This Sunday I’ll be speaking on, The Much Needed Father! and spending a good portion of the time celebrating and giving honor to the Fathers (a lil sample below:)
** Let us thank God for Fathers who work hard to provide for their family.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who have kept their marital vows.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who perhaps have blown it big time but have gotten back up and who are committed to the Lord Jesus.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who listen and understand.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who are there.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who love their wife and the mother of their children.
** Let us thank God for Fathers who have at one time perhaps burned bridges with their children but who are not giving up having a healthy relationship with their children — committed to leave a godly legacy of finishing well!
** Let us thank God for Fathers who “fix things” but who also are just “there” calm and steady and stalwart in trusting the Lord!
** Let us thank God for Fathers who say, “I am not perfect. I have made mistakes. But I am committed to learning from my mistakes and walking humbly and remaining teachable before God!”
** Let us thank God for Fathers who have turned to Jesus Christ and saying by doing so, “Jesus IS who He claimed to be, and we all need Him!”
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This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.
This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise.
This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere.
This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world: the battle is not done:
Jesus Who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and Heav’n be one.
This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face.
I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.”
This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above,
The Beloved One, His Only Son,
Came—a pledge of deathless love.
This is my Father’s world, should my heart be ever sad?
The lord is King—let the heavens ring. God reigns—let the earth be glad.
This is my Father’s world. Now closer to Heaven bound,
For dear to God is the earth Christ trod.
No place but is holy ground.
This is my Father’s world. I walk a desert lone.
In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known.
This is my Father’s world, a wanderer I may roam
Whate’er my lot, it matters not,
My heart is still at home.
“THIS IS MY FATHER’S WORLD” ~Maltbie D. Babcock (1901)