Emy Moore Brookins

And I was just grieving with him about that.

And, and that process, the Lord shared with me, he was like,

Emmy, I want to let you know that before you belong to your earthly father, you first belong to me.

And that sounds really simple and it might just kind of pass through your head, but that meant everything to me to understand that, oh wait, no, I'm actually never abandoned and never forsaken because I always belong to somebody.

And sometimes when we think, sometimes when we believe that fatherlessness and the culprit of fatherlessness is because of our earthly fathers, which it could be,

It could be whatever circumstance, trial and tribulation we've gone through.

But sometimes we believe that because of fatherlessness, we are fully abandoned and fully betrayed.

No, no, no, no, no.

You've always had a father and that father has knit you in your mother's room from the beginning of time.

And he is your first father.

You belong to him.

He is your dad before your earthly father is your dad.

So you've never been neglected.

You have never been abandoned, even when you were abandoned, neglected here on earth.

And that changed everything for me.

The moment that I understood that God was my father, not just my father, but my first father, it changed everything because it showed me that even when I thought I was abandoned, I wasn't.

That even when I thought I was betrayed, I wasn't.

And that I always belonged to somebody.

And just because I didn't have that closeness of a fatherly relationship here on earth doesn't mean that I am designed to live a orphaned life.

But the truth of the matter is, is that we have many people broken by the spirit or by an orphaned spirit and we feel orphaned.