Romans – The Play Part 6

Verse 16: You’re going to do better in relating to your own father, huh? I couldn’t do better. You had some problems somewhere in your life. You never had a daddy. I had five. You had five of them. This kind of distorts things, doesn’t it?

We need a father image. Because sometimes we don’t get one. Blessed is he who, having not seen, believes.

Give up whatever model is in your mind of what God is and take the real one. Praise the Lord. We all have an image, probably based on our dad, or maybe our mother, our brother, or our sister.

One of these days, saints, we’re going to get down talking about praying. I hope that you will give up everything you do in your prayer life. And you don’t really need to get much further than Daddy.

Go out and pull a big one. And just feel like you cannot stand—live—another minute. And find some place to lean back and just say: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. Because the Spirit of God is telling you to do that. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is in you—constantly seeking to, and now that you know it, is showing you what a place you have in God, in Christ, and in the Spirit.

Father. Abba. Father.

I’m not going to get any further away from you than such an intimate relationship. There are no circumstances. There are no misdeeds that’re going to take me further than that from You. Spirit, lead. Lead my sister. Lead my brother.

And when You lead, we’ll cry out:

I’m a daughter of God.
 I’m a son of God.

Lead, Spirit. Spirit, keep on telling me to call Him Daddy. Keep on putting this Father in front of me. I have not been given a spirit of fear. I have been given a Spirit that says:

Daddy.  Amen.

Oh God. We are forty or fifty in this room, and we all have the same Spirit. Lord, we all have different needs, but work in us such intimacy. We’re forgetful. Spirit of God, remind us. In the worst moments, remind us. Spirit within us, cry: