{"id":28006,"date":"2024-12-18T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2024-12-15T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:14:44","slug":"run-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2024\/12\/18\/run-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Run To God!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28006-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dec-18.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dec-18.mp3\">http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dec-18.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/psa.27.10\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psalm 27:<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cEven if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close, the Lord will take care of me, the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/psa.27.10\">NLT<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/70\/PSA.27.10.GW\">GW<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/8\/PSA.27.10.AMPC\">AMPC<\/a>).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God is the Father of fathers, He can and will take care of you. For those who in the past few days have been feeling that the absence of a father in their lives is the reason for all the problems they have been having. God wants you to know that He is here for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0For those whose father is present but has been malfunctioning. God wants you to know that He is here for you. In today&#8217;s scripture, David is telling us that in his case, the builder (the mother) and the foundation (the father) abandoned him. But God adopted him as His child. If only folks will really get integrated into God\u2019s family. Being born again is not a label that you wear. Being born again means being born into another family. So, all the negative things that you had learnt from the previous family get overridden by the things from this new family, God\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/2ki.4.1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Kings 4:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to <\/span><\/i><b><i>Elisha<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and cried out, \u201c<\/span><\/i><b><i>My husband <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the\u00a0Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take <\/span><\/i><b><i>my two sons <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as slaves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d\u00a0 (emphasis added). The man was not perfect, he was in debt. But he was shielding his family while he was alive. Maybe he would have borrowed from somebody else to pay that creditor. Or maybe he would have sold his shoes. But he would have done something to protect his family. But he was no longer present. Although that man was flawed, the man was still covering his family while he was alive. But when the man was out of the picture, everything came crashing down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not demand perfection, God does not demand it. See God in your spouse. Everyone is on a journey. Our stories are different. Our journeys are different. Even though the woman in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/2KI.4.NLT\"> 2 Kings 4<\/a> was vulnerable, exposed, and the family was dysfunctional. The man was in debt, that is a dysfunction. When the rubber met the road, this woman is teaching us a huge lesson, she ran to God. The lesson here is that the dysfunction in your family should not lead to the destruction of your life. Run to God! Instead of staying there and blaming the dysfunctional family you were born into for all the things that are going south in your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you have a label, but you know that you are not born again, you know you are not integrated into God\u2019s family. God is saying to you, \u2018I Am a good, good Father\u2019. Run to God! Get integrated into God\u2019s family where past dysfunction will be overridden. God is a good Father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Father, because You have adopted me as Your child and brought me into Your Family by the sacrifice of Jesus, override every dysfunction in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 27:10 \u201cEven if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close, the Lord will take care of me, the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].\u201d (NLT &amp; GW &amp; AMPC). &nbsp; God is the Father of fathers, He can and will take care of you. 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