Barry & Anneliese Adams
Father Heart Communications |
In a nutshell, the sole purpose of this website is to share the life changing message that God loves you on a daily basis.
How we share this message is by posting daily descriptors of God's love followed by a devotional thought for the day. When you read these thoughts, you will notice that they are worded in the first person from God's perspective. Right off the bat, I want to say that I don't want to communicate that I am trying to unequivocally speak on behalf of God Himself. As far as I am concerned, l don't hear from my Heavenly Dad any clearer than any other of His kids. But I am challenged by a verse in 1 Peter 4:11 that says if we are called to share the gospel, we should do so in faith believing that God is actually speaking through us! 1 Peter 4:11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen. NLT So it is with this in mind, that I sit down at my computer and ask my Father to share what's on His heart for His kids. I don't hear an audible voice or anything, but in faith, I begin to write down what I feel He is speaking to me. I don't do this lightly and it is my prayer that somehow, someway, God will work through the creative writing of this clay pot (me!). This is not the first time that I have been down this road. In early 1999, I created a sermon illustration called 'Father's Love Letter' which was comprised of 50 Bible passages that I paraphrased in the first person for a sermon I was sharing on the love of God. Never in our wildest dreams would we have known that this simple sermon illustration would find its way around the world to millions of people and be translated into over 120 languages. The next time I worked on a project where I paraphrased Scriptures in the first person was back in 2008 when we launched our 365promises.com website with daily paraphrased Bible promises. And over the years, the 365 promises message has been shared with millions of people around the world as well. So when I asked God for a new way to share his heart to his children this time around, I felt that writing these daily devotionals were the way He wanted to express His heart. From my own subjective viewpoint, I feel that God is pleased with my willingness to step out in this way so that is why I am doing this. However, I totally understand those who struggle to believe that I have the liberty to do this. Because of my high value for the Word of God, I have struggled with this myself but this is an act of faith for me and I am hoping that our Heavenly Father’s heart is accurately being shared as I write these devotionals. Having said that, I always want to submit what I do to the discernment of those who read it and I would encourage you and others to decide for yourself whether you feel an element of God‘s heart being communicated through these daily devotionals or not. I hope this helps explain the background of this website and my wife and I pray more than anything that by visiting here with us, you know at a deeper level than before how much God loves you! Barry & Anneliese Adams Father Heart Communications |