The Struggle to Rest and Relax in God's Love (Nurture)
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2023
- I first intended on making this video for those who struggle with OCD, as they often wrestle with being able to rest in God's love. But as I taught it, I definitely sensed this video applies to everyone. So many believers share their frustration with not being able to settle in the love of God. They can't seem to rest in God's love. In this broadcast, I want to show you what comes against resting in God's love and how to connect to the power of nurture to settled us more in His love.
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God loves us so much. Earlier today I was thinking about my children and their future, and I said "Lord please don't let them suffer much in this life, put all their pain on me." And I felt the Holy Spirit say "Jesus already did that for you!."
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Wow amen
I appreciate your passionate pursuit of healing and learning @Tony Pino
Oh such a wonderful message, I hope that God blesses you and your loved ones abundantly, amen!
Great to be reminded that He has taken this pain.
Mom = borderline/ narcissistic
Dad = covert narcissistic/ OCD
I never had emotionally safe or nurturing parents there by not seeking nurturing partners. I now seek them after years of recovery.
I still have trouble sitting and reading the Bible. I get it through many sources but it’s hard to connect with Gods love sometimes. One day at a timd
I feel like shame is the biggest barrier. So much shame.
🙏🏾I pray the Lord would remove your shame in Jesus name. No weapon formed against you shall prosper! You are a child of God!
Definetly been battling perfectionism and burning myself out due to neglect and.lack of nuture as a kid.need Abbas love so I can love myself .get off the performance orientation roundabout.western society extols perfectionism as a virtue. Sad but true.
I have been saved many years and am now getting quite old. Never to late to learn eh! Your teaching i came across about a month ago (nothing happens by chance) It has brought me out of years of insercurities and bouts of condemnation. many steps of faith now taking place and healing and a spring in my step. I thank Almighty God for putting me under the influence of your gift from Him.
It seems to me that we think only fathers are made in God’s image because God calls Himself Father, but women are just as much made in God’s image as men are, and God likens Himself to a mother hen gathering her chicks under her wings or a mother nursing her child in Scripture too. Every aspect of motherhood we value - nurturing, empathy, compassion, unconditional love, those things we see as feminine qualities all come from being made in God’s image.
The Blessed Holy Spirit is very much like a mother.
Yea and amen. ❤❤
When you spoke about God cheering for us, even when we fail, because He sees us moving forward, I felt a shiver down my spine. I truly feel like God has spoken to me abundantly through this message. May this message bless others as it blessed me, amen in Jesus name!
Thank you Mark. Didn’t grow up with my dad and my mum was absent a lot emotionally and physically.
I really appreciated your insights in this area.
My relationship with God my Abba has been everything to me for the last 33yrs. I’m now 56 and have a healthy relationship with my two daughters and my son, because of God’s nurturing and loving care towards me.
It took many years for me to surrender my life to Him 100%. But when I did, He amazed me with His continued strength, grace and presence.
I feel like life is hard, but things come easily.
For example, time: I have managed to do many tasks that would usually take 4 plus hours in and hour and a half. It’s as if He says to me, trust me, I am with You. Do what I ask and I’ll be there. He consistently does this in so many areas of my life.
I am so thankful for your unique ministry brother.
May He continue to bless it and the people you help.
In Jesus’s precious name I pray. 🙏🏼❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
No parents growing up, so I definitely struggle receiving from God. I didn't even realize it.
Psalms 27:10 NKJV
When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me.
Hey God got you 😊. You know what people are struggling for having bad parents and also for not having parents at all. But our God is bigger than anything else. Many people even get sexually abused by their own parents. Hence don't put position of parents higher than that of God, there should be no idol before God and that includes parents too even we can idolize absence of parents too that I used to do before unless Holy Spirit put my eyes off of my neglectful parents and put my eyes on Jesus and His love for me.
As you are here listening to Ps. Mark God loves you and He has personal plans for you.
Love you 🤗💗
The Lord be with you and the Lord bless you. 🙌🏻🕊🔥
I have no idea how to rest fruitfully. And yes it’s so true that I avoid tuff things because of the lack of confidence. I have very perfectionistic tendencies and without nurture I am constantly striving or avoiding and the fear of failure rises up every time while doing that…
You’re not alone
Thank you for this. I realize I’ve definitely become kinda complacent or I totally avoid things because the anxiety and ocd and fear in general make me feel worried that it’ll start an episode and make it hard to return. I’ve also heard people say that we don’t have to be afraid of failure with God because God isn’t measuring us by the same yard stick we use on ourselves
I know God led me here! This lets me know that I have not been ministering from my own heart. I asked God a few weeks ago why do i struggle with doubt to trust him even with all the good he has shown me and he’s told me it was because my parents being absent and I see him through the eyes that I see that. Psalm 27:10 Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]. He has really been expounding on his love for me and building my trust and confidence. Bless you brother for this one time word!
