More about dad!
During the half night of prayer, last night, I was very aware of my imperfection, my sin, my fears and my failings. I found it very hard to be able to meet God and pressed on as hard as I could but felt totally inadequate. Much to my joy that was not the way father God viewed me and thankfully He broke through to me! - and used that to move me into intercession for a nation who need mercy from that very place of mess that I felt I was in!
I was praying - again for the nation and it’s fatherlessness and I felt God showing me how to pray (obviously crying out for mercy) as Hosea 14:2-3 says ‘Take words with you and return to the Lord, Say to Him “forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips, Assyria cannot save us, we will not mount war horses. We will never again say ‘our gods’ to what our own hands have made, FOR IN YOU THE FATHERLESS FIND COMPASSION”‘
He then speaks about healing them! also in Hosea 2:23 He says that He will call those who have not been called His people ‘His people’ again!
I started to see the love father God has for His lost nation - and in crying out for mercy and forgiveness for idolatry I became fully grounded in the fact that He says He will call the people of Great Britain - who are not His - His own! He will show absolute compassion to this lost, rebellious, fatherless nation!!!