Hymn: Abba Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVrwVV3Liw
Psalm 22
This psalm was written somewhere around 4th century B.C.
Jesus knew the psalm as he was himself a Rabbi, He also knew that he had come to fulfill the scriptures so this psalm covered every thing he was feeling but also used it as part of prayer.
Each letter at the beginning of each word spells out Abba father
Take your time to pray over
Amazingly Beautiful. Blessed Almighty
Faithful. Alpha. Timeless. Holy. Eternal. Redeemer.
Father thank you that you love us and care for us teach us and train us. Father God we give you our praise, for we love you and want to learn from you, may your will be done Amen
Hymn: Father we love you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sXUltnS6n0
prayers
Heavenly, Abba,
Father, your Son Jesus Christ has promised that you will hear us when
we ask in faith: receive the prayers we offer.
We pray
for Christians throughout the World, especially where there is
suffering, danger and persecution; Lord, hear our prayer.
We
pray for all the peoples of the world and their leaders;
countries in crisis; those countries where there are conflicts,
Countries affected by acts of terrorisation. Countries ruled by
corrupt and brutal leaders, Countries where people are starving.
Lord, hear our prayer.
We pray for leaders, at
both National and Local level, those who administer our laws; we
pray for the police and all emergency services. We pray for all those
who work in hospitals, care homes. We pray for all those who
are caring for people who need help and friendship in their lives, We
pray for those who have responsibility for the welfare of others.
We pray for our local community, for those who are sick, those who are suffering in mind body or spirit,
we pray for all those known to us and those only known to you heavenly Father who are grieving…….. wrap you loving comforting arms around them .
We pray for the distressed, the lonely, the homeless, the unloved, the unemployed,
We pray for those in need of a friend, those wanting someone to reach out to them, may we be guided by your prompting,
Father God comfort those in need of comfort and inspire those feeling disheartened. Strengthen those who feel weak, Father we pray for our families, our neighbours, and our friends. We pray for our brothers and sisters through out the world those worshipping in freedom and those meeting in secret, those in chains and being tortured saying your son’s holy name and believing in you. Abba, Father, unite us through the power of Your Holy Spirit fill every heart with peace, as we say together the prayer that Your Son our Lord Jesus Christ taught us.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
In the gospel of Mark he records the desperation of Jesus. Christ knows what is to come.
But He wants to do His father’s (Daddy’s) will
Mark 14: 32 – 36
32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I pray.’ 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,’ he said to them. ‘Stay here and keep watch.’ 35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 ‘Abba, Father,’ he said, ‘everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.’
Hymn Father God I wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuvGb7KDE8
When St Paul wrote to the Church in Rome he addresses both men and women to be led by the Holy Spirit he also recognises the intimacy of God being Abba, Father taking on the words of Christ him self in using this title.
Romans 8: 12 – 17
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Poem. Abba, Daddy, Father
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abba-daddy-father/
scroll down to find this beautiful thought provoking poem by Steve Gregory
In the dictionary; Abba, a title of reverence for bishops and patriarchs in the Coptic, Ethiopian Christian, and Syriac churches.
New Testament; an Aramaic word for father, used by Jesus and Paul to address God in a relation of personal intimacy.
At our Church on Tuesday evenings during lent we a looking Jesus and His prayers
and how to improve our own prayer times with God our heavenly Father last Tuesday we looked at God being called Daddy
What does the word daddy bring to mind. For some it is an infant word for dad for others it is loving closeness and Daddy is no different than dad.
My dear friend was abused by her earthly Dad so found it hard to call God Father. She spent a long time over this in prayer then one night and while she was sleeping she had a dream/revelation, God was walking with her in the country side and said to her “you see all this beauty around you I made that, I created you, I am your creator Father God.”
Abba as I said was Aramaic for father so Jesus was giving us a personal intimacy with God that no-one in the old testament had. The followers of Jesus wanted to understand how to pray to God as Jesus did so the Lords prayer starts with “Our Daddy”. But does that not seem disrespectful?
Preachers worship leaders even in our own prayers we may open our prayers with Holy God, Great Creator. O God. Lord and master, O most awesome. Almighty God. Only living God.
Of cause these are all the right way to come to God you may have your own words when you address or start your prayers. The last hymn you listened to used the words we are adopted into your family, you may like to listen to that song again after the benediction.
An adopted child is one who has grown in their mothers heart and not in the womb and a new baby grows in the heart of men. We too have been born from the heart of our Loving God there fore we can call him our Abba.
Lets take a closer look what is your image of the perfect earthly Dad? What are the things you would look for. Here are few things we came up with Loving, Caring, Patient, Protective, Provider, Encouraging, Listener, Approachable you may wish to add to this.
It is the way we address Abba, When we come before him with respect in reverence we use our words. Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit becomes one of personal intimacy, for God covers every aspect of the perfect human Father with so much more than words can express.
Through Christ we are forgiven not chained to sin as a slave but free, free to gain the gift of eternal life.
St Paul puts it like this when he wrote to the churches in Galatia:
Galatians 4: 4 – 7
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Hymn: Abba Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVrwVV3Liw
Prayer
Thank you Abba, for your love, for your forgiveness, Thank you for your son Jesus Christ our lord and saviour. Amen
May the love of the Father, the tenderness of the Son, and the strength of the Spirit empower you this day and always. Amen
Hymn: Father God I wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPT8tzdC_sw
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