Awakened to the Father
The most fundamental aspect of being awakened to God as our Father is that He is now able to father us. Jesus was born of the Spirit when the Spirit hovered over Mary. When we believe from the heart on Jesus and confess with the mouth that He is Lord, this same Spirit enters the core of our being and breathes new life into us and we are born of Him. God has in fact fathered us in that moment. Since He has fathered our spirit, He also desires to father our mindsets, our emotions, and our flesh.
‘In a similar way, God has promised our ancestors something better, but as long as an heir is a minor, he’s not really much different than a servant, although he’s the master over all of them. For until the time appointed by the father when he comes of age, the child is under the domestic supervision of the guardians of the estate. ‘So it is with us. When we were juveniles we were enslaved under the hostile spirits of the world. But when that era came to an end and the time of fulfillment had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the written law. Yet all of this was so that he would redeem and set free all those held hostage to the written law so that we would receive our freedom and a full legal adoption as his children.
‘And so that we would know for sure that we are his true children, God released the Spirit of Sonship into our hearts-moving us to cry out intimately, “My Father! You are our true Father!” Now we’re no longer living like slaves under the law, but we enjoy being God’s very own sons and daughters! And because we’re his, we can access everything our Father has-for we are heirs of God through Jesus, the Messiah!’ -Galatians 4:1-7 TPT
It is your right to be awakened to your Father’s love. Consider the Prodigal Son, or as Damon Thompson refers to him, the Redeemed Heir. This man has left his father’s house and lost all of his inheritance. Yet when he finally returns home, he is greeted by his father’s joy. He is returned to his lost station and given back his heritage. His father lavishes joy and love upon him.
God wants to lavish His love upon you. He is a rejoicing Father. He adores His children and is overjoyed that we have returned to His embrace. He restores us to our position by His side and pours out His love and joy upon us. We need to be awakened to all that God desires to pour into us. He deserves sons that allow Him to mold us into His image. We must cease from being sin conscious, and failure conscious. Thinking that way pulls us away from God’s expression of love. We must become conscious of our Father’s delight and love. We must learn to live within the swirl of His goodness and make our home there. We should learn to “enjoy being God’s very own,” separating ourselves from belonging to all these other false fathers. Sin and failure should no longer father us, nor cause us to pull away from God. Sin and failure are under the law and the law system. Being fathered by the law, sin, or failure does not produce liberty, life, or success. Being fathered by God produces all of these and His nature is imparted into us.
Let us strive to hear His still small voice. This is the tender voice of love. We must be able to hear Him like a dad would speak to his son. Being fathered by God makes all of the difference. It allows Him to correct our thinking until it reflects Christ’s. It allows Him to adjust our emotions until they reflect the ‘fruit of the Spirit’. As He fathers us He will even bring our flesh into wholeness.
Isaiah 40:28-29,31 TPT
Don’t you know? Haven’t you been listening? Yahweh is the one and only everlasting God, the Creator of all you can see and imagine! He never gets weary or worn out. His intelligence is unlimited; he is never puzzled over what to do! He empowers the feeble and infuses the powerless with increasing strength. But those who wait for Yahweh’s grace will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their race without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.
Ezekiel 37:13-14 NASB
“Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD.
As we hear God, He deals with our condemnations, He deals with our shames, and He deals with our legalistic bent. He brings us into the beauty of effortless living, changing our very nature. He brings us into an awareness that He is happy with us. This is what righteousness is, that our relationship with God is good. Jesus has fixed our relationship. Jesus has even given us access to His nature. The old nature has become just a mask. It is a mask, a veil, that is removed as we come face to face with Jesus, seeing that we have already been made like Him. 1 Corinthians 3:18.
The Righteous consciousness is the awareness that my Father’s nature is burning within me and I truly am an extension of my Father.
This is your destiny. To be awakened to righteousness, to be awakened to love, to be awakened to your Father, and know Him just as much as Jesus knows Him. You are called to live in His presence, live in His love, and live in His delight. He offers no condemnation, no rejection and no judgement. John 12:47, John 5:22, John 8:15. So come and let Jesus remove those veils off of you and let yourself be His.
As you keep choosing to say “yes” to Him, He will teach you how to live this way. He will father you into this Spirit life. You must only keep choosing to say “yes.”
A fully awakened son will be awakened to the love of his Father, and his faith will rest upon the love Papa gives.