GOD THE FATHER: “BELOVED” my identity

ROMANS 8:16-17 (AMP)

¹⁶ The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God. ¹⁷ And if [we are His] children, [then we are His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance], if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory.

ROMANS 8 V 15 (TPT)

¹⁵ And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty,”^[k] leading you back into the fear of never being good enough.^[l] But you have received the “Spirit of full acceptance,”^[m] enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!”^{[n] 16} For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!”

1 JOHN 3 V 1

Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children.

THE PAINTING

You Lord have taken all the hurt and the pain and translated it into passion and burning for you and the mystery of your word. You have allowed me to lash out, cut up and hurt you, so that you can drench the experiences in the yellow glow of your grace.

As your blue …WORD, PEACE, and TRUTH has filled my life, you have allowed me to become a deep-rooted tree that is evergreen, producing leaves for healing in every season. Each experience and lesson becoming part of the DNA of my leaves; helpful and comforting to all who find shelter in them. Each leaf now carries a message of hope… the message that I am, that we are your BELOVED!

GOD THE FATHER: “PROTECTOR”

PSALM 32 V 7 (TPT)

Lord, you are my secret hiding place,
protecting me from these troubles,
surrounding me with songs of gladness!
Your joyous shouts of rescue release my breakthrough

PSALM 91 (TPT)

When you sit enthroned^[a] under the shadow of Shaddai,^[b]
you are hidden^[c] in the strength of God Most High.
² He’s the hope that holds me and the Stronghold to shelter me,
the only God for me, and my great confidence.
³ He will rescue you from every hidden trap of the enemy,^[d]
and he will protect you from false accusation
and any deadly curse.^[e]
4 His massive arms^[f] are wrapped around you, protecting you.
You can run under his covering of majesty and hide.
His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.
⁵ You will never worry about an attack of demonic forces at night
nor have to fear a spirit of darkness coming against you.
⁶ Don’t fear a thing! Whether by night or by day, demonic danger will not trouble you,^[g]
nor will the powers of evil launched against you.
⁷ Even in a time of disaster, with thousands and thousands being killed,
you will remain unscathed and unharmed.
⁸ you will be a spectator as the wicked perish in judgment,
for they will be paid back for what they have done!
^9–10 When we live our lives within the shadow of God Most High,
our secret hiding place, we will always be shielded from harm.
How then could evil prevail against us or disease infect us?
¹¹ God sends angels with special orders to protect you wherever you go,
defending you from all harm.
¹² If you walk into a trap, they’ll be there for you
and keep you from stumbling.
¹³ You’ll even walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness,^[h]
trampling every one of them beneath your feet!
¹⁴ For here is what the Lord has spoken to me:
“Because you have delighted in me as my great lover,
I will greatly protect you.
I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face.
¹⁵ I will answer your cry for help every time you pray,
and you will find and feel my presence
even in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.
¹⁶ You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you.
For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!”

JESUS “Friend”

JOHN 13 V 21 (NIV)

 “One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.”

SONG OF SONGS 8 V 5 (TPT)

Who is this one? Look at her now!
She arises out of her desert, clinging to her beloved.
When I awakened you under the apple tree,
as you were feasting upon me,
I awakened your innermost being with the travail of birth
as you longed for more of me..

I LEAN INTO YOU MY FRIEND

How wonderful to know that I am your beloved

your friend…

and that you invite me to lean into you

your chest … your heart beat.

As I lay my head to the most intimate place of who you are,

I begin to see what you hold in you.

In a gentle whisper you speak your plans and hopes for me.

You cradle my face in the safety of your love.

You bless my eyes so that where I saw in part,

you now hide nothing from me.

You stroke my ears, to hear you loud and clear.

You utter things you have never said

secrets hidden since the creation of the world.

JESUS “Companion”

JOHN 15 V 13-15 (NKJ)

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

(TPT)

I have never called you ‘servants,’^[l] because a master doesn’t confide in his servants, and servants don’t always understand what the master is doing. But I call you my most intimate friends,^[m] for I reveal to you everything that I’ve heard from my Father

WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOU CALL ME FRIEND.

“I walked on the beach one day collecting shells. I was hurting and had no one to share my pain and thoughts. You whispered that you were with me and asked me to unburden my load. I didn’t know how to speak to you. Engaging with you had always been from a place of reverence and wonder. I didn’t know how to be me in your presence.

As I bent low to pick up a shell, I saw your face reflected in the water and we touched, a gentle connection of two souls merging in the moment. I could almost kiss you, you felt so close. You see, I never noticed you so close before, I never bothered to look. You have always been with me. All this time I thought I was alone. Now that I see you, the chamber doors of my heart are flung open as I bare my most intimate thoughts with you and realize even in this you share yours with me.”

HOLY SPIRIT the comforter

JOHN 16 V 7(TPT)

But here’s the truth: It’s to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away the Divine Encourager will not be released to you. But after I depart, I will send him to you.

REVELATION OF COMFORT

Comfort, encouragement and hope is not in your deeds Lord. These are found in us realizing that you know us so intimately in your explicit and unfathomable understanding of who we, deep in the core of our being and even more profoundly than we know ourselves.

Comfort is experienced through your display of grace and mercy that is specific to who we are as individuals and our personal circumstances.

Your comfort is tangible in you showing us that you have got our lives, our hopes, our needs, our dreams, our fears, our pain, our failed efforts, our highs and our lows in the bigger scheme of things.

HOLY SPIRIT the nurturer

PSALM 23 V 6(NIV)

Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

JOHN 16 V 13 (MSG)

¹⁵ “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’

HOLY SPIRIT WHO FEEDS ME LIKE A YOUNG CHICK

I have felt like this dove you kindled so gently in your loving hands, feeding me bite size pieces of truth, from your very mouth, the mouth of God. As a mother bird would chew food before she passes it to her young, mouth to mouth.

You have literally been feeding me to maturity, nurturing and parenting me until my wings have been strong enough and are coated in your gold dust, your presence. You have been feeding me continually until my whole body has been prepared in your diet, taking on your strength, your comfort, your nature, your wisdom, your truth. You touch your lips too mine and kiss me with your life-giving breath, surging my whole being with love and life.

JOHN 6 V 47…. The one who feeds on me, I will become his life (like a ventilator life support)

As I painted this picture, I was so aware of the tender connection of nurture, gentle affection and deep intimate soul love. Holy Spirit, not only do you love me in this beautiful way, so intensely beyond what words can say, but you hold me with the utmost care, respecting that I am fragile and so valuable, that the price paid for me cost Jesus his life.