2007 Shield of Faith Conference

Text Box: Do you:   Strive for the praise and approval of man?   Compare yourself to others and then reject yourself because you don’t measure up?   Use accusation and exposure to make yourself look good by making others look bad?   See authority as a source of pain; distrusting them?   Experience God’s love as conditional and distant?   Feel like a servant/slave?   Have difficulty receiving correction?   Each of the above is a sign of living with an orphan heart.  

Experiencing the father’s love

Shield of Faith Ministries is sponsoring a one-day seminar which will consist of:  1) teaching to help persons identify when we may have received our parents’ faults as personal rejection, hurt, or disappointment causing us to close our spirits; and 2) corporate healing prayer designed to help persons find comfort and identity from their Creator, who is love, and has made them in His image.

 

Presenters:

Richard and Donna Tuttle*

 

Date:

July 14, 2007

 

Time:

9 AM-5 PM

 

Place:

Shield of Faith Ministry Center

17800 24th Ave North

Plymouth, MN 55447

 

Cost:

$35 for individuals and $50 for couples

 

How to Register:

Mail fee to above address.  Space limited to 14. Save your space now.

 

One of Father God’s laws, for which He has not provided an escape hatch, is “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you.”  (Deuteronomy 5:16)  The outworking of this commandment is that in every area where we could consciously or unconsciously honor our parents, life will go well with us.  In every area where we judged or dishonored our parents, consciously or unconsciously, life will not go well with us.  What does it mean to honor them, and on what basis can we do it even when they may not have been honorable?

 

Mothers are usually the primary caregivers and dispensers of affectionate love in the child’s first two years of life.  The father’s primary years of influence are the third through fifth year.  We were created to have specific needs met by them during this very formative time of life, but many parents have misrepresented the love they were meant to impart to us.  What is the result?  We either live life like a beloved child who lives to receive God’s love and to give it away, or we live life with an orphan heart which strives to earn a right to be in His presence.  The good news is that He has promised that He will not leave us as orphans; He will come to us.  (John 14:18)

 

* From Albert Lea, MN, part of the pastoral team at Our Father’s House