Dealing with loss: Part 2 Father as Provider

1. FATHER AS A PROVIDER: HIS comfort

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

 

• I would like to share about the passing of my mother.
• One thing I love about the Lord is that we can know Him as Father.
• Father is such a surreal name for it entails more then relationship, but includes attributes.
• For a Father title comes with Fatherly characteristics
• A Father is a preparer. The term for head of house (Father) literally means to be out front. Which means to lead or prepare the way
• Jesus reflects His fatherly attributes by saying He is going to prepare a place for us and one day soon He will come and reveal that place to us for all of eternity
• Another attribute of a Father is a Provider. Father provides
• Another Attribute of a Father is Protector. Father PROTECTS
• These are three attributes that really speak the loudest when understanding God as Father.

1. Father is a preparer (Gets things ready for the family)
2. Father is a provider (Makes sure family has all they need)
3. Father is a protector (Makes sure family is safe from the schemes of the enemy)

In a practical sense I would like to reflect how my Father moved on my family’s behalf during the lost of my mom.

 

1. Father as a PREPARER: His timing
2. FATHER AS A PROVIDER: HIS comfort

1. FATHER AS A PROTECTOR: HIS promises

 

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

 

• Jesus said He would give us HIS peace
• Let that sink in for a moment
• HIS PEACE
• Jesus has perfect, SHALOM!
• HIS SHALOM IS the very standard
• There is no higher mark, nor anything to compare it to, for it is PERFECT
• Jesus promised to provide and give us HIS PEACE

 

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

• The heart of Jesus to come and give LIFE and to give it abundantly is a beautiful promise.
• This word abundance is special
• It is used in another New Testament passage

Ephesians 3:20 (KJV 1900):

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us

 

 

• Abundance- very great, excessive, extremely, emphatic, surpassing, all the more, much greater

 

• Jesus proclaimed that one of the attributes of belonging to the Shepherd is an abundant life.

 

• The Apostle Paul uses this same term when describing what the Shepherd is capable of accomplishing in and for us. Exceedingly abundantly above all...

 

• During this season of loss I have experienced an abundance.

 

• The Lord’s abundance of presence. He has been so near and has truly proven His nearness in tangible ways through the entire process.

 

• The Lords peace has been given in abundance as well. I have never in my life experienced such a peace in the middle of such pain. Unreal!

 

• The Lord’s comfort through His Church has been so abundant that others have witnessed it themselves.

 

• There has been an abundance of food and fried chicken. So much so that I am literally sick of fried chicken.

 

• At the funeral service there were an abundance of flowers which showed the love and heart of so many.

 

• There was an abundance of pastors who in their own way ministered the gospel to us.

 

• There was an abundance of family members and friends that even in the midst of all of this pandemic they still showed up.

 

• Only Jesus could turn a hour of loss, into a season of abundance

 

• The potential of getting all the Lord has for you during times like this is only available when He is your Shepherd. Jesus said

 

John 10:9 (KJV 1900):

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

 

 

• Jesus said that He is the door that one must entered in order to enter in to the place where He can become your Shepherd.
• When we come to the one who stands not only as the door keeper but as the very way in to salvation we have access to all He has.
• The word Saved literally means “to have what God has for you”.
• When we are in need and Jesus is our Shepherd we have the opportunity to get all He has for us.
• In most cases, it is abundantly more then what we ever thought it could have been.