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Devotional-You are Beloved of the Beloved Son · The Father's Business Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: You are beloved of the beloved Son.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Song of Solomon 2, 8-14.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Spirit, listen to this.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: About your beloved in Song of Solomon 2, 8-14.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: About your beloved in Song of Solomon 2, 8 through 14.
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  Speaker 1: My beloved spoke and said to me rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, for the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Rise up, my love, rise up, my fair one, and come away.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Spirit, can you hear him inviting you to rise up and come with him?
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Receive him calling you his beloved, his fair one.
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  Speaker 1: Receive his loving shelter in the cleft of the rock.
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  Speaker 1: Run to him in the secret place and see his face.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to hear your voice calling to him because it is sweet in his ears and you are beautiful to him.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: It may have been hard for you to hear his voice offering you his loving, fellowship, protection and intimacy, because you have wounds that have cried loudly.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: You may feel your cries of pain have been unheard because there was no earthly ears to listen.
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  Speaker 1: But God has heard and he has seen the pains of rejection, separation and disappointment, your isolation, fears, loneliness and sense of insecurity.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Feelings of being rejected, ignored, devalued, despised, left alone and isolated.
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  Speaker 1: Feelings of competition, rivalry, comparison and put down.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling useless, worthless, unappreciated and unloved.
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  Speaker 1: Feelings of shame and embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling needy, vulnerable, unable to be of special value to one who matters.
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  Speaker 1: Emptiness of spending your efforts and energy trying to earn esteem and worth.
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  Speaker 1: Overwhelming and relentless demands on time and energy.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: Inadequacy, discontent, frustration and confusion about the course of your life.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Doubts about your true calling in life and doubts about the meaning of your life.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: Exhaustion and despair never far beneath the surface of your existence.
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  Speaker 1: No strength to get back in the arena with the lions seeking to devour you Spirit.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: These feelings are not telling you the truth about you.
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  Speaker 1: Self-doubt and self-rejection are two great enemies.
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  Speaker 1: When they find fertile ground in your soul, they cause you to do something, to try to prove your worth and earn the affirmation that you have desired.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to contribute something so that the world will value you.
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  Speaker 1: You do not deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten and abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be right to make a place or be on guard to keep your place.
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  Speaker 1: This assault could have overwhelmed you at points.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy to hear that you are God's beloved in a world that shouts that you are ugly, you're no good, you're worthless, you're a nobody.
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  Speaker 1: The curses of lying voices do not tell the truth about you.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: These voices separate you from God's truth of who you are and who he made you to become.
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  Speaker 1: Don't waste time blaming and complaining.
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  Speaker 1: It is time to lose the soul from self-rejection that may go back generations.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit, hear and receive deeply that you are the beloved of God of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: You are not a victim.
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  Speaker 1: Embrace your unique brokenness, for through it, god is making you to become a beautiful testimony In the darkest hour.
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  Speaker 1: He never left you alone or rejected you, or counted you as worthless or a nobody.
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  Speaker 1: His beloved son died to make you beloved in himself.
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  Speaker 1: Embrace your brokenness, befriend it, make peace with it and put it under his blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Be blessed to take your pain to his cross and God will purify and deepen the blessing that rests upon you in your pain.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit, receive the description from Isaiah 53, 2-5, and verse 10, of the one who carried your pain.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: There was nothing in his appearance that would cause us to desire him.
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  Speaker 1: He was despised and rejected by men.
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  Speaker 1: A man who suffered and was familiar with the bitterest of grief.
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  Speaker 1: We turned our backs on him and hid our faces from him.
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  Speaker 1: He was despised and we didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he took up our weakness and affirmatives and our sorrows weighed him down.
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  Speaker 1: He was wounded and pierced for our sins.
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  Speaker 1: He was crushed for our iniquities, and his punishment brought us peace.
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  Speaker 1: He healed us by his wounds.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer and fill him with grief.
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  Speaker 1: God made his life a guilt offering for us.
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  Speaker 1: The will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: So Spirit be blessed in the name of Jesus, who bore your pain and sin in himself for you.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: This devotional is from you Are Blessed in the Names of God, by Sylvia Gunter.
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• 6:18
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