The Mark of Sons and Daughters On, 5th May 2013, as I was considering the question of “sonship” with Father, my mind shifted to what a son or a daughter is through the EYES of the FATHER . The following is what I sensed the Father was showing me, and challenging me to identify those marks of a true son that I have adopted into my daily walk with Him: [the term "sons" applies equally to "daughters."] SONS: • Have an identity. • Have a name from Father. • Have an inheritance in Christ. • See Father and because they see, they can learn from Father by imitation. • Don't reason, they execute what they see Father do. • Know whose they are and who they are. • Are affirmed by Father. • Walk in humility. • Just are... • Talk as Father talks. • See through Father's eyes. • Hear Father talk clearly and plainly to them. • Are one with Father. • Speak His language of love. • Know the framework of their life in Father. • Have a deepening revelation of His heart. • Give and receive grace. • Are found to be about Father's business. • Have an anointing for sonship. • Model the Father to son/son to Father relationship. • Are role models of sonship. • Live a life characterised by grace. • Receive and give love. • Are comfortable in Father's presence. • Model integrity. • Speak face-to-face with Father as a friend. • Live in the normality of the supernatural. • Learn fathering from Father. • Become fathers, both natural and spiritual. • Know how to be a child. • Love their siblings. • Speak powerfully of Father's love. • Act natural in Father's presence. • Know where their home is. • Act like their Father. • Are neither like the younger son, nor like his older brother (Luke 15:11-33). • Never seek: o Attention o Worldly acceptance o Worldly identification o Acclaim from man o Self-worth from serving o Love from the hand of man o False praise • Love Father like Jesus does. • Know what t is to snuggle. • Have a real Father they always wanted. • Know what their identity is I N FATHER - "I SEE FATHER, HE IS MY DADDY" The Universe is about Father. He is Father - from the beginning to the expanse of eternity He is Father. He is Father and He wants relationship that is the same as Jesus - Father to Son, and Son to Father. There is no other relationship. The anointing on sons is to return the child back into the Garden from which he was driven out with the woman. 5 “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives. 6 His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children , and the hearts of children to their fathers . Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse” ( Malachi 4:5-6 NLT) (emphasis mine). go to top