{"id":1000,"date":"2013-12-16T14:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:06:53","slug":"asking-father-and-father-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Asking Father and Father Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asking Father and Father Calling
\nFathers are important in our lives. And God our heavenly and eternal Father is the most important father of all. He existed before the world was and knew us before we were born. And He wishes to speak to us daily, hourly, momentarily, only we are often too busy to listen.
\nThe companion books \u201cAsking Father\u201d and \u201cFather Calling\u201d published by Harvey Christian Publishers encourage children to treat God, though unseen, as their own precious father.

In the first, E. F. & L. Harvey relate true stories of how God listened to children when they talked to Him\u2013it may have been to ask for something; it may have been for protection in a dangerous situation; it could have been to show them how to open their hearts to His love, to beg His forgiveness for themselves or for someone very dear to them. Whatever the cause, they asked and He answered, not always in the way they expected, but there was always an answer nevertheless, even, as in the case of young Amy Carmichael, the answer was a gentle but firm, \u201cNo!\u201d
\n\u201cFather Calling,\u201d on the other hand, tells of how we not only speak to God but that He speaks to us. It tells specifically of how God called children to follow Him. We discover how well known Christian men and women first heard Him calling them: take Charles Spurgeon for example, or Lord Shaftsbury, or Wilson Carlile, or Adam Clarke\u2013preachers, reformers, missionaries\u2013many heard God call them to follow him at an early age. Edwin and Lillian Harvey, with the help of their daughter Trudy Harvey Tait, wrote these two books which may be purchased at Harvey Christian Publisher\u2019s online bookstore in the hope that many boys and girls would be encouraged to pray and to listen, for we never know what God might wish to say to us at any time. Listening is hard sometimes in our noisy world, but oh so rewarding, especially when Someone Who never sleeps, or goes on vacation, or spends a week in the hospital is at the other end of the line. He knows every voice of every person He ever created, but do we know His?<\/p>\n

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Asking Father and Father Calling Fathers are important in our lives. And God our heavenly and eternal Father is the most important father of all. He existed before the world was and knew us before we were born. And He wishes to speak to us daily, hourly, momentarily, only we are often too busy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,42,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}