What Your Earthly Father Never Told You, Your Heavenly Father Has Written in Eternity

April 2nd, 2026
by Sonrise Church

As believers, we’re told day in and day out that God loves us. Yet for many, this can be a difficult truth to understand and receive. Especially when our own father figures love was modeled imperfectly, or for many…not at all. For countless people, earthly fathers were either absent, physically, verbally, or emotionally abusive, or works based, which has created a deep hurt and wounding of the spirit that causes an unhealed heart to feel disconnected, unable to trust, fearful, or not understanding God the Father. It is a pandemic that has truly wrecked and led many into confusion, exhaustion, and feeling as though they have to prove through works that they are worthy to be seen, fought for, defended, and chosen.

When there is a breech between a father and child, the enemy sees this as an open door and can come in with lies and twisted views on how God the Father sees and loves you. Today, we want to reveal God’s heart for you. What you never heard or experienced from your earthly father; your Heavenly Father carved into eternity and declared His great love for you in the shedding of Jesus’ blood. He didn’t just say He loved you, God showed His love for you and continually is doing so.

Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Where there were conditions, God’s love is unconditional, where there was abandonment, God’s love remains faithful, where there was striving for approval, God loved you before you even knew Him.

Below are 10 truths found in scripture to encourage and help you to understand the holy love of God and what His love for you looks like. We pray that by reading and meditating on these scriptures, that your mind would begin to be renewed in Christ, that you would have a holy revelation, and come to know and receive the love of The Father.

1. Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

2. Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

3. 1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

4. Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

5. Isaiah 41:13
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

6. Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

7. Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

8. Titus 3:4-5
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

9. Isaiah 43:4
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you…

10. Isaiah 49:15-16
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands…