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Pastor Heather…
Good morning and welcome to morning prayer. Today’s the seventh day of October 2025. Has God been good to you? Oh yes! Hallelujah.
Personal testimony of a warped view of what a father was…
As we were singing Abba, I felt the Lord wanted me to share something. I’ve been arguing with Him for the last 10 minutes about it. A lot of people know my story. My mom left my biological father when I was like one. He was into drugs and alcohol and just not ready to be a dad. My mom got pregnant with me when she was 17. So throughout my growing up, there were a few men that were supposed to take that place of father, protector that came and went. And by the time, who I call my dad now, he’s my stepdad, but I call him my dad. I feel like stepdad doesn’t sound like loving enough. By the time he came along, I was in grade school and I had already had the idea in my mind of what a father looked like.
Fathers leave… Fathers can’t be trusted… You have to take care of yourself.
It took a very long time to erase that face off of the face of God. And I know there are many, many people watching online, even sitting in these pews that have a lot of father wounds. And anybody that is in counseling or in therapy will tell you that it takes a while to help people get out of that.
Obviously, we have the blood of Jesus and He repairs, He restores. But because I was in grade school when my father stepped into my life, I just was an awkward grade school girl that didn’t know how to relate to men in a father-daughter relationship. I was just a broken little daughter, not knowing how to be a daughter. And so one of the things he would do is we would do duck walks. And my dad would hug me and I would put my feet on his feet and we’d walk through the kitchen, quack, quack, quack… And he’d walk and I would just be standing on his feet while he was walking with me. And that was our weird way of feeling closeness without me feeling awkward.
And as I was worshiping, I was just thinking back, it’s like, as a little girl, that was probably the safest I felt. But our heavenly Father wants us to feel so safe in His arms. Later in life, he adopted me. So I took his name. And so I remember we went to court one day and I took his name as my last name. And I remember going back to school the next day and all the kids, the teacher stood up and said, “Well, now Heather, this was her last name. Now this is her new last name. She was adopted yesterday.” And all the kids thought I was like, Orphan Annie. And they didn’t understand what that meant. Like, you are adopted. Were you an orphan? Were you in an orphanage? All that was kind of still new in the seventies and eighties.
Father God wants to replace all the bad father memories…
But what’s really cool is if you look at my birth certificate, his name is on my birth certificate as my dad. And you think about that: God adopted us into His kingdom and He is our Father, right? So on our birth certificates, He is our Father.
One day in prayer… And not to get on a tangent about me, but I’m going somewhere with all of this. We were in here praying, and I remember the Father showed me… He said, “I am your Father. I want to replace all those memories, the bad memories that you have with good memories of Me.” And as I was sitting there, just meditating on Him, He was showing me pictures of us flying a kite together, laying in a field together, looking at stars, Him putting me up on His shoulders. Those things that Fathers do to little girls to help them feel that they are safe, they’re secure, they know who they are, they have an identity and they’re loved.
God wants us to feel safe in His presence…
And so for anybody out there, He loves you. He’s your Father. And we should have this relationship with Him that’s so, so close that we feel safe in His presence, that we feel His love. And I think today He wants all of us to feel that love, especially when we’re in this world where we’re just having to face things. We have to know who we are. We can’t just be a bunch of orphans walking around. We have to know who we are. We have to know who our Heavenly Father is.
And I’ll never forget that weekend, I was in church and I had never had this thought before. But that Sunday we were in church after I had this experience in prayer here, and how the Lord showed me that He’s my Father. And I remember we’re worshiping in church and I’m looking around and I was like, “Everybody’s worshiping my Dad.” My Dad! And you can say that: “He’s my dad. He’s my Father. He’s my Abba.
He’s our Abba Father…
And you know that word Abba is like daddy. It’s such a simple loving phrase that’s what the younger Jews used. It was Abba, kind of like daddy. And I know people have a thing with daddy God sometimes, so we won’t go there. But Abba, He’s your daddy, He’s your Father. He’s there to hold you, to give you identity, to carry you through.
And so if you’re out there and you’re like me, you’re a broken daughter, a broken son, and you don’t know how to be fathered, that’s a prayer of my heart often is show me how to be fathered. Because it was very difficult for me to trust and to not feel like he’s going to leave or he’s angry with me or he’s far away, or I have to take care of myself just in case.
