I receive many e-mails from people who have listened to and been blessed by my album the ‘Father’s Love’ music cds, and there are some that really stand out for me;
Someone I know closely wrote to tell me he had received a message from a Christian friend he had not seen in a long time. She was in hospital and dying of cancer and had been given two weeks to live. He travelled over to see her and took a number of gifts with him. Among the gifts were the cds, ‘Father’s Love’ and ‘Father’s Love. Just before she died she sent him a card to say ‘thank you’ for the cds. She had listened to them over and over again as she neared death, plugging in her ear-phones and pressing the ‘repeat’ button. The message of how much Father God loves her had comforted her and the ‘sting’ of death was taken away; she said that she knew she was going ‘home’ to be with herheavenly Father.
Another person whom I did not know, wrote to me to tell me that her son was living at home and had mental problems of a psychotic nature. His involvement in drugs in early teenage had seriously affected his psyche and his parents were now caring for him. His usual diet of music was loud ’rap’ tunes from P Diddy, Two Pac and 50 Cent. So his mum was surprised one day when he asked to borrow the cd she was playing in the kitchen – the quiet, gentle, reflective music of ’Father’s Love’. She had written to tell me that he repeatedly played the music in his bedroom for a week or so and then came down to speak with her. She was overwhelmed when he put his arms around her and told her that he now knew that God loves him.
To both of these people God is a real Father who loves His children. Neither of these testimonies speaks of an impersonal God, way out there, distant and not interested in us. They reflect a deeply personal Father. It is amazing how many people I meet within the Body of Christ who do not know what it means to be close to God, or who do not see God as a person who loves them and is to be loved. The message of a Heavenly Father’s love, and what that really means, is a big a shock to them. Equally the message of Father’s Love is so welcome to many non-Christians that I meet who have had bad experiences of heavy handed religion and crave relationship that is real. I pray that the words ‘God the Father loves you’ will become for you more than mere words, but an astounding and amazing reality.
