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Call to be Fathers (and Mothers too)

Photo from Google "We are orphaned and fatherless.      Our mothers are widowed." Lamentations 5:3 (NLT) I love listening to sermon podcast. It's usually a good source of fresh Word. Currently I'm listening to podcast's from Paul Manwaring entitled 'Fathering People' (if you want to check it out, here's the link to that sermon:  http://podcasts.ibethel.org/en/podcasts/fathering-people ).  Today as I was reading through my daily devotional, this verse struck me. It confirms what I've been listening in the podcast how we live in a world that is orphaned, fatherless and motherless. But how Jesus spoke of a promise that He won't leave us orphans (John 14:18) and sent the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15) that turns our being orphans into true sons and daughters of God who later become and grow into Fathers and Mothers. Then He gave us the great commission (Matt. 28:19-20) to go and make disciples- to Father and mother people who...