Youre not the only one bud
Mark, my life has hugely changed since I've heard your teaching on receiving the father's love as the source of... Well everything, confidence, faith, identity, rest, worship, etc... Just wanted to share that God has changed another person's life through your ministry. 👍 Bless you brother
When people talk about wanting a vacation or to run away or relax that seems to me as more of a signal they need some life changes. Change diet, go to bed earlier, change your hours, change work path, interactions with toxic people, breathing better, walking slower etc. Better personal boundaries.
Please know that I struggle GREATLY in this area. Just last night I resisted the Holy Spirits' comfort yet again and turned to food. I needed to understand my problem at this level, you explained it beautifully! Thank you for what you do brother!
Mark has had the same struggles with turning to food for comfort. You’re understood. ❤
Yes, I do understand that struggle. I have tried to fight the devil many times with a fork. :-)
I walk through...take step...facing fear... resistance develops my muscles.... awesome truth 💞 learn to be love soldier.. fighting from being loved...every day. Thank you💞
I NEEDED to watch this particular instruction video. I've been a Christian for over 50 years, yet life's events have me constantly on the defensive and wondering why I can't handle things better. I've saved this to view over and over - as you say, to practice nurture. I could go on, but this is new insight for me, and I need to get going with this!
I receive so much from your teachings. This journey is truly not for the weak, but I’m grateful for your wisdom and the peace I receive from the Holy Spirit. God is so faithful!
My jaw dropped from everything said in this video. I don’t know quite how to thank you? I’m…..so grateful🥹🫶🏻
Amen
9:49 😂 I can't count how many times I've done what I believe is following God and it gets difficult
Your messages are always on time! I need to work on the resistance and pushing past the fear. I am sitting back everyday hoping tomorrow I will feel more like getting up and going. My resistance has atrophied. I feel like I need a goal list but I am not sure what is enough for the day, and when to increase activity.
I am also healing from just getting out of a 6 yr toxic relationship and leaving a mother and sister that were narcissistic and I feel so free now, I just embrace the fact that they can't torment me anymore unless I let them in. My mother did not know how to nurture and my father never affirmed me.
I working on rebuilding my faith because I had a traumatic spiritual scare and thought I lost salvation and I have been trying to restore my hope and confidence because I feel like a flat tire a lot of the tme.
I thought I i was in burn out or dark night of the soul because I have no goals or even any idea about where I am going from here.. I am in a new city and it's unfamiliar also.. It makes me just want to stay in. I notice that even though I am all alone, I still feel a little anxious. Not as much as I did in the relationship but I still have to catch myself shallowly breathing and tense and take deep breaths. I don't know if I need therapy or what. I feel like a mess but I glad I am FREE! (Or am I) I want to be an overcomer am I being defeated? Thanks Mark!
You are an overcomer.🐛💥🦋
@@TheDreamDetective888 Thank you.
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@@jennifera777 Hey sis, I can really recommend watching marks videos about the love of a father, I think you need to grow strong and build your confidence there after all the trauma you went through. Talking with a counsler is not wrong either and can absolutely help, as long as they dont go out of Gods ways. You sound free to me but now you need rest, rest is everything and I notice in my own life going through OCD pretty strong especially in my young days I really never restes in anything and when I started to listen to brother mark it was the first time someome told me to rest and it almost changed everything and blessings came out of it because I stopped taking things out of control and letting God. Go in your chamber Sister and pour your heart to the Lord, you are loved! ❤
@@DadinChrist Thank you for sharing that with me :) God bless you. 🤗❤
@Jennifer A I totally get that, and I feel the same way. I have a hard time figuring out when I should move forward, and what goals I should have, and exactly how much I should push myself, so I usually just end up doing nothing and waiting for God to "make me" do something lol. I think OCD makes it tough to figure out next steps, because I think we get overwhelmed when we try to push too much, but we feel guilty if we feel like we're not pushing enough. I've been trying to learn how to rest in Christ and also to step out in faith at the same time, but it's definitely a slow learning process. I agree that this message from Mark was right on time, and I hope you'll experience God's love more and more on your OCD journey!
So much wisdom in this teaching!!! Mark de Jesus is the one RUclipsr whom I most frequently share on my social media because he offers so much practical advice on living in Father's love.
Thanks for sharing!!
The most needed teaching for these times!
@@marktdejesusAll God’s Blessings Mark🙏🏼I submitted an application to get coaching from you🙏🏼
Need that do much. How to go into rest when i'm forced to rest with chronic pain and syndrome fatigue.😢 I trust Jesus to make me go through that with perseverance and love. Thank you for your prayers and conforting teaching. 🙏❤️
I thank God and agree with you that you find and feel rest despite every challenge, you are victorious.
