Restoring Spirit of
Father to the Church
Today’s Focus: Primary
Identity of God
Scripture: Romans
8:15; Galatians 4:6
Greetings Sons of
God:
Now you may ask
what do I mean by restoring the Spirit of Father to the church? Isn’t the Father already in the church? Well if we examine the state of the church,
in particular because I live here in the United States, the Spirit of Father is
not the dominant rule in the church.
When we talk about God we hear all of the
wonderful things He is such as Redeemer, Deliverer, Healer..etc and these are
all true. But these are descriptions of
how God comes into our needs. So we get
caught up in knowing God by how He comes and meets our needs but what about who
God is before there was a need. Who is
God before the beginning of the world and evil? That is who we need to know God
as.
Before
all of that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Now if this is the primary name of God before
all of time then we must come to know Him by that name. Now when we become born again, and receive
the Holy Spirit there is a cry that must come from one who has been born again
and come into the House of God and that cry is Abba, Father. The presence of the Holy Spirit with us is
expressed through the cry of Abba, Father.
Let me show you:
Romans 8:15:
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father
Galatians 4:6: And because ye are sons, God
hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
So when we receive the Spirit of the Son or
Holy Spirit the expressed cry from one who has become a son of God is Abba,
Father. You come to first know God as
your Father. If this is the primary
identity and cry then there is a purpose in that identity that the Father
desires to live through and impact the earth with His will. It is in being a son and knowing God as your
Father does He manifest the gifts of the Spirit and come how He desires in the
needs of our lives in being a Deliverer, Redeemer, Comforter but we do not know
Him by how He meets our needs, we know Him because He is our Father,
first.
With this said and with that identity comes a
single purpose in being a son who cries Abba, Father and in the next message we
will look at the single mind and single view of the sons of God.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
