The mountain of Family
An Introduction to the Mountain of Family
Are you ready to expand your perspective about God on the Mountain of Family? We’ll begin with a quick overview and then delve into the details.
In the area of culture referred to as FAMILY, we see God as PAPA, the color ORANGE. He is LOVE displayed as STRENGTH. This is the strength that family was meant to be for us — the strength of bloodline, heritage, and inheritance. It is a generational strength that was meant to help us as individuals stand against the storms of life when everything else falls apart and the one safe place you can always come back to for acceptance and love. Strength, through families, is the foundational fabric of every nation.
Satan uses the principality BAAL (PERVERSION) and the demonic strategy of the JEBUSITES (REJECTION) to distort the truth of who God is. God has given us a mighty archangel, RAPHAEL, to fight for those called to this mountain.
The LIE being perpetuated about God in the current FAMILY INSTITUTION is: WE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED AND REJECTED BY GOD.
The TRUTH about God that we will learn to display in FAMILY is: GOD HAS NOT ABANDONED OR REJECTED US.
The Face of God as Papa on the Mountain of Family
When we look into the face of God as Papa we see another strand of the love of God. Satan always comes to kill, steal, and destroy families by distorting our perspective of God through negative experiences with our earthly parents, especially our fathers. Our Heavenly Father always comes to heal, protect, and deliver. When we encounter Him as Papa we experience His heart of acceptance, which gives us the sense of belonging we were all meant to have. When we choose to acknowledge Him as our Father, we are adopted into the family of God.
Jesus perfectly revealed the heart of the Father to us in the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). When the son left home to live out his rebellion, squandering all his inheritance and ending up in a literal pigpen, not only was his father ready to forgive his son’s choices, but the father instantly put his robe and ring on him, fully restoring the son’s identity, authority, and destiny. As soon as he saw his son coming down the road towards him, the father ran to meet his son. Like the father in the story, God is a Father who waits and looks hopefully our way even when we are still in the pigpen of our choices and behavior. The moment we turn His way He’s running towards us with open arms and a heart of joy.
Jesus also revealed the heart of God as Papa by the way He responded to the woman caught in adultery who was brought to Him by the most religious ones of that time. They wanted His stance on her sin, but He refused to be pressured into judging her because He knew that His stance on her heart was more important as she was being publicly shamed. After her accusers left Jesus didn’t even give her a lecture about how wrong she was, but He made sure she knew that He didn’t condemn her. He demonstrated the unconditional love of our Father by not rejecting her and by empowering her saying, “Go and sin no more.”
To succeed with our assignment on the Mountain of Family it’s not enough to try to police people’s external behavior. We’re going to have to know the heart of God as Papa so well that we overflow with His unconditional love and acceptance that changes people from the inside-out. Rules, although necessary, inform or condemn. An encounter with God’s love goes deep and heals.
The Color Orange on the Mountain of Family
Orange is the color connected to the Mountain of Family. It’s a mixture of red and yellow — red speaks of our family bloodline and yellow speaks of our individual unique glory. Combining them both, orange represents that part of our Papa’s heart that affirms we belong to Him. We are His bloodline. Whatever else you may or may not discover about who you are, you can always know that you are His and you belong in the family of God. It also represents the fact that He not only made each of us to be unique, but He also enjoys what makes you who you are. We each have our own glory or distinct beauty that delights and makes proud the heart of this Father.
In chromotherapy, the study and science of healing through colors, it has been identified that the color orange may assist in the elimination of localized fats and improving energy. Studies suggest that an unhealthy home-life contributes to obesity. When we don’t experience the strength of a healthy family that we were meant to, we become weak people living in a weakened society. Strength to resist disease is broken down when family is broken down.
Our Assurances on the Mountain of Family: You Are Accepted
When the face of God as Papa is correctly displayed as Strength on the Mountain of Family, it assures us that we all belong, we are all accepted, and we are all loved unconditionally.
God has never abandoned or rejected anyone. He isn’t just somewhere far away waiting for us to figure everything out by ourselves. God will always love every person as our perfect Father unless we choose to reject Him. He has never and will never abandon or leave any of His children alone.
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