You might know I'm jammed full with a lot of exuberance for God's life. You may also know I had the stuffing kicked out of me for some decades and so sometimes the exuberance comes out sounding a bit unintelligible. I am also fierce and so when all that is combined, well ya might feel like you're getting a blast of raw me. As the weeks and months pass, I hope I get better at communicating from my perspective as I walk out His principles in my simple life.
As I hinted at before, sometimes I do a lot of spluttering in order to say what I mean. Other times my innards know something my soul dumbly struggles to express. As I continue to feel called to share from within, I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to listen, read (etc) while I go through the processes of expressing with more and more excellence.
In these two podcasts I natter out a few cautions for anyone who is in the role of fathering someone else. I think the principles pertain to men who are actively fathering their biological children and I think they also apply to those whom God wants to use to father His spiritual children. There are relational principles to keep in mind.
There are also men who are not biological fathers who are needed to father spiritual children as well as women who are called to as well (as strange as that might sound). I don't claim to know much at all! I am merely fascinated by this whole thing.
Here is part one.
Here is part two.
Please consider leaving your thoughts, feelings and feedback below. I would love to have group chat about this...as it's near and dear to my heart, mind and life and I believe it has everything to do with discipling the nations!
Edited to add: When Papa says SAY IT then we must. The caution I recorded today is not for those situations. :)
1 comment:
i listened to part one so far. Kate, what great insights. as a RG of prophet this touched me deeply and grieved me also because i related to the fathering style you were addressing, and i so want to grow to both father and mother well and to understand the importance of both. relationship first. but of course. you also blew me away with your wisdom in why you corrected your oldest in private away from the younger ones. i was thinking ok not to shame him? this should be a teaching moment so why?? i hope i have the wording right but i heard your heart. because it was a fathering moment and the younger ones were not there yet and may take the message for brother into themselves when it is NOT their time. NOT up to that stage. and i can apply this to a myriad of other circumstances, from the pulpit or in one of our closed groups. we read something and think we will never get there as we try and jump ahead five seasons. i have done it. thank you for changing the landscape here, there and wherever God calls you to go!
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