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Who’s your DADDY?????<\/strong><\/p>\n Really….. I want to hear all about him.<\/p>\n Wether you have the world’s greatest earthly father or not, God entrusted you to him for a reason and I would love to know not only what he is like, but what your relationship with him is like.<\/p>\n My dad is a hoot!!! He’s a big old hot mess, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love him. Have you ever seen that movie “Big Fish” about the dad who tells the outlandish stories about his extraordinary life\u00a0and drives his son crazy? Well, that’s MY dad…. but he doesn;t drive me crazy. I Love it and I know I learned how to communicate effectively with other people and how to have great relationships because of him and what an amazing\u00a0“people person” he is. He has this incredible ability to make a new acquaintance\u00a0feel like a long-lost\u00a0best friend…. and it makes my heart happy to see it in action!<\/p>\n Growing up,\u00a0my dad worked a lot. My mom would have dinner on the table when he got home from work. We would\u00a0eat together then he would settle in his man-chair for the night and nap until he went to bed. We would sometimes do things together on the weekends, and I really enjoyed\u00a0that a lot. Some of my best memories are with him at college basketball games or when he would hang out with my friends and I when\u00a0I had some people over and he would tell them all his wild (TRUE) stories. My dad is a great man… but I never really went to him if I had a problem or needed help. I don’t know why I didn’t, but I always tried to handle everything on my own and really didn’t communicate much of anything about “me” \u00a0to my parents unless I really HAD to.<\/p>\n I KNOW I brought this to my relationship with the Lord. I could bring the prayer requests of others to Him like nobody’s business, but I kept feeling God impress into my spirit the\u00a0question: “What about you?”<\/p>\n YIKES….. I was the one that everyone always came to for help and guidance and I learned at a young age not to share my burdens with my friends because it would always freak them out a bit and they didn’t know what to do. So, I just began to stuff it all down and try to deal with everything on my own. This caused me to not let God into many deep dark places inside me for way too many years. Until I finally let Him in, I wasn’t able to truly live how He called me to and fulfill His purposes on this earth that He intended for me to do. He was begging for me to cry out to him on my own behalf…… he needed me to need Him….<3 And then He helped me heal.<\/p>\n You see, it was a trust issue…. and as Chan says on page 56 “God is more worthy of trust than anyone else, yet for so long I questioned His love and doubted His care and provision for me.”<\/em><\/p>\n 11 <\/sup>If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,<\/p>\n how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!<\/p>\n People of this earth and even your earthly father will fail you…. but your Heavenly Father never will. We need to immediately stop putting earthly hang-ups on our Great Creator! He alone\u00a0is perfect and His love never fails!<\/p>\n Let’s pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lord, help us see the areas where we are putting flawed human traits onto You. Open our eyes to this, Lord, and help us repent. We want to give all of ourselves to YOU whole and complete! Heal us of our earthly relationship hurts so we can fully begin to understand the depth of your love for us. Help us to trust and give you everything. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen <3<\/em><\/p>\n Your Assignment:<\/strong><\/p>\n What hurts or hang ups are you still hanging onto from your relationship with your earthly father that you need to stop putting on your relationship with God? We want to pray along with you for healing in this area <3<\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n Megan \ud83d\ude42<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n _____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n If you are interested in joining this amazing online Bible study for Crazy Love, click HERE<\/a> to sign up. Once you are registered, you will receive an email with further details.<\/p>\nMatthew 7:11<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n