{"id":3242,"date":"2014-07-17T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2014-07-01T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:04:44","slug":"know-your-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/07\/17\/know-your-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018<\/em><em>After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/jhn.10.4.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">John 10:4<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u201cI tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>They won\u2019t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don\u2019t know his voice\u201d <\/em><a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/jhn.10.1-5.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">John10:1-5<\/a>. You need to know your Father. Note that even though the shepherd <!--more-->is there physically, it is not his physical appearance that the sheep recognize but rather his voice. And it is that voice that they follow. The sheep were able to move forward because they knew the voice of the shepherd. You need to know to know God to receive direction and move at the right time. Knowing the voice of our Father can only come with intimacy and fellowship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May father liked to read the daily newspaper and I knew exactly which ones to buy for him each morning. Yet I could get to the vendor and the vendor would ask me if my father told me the newspaper to buy? The truth is that he did not specify. So how would I know the newspaper to buy right? I would know because I know. He is my father and I hang out with him. Some times people want to do stuff and I say to them \u201cGod is not in this thing\u201d. And of course the next question is \u201chow do you know, you haven\u2019t even prayed\u201d. I don\u2019t need to pray sometimes. God wants you to know Him. When you know Him, direction becomes easier and direction is key. Determination is good but direction is key. Determination isn\u2019t always the right solution especially if you are headed in the wrong direction. Imagine this, you should be heading to point A but you get on the road to point B. You are so determined to get to point A but you continue moving in the direction of point B. And you are praying will you get to point A? Even though you are very determined and you are praying about it, you are still heading in the wrong direction. When the light changes to green the most important thing is direction. So sit with God and get the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Holy Spirit, in this season my ears will hear Your voice clearly giving me specific direction\u2028on which way I should go,\u00a0whether to the right or to the left [Isa.30:21], in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice\u2019 John 10:4. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!\u00a0But the one who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,70,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-intimacy","category-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}