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    Servant Sons and Daughters: Serving Father God from a Place of Sonship
    Servant Sons and Daughters: Serving Father God from a Place of Sonship
    Servant Sons and Daughters: Serving Father God from a Place of Sonship
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    Servant Sons and Daughters: Serving Father God from a Place of Sonship

    By Anastasya Laverdiere

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    Speaking from personal experience, Anastasya Laverdiere conveys the message that the life of service and devotion to God must come from relationship with Him as His child to experience the fullness of what He offers. This book builds a strong biblical basis to receive revelation of our true identity and inheritance as God's children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWord Alive Press
    Release dateNov 10, 2017
    ISBN9781486614844
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      Servant Sons and Daughters - Anastasya Laverdiere

      SERVANT SONS & DAUGHTERS

      Copyright © 2017 by Anastasya Laverdiere

      All rights reserved. Neither this publication nor any part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      EPUB Version: 978-1-4866-1484-4

      Word Alive Press

      131 Cordite Road, Winnipeg, MB R3W 1S1

      www.wordalivepress.ca

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication 

      Laverdiere, Anastasya, author 

                Servant sons and daughters : serving Father God from a place of sonship 

      / Anastasya Laverdiere. 

      Issued in print and electronic formats. 

      ISBN 978-1-4866-1483-7 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4866-1484-4 (ebook) 

                1. Children of God.  2. Children of God--Biblical teaching.  3. God--

      Fatherhood.  4. God--Fatherhood--Biblical teaching.  5. God (Christianity)--

      Fatherhood.  6. God (Christianity)--Fatherhood--Biblical teaching.  7. God--

      Worship and love.  8. God (Christianity)--Worship and love.  9. God--

      Worship and love--Biblical teaching.  I. Title. 

      BT153.F3L39 2017                              231’.1                             C2017-903657-2 

                                                                                                            C2017-903658-0

      To all my brothers and sisters in this royal family of God,

      destined to live lives of fullness in the love of our Father.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Author's Note

      PART I: What Matters Most…

      1. God Desired a Family

      2. Verdict Overturned

      PART II: The Children’s Clothing

      3. The Robe

      4. The Ring

      5. The Sandals

      6. The Celebration

      PART III: Devoted Sons

      7. A Licence to Sin?

      8. Free to Serve

      9. A Labour of Love

      PART IV: The Ultimate Servant Son

      10. Developing Royal Dispositions

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgements

      It certainly takes a team to bring a book together, which is why I would like to thank my husband Joel for your friendship, support, and willingness to come alongside me on this journey. Your insights have brought clarity and fullness to my writing.

      I am very grateful for Tom Buller for his work in editing this book, which brought it to a place I could not have reached on my own.

      Much thanks as well to Sylvia St.Cyr for guiding me through the publishing process and being there to answer all my questions with such kindness!

      To all those who read through this manuscript at different stages of its development, your feedback and kind words gave me the courage and confidence to pursue this publication. You all have been such a blessing to me—thank you!

      Introduction

      I was privileged to grow up in a Christian home attending church regularly. My family was always the first to arrive and the last to leave. All of my life, my parents modeled servanthood so well I had a pretty good idea what it meant to live your life in service to God. However, in all the good—the church life, Sunday school, the summer camps, etc.—something was still missing, something crucial.

      At fifteen I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and then set out working to please Him in my everyday life. I expressed much thankfulness for His grace and favor accepting me into His kingdom.

      The problem was my behavior often arose more from fear than a place of joy. I was so grateful He wasn’t going to throw me in Hell—well, at least as long as I wasn’t sinning too badly. Although God’s grace is not something to take advantage of (an idea we’ll explore in this book), living with such a fearful revelation of God kept Him at a distance in my thinking. In my mind He was elusive, harsh, and a bit hard to please. Therefore I worked for Him, being excellent on the outside but feeling empty on the inside.

      How could this be? I was born again and sincerely desired to walk with God. And yet a gaping hole existed in my heart that I didn’t know how to fill. I tried many things: relationships, perfectionism, working harder, reading the Bible more, etc., until eventually giving up. At twenty-two, in the midst of a mess of a life I’d made, I came to the end of myself and there in the fire I found the key I had been looking for. Wrestling with continuous panic attacks, I came to the end of my human strength and God’s power led me to one simple verse. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love (1 John 4:18). All I knew was fear. Where was this perfect love that was supposed to cast out my fear? Where did it come from and how could I get it?

      I can remember being a teenager and wanting to do what teenagers often want to do—be a bit rebellious. I had my heart set on attending a party with some of my friends. My parents, being good and loving, knew this would not be the best environment for me. On this particular day they did not choose to enact their authority and forbid me to go. My dad, the king of wise one-liners, simply left me with a powerful statement as I excitedly got ready to leave the house. Instead of lecturing me on the dangers and choices I would soon face, he simply said, Remember who you are…

      At that time I was still very much discovering who exactly I was, but I knew what he meant. He was reminding me to remember the Christian values I had been brought up on. In this way, remembering who I was would protect me from involving myself in things contrary to my nature. Knowing who we are and having a solid identity gives us a strong sense of direction in life—not only in the natural but the spiritual sense, too. When I left the house that day, I represented not only myself but my family and my father. A deep sense of purpose and responsibility entered my heart.

      Understanding the relationship we can have with God as His children, and His heart towards us as our Father, is the foundation for everything else we do as Christians. Without security in our position with God, we cannot fully live out our callings to their potential. It is a debilitating thing to try living without an inner sense of being loved and accepted, and no less debilitating to try to serve a Holy God from a distance. We can never be comfortable in the presence of someone when we are unsure of their welcome. If our approach to God is still somewhat timid and unsure, our connection to His resources will be intermittent at best. Allowing ourselves to be perfected in His love through the washing of His word will set us into a new place of freedom in our walk as Christians. This is how the Christian life becomes an adventure, ever discovering more about who we are and who our Father is. This revelation will be life and freedom for us.

      This book explores the great relationship God longs for and calls us to through salvation. It seeks to move from the potentially crippling state of uncertainty in our identity towards the powerfully freeing revelation of true identity as sons and daughters of God.

      Paul said it was essential to know "how wide, how long, how high and how deep" the love of God is in order to receive the fullness of life and power that comes from God (Ephesians 3:19, NLT). I echo his prayer that as you read this book you too would divinely discover the fullness of life and power that comes from God!

      I pray as the Holy Spirit illuminates these words He will:

      …grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

      —Ephesians 3:16–19, ESV

      Read on and discover all He has for you in the fullness of His word!

      Author’s Note

      Many scriptures in this book as well as the text itself refer to sons without the addition of daughters. This doesn’t mean females are not included. For example, 1 John 3:1 reads, How great is the love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. The Greek word for sons is TÉKVOV translated téknon (tek’-non) which means child, daughter, or son. Although the word son generally means a direct male descendant, in the Bible it has many uses referring to a characteristic or identity, e.g. sons of Aaron were priests and the sons of Asaph were musicians (1 Chronicles 25:1). As Galatians 3:7 clarifies, it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham and since now there is therefore neither male nor female through salvation (Galatians 3:28–29), women can freely be included in the many verses that reference the sons of God! The use of the term sons represents a relationship open to all humankind, which we will be exploring in this book.

      A picture hangs in my room where I do most of my writing and Bible

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