Father's Love Letter

MY CHILD…

You may not know me, but I know everything about You … Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up … Psalm 139:2 

I am familiar with all your ways … Psalm 139:3 

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered … Matthew 10:29-31 

For you were made in my image … Genesis 1:27 

In me you live and move and have your being … For you are my offspring … Acts 17:28 

I chose you when I planned creation … Ephesians 1:11-12 

You were not a mistake … Psalm 139:15-16 

For all your days are written in my book … Psalm 139:15-16 

You are fearfully and wonderfully made … Psalm 139:14 

I knit you together in your mother's womb … Psalm 139:13 

And brought you forth on the day you were born … Psalm 71:6 

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you … Simply because you are my child and I am your Father … 1 John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could … Matthew 7:11 

For I am the perfect Father … Matthew 5:48 

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand … James 1:17 

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs … Matthew 6:31-33 

Because I love you with an everlasting love … Jeremiah 31:3 

My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore … Psalm 139:17-18 

And I rejoice over you with singing … Zephaniah 3:17 

Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart … Psalm 37:4 

I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine … Ephesians 3:20 

For I am your greatest encourager … 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 

I  am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles … 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 

When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you … Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart … Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe every tear from your eyes and take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth … Revelation 21:3-4 

I am your Father and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus … John 17:23

For in Jesus my love for you is revealed … John 17:26 

He is the exact representation of my being … Hebrews 1:3

And He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you … Romans 8:31 

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins … 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled … 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you … 1 John 4:10

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me … 1 John 2:23  

And nothing will ever separate you from my love again … Romans 8:38-39

Love,

Your Dad

Excerpts from Father’s Love Letter compiled by Bany Adams © 1999.
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