{"id":72478,"date":"2025-07-09T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72478"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:57:19","slug":"father-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/father-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this reading plan, we are learning more about God by studying the names given to Him in Scripture. Each day, you\u2019ll come here to read the description of the name we\u2019re studying today and a brief explanation of how God\u2019s character is seen through His name. (Remember that because the Bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, some of God\u2019s names are written in the English form of His name from their original language.) You can then head to today\u2019s passages to see how this name functions in Scripture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FATHER<\/strong>: The personal, familial, and intimate name for God<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He told them to address God as \u201cour Father\u201d (Matthew 6:9). When He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane before His arrest, trial, and crucifixion, Jesus cried out, \u201cAbba<\/em>, Father,\u201d using personal and relational names for God (Mark 14:36). Abba<\/em> is an Aramaic word, from the Hebrew Ab<\/em>, for \u201cfather,\u201d while Pater<\/em> is used in the Greek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are deeply familial names when used to address God. Belief brings us into a close yet respectful relationship with God, the holy Creator of all things. Father is a reverential yet personal name for God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this reading plan, we are learning more about God by studying the names given to Him in Scripture. Each day, you\u2019ll come here to read the description of the name we\u2019re studying today and a brief explanation of how God\u2019s character is seen through His name. (Remember that because the Bible was originally written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namesofgod2025"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[72424],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"FATHER<\/b>

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In this reading plan, we are learning more about God by studying the names given to Him in Scripture. Each day, you\u2019ll come here to read the description of the name we\u2019re studying today and a brief explanation of how God\u2019s character is seen through His name. (Remember that because the Bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, some of God\u2019s names are written in the English form of His name from their original language.) You can then head to today\u2019s passages to see how this name functions in Scripture.<\/p>
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FATHER<\/strong>: The personal, familial, and intimate name for God<\/p>
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When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He told them to address God as \u201cour Father\u201d (Matthew 6:9). When He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane before His arrest, trial, and crucifixion, Jesus cried out, \u201cAbba<\/em>, Father,\u201d using personal and relational names for God (Mark 14:36). Abba<\/em> is an Aramaic word, from the Hebrew Ab<\/em>, for \u201cfather,\u201d while Pater<\/em> is used in the Greek.<\/p>
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These are deeply familial names when used to address God. Belief brings us into a close yet respectful relationship with God, the holy Creator of all things. Father is a reverential yet personal name for God.<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"17","scripture":"Deuteronomy 32:1-6, Psalm 68:4-6, Jeremiah 3:19-22, Mark 14:35-36, Romans 8:14-17, Galatians 4:1-7","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}