Receiving The Father

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Receiving The Fathers Heart For The Marketplace

• Barbara Chan
• Harvest Evangelism Hong Kong
• Marketplace Transformation Seminar

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Testimony To Show The Fathers Heart

• God said to Jeremiah,
• Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
  Before you were born I sanctified you. I
  ordained you a prophet to the nations
• (Jer. 15)

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Testimony To Show The Fathers Heart

• Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly
  realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
  For He chose us in Him before the creation of the
  world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In
  love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons
  through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His
  pleasure and will (Eph 1 3 5)

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Jesus Teaching About The Fathers Heart

• Jesus fully understood the Fathers heart
• Jesus clearly knows our human condition
• He knows that thru our brokenness our
  understanding of Father is distorted
• Jesus wants to teach us about the Father

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Parable of The Prodigal Son

• Shows our spiritual condition elder son and the
  prodigal son show us our distorted view of our
  identity
• Jesus reveals a true picture of the Fathers
  heart to correct our distorted view

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Revelation of The Fathers Heart

• Prodigals heart,
• he said, How many of my fathers hired
  servants have bread enough and to spare, and I
  perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my
  father, and will say to him, Father, I have
  sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no
  longer worthy to be called your son. Make me
  like one of your hired servants.
• Fathers response-
• But when he was still a great way off, his
  father saw him and had compassion, and ran and
  fell on his neck and kissed him.

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Revelation of the Fathers Heart

• Fathers Love and Compassion
• Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and
  put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
  And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and
  let us eat and be merry for this son was dead
  and is alive again, he was lost and is found.
  And they began to be merry.

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Revelation of the Fathers Heart

• Elder son, obedient, a slave, did not know his
  identity, jealous of younger brother
• Fathers response to the elder son,
• Son, you are always with me, and all that I
  have is yours. It was right that we should make
  merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and
  is alive again, and was lost and is found.

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What About Us?

• For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
  these are the sons of God. For you did not
  receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
  you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we
  cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself
  bears witness with our spirit that we are
  children of God, and if children, then heirs
  heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if
  indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be
  glorified together.
• Romans 814 -17

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How Does That Translate To Our Ministry

• Sons and Heirs walk in the embrace of the Father
  like Jesus did
• Sons walk in the favor of God and in authority
• Sons will follow the leading of the Father to see
  what the Father is doing
• Sons carry out the mandate to look after Gods
  creation.

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Walking In Sonship

• Romans 819 -21
• The creation waits in eager expectation for
  the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation
  was subjected to frustration, not by its own
  choice, but by the will of the one who subjected
  it, in hope that the creation itself will be
  liberated from its bondage to decay and brought
  into the glorious freedom of the children of
  God.

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Sons Can Liberate Creation From Bondage to Decay

• Sons can bring the redemption of Jesus Christ to
  the whole of creation
• By so doing can liberate Gods creation from its
  bondage to decay of sin
• Heirs and sons liberate creation from the systems
  of the world by using the keys of the kingdom
• Sons can bring the kingdom of God into the whole
  of creation

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Impartation Period

• Seek God to give you a spiritual father and
  mother who shall bring the Fathers heart close
  to you
• Reflect on your spiritual journey to testify of
  Gods Father heart towards you
• Prayer and Impartation