Category: From Our Fathers Heart

“Did you know that you will never find a better friend than I am? It’s true. Yes, I am much more than that, but one of the aspects of My nature is to be a true friend to My creation. My commitment to you is stronger than your sin. It is not lessened in any way by your actions. It is not even hindered by your inability to love Me back. In fact, there is nothing that you can ever do to stop Me from loving you.

 “You need to finally rest in the fact that I love you with an undying love. I will always love you. I will never leave you. I will forever protect you and hold you close. My love is not diminished when I need to correct you. In fact, when there is need for correction, it is My passionate love for you that is behind My actions.

 “I know that your ability to fellowship with Me will be minimized if I allow you to remain in your sin. That is not the best life you can have, so I need to use My ways to cause you to change your ways. When I am working in your life, understand that I am not only addressing the need for change; but I am also responsible for giving you the power to change. Your job is simply to understand My love for you and embrace what I am doing. I will do the rest.

 “Never doubt that it is My love for you that is in operation, no matter what you are going through. Embrace Me through any kind of trial. My love for you will always pull you through.”  The

2 Samuel 14:14b NIV

“…But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.”

 

If there is one Bible verse that gives me an awesome, wondrous picture of the nature of God’s love toward us, this verse in 2 Samuel is it. If you have any doubt about who God is and how much He loves you, study this verse until it is part of your innermost being. You will never fear again.

God does what it takes to bring us to Himself. He pursues us. He woos us. Then, if we still will not embrace His love, He causes circumstances in our lives that are designed to make us notice Him. If that doesn’t work, He will allow us to fall, so that we need Him. If even that is not enough, He will break us so that we cry out to Him.

Finally, more than likely after many years of this kind of pursuit, we are His. We are, however, raw and incapable of understanding His love. So the process continues over and over and over again throughout our lives on this earth. He shows His love continually because of His knowledge of what it takes for us to surrender. If we do not know how to accept it, He will do what it takes for us to see it.

Over and over He calls us to need Him. If we will not accept that call and desire to remain in charge, separate from His authority, He begins the process of breaking us all over again.

We want to be strong and very religious. He wants us only to need Him. We want to be full of ourselves and capable of handling anything that comes our way. He wants us to be empty and needy, so we can embrace His strength. In our trials, we doubt His love, when it is His love that may be allowing the trial that is bringing us to the end of ourselves.

I love His love for us. I love the way He continually confirms it to us by eliminating anything in us that will not serve Him. What an incredible love!

Wanting more of His hand on me,

Jim Corbett

“You delight My heart. I sometimes simply observe you while you go about My business, guarding you, protecting you, and providing a way for you when there is no way. It pleases Me to have you with Me for eternity.

 “When your portion of time on the earth is over, I will welcome you into heaven with all of My heart. Until then, fight the good fight. I am with you. I cherish you and I am pleased to be called your ‘Abba’.”

Genesis 1:27-28a AMP

27) So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28) And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]…

Jeremiah 29:11-13 NIV

11) “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

12) Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

13) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

 

There is no God like our God. There are no people more privileged than those who have embraced the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, and have the wonder of open access to a loving Father.

I remember seeing a cover of a prominent magazine, which pictured some dignitaries sitting in front of the desk of then President John Kennedy. Under the desk, little John-John, who was about two at the time, was playing at his father’s feet. To the dignitaries, the President was “Mr. President.”  To John-John, he was “Daddy.”

Thank You, ABBA,

Jim Corbett

“My mercy and grace flow abundantly toward you whenever you wound Me with your sin. You see, I know the danger you are in because of your separation from Me. Repent!  Turn from your sin. You do whatever it takes to come close to Me again as soon as you can and as often as you need to do so. When you need My forgiveness, it should be your priority to seek it. I promise to do My part and forgive you. Make sure that you do yours by coming to Me in repentance.”

Romans 2:4 NIV

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance?

Acts 24:15-16 NIV

15) …and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

16) So I strive always to keep my conscious clear before God and man.

I Th. 5:24 AMP

Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you].

 

I have sinned more since I met Jesus than I did before I gave my life to Him, because I now know what sin is. There were times in the past when I would fall at my Lord’s feet in hopeless despair, sick with my sin, only to find Him mercifully calling me to come to Him and rest. He would show me the cross, His Word, and His promise of forgiveness. Most of all, my God would show me His mercy and grace. He was and is so kind and so forgiving, that over the many years of continued offense and the responding continued forgiveness, my desire to separate myself from Him because of sin is far overshadowed by my desire to no longer offend Him - all because of His aggressive kindness toward me.

Thank You for your mercy and grace, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“Are you cherishing those I bring into your life? Do you realize that I love them very much, no matter what condition they are in? I send them to you so that they can get a closer look as to what Jesus looks like. Do they see Him in you? Do they have more of a desire to serve Him because they have been with you, and you have shown the wonders of His person?

 “That is why you have been called into My kingdom. You have not been called to be with Me so that you can be well-fed and satisfied. You have been called so that My plan can be furthered. Begin to see your life and your purpose for living through My eyes. You will be amazed at how patient I have been with you.”

Psalm 106:12-15a AMP

12) Then [Israel] believed His words [trusting in, relying on them]; they sang His praise.

13) But they hastily forgot His works; they did not [earnestly] wait for His plans [to develop] regarding them.

14) But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted and tried to restrain God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.

15) And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls…

Matt. 7:21-23 NIV

21) “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

22) Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’

23) Then, I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

Matthew 16:22-23 NIV

22) Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

23) Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Out of my sight, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

 

A self-serving gospel is dead religion masked in spirituality. It is another gospel, not the gospel preached by Jesus. So many Christians today think that they are living according to the will of the Lord, when He has long ago bypassed them and is using those with open hearts who long to do His will.

The Lord has a remnant in training, a people who surrender every aspect of their being to His Lordship every moment of every day. They are learning to live entirely in Christ, rather than attempting to find the easiest road to heaven and consuming the things that the Lord has provided for them upon themselves. He is raising up a holy people, calling them out from the cold religious functions so prevalent today.

Do whatever it takes, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“Do you remember that I own every beat of your heart? What if I were to call you home today? Would you have fulfilled My desired plan for you? Would your life have been of consequence? You really have a choice. You can do many great and not so great things. You can look to others as if you had a deep relationship with Me because of your many activities. But I know. I know if We have spent enough time together for you to fully understand My will for your life. I know the difference between good activities and anointed steps guided by My heart. Come to Me now to learn of My purpose for giving you more beats of your heart. Come and allow Me to make your life of great consequence.”

Proverbs 16:9 AMP

A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.

Proverbs 20:24 AMP

Man’s steps are ordered by the Lord. How then can a man understand his way?

Isaiah 2:22 AMP

Cease to trust in [weak, frail, and dying] man, whose breath is in his nostrils [for so short a time]; in what sense can he be counted as having intrinsic worth?”

 

If you were to take all the imaginations of mankind, all the wealth, knowledge, and power of all the men and women that have ever lived and combine them, multiplied by one million to the millionth power, it would not compare to the wonder of one moment of God in His ordinary (for Him) daily activities and interactions with us. With all that our Father God is and has and has done, His heart has favor toward the opportunity He created for those He formed from the ground of the earth to be in association with Him.

This love association is an unparalleled drama that has overwhelmed the mind of the scholar, disgusted the heart of the bigot, softened the heart of the needy, and filled to overflowing the heart of the child.  In all the wonder that is our God, the most amazing aspect, which has baffled mankind throughout his time in existence, is the well-put phrase in the Book of Psalms, “Who is man that you are mindful of him?

Thank You for caring about my life, Lord,

Jim Corbett