There are people with “father wounds” that God wants to heal…
And I think there’s a lot of people out there that are in that same boat or a lot of you watching online. You have some father wounds. He wants to heal those wounds because He doesn’t want that face on His face. He’s such a loving God. He’s so patient. He’s so faithful. He’s so true.
And so if we could sing that song again. I want you to see Him as your Father, not just as the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Creator of the universe. He is all those things as well. But there’s such an intimacy of knowing that He’s our Father. He created us. And just like we are our mothers and fathers to children, we do it just as we’ve had mothers and fathers. We’ve done it in our limited knowledge, but if we love those children, it says how much more would he be a good Father? Right?
So think of the love that you have for your children, those of you that are parents, or think of the love your parents had for you. And if you’re like me and that’s a little distorted, then just ask Him to show you how much He loves you. Ask Him to show you that you’re safe in His presence. You’re safe in His arms. Because I do feel that for the place in the world that we’re in, there can’t be any second guessing about who He is to you. You can’t come boldly to worship a God that…
You feel is indifferent
You feel is far away
You feel doesn’t care about you
You feel doesn’t see everything you’re going through
You feel it doesn’t move His heart.
You have to have those things to connect intimately with your Father God. So let’s sing that again and just allow Him to wash over your heart.
Prayed…
I thank you, Father, for anybody that has father wounds. Maybe their dad, just like my dads, they were doing the best they could, but they left some damage.
So now I just speak to every heart that was hurt by a father, that Father God, you are the good, good Father.
You show them what it feels like to be a son, to be a daughter.
You show them what it looks like to have a Father that loves, that cares, that provides, that sees every tear that you cry and puts them in a bottle that knows how many hairs are on their head, that knew them while they were being formed in their mother’s womb.
Show them today, Father, how much you love them.
You’re not a faraway God.
You are not distant.
You’re not indifferent.
You’re not angry.
You are a good Father, a loving Father.
And so show us how to be your children today.
Show us today that we are not orphans, but that we have a Father that loves us and will continue loving us through all eternity.
We are loved with an eternal love.
So we thank you for that and as we go into worship, Father.
We just want to exalt you and just remind our souls today that we have a Father in heaven that loves and cares about us.
Every little detail, every little problem, you’ve already gone out in front of us.
Because you’re a good Father.
And what Father wouldn’t do that, take care of His children.
So thank you for that.
Galatians 4:4 in the Amplified Classic says, “But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law, 5 to purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons]. 6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! 7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.”
So we thank you, Father, today. You are a father to the fatherless. You are a good, good Father. And our hearts cry out Abba Father.
We just break any lie of the enemy that is telling us things about our Father that is not true.
We break the lie of the enemy over those who feel like they are orphans, feel like they are alone, feel like God is angry with them.
Thank you, Father, that you are showing your sons and your daughters who you truly are:
A loving God
A providing God
A God that can be trusted.
A God that knows are rising up and are going out.
So we just bind that spirit of being an orphan. We bind that now in the name of Jesus, throughout the body of Christ.
Thank you, Father, that you are calling back your sons and daughters now.
Just like the prodigal son, they come running, running, running, running, and you’re waiting with a ring and a robe.
You’re waiting to throw your arms around their neck and kiss them and welcome them home.
And so now we call the prodigals back.
We call those who feel like they’re orphans in the body of Christ.
We call them and we say, come, come, come back to your Father’s house today.
Come back to that place of shelter.
Back to that place of safety.
Back to that place of sonship and daughtership.
Those that are running from the plan of God, running from the presence of God, running from the purposes of God, right now we say, come back, come back.
Your Father is waiting.
Get out of the mud.
Get out of the pig slop now and come back to your Father’s home.
Let us not be like the older brother. Let us not be jealous. Let us not be bitter.
Thank you, Father. We guard our hearts against that today, that we’re not working and toiling, but that we have all these things now.
We’ve have all these things at our reach, all these things that you’ve given us, not because of what we’ve done or what we put our hand to, but because of who you are and because of your goodness.
So we bind that spirit of religion, that spirit of bitterness, that spirit of there’s not enough. I have to have the attention. I have to have what I need.
We bind that now in Jesus’ name.
We are welcoming those back into the Father’s home.
The seats of the church would be filled with those that need the Father’s love.
My name is Heather Sibinski. I’m one of the pastors here at Living Word. Have a blessed day!
