Our Father

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12Two wrong strategies:•measure Dad by God’s standards•measure God by Dad’s standardsIf someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. Proverbs 20:20No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. John 1:18“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” John 17:25-26 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. Luke 18:18For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 57:10The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. John 3:35See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1aFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:28For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, 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“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:9-11Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8“And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:29-32Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18