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so what’s up everybody I am here today
on Father’s Day with my father pastor
Tom eat ah the captain and um we’re
gonna talk and have just a conversation
about fatherhood the love of a father um
before we dive deep I’m just gonna ask
you what is the first thing that comes
to your mind when I say these words okay
okay all right
NBA Finals hurry go hurry go what does
that even mean always hurry go because
we’ll have that debate later okay um
Alabama home that’s where you’re burning
right when I say Louisiana grandma
that’s where you okay when I say Tulsa
transformation okay why why you see
transformation when we say talstar
because that’s where the transformation
in our lives starting when I say Paris
Gracie why you say Gracie that’s what he
was Cassie that’s disgusting that is Oh
– anyway so today um dad I want to have
a conversation with you oh I know you’re
one of the most interesting characters
I’ve ever met in my entire life and but
you have been a model to follow of what
a father should be and a lot of people
don’t understand the relationship with
the Heavenly Father because they
probably had a skewed view or a broken
view of what a father is so today we’re
gonna call this conversations with a
father
and see if we can learn more about
fatherhood and learn more about God so
what did he feel like to become a father
for the very first time it was exciting
for me because you know I had grown up
with my father actually it was not my
biological father
when I was 18 my mother told me that
father that I live with 18 years was not
my actual father so you didn’t find out
that he wasn’t your father until you
were 18 years old till I was 18 years
old how did that change the dynamics of
it really didn’t change anything because
my dad that raised me was a awesome man
he worked hard he was a great provider
so we had a wonderful childhood and then
when I found out about that my view of
fatherhood had already been sick so I
just knew that because of what I had
experienced I wanted to give that to my
children one day so when you have a
child and your father one of the things
that you automatically do is you you
love that child first correct no matter
if they poop on you they pou they mess
us all good it’s all good because
they’re yours that’s right and the other
thing that you do as a father is you you
already in mating you have protection
right you want to provide for them you
want to make you want to teach them and
I think that’s one of the things that
I’m trying to get skewed when it comes
to fatherhood is that as just as a
natural father would want to provide
love protects teach their child God
wants to do the same thing for us well
you know it’s amazing what God can do
when you just say God I don’t know how
to do this but this is innately
in all of us you know I see a lot of
kids they don’t have fathers in their
home but men they have it in them to be
fathers because God put it in I said but
if we would just tap in to what God has
put in us already I don’t have to be
your biological father to be a father to
you while I can be a father to you
because God is a father to me I was
adopted into his family I can adopt
other people into my family and father
them and teach them morals teach them
values teach them life skills that will
help them matriculate through you had
five sons five and why did you have five
suppose we were trying to have again
so you have five sons tell me in a few
adjectives what it was like raising five
sons Wow
exhilarating we come home something be
broke nothing ah okay so so talk to me
um from the perspective of raising these
young men what are things that all
children need to have in their life what
are those values that a father would
want to instill in their children first
though is love unconditional love
unconditional why the Bible says that
love comes and covers a multitude of
sins so again it keeps no record of
wrongs huh and so many kids do wrong
things through life and then when their
parents see that and they act in an
adverse way that plates a picture in
that child’s mind as to how God whoa
whoa hold on you’re dropping bombs right
here dad you’re basically saying a lot
of our views of how we view God comes
from how we were treated by our parents
right and so what what happens with that
because you know some parents you know
there should have short tempers or the
father you know is the one that
disciplines or different things like
that what could you encourage a parent
or a father specifically to do what kind
of traits do they need to have to make
sure their children don’t have that view
of them and then and in turn have that
view of God a man has to be secured and
who he is God has made him that way when
he addresses situations he doesn’t come
from his in security that’s good to deal
with that child he has a level head that
he can analyze the situation and say
okay what’s the best media course of
action that I need to take dealing in
this situation so what is how much of
that has to do with a father or a man
spending time with God for himself
everything everything you know your
relationship with me is going to be
directly reflective of your relationship
with God you know the Bible says
children honor your father and your
mother
if you don’t honor god it’s gonna be
hard for you to honor me well as your
father so that this has been a fun
conversation talking about the love of a
father talking about how love
disciplines love has grace love is
giving and um you’ve been an example of
all those things so I just want to say
thank you I Love You Man would you just
pray over all of the father’s whether
they’re doing everything they’re
supposed to do now or they’ve had a bad
set up we just pray that God would allow
them not to be perfect but progressing
so father God I just thank you for all
the father’s will thank you in the earth
today Lord God but you have given us the
gift to be father’s Lord God and you
thank you Lord God and as we grow and as
we go through the life’s journey that
we’re on on God that you will put people
in their lives to encourage them to be
better fathers here if they’re absent
fathers we pray that you would encourage
them to have a conviction to see their
children and to be a part of their lives
we thank you for who you are our Father
you have our Father we thank you Lord
God for all the things that you have
planned for us as your children and your
a good for good and we love you God we
praise you in Jesus name an amen amen
look I love you brother from my father
to yours happy Father’s Day
you