MY FATHER'S PRAYER

Pastor-Winston Watson on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 3:52am.

My Dear 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 know your thoughts and I am acquainted with all your ways (Psalm 139:2-3)
I know the number of the very hairs on your head (Matthew 10:30)
For you were made in my own image (Genesis 1:27)

In me you live and move and have your being (Acts 17:28)
For you are my offspring (Acts 17:28)
I knew you before you were conceived (Jeremiah 1:5)
I chose you when I planned creation (Ephesians 1:11-12)

You were not a mistake I carefully formed you and made you (Psalm 139:15)
For all your days are written in my book (Psalm 139:16)
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live (Acts 17:26)

You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14)
I knit you together in your mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13)
And I brought your forth from your mother’s womb (Psalm 71:6)
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me (John 8:41-44)
But I am not distant and angry, I am the complete expression of Love (1 John 4:15)
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you (1 John 3:1)

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 you receive comes from my hand (James 1:17)
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs (Matthew 6:31-33)

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)
I will never stop doing good to you (Jeremiah 32:40)
For you are my treasured possession (Exodus 19:5)

If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me (Deuteronomy 4:19)
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4)
For it is I who give you those desires (Philippians 2:13)
I am able to do more than you could 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 of your troubles (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)

When you are broken hearted 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 away every tear from your eyes (Revelation 21:4)
And I will take away all the pain you have suffered on the earth (Revelation 21:4)
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)
He came to show you that I am for you, not against you (Romans 8:31)
And he came to tell you that I am not counting your sins (2 Corinthians 5:19)

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)
I gave up everything that I love, that I might gain your love (Romans 8:31-32)
Come home and I will throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen (Luke 15:7)
I am waiting for you to come home to me (Luke 15:11-32)
I love you (John 3:16)