The Father
By
Neville Salvetti© 2008
The Vision
The first vision I can remember was of The Father
He was facing the globe of the earth with His eyes almost touching it and the back of His head was almost touching the globe of heaven. He was watching intently what was happening on earth.
He was blue, outlined in white in the shape of a Chinese Mandarin.
Blue is nobility, white is purity, A mandarin was the wisest person in China.
He was showing His character and immensity that His head touched both heaven and earth.
He was showing His love for us, that He monitors what happens to us so closely because He loves us and desires what is best for us.
Yet The Father is probably the most neglected member of The Trinity even though He is the one who looks after our needs through Jesus.
His love is so great for us that Jesus said of it:
Matt 10:29*30 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
So look at The Father’s Heart and the love in it for you and be comforted by that as His Love for you is eternal, endless and unceasing towards you.
I write this booklet with a sense of awe and holiness towards The Father as if I am on holy ground as I write this. This is the only document that I have had felt in my spirit to approach in this way. This is how important The Father and our relationship to Him. Salvation is a relationship with The Father and Jesus so it is important to know The Father intimately (Jn 17:3).
Perhaps it is the Holiness of The Father that promotes this attitude as He is the only member of The Trinity that has not been into creation but has always been in The undefiled Kingdom of God so when you approach Him you are on Holy, Undefiled Ground.
All the way through the life of Jesus one thing stood out. The relationship He had with The Father.
His great High Priestly prayer (Jn 17) was to The Father and this relationship was so important that He even spent time in His agony to ask The Father that we too could have a relationship with The Father as He had so we would all be one with Him and The Father. I quote the section below.
Jn 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
We do not appreciate The Father as we should and do not spend time with Him we should as well as thank Him for what He gives as every good and perfect gift comes from Him (James 1:17).
It is important to know Jesus as The Father has given all to Jesus to rule including (Jn 3:35) The Kingdom of God ,The Father is the one who places you in it (col 2:12) when you voluntarily decide follow Jesus as Lord, so it is appropriate to discuss The Father in a book about The Kingdom of God.
One day Jesus will hand The Kingdom back to The Father who will then become our ruler so we must prepare for this by learning how to obey Jesus and developing our relationship with The Father.
May this chapter help you appreciate The Father more and grow closer to Him in intimacy.
His Work
He is God
The Father is to be praised and adored for eternity (2 Cor 11:31)
The Father brings honour and glory to His Name (Jn 12:28)
The Kingdom of heaven is His (Mat 26:29)
All things are In Him (1 Cor 8:6) and all things are a result of the work of Jesus.
Only The Father knows when Jesus will return (Mat 24:36)
When all evil is removed from the earth Jesus will give The Kingdom back to The Father (1 Cor 15:24)
Ministry to us
He has prepared heaven for us (Mat 25:34)
He sent Jesus to help us(Jn 3:16)
His Relationship to Jesus
It was The Father’s Will Jesus Died (Mat 26:39)
The Father would have delivered Jesus if Jesus had asked him too (Mat26:53)
Jesus was obedient to The Father unto death (Mat 26:42)
The Father loved Jesus as Jesus was willing to die for The Father’s Purposes (Jn10:15)
Jesus was in complete control of when He was to die (Jn 10:18)
He chose to obey The Father and suffer (Jn 18:11)
Jesus died to show His Love for The Father (Jn 14:31)
The Father Glorified Jesus through His death (Jn 17:1)
Jesus Glorified The Father through His death (Jn 17:1)
He was The Father of Jesus (Mat 26:39)
Jesus has a personal relationship with The Father (Mat 11:27)
The Father Loved Jesus and revealed all His plans to Him (Jn 5:20)
Jesus represented The Father on earth (Jn 5:43)(as we also do as citizens of His Kingdom)
He taught and spoke what he Father had given Him to say (Jn 8:28)
The Words given to Jesus by The Father are life eternal (Jn 12:50)
