7 Beautiful Verses About The Fathers Love

The important thing is to find pathways to affection, like playfully wrestling, serving a hearty lunch, or covering your child with a warm blanket. As these studies suggest, those are the moments that children will remember for the rest of their lives—and which can help them to flourish in adulthood. I was not as lucky as you to have a loving father. I was most blessed to find Our Heavenly Father at the tender age of 18. Having a very abusive father, my life was in turmoil.

But he is not expected to put the children and wife above his job. The job comes first, and whatever is left over, he is free to do as he wishes. No wonder many fathers go home late from work, oftentimes while their children are asleep. Many of us have a lot of knowledge of God, but our hearts have not yet experienced or encountered Him. Therefore, we read the scriptures and we're like, “Yes, God loves me.

He has also taught me the power of love and faith. What I loved about him was that he supported my interests and activities (electronics!) as he as was an engineer. I wished I had developed a stronger communication and bond with him in my teenage years – but that is easy to say now that my adolescent years are past. The original plan was that both parents would creatively weave their different ways of loving into a tapestry of knitted emotions, verbal expressions, affectionate displays, and intellectual harmony. There would be no competition, nor lack of love from either side. This type of loving would create a family chemistry that would ride through the roughest storms and sail over the darkest clouds.

I think the church would become very radical because when we live secure in our identity as the beloved children of our Daddy, we're not focused on trying to get what we need. We're not focused on that orphan mentality of protecting ourselves anymore, but we're able to love the people around us radically. We're able to be radically generous because we know who our Father is and we know that He provides for us. If the I am a father global church experiences the reality that God is a Father who loves us, I think the church would become so radically powerful in love.

Every single decision “Daddy-man” has made and he continues to make, is with his daughter’s best interest in mind. He has sacrificed so much of his own life to make sure he gives his daughter what she needs to thrive in the world. While you may know of a lot of single, handsome guys out to impress the ladies with their sports cars or with the latest trend of the day, a new car isn’t even a thought in his mind. This particular dad puts his daughter and her welfare as the top priority on his list of importance, above anyone and anything else. The baby soon began to crawl and then she toddled and then she walked, and when she first said “daddy”, his world was turned upside down with pride! She soon began calling her father “Daddy-man”, a name that stuck throughout her young childhood years, and which even today, as he’s reading this, I’m sure still brings tears of love to his eyes.

Unlike girls, who model their relationships with others based on their father’s character, boys model themselves after their father’s character. Boys will seek approval from their fathers from a very young age. As human beings, we grow up by imitating the behavior of those around us; that’s how we learn to function in the world. If a father is caring and treats people with respect, the young boy will grow up much the same.

Loving fathers are self-sacrificing and protect their children. Here are 10 more things a loving father does for his children. We can’t be focused on our kids all of the time and shouldn’t be. But do they know that the time spent away is to benefit them? Do they know what we are working on and why we are away?

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away." When we encounter His love, it is an experiential and felt thing. That could be being filled with a rush of peace or experiencing Him in your emotions. God interacts with many of us through our hearts and our feelings. Sarah’s family was radically transformed when her parents encountered the love of God in her teen years.

"No truer words were ever spoken than those of 'I love you' from a father to a son." "A father may only be a dad for a little while, but he is a son's hero forever." A father and son have their own special relationship.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Freely we have received and freely we are to give it away to others in all of our relationships.