Emy Moore Brookins

We feel orphaned in spirit.

There are plenty of people across the United States where fatherlessness has crept into their lives and it has completely eradicated our hearts.

My goal for you here today, and I believe the Lord's goal, is for that heart to be restored with him and that knowledge of him being your father before...

You belong to your mom and your dad.

You first belong to him, right?

And Psalms, I just said this, but Psalms 39, 13 says, for you created me in my own most being.

You knit me together in my mother's womb.

We belong to the Lord before we belong to our natural parents.

I want to talk about kind of this identity crisis of, am I really a child?

Because I think

Let me just be very for real.

And I think this could possibly be niche, but I think I'm low-key kind of hitting it right on the head.

I think we cognitively know that we're children of God, but if you dealt with fatherlessness and if you feel orphaned, and if you're in the orphan generation, there is a temptation that I know that God is my father, but like, I don't know that God is my father.

So there's a logical sense that we know that that's our dad, but we don't feel it because fatherlessness has crept in.

We feel orphaned in spirit.

And because we have been betrayed, begotten, and forsaken by our natural fathers.

And I wanted to read in John chapter 8, verse 35 through 47, if you have a Bible and you want to go there.

And I want to talk specifically about

around what it means to be a child of God versus this waging war we have between those, this kind of battle of like, do I really belong to God or do I just like belong to the world and I just know of God?

Because if you grew up in a fatherless household, you're always questioning your identity.