This message was given at the 2017 Fatherhood Co-Mission meeting at Winshape Retreat Center.

1. Experiencing
the Father’s
Love
God’s Process for Raising
Leaders
Os Hillman

2. The Most Famous Man
Who Ever Lived?

3. Pamela & Os Hillman

4. May 7, 2016
www.ChebarMinistries.org

5. Justin and Charis (daughter)

6. Text to 54900
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7. Who was the most successful
businessman in the Bible?

8. When God thinks of you,
love swells in His heart.

9. The Lord
your God is in
your midst, The
Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you
with gladness, He will
quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you
with singing. Zephaniah
3:17

10. For as a young man marries
a virgin, so shall your sons
marry you; and as the
bridegroom rejoices
over the bride,
so shall your God
rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62:5

11. How precious
are your thoughts
about me, O God.
They cannot be
numbered!
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber
the grains of sand!
Psalm 139:17-18

12. PERCEPTION REALITY
vs
What do you think God’s perception is of you?

13. Why did God create man?

14. Worship

15. Evangelize
Worship

16. Work
Worship
Evangelize

17. RELATIONSHIP

18. But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the Lord, exercising
lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness in the earth. For in these I
delight,” says the Lord. Jer 9:23-24

19. Our
Heavenly
Father
has a
PR
problem

20. Some “God of Love” You are!
Why did You do this?

21. “Teacher, do You
not care that we
are perishing?”
– Mark 4:38

22. We blame
God
for evil
Jesus told them,
"You're all going to
feel that your world
is falling apart and
that it's my fault.”
Mark 14:27(MSG)

23. Which father did you grow up with?

24. Which father did you grow up with?

25. Which father did you grow up with?

26. Our view of God’s character - - that He is
absent, distant, harsh, unapproachable,
uncaring, weak– correspond to images of
our earthly father.

27. Gideon
• And Gideon said to him, “Please, sir, if
the Lord is with us, why then has all
this happened to us? And where are
all his wonderful deeds that our fathers
recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the
Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now
the Lord has forsaken us and given us
into the hand of Midian.” Judges 6:13

28. “My God, my God, why
have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far
from helping me, and
from the words of my
groaning? O my God, I
cry in the daytime, but
You do not hear…”
David,
Psalm 22

29. And when John had heard in prison about the
works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
and said to Him, “Are You the coming One, or
do we look for another?” Matt 11:2
“My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?”
Jesus, Matt. 27:46

30. Arrows of the Heart
Abuse
Harmful words
Shame/abandonment
No physical affection
No emotional intimacy
Conclusions?

31. Conclusions about God

32. 1. You are powerless over
your circumstances,
2. A victim of an unjust God
3. Who left you here to suffer
Satan’s 3 Greatest Lies

33. Religion versus Relationship

34. Jesus lived on earth being
perceived as an illegitimate son.

35. Audible Voices
Moses, John the Baptist, the Ascension
Two Occasions
“…this is my beloved son in whom I
am well pleased.”

36. My personal encounter with
the Father’s love
Mentor

37. The story of your life is the story of
the long and brutal assault on your
heart by the one who knows what
you could be and fears it.
John Eldredge

38. Our Calling to Leadership Requires a
Journey Toward the Father’s Heart

39. Jesus modeled
the nature of
the Father

40. Orphan Leaders
300 of the greatest names in history
• Alexander the Great
• Julius Caesar
• Charles V
• Cardinal Richelieu
• Queen Victoria
• Golda Meir
• Adolph Hitler
• Joseph Stalin
• Vladimir Lenin
• Fidel Castro

41. “…a new theory of genesis of the will to
political power: the insecurity consequent
upon emotional deprivation must have
aroused in these children an exceptional will
to power, which drove them into a career in
politics with the aim of ‘transforming the
world…”
Creative Suffering, Paul Tournier

43. 6 stages to discover, navigate, and fulfill your purpose

44. Is God evil for allowing Joseph to
go through 13 years of hell on earth for
a greater purpose?

45. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

46. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

47. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

48. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

49. www.ChebarMinistries.org

50. Forgiving Fathers

51. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

52. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

53. 6 Stages to the Larger Story of Your life

54. Whatever God sets you free from He automatically
gives you an anointing to set other people free
from the same thing you were a victim of.
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That is your payback on the enemy.

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