and God had an intimate relationship and Adam would
come to understand His role in the earth to bring righteous rule, the Kingdom
of God, the culture of the Father to the earth and reflect the glory of God in
the Earth as His sons, representatives, ambassadors and agents. Now we know
that Adam and Eve sinned and through that sin, that intimate connection was
severed and God instituted the Prophet/Father/Son model of speech. In other words, God would speak through a
prophet to the fathers and the fathers to the sons. But this was not the
original way, the original way was father/son. Now let’s prove that this is the model because
before God does anything within the age of man, He speaks it and then at the
Father’s season and exact time, His Word then is made manifest. Let me show you:
Joel 2:28: And it
shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Malachi 4:5,6:
Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse.
These are two
scriptures that I want to show you and both of them shows how the Father will
reconcile and restore the breach that sin caused to restore the House of God
back in the Earth and bring us back to our original purpose.
First, God must
revive our spirit and restore the connection back to Him. He does this by the pouring out of His Spirit
Holy Spirit) into our flesh. In pouring out (His Spirit into our flesh, He
revives the spirit within man and restores the connection so that He may talk
to His sons, Spirit to spirit. Now the other scripture, Malachi. In Malachi, the Lord says that He will send
the spirit of Elijah before the coming of the day of the Lord and he shall turn
the HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS. Now the Old testament ends with this
particular prophecy and picks up with Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father, in
Luke 1 and the Lord restating the same prophecy in verse 17. So in the coming of the Lord the hearts of
the fathers must be turned to the sons and the sons to the fathers to make
ready a people for the Lord. Now if this
does not happen the scriptures say this:
“Lest
I come and smite the earth with a curse”
In the restoration of the father/son model,
God can fellowship with mankind once again, Spirit to spirit. Now in the next message, we want to further
understand the father/son model and how the Spirit of Elijah turns the hearts
of the fathers to the sons.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