He had an urgency to do the work of God (Luke 2:49)
He had work to do for The Father that showed He was God (Jn 5:36)
The Father did miracles through Jesus to prove who Jesus was (Jn 5:20)
Jesus removed all that was against His Father (Jn2:16)
Defended His Father’s Holiness and place of worship (Jn2:16)
The Father gave witness to whom Jesus was (Jn 8:18)
Jesus Honoured The Father (Jn8:49)
The Father listened to the requests of Jesus and raised the dead for Him (Jn 11:4)
The Father was pleased with Jesus (2 Pet 1:17)
Jesus was God, equal to The Father (Jn 5:8)
He worked as one with The Father in all He did on earth (Jn5:30)
All are to honour Jesus as they honour The Father (Jn5:23)
Jesus and The Father are one (Jn 10:30)
If you know Jesus and Who He is (God) you will know The Father (Jn8:19)
If you saw Jesus you have also seen The Father (Jn14:10)
Those who worship The Father will love Jesus also because they know He came from The Father Jn (8:42)
Jesus will return with the same Glory as The Father has (as God in otherwords) (Mar 8:38)
Jesus alone of all humans has seen God as He is God (Jn 1:18). This is because the true appearance of God is outside of time and eternity in The Kingdom and at the moment we only see the manifestation of The Kingdom in creation and not the true Kingdom
In Heaven
Jesus works with The Father to sustain creation (Jn 5:17)
He and The Father work as one in all they do (Jn5:19)
All things are given to Jesus (Mat 11:27)
Jesus will come in the authority of The Father and reward all according to their service to Him (Mat 16:27)
Jesus has been given the authority to judge all who die (Jn 5:22)
The Father’s Relationship to us
On Earth
He reveals to people who Jesus is (Mat 16:17)
The Father gives us Jesus (Jn 6:32)
He draws people to Jesus (Jn 6:44)
Those who learn of The Father will be drawn to Jesus (Jn6:45)
The Father helps all who want to follow Jesus (Jn 6:55)
Jesus will never reject those The Father sends to Him (Jn 6:37)
All the Father Gives Jesus will never lose their salvation (Jn 6:39)
The Father desires us to be like He and Jesus (Jn 17:11)
The Father desires us to be one in Him and Jesus (Jn17:21)
The Father desires us to be where He and Jesus are (Jn 17:24)
The Father Receives our spirit at death (Luke 23:46)
He raises the dead (Jn 5:21)
Jesus asks the Father that we can be with Him to behold His Glory (Jn 17:24)
Salvation
The Father desires all to be saved (Rom 11:28)
God alone can forgive us and let us get into heaven but only if we forgive others (Mat 6:14,15)
He is the one who forgives us our sins (Luke 23:34)
Only as you obey what The Father says, which Jesus taught us on behalf of The Father, will you get into Heaven (Mat 7:21)
You must declare who Jesus is before others on earth before He will declare to His father in Heaven that you belong to Him (Mat 10:32)
The only way to The Father is through what Jesus Did at Calvary as well as doing what Jesus commands us to do (Jn14:7)
The Father makes us citizens of The kingdom with all the benefits and that apply to that relationship (Luke 12:32)
The temple was to be removed as a place of worshipping The Father (Jn 4:21)
They would worship Him in their spirit (Jn 4:23
We are Temple of God (1 Cor 3:16)
The Father gives us The Holy Spirit as Jesus asked Him too (Jn14:16)
The Father gives to us the best gift, The Holy Spirit (Luke 11:3)
The Holy Spirit is given to testify of Jesus (Jn15:26)
The Holy Spirit reveals things to those willing to listen and not use their own reason to work out the things The Father requires them to learn or do (Mat 11:25)
The Father gives you The Holy Spirit so you can know Him and learn about God and your relationship to Him (Eph 1:17)
Because we are sons and daughters The Father has given us The Holy Spirit so we can know Him as personal Father (Gal 4:6)
He sends The Holy Spirit and Jesus determines who is to receive Him (Luke 24:49)
The Father seals those who follow Jesus with The Holy Spirit (Jn 6:27)
The Holy Spirit shows we are adopted sons of The Father when led by Him (Rom 8:14,15)
The Holy Spirit can only show the world is unrighteous because Jesus has gone to The Father (Jn16:10). (Jesus showed what righteousness was by His Lifestyle and by His death made it possible. Because of Jesus we have a yardstick for The Holy Spirit to be able to show us what righteous living is).
