June 15, 2025
Heart of the Father
- Lindon Faull
Sermon Notes
Proverbs 17:6b MSG
children take pride in their parents.
You may have had a father who was:
- Distant
- Distracted
- Detached
- Demeaning
Psalm 68:5,6 NIV
A father to the fatherless…is God..
God sets the lonely in families…
Deuteronomy 10:21 ESV
He is your praise.
The Heavenly Father restores what He values.
The Heavenly Father pursues what He values.
Acts 17:24,25 NIV
The God who made the world and everything in it…is not served by
human hands, as if he needed anything….
Proverbs 23:26a NIV
My son, give me your heart.
John 17:3 NIV
Now this is eternal life; that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Genesis 12:1-3 NIV
The Lord said to Abram, ‘leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all people on earth will blessed through you.”
Acts 7:4 NIV
“So he left the land of the Chaldean and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to his land where you are now living.”
Joshua 24:2 NIV
Joshua said to all the people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Long ago your forefathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham … worshiped other gods.”
Ephesians 4:22 NKJV
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupts according to the deceitful lusts.
1 John 3:8b NIV
The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
Psalm 129:4 NIV
“But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”
The Heavenly Father provides for what He values.
Genesis 12:10 NIV
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
Psalm 37:8 NIV
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil.
Genesis 12:11-13 NIV
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know what a beautiful woman, you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
Proverbs 28:26 NIV
Those who trusts in themselves are fools,
but those who walks in wisdom are kept safe.
James 3:2a NIV
We all stumble in many ways.
The Heavenly Father protects what He values.
Genesis 15:1 NIV
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram
I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Genesis 15:6 NIV
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Hebrews 10:14 NIV
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
Romans 12:2a NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of this world…
We often listen to God’s promises and read our expectations into them.
Psalm 103:10a NIV
he does not treat us as our sins deserve…
Isaiah 41:8 NIV
“But you, O Israel my servant, … you descendants of Abraham my friend.”
Proverbs 3:32b NIV
… but takes the upright into his confidence.
Genesis 18:17-18 NIV
Then the Lord said, ‘Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do. Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
Genesis 20:2 NIV
... and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, ‘She is my sister.’ Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
Genesis 20:13 NIV
“And when God made me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show love to me. Everywhere we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”
Proverbs 28:13 NIV
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Genesis 20:7 NIV
“Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all yours will die.”
John 13:10 NIV
“Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean.”
Acts 11:9 NIV
“The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
Romans 4:19-21 NIV
Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead – since he was about a hundred years old – and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
Romans 4:8 NIV
“Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
Genesis 21:1-2 NIV
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
Genesis 22:1-2 NIV
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”
Genesis 22:5 NIV
He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then wewill come back to you.”
Hebrews 11:17-19 NIV
By faith Abraham when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his son and only soon, even though God had said to him, ‘It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.”
1 Timothy 4:15 NIV
Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them; so that everyone may see your progress.
Genesis 12:16 NIV
He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram required sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Genesis 20:14, 16a NIV
“Then Abimelech brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham… ’I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver…’”
The Heavenly Father prepares for those He values.
Hebrews 11:9-10 NIV
“By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents…for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”
Will you place this on the altar:
- A generational sin you have been holding on to.
- A cherished relationship that you are loving more than your Heavenly Father.
- A misunderstanding of God’s heart.
- A performance trap of perfectionism.
- Seeing yourself through your eyes or others' eyes rather than the Heavenly Father.