Aw, Annie, I wonder the same thing, as I have adrenal exhaustion. Hugs. ❤
He is sustaining you through everything. There is rest in his arms always. He is holding you through all of it. I'm sorry you're going through such a hard time. You are loved and you are held through it all. 🩷
I bought and listened to your audio series on Nurture earlier this week - I highly recommend it - it gave me a great foundation for what is said here. Comfort from the mother, confidence from the father and learning, with hope and courage, how to rest and relax in His love now … one step, one act of faith, at a time. Thank you and Melissa for being such comforting, confidence sharing communicators of His Will and Word, for me and for all of us. Comfort and confidence born from your own challenging and courageous journeys of trials, trust and triumph.
@@kcfl3448 you are 100% right jesus christ blessed you...!!!
You take your whiteboard with you on your walks?! 😉 Jogging and jotting. 🤣 I’m cracking up at your calisthenics, brother!!! Now that I’ve had TOO MUCH fun, I’ll get serious for a moment. Did you make this video specifically for me?! God keeps bringing up the themes of self-compassion and nurture, even when I’m not looking for it. I’ve devoured every video you have on those subjects, so I’m thrilled to see you teaching on nurture again! Please do more on this topic ... just the way you talk about nurture is nurturing. Thank you so much, Mark!!!
I tell people that if I lost everything and had to live under a bridge, I would still have a white board, and I would teach myself into breakthrough. lol
@@marktdejesus Ha ha, yes, I remember you telling me that on a premiere live chat. I even had a dream once where all your equipment was destroyed in some natural disaster. I offered comfort by promising to donate money for a whiteboard and a marker “so you’ll have what you need.” 🤣
Holy... Mark... I haven't had a chance to watch yet but I am so grateful to see you talking about this (and so many other needed topics) because the Lord, in my struggle with OCD and to do and perform things just right, has been reminding me to "Be still" and "rest in Him"... and guess what? The enemy has tried to attack me from even doing that because after I say those two phrases in my head, I get an intrusive thought that I don't want... this recently caused me to spiral into a depressive episode granted it was the final straw after 48 hours of near-constant OCD. But by His grace I am here today coming through the other side of it and here you are talking about the VERY thing I have been hearing from our God (and somewhat struggling with).
Looking very forward to watching this one. I have so many of your videos on my watch list already that I'll admit avoidance keeps me from watching (not because I don't want to)... but I am working on accepting the past, processing instead of ruminating, and being present and forgiving myself for all of my shortcomings as I struggle so much with thoughts and feelings that I have ruined things. It is a tough battle but the Lord is healing me and I know is delivering me, even though I still make mistakes and will continue to no matter how hard I try. Thank God for His grace and Mercy. Romans 8:28 is one of my favorite Bible verses because I struggle so much with thoughts that I have ruined things.
God bless you, sir, for your ministry. You are such a blessing and I know I don't just speak for myself when I say that.
Powerful video Mark. I’m rewatching back to back because I’m really wanting to absorb this into my heart and soul. This is so profound. I’ve been leaning into walking through the valley of the shadow of death and you are to thank for shedding that light for me. God bless you Mark
Loved soldiers!💥Thank you Jesus.
I needed this. Thank you Mark.
Thank u Mark for these videos. Each time I watch your videos, it makes me realize things about myself & my relationship w/ God. It truly is helping me on my journey to mental & emotional wellness🙏🏼🤍
So glad!
Wow man.. You’re such a blessing Mark; Thank you so much bro!
What a timely, specific, poignant, personal word!!
Thank you so much Brother Mark 💖💖🙏 This helped me so much, I even asked in prayer today "Lord show me your love? I pray for wisdom and understanding because I just don't know?" And this video was the first I seen 💖💖💖🐸🙏 Thank you so much and God Bless!!
I love hearing how powerful Father/Mother was /is in life. Great message! God bless you .
Everything makes sense to me what you have said. I grew up motherless of nurturing and an absent father. No wonder I couldn’t figure out my issues. Rejections have been my journey in this world but it’s interesting how God showed me His acceptance and praise of me in personal ways. I had become so hard because I don’t really understand nurturing very well and confidence was driven by things I became good at. Listening to you, just seems to show me how messed up I am.
❤❤❤I thank God everyday because I came across your teaching. It's literally Holy Ghost that led me to your channel and all your 📚books.
Thanks Ps. Mark.❤❤❤
God does love us so much, but he will allow suffering to grow our purpose, spiritual perseverance, calling, resilience, trust in Him, and alternative focus to the world (eyes on Him ). Didn't think I was OCD but always struggle with 'not working' and although I had a loving mother and father who were 'good enough' in terms of psychological health and general wellbeing, I endured child abuse from my brother, on two occasions, which I stopped happening/anything really bad happening - could have been a lot more, and then the family system chose to ignore and even scapegoat me. I often feel like I 'should be always doing something/making something better' - I find it easy to nurture others. I think as adults we can reparent ourselves with God's help and both accept comfort and challenges. Love the expression 'loved soldiers'.