Our Obedience Brings Him Glory (Mat 5:16)
Loving your enemies shows you are His Child (Mat 5:44,45)
We are to live up to our level of maturity as The Father lives up to His level of Maturity (Mat 5:48)
We are to show His Love and Mercy to all (Luke 6:36)
The Father Loves all who obey the Commandments of Jesus (as they are what The Father told Jesus to command Jn14:21-4)
We are part of the family of God if we obey The Father (Mat 12:50)
We are His Sons and Daughters if we reject what Satan offers and seek Jesus and His Holiness’ (2 Cor 6:18)
He gives us stewardship of things (every good and perfect gift) to maintain for Him
Anything not planted (of The Father) shall be destroyed (Mat 15:13)
The father knows all about us (Mat 10:29,30)
The Father is the one who looks after us (Jn 15:1)
We are not to call anyone our spiritual father as He is our Spiritual Father in heaven (Mat 23:9).
His Provision for us
The Father feeds the animals that do not know Him and we are more important than them (Mat 6:26)
The father knows what we need before we ask Him for it (Mat 6:8)
What He provides for us is far better than what our parents can give us (Mat 7:11)
He is The Father of Mercies and the God of all comfort (2 cor 1:3)
True peace comes from The Father and Jesus (2 Cor 1:3)
Children
The Father protects children and watches each closely (Mat 18:10)
The Father desires that no one goes to hell especially children (Mat 18:14)
When we pray to Him we are to approach Him as Holy and God (Mat 6:9)
When you pray do it privately and God will answer your prayers (reward you) openly (Mat 6:6)
When you give to people do it in secret and The Father will reward you openly (Mat 6:4)
If two or three ask for something that is in the Will of God The Father will make it happen (Mat 18:19)
Jesus answers our prayers to bring The Father Glory (Jn 14:13)
We are to pray that The kingdom of The Father will be on earth (Luke 11:2)
The Father will honour all who serve Jesus (Jn 12:26)
We bring honour and Glory to The Father by bearing fruit for Him (Jn 15:8)
As We bear fruit for Him what ever we ask for the work of Jesus He will provide (Jn15:16)
We can only do the the type of miracles that Jesus did because He has gone to The Father (14:12)
Every tongue confessing Jesus as Lord brings Glory to The Father (Phil 2:11)
Access to The Father is through Jesus (Eph 2:18)
Jesus is the only way to heaven and The Father Jn 14:^
Jesus intercedes for us with The Father (Jn 16:26)
Jesus calls us friends if we accept all He taught us which The Father asked Him to teach us (Jn 15:!5)
Whatever you do to Jesus you do to The Father (Jn15:23)
Whatever you do to another you do to Jesus (Mat 25:40) and thus The Father as Jesus and His Father are one.
If people reject you it is because they do not know The Father (Jn 16:3)
As The Father sent Jesus to do His Work so does Jesus send us to preach The Father and His Kingdom (Jn 20-:21)
The Father blessed us through what Jesus did with every spiritual blessing (Eph 1:3)
The Father and Jesus make people apostles (Gal 1:1)
In Heaven
Those in a correct relationship with The Father and Jesus shall shine as the sun does (Mat 13:43)
The Father has a home for us in heaven (Jn14:2)
Usage of words ‘The Father’ in the New Testament.
Nearly 19% of the usage of the word Father is in Matthew and 17% in Luke. The book of John has 52%. The book of Matthew was used by The Holy Spirit to show God as Father to the Jews while that of Luke was show to show The father as Father of The Gentiles to whom it was written.
