In Christ, we’re beloved daughters of God before  anything else. I’m so excited for this first episode of The Daughter Perspective Podcast and what God is going to do in Christ. Soon I have a book coming out and it will take the readers on a journey to develop this deeper perspective, deeper identity as a daughter of God and walking with Him daily. If you’d rather listen than read, click the image below:

The Identities We Wear

You know, as Christian women, we wear so many hats and we have so many jobs and all of these are feeding into our identity and our self worth. It’s so important to view all of that from the perspective of God’s beloved daughter. So this discussion is going to reorient conversations to the view of Biblical daughterhood: before I’m a wife, before I’m a mom, before I’m a church leader, a business owner, a teacher, whatever role or responsibility I have, whatever relationship I’m in, first I am his daughter. And to not just say that, but how does that perspective change my outlook on my current circumstance? How does my position as his daughter change my belief system and therefore my thought life today? Oftentimes we separate the two. And when we do this, we’re settling for less than God intended for us. We remove our identity as God’s beloved daughter, and we remove ourselves from a direct line of guidance from God.

Fostering a Father/Daughter Relationship

Having a quiet time with the Lord is the first way to To develop that relationship with God as your father. Most of us have that quiet time every day where we hear from the Lord in the mornings through our Bible study and through prayer but then an issue comes up with our husband or a challenge comes up at work and we just try to handle it on our own because we are independent women and we’re just in, get it done mode. We make choices on our own, and we leave God out of the rest of our lives throughout the days.

So part of these discussions is going to try to get us back to not leaving God in the morning When we get up to walk through our days! We’re going to talk about how are we going to do that and how are we going to foster this father-daughter relationship that Jesus died to give us? How can we become sensitive to the Holy Spirit Jesus sent us? This is the secret to constant companionship with God our Father.

We see in Scripture in Romans 8, specifically verses 14 to 21, that God has not just given us eternal life, but he has adopted us as his children. This is the framework of my upcoming book about the daughter perspective.

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.” Romans 8:14-16 NLT

And so when we read through those verses, we see these truths. I call them affirmations, affirmations from Abba, if you will, from God, our Father.

Affirmations from Abba

When we read through those verses, we see certain truths to internalize and soak in. I call them Affirmations from Abba. Believing these truths from God’s Word will help us strengthen our Daughter of God identity, change our perspective, and foster a closer relationship with the Father.

Let’s look at the first Affirmation from Abba seen in the text:

It says in Romans 8 verse 14 it says that, for all who are led by the Spirit of God are children, {daughters} of God.

In verse 14. It says He leads us.

The thought of being a daughter of God is different than being a son.

I love to encourage my readers to really think about that. Look at the relationships between a daddy who really loves his little girls and receive that from God the Father. Another affirmation we see in that passage is that we can call him Abba, Father. And Jesus modeled this for us when he prayed.

He prayed Abba, Father. Father, dear Father. It, um, It demonstrated a close and personal relationship that Jesus had with the father while he was on earth. He, he knew the love of the father and he modeled praying to God as Abba father. And so we know we take Jesus as example in all things, especially this one.

And the last affirmation that we’re going to talk about today from this passage in Romans 8 is that He affirms that we are His children. When you think about that word affirm, that means that He wants us to know at our core that we are His children. We are His daughter. And He is the best father. He’s a father like no other father can be.

And so even if we just started with that one first affirmation that He leads us, He leads us by His Spirit as His beloved child throughout all of our day, all of our seconds out of all every single day. And so if we’re not really depending on Him to lead us in that way, we are missing out on this special relationship with God the Father that Jesus died to give us.

So circling back around to the hats we wear, the jobs we do, just think about your everyday life, and ask yourself, how would my relationships and my roles change? How would my days be different if I viewed them from the perspective of being God’s daughter? What would it look like? for him to lead me through a day and me not just walk independently on my own.

For me, it’s carrying on a conversation silently in prayer. That’s, that’s a great place to start. But if we want to get down to our real and true core identity, I’d love to share, this memory that I have with my daughters who really prompted this message in my heart. I wanted them to foster their relationship with their Heavenly Father and it be their core value: the core of their identity that they are his beloved daughters. So, when they were young probably five or six years old, we got some friends together from church and we had what we called “princess bible study.” We dressed them up in cute little princess dresses and put tiaras on them. We taught them this special verse from I Peter 2: 9, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into His wonderful light.”

We taught them this verse because we wanted them to have the four precepts of that verse as their core identities of who they are as God’s beloved daughter. And we took four key words from that verse and we wrote it on a sign, really pretty. The four key words were chosen. We are chosen, royal, holy, a special treasure to God. And we had this really pretty pink throne, and we sat them on the pink throne, they held their sign with the key core words of their identity in Christ written on it, and we put a tiara on their head. They smiled and we took a picture of them.

That was the picture we wanted in their minds of their identity in Christ. That they are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms. That they are not just any old daughter out of billions, but that they are God’s special treasure. Beloved, treasured daughter. And we wanted them to take on that identity and we wanted them it to be formative in their belief systems, like at the deepest level of who they think they are.

We wanted those four concepts from that scripture to be the foundational truths. Of who they are as a daughter of God and it is no different once we’re grown! We knew that as life moved forward, our daughters’ roles and relationships would change just as ours do. We wanted them to have this firm foundation of who they are at their core in every season of life. No matter how their life changes, they will always be chosen, royal, holy, God’s special treasure.

But friend, this is not just for little girls. Like we need this solid daughter identity, a deeper daughter identity. From now until the day we see Jesus face to face, it’s the constant that will get you through every season of life rooted and grounded.

There will be shifting in our lives. So, we want this relationship with God as Father, this perspective of a, of a daughter of God to be paramount. That’s what my upcoming book and this podcast is all about. Just getting back to our roots, passing by our current roles, our current relationships, and getting back to our one constant and unchanging identity. Let’s get childlike in our faith again, like we were when we first trusted Christ, when He first adopted us into his family as beloved daughter. And when we get back to the root of our identity as his daughter, and when we cultivate a relationship with him that’s ever-growing as a daughter- dependent on him as our father day by day, everything changes!

The Daughter Perspective will transform us. It will transform our roles. People will start to see the power of our Heavenly Father in our lives. Your relationships will be more rooted and grounded.

We are daughters first and really cultivating that relationship with God as our father. So as we, um, as I host this podcast and as, um, I release the upcoming book, I just pray that we are taken back or maybe revealed the first time God will reveal to us the first time how Being his daughter changes us today and how we can walk with him today and How he will bring us into freedom as we walk with him as our father today So I want to end every podcast with praying for us So I’m gonna do that now and then I look forward to the show next week Love you Father, Abba Father, we just, I just thank you so much for every woman who is listening to this podcast today.

I thank you so much, Jesus, for the sacrifice you made so that we could be adopted as your beloved daughters and walk with you day in and day out, holding your hand. As our beloved heavenly father. And I pray that you would show each of us how we can cultivate a closer relationship with you as our father, and that we will deepen our dependence upon you and have a deeper daughter identity in the weeks to come. And I thank you in Jesus name. Amen. T

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