Jesus, Show Me Your Father - with Fr. Michael Denk - TBH 321
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The future Fr. Michael was having a difficult time praying to the heavenly Father. Where was the response? As a seminarian, he just wasn't hearing anything from above. Then, one day, he took the advice of Jesus.
The Son of God has told us in Scripture that the way to the Father is through the Son. So, Michael, who was behind the wheel of his old pickup truck took his prayers to Jesus. 'Show me the Father,' said young Michael. He glanced to the right passenger seat and found a smiling Jesus looking back at him. That was the beginning.
You are a beloved adopted son or daughter of the Father. Back in the early days of the church, it was Roman law that if you found your newborn child to be defective, you could throw the child away. Just leave it on the side of the road. However, if you adopted a child, you were not allowed to disown the child. You were bound together forever! We need to remember that as we walk through life's journey. We are forever His adopted children. He is always there and loving us as no one else can.
Unfortunately, because we all have defective fathers, and perhaps a defective way of looking at the 'Old Testament God,' we may be approaching Him in a defective way. Fr. Michael Denk relives his supernatural experience with Jesus in the cab of his truck, as well as the best way to approach Him in prayer.
And then there is Trapper and his dad's interesting way of welcoming newborns into the world. The Flying Wallendas would've loved it!
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The Prodigal Father https://www.theprodigalfather.org/
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| 0:00.0 | And he said, and what's your impression of God the Father? |
| 0:11.0 | What's he like? |
| 0:12.0 | So I got in the car, my truck, and I'm driving back, and I'm, I look to my right and I said, |
| 0:17.0 | Jesus, what's the Father, what's the father like? I see him. |
| 0:21.8 | I don't know how I see him. |
| 0:24.2 | Jesus, he beamed. |
| 0:26.8 | He had this biggest smile and his eyes just, like, widened. |
| 0:29.9 | And it's like he'd been waiting my whole life for me to ask him that question. |
| 0:35.4 | This is touched by heaven, everyday encounters with God, |
| 0:39.2 | because God is speaking to you and me and the church and the world, |
| 0:44.2 | and we get to listen in on the conversations in these episodes |
| 0:47.6 | with angels, divine interventions, prophetic dreams, visions, near-death experiences. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm your host, Trapper Jack. Welcome. |
| 0:55.1 | I was just thinking about that great scene in It's a Wonderful Life, which I assume you've seen. |
| 0:59.7 | Yes? Yeah, you have to. And you have Jimmy Stewart playing George Bailey, and the whole world is just crushing down. |
| 1:05.5 | And I'm crushing down. And he's not a praying man, as he says, but then he's in this restaurant, and he begins praying to God. |
| 1:17.6 | God. |
| 1:21.6 | And in particular, God, the Father. |
| 1:28.2 | Dear Father in heaven, |
| 1:32.0 | I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, |
| 1:41.0 | show me the way. |
| 1:43.4 | Not at the end of my rope, I... Show me the way. How about the end of my rope? |
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