The Gospel of John was used by The Holy Spirit to deal with things that had been neglected of which ‘The Father’, and His relationship to the individual as well as The ‘Love of God’ and its expression in us, appeared to be two things that had been neglected. It is not surprising then that John has over half the verses that mention the role of The Father in the life of Jesus as well as in our life. The Gospel of John is truly a book on the ‘Father Nature’ of God.
To emphasise Jesus only is to ignore The Father and The Holy Spirit and to assign to Jesus roles He is not Responsible for. By this you dishonour The Father and The Spirit and allow Satan to bring into your belief system wrong theology like prosperity theology (which ignores God sovereign right to determine what you are to get as well as ignoring His knowing what you need to serve Him and not what you think you need).
General Comments
Our Christian development is directed by God towards two objectives:
Developing our relationship with Jesus and The father
Maturing us into productive citizens of His Kingdom.
The Kingdom is The Father’s but it has been given to Jesus to rule. The Holy Spirit is the designated adviser and teacher to all who want to live as its citizens should.
When we pray it should be guided by The Spirit so it is prayed in accordance with the Will of its ruler, Jesus (and thus best for The Kingdom). It will be for the advancement of The kingdom through the freeing of people, either from the kingdom of darkness or from the bondages that Satan has placed on and in them or through hindering the efforts of Satan in some way. When it is for these purposes only then can we really say we are praying ’in Jesus Name’.
Remember, The Kingdom of God is in people and not in the acquisition of property or wealth and it can only be really advanced as people are either:
Freed from the kingdom of darkness and become citizens of The Kingdom of God or
Freed from the bondages Satan places on them that inhibit their being useful citizens of The Kingdom of God.
You can see the need to be led by The Spirit in all things, as He searches the Heart and Mind of God and knows what the Will of God is. That is why we are always to ‘pray in The Spirit’ and are told that only those ‘led by The Spirit of God’ are the adopted sons/daughters of God.
One should always pray for the purposes of The Kingdom for that purpose when praying for someone or an event, as to pray for anything else is not the Will of Jesus.
One should not pray because we are expected to pray. One should pray out of love for The Father and for His Kingdom, for its expansion as well as for the welfare of its citizens. This is what Jesus had on His heart and what His ministry was all about. In this is the cry of Jesus and The Heart of The Father :
Thy Kingdom Come
His desire that all would be in The kingdom of God and safe from Satan’s rulership.
Jesus taught this should be the attitude of our heart in prayer. The purposes and manifestation of The Kingdom.
Jesus never asked us to pray to Him, only to believe in Him and His teachings and the ministry of reconciliation that flows from His finished work at Calvary. He also asked us to work in His delegated authority and teach The Kingdom as He did. He always pointed us to The Father for our needs.
We are also not shown to pray to The Holy Spirit. He is there to bring into existence what we ask in the way of miracles for the purposes of expanding or demonstrating The kingdom of God, as well as to teach us about The Father and Jesus and to guide us how to live as a citizen of The Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom is The Father’s and to Him alone are we to ask for our needs. To ask anyone else is incorrect and may leave you open to Satanic attack. How The Father provides our needs and who He uses to do so is up to Him but what is provided must be at His Direction communicated to us through The Holy Spirit
This is was a message from The Father to me
As I withdrew from people for a few days I have once again seen the Father’s heart and wept as He does over his children. He said to me too:
Forget deliverance, forget the power of The Holy Spirit
Focus on the Heart of the Father which is the driving force behind everything
So many of His people are hurting
Both Christian and non-Christian
So many are going to hell whom He desires saved.
