The first commandment with a promise 🌈💍👑 “Honor (esteem and value as precious) your father and your mother–this is the first commandment with a promise–[Exod. 20:12.]” Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭2‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

No matter what this Father’s Day (tomorrow) means for you, we can honor our Heavenly Father really well by loving Jesus really well, “tenderly and devotedly”.

It is the Father’s delight to give His Son a Bride, this is the long awaited and promised day to come in Heaven. While there is no pain of bondage in Heaven, I believe there is the pain of suffering love. Long suffering is a fruit of the Spirit. We can not come to the Father except through Jesus, and the Father desires to receive us! May we be expectant to enter their Presence and pierce their hearts with unwavering faith and pure adoration, let us meet them with our love.

The Father desires His family. May we love and honor Him through unity; by loving each other and His Son, for when we are one with the Son we can be one with the Father.

“I pray for them all to be joined together as one even as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with us so that the world will recognize that you sent me.” John‬ ‭17‬:‭21‬ ‭TPT‬‬

We are the betrothed of Jesus, “the wife of the Lamb” – as wives this is how we are to also love the Lord!

“However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly]. [I Pet. 3:2.]” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭33‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

“For you reach into my heart. With one flash of your eyes I am undone by your love, my beloved, my equal, my bride. You leave me breathless— I am overcome by merely a glance from your worshiping eyes, for you have stolen my heart. I am held hostage by your love and by the graces of righteousness shining upon you.” Song of Songs‬ ‭4‬:‭9‬ ‭TPT‬‬

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭6‬:‭5‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

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