THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD Now, first of all, THE LORD SHOULD SPEAK TO US as though we were the only person in the world. That is, that we should go away truly able say, "The Lord has spoken to me." The way in which he speaks and through the handling of the Word of God on his part, to get right through, and all the time have our hearts and our minds poised in this way: What is the Lord saying to me. Now : THAT IS ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL. TO MANIFEST THY NAME He said, : "I manifested. I manifested!" To manifest is something very practical. It's more than words, It is showing in a living way the thing that you are desiring to have grasped and understood. And so this matter of the Father God, THE  FATHER  GOD, WAS MANIFESTED IN A PERSON : JESUS The Person Himself was the manifestation. THE SON OF GOD COMES The Son... now, I'm not going to tell you at this point and do all the work for you, you do a little work on this and you will be greatly helped as well as greatly impressed; just go through your New Testament and tabulate the number of times Father and Son occur. Father and Son; that is, as to God and the Lord Jesus. And when you've done that, go the third step and tabulate the number of times that the Lord's people are referred to as His children, His sons, or as in a family relationship to Himself, "begotten of God," "born of God," and so on. It's full, isn't it? It's rich, we've only to mention it for a great deal just to come back to us and break upon us. There it is. Now, we said: THE SON OF GOD CAME FROM THE FATHER. A REDEEMED FAMILY And what is a family? Now, have any of you friends here got a family? You parents, how happy and pleased would you be if every one of your children was a unit in himself or herself, living an independent life without any concern, or consideration, or interest in any other member of the family, just so many isolated units in one place, which could not be called a home in that case, under one roof? Would you be happy about that? Or if they all went off and never had any concern very much for the other members. Just individuals. Well, they might be children of the same parents, might be, but the parents would feel the real, the real meaning of parenthood had been lost; was not there, if that was the situation. You can see through what I'm saying, how God must feel about anything and everything that is other than a family concept and a family spirit amongst His people. HIS PRAYER What a cry it is! What an appeal it is! Shall we say: what an agony it is, "Father, the hour has come... OH RIGHTEOUS  FATHER... FATHER, the world has not known but these have known... Father, as Thou and I are one that they may be one." Have you been all the time poised, just to hear the Lord say something to me, if somewhere, somehow I have violated the family spirit, the family disposition, grieved the Spirit of God Who is the spirit of the family? Is there something He's saying to you and to me? How does this apply to us? Is it just a lovely Bible thing? God forbid. It's a prayer with Him. Let us make it a prayer, and a prayer that will have a very practical aspect, for sometimes we can go a long way toward answering our own prayers because in this matter it's not all to be left with the Lord; He has done His part. Shall we pray? We do ask, we do pray, oh Lord Set, May we have more than words and thoughts: A DEEP HOLY SPIRIT REGISTRATION IN OUR HEARTS THAT CORRECT US, shall guide us, shall influence us in all our relationships. We ask in Thy dear Son's Name, GUARD OUR HEARTS, our minds, our lips in this time in between, so that we may come together again in Thy will without the necessity of starting again, able to go right on. We ask this for Jesus sake, AMEN. AUSTIN SPARKS FOUNDATION EDITORIAL LIVEMAN DEE 2020 Complete transcript : https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/006330.html