His church fans a flickering candle hidden in a corner of a dark room
I know, I was shown it
While all around them is darkness and sorrow
So few see the father’s heart and weep as he weeps
They are too concerned with power and authority
And miss the whole point of ministry
The expression of the Love of The Father
The Love that sent Jesus and The Holy Spirit
We need to recapture that Love we have lost
If we are to minister in revival
Without it any ministry will be a hollow gong
It has been a long time since I wept over the Father’s children
And I repent of not doing this
As it means I have missed His love and what is on His Heart
Weep not for others
Weep for yourselves
And seek the Heart of The father
As Jesus did
Amen
The Fathers Heart in Ministry
When we see The Father’s Heart we will forget ourselves and desire only what He desires, after all, His Love is in us and we should love as He Loves. As citizens of His kingdom we should have the same attitudes as He has of which love is the foundational one (which is why it is the first Fruit of The Holy Spirit).
Where people study to obtain a position, or are elected to it by men or are paid to do it, the basis for their ministry is incorrect. It is based on man’s evaluation of the position’s requirements and the need to satisfy the people placing them there or paying them. When the person is elected by The Father because they have His Heart’s attitude, money or rewards are no longer important.
This attitude of The Father’s Love should not just be in ministry, but should be our attitude to all around us: family, friends, spouse, strangers people we minister to or worship with. All our interaction should have His Love as the basis for it.
It does not matter who ministers to a person as long as The Father’s Love is shown to that person. He will take care of whatever the persons’ problem is.
The Father works according to the laws of the spirit world and is able to work best when His Love is the basis for the ministry. If ministry of any type is not done in The Father’s Love it is legalistic and can almost becomes a form of witchcraft or ritual.
We are given a new heart when we follow Jesus. It is fitting The Father’s Love should fill it and not the love we carry over from our old pre-christian self which was trained by the devil working on our lusts and desires. To fight our flesh and its desires it is necessary to have The Father’s Love in the new heart God Gives us (2 Cor 5:17).
Where The Father’s Love is expressed in us rewards in heaven are not important to us, neither is authority, or position in heaven or on earth. What is important is that The Father’s Love is expressed through us and that the work of The Kingdom.
We should minister out of love, appreciation and gratitude to Him for all He has done for us. Our desire then should be to give Him joy and pleasure in how we serve Him and what we do in service of Him.
Any ministry on any other basis than this has missed the whole point of God’s Love.
Without The Father’s Heart, The Authority of Christ and the Guidance of The Holy Spirit ministry is exercised incorrectly.
The Love of The Father
The Love of The Father is endless. It never ends
The Love of The Father is unceasing. It never stops being directed towards us, He Loves us even when we reject Him
The Love of The Father is immeasurable. It is bigger than any need or problem we will ever cause Him.
Authority and The Father
Jesus was given all authority under heaven and earth by God. This authority has been delegated to us in part and must be used in accordance with the Will and Guidelines of God.
So we should seek the Will of The Father, for the correct expression of the delegated authority of Jesus which The Holy Spirit will guide us in using. The Gospel of The Kingdom is proclaimed with power and authority when it is done in God’s type of love in accordance with the Will of God and as a result of His love for the person being ministered too and not just for the sake of demonstrating the power and authority of The Kingdom.
We must see people as being children of The Father whom He Loves and that He has given us the special privilege of ministering to on His behalf. By ministering to them out of His Love for them we are ministering (serving) to Him and in fact this serving Him should be the basis for any ministry we do.
When we Minister
We must realise they are His Children that He has so graciously allowed us to minister to:
We should minister in accordance with His Will
We should minister in accordance with the delegated authority of Jesus
We should minister in the Power and leading of The Holy Spirit
We should preach His Love, His kingdom and his rule.
If these are in place, ministry will come to pass in the way Jesus desires it too occur.
How should we approach people?
We should ask The Holy Spirit what the Father’s will is for them in regard to that person and what He wants you to do for that person and then do it.
If the Holy Spirit is silent then you must use the guidelines of The Bible as to how you are to relate to others (in love, sound positive edifying speech, servant heart, illustrating The kingdom of The Father.)
To do anything else is to disobey God!
The challenge is to ask Holy Spirit every time we minister or even meet people:
What is the Father’s Will for that person
What does The Father want me to do about it?