Thanks Mark. I see myself here. Trusting I’ll walk in the true growth that brings resilience and not the striving. Why is it so hard sometimes?
Good grief this describes me to a T (plus some church leaders I know who have deeply wounded many in their effort to “help”). Ok God. I hear ya. I receive it.
Several lessons in this video for me. Help me Holy Spirit!
Thank you for this life giving message. God bless you! I am grateful for the blessing of this inspired message.
Thank you
The wisdom in this video... WOW!! Praise God this!!
So good!
Hey Mark just wanted to say thank you for all your videos. I’ve been dealing with OCD my whole life without knowing. But after my recent break up, it started to manifest really powerfully in my life. From Harm OCD to POCD, to rumination the list goes on and on. But your videos have been so helpful and I can confidently say that I am now in my healing journey. Thank you and God bless you Mark!
So good ❤
God bless you brother from another mother!
Thank you!!!
This was just wonderful!
Thank God for you Mark. You have made an immeasurable difference in my life.
Mark, Thank you 🕊️
Thank you! So helpful
This is soooooo helpful!
Thank you for sharing 😊
This is outstanding
Omg i needed this so much today! God bless you!!!!
God cured my life long anxiety after 50 years when through seeking to get closer to Jesus and to ask him to be able to love others as he loves them. He filled me with his Holy Spirit and I was on the floor. I felt the anxiety leave me along with my upset for others who hurt me and were doing wrong to my wife. I said I forgave them but I relived the pain and thought about justice and them suffering for what they did to us. A Christian can not resent anyone without giving ourselves permission to disobey Jesus. This can not be practiced or reached with our world. This is loving Jesus for who he is and what he did for us and loving the Father as a father and friend. We will want to do his will for us more than anything else. He hides us in the shadow of his feathers where the enemy can not tempt us. You will not get burned out or exhausted or even angry with another human being ever again I can promise you when you are shown by the Holy Spirit how much Jesus loves you.
Some of this talk seems to be about works and no faith and no power of the Holy Spirit. Our will power will never be enough. I had never seen any sermons online or in person where people get anointed and laughing and crying by the humbling of the Holy Spirit but it happened to me all alone at home reading my Bible. I saw Jesus said the answer is the greatest commandment that is loving God with ALL of our heart and ALL of our soul, and ALL of our minds and in that order only. I told God I could not do this as it was too big for me to forgive the person who tortured me physically and psychologically. I have been living with PTSD and nightmares for decades and I struggled all my life with neurological disorders and panic attack. OCD is demonic oppression.
I knew I has no anxiety in Sunday morning worship when we gather and sing to God and he fills us with his Spirit. I asked god for this feeling every day and he gave it to me every minute of every day and all night long also. My wife recorded me singing to god in my sleep smiling ear to ear. Nothing can touch this. It's been 3 years and God made me a soul winner and messenger and healer and I can take no credit. It is him working in me. I did not know any of this and did not learn it in Church. I had to seek his face because I needed his help to be more like him so I could be who he wanted me to be for my life an my wife and my ministry I felt him calling me to.
Amen. Thank you brother!
Thank you ❤
Really brilliant work!
Needed this today
Love that I was led to your RUclips channel. Very helpful and eye opening. ❤
Listened to this video for like the third time and I just really appreciate it brother God bless and your family
This teaching is brilliant Mark BRILLIANT! thankyou
So thankful for Mark DeJesus!
Thanks so much Mark for this teaching. I am the hypovigilant type.
I learnt alot to move forward.
Ive suffered with OCD for as long as i can remember. Your video's are truly a blessing from God to be. Thank you
Thank you, this really helped me! 🙏 Louise
This was awesome Lord thank you!
Im so grateful God led me to this channel
This is what I need more then anything, you are a huge blessing! I'm going to make a commitment to listen to you! I've got a lot of trauma from fear and guilt! Thank you for doing this RUclips channel!
This was very helpful. I'd be interested to hear more about how to manage the effects of parents who did not provide comfort and confidence in childhood and how the Lord works through that.
Love this!! Thank you for your teaching about this☀️🌊
This really does fit a good portion of the church
Thanks for this video, it helped me a lot. God bless you.
You spoke exactly to my situation today
Thanks
Thank you very much Mark. This has been a theme I sense God working in my life for quite some time now. It's fascinating to be able to step back in moments of clarity and gently notice what is needed by viewing what you're struggling with. This video is definitely a witness
That’s the theme in my life currently, too!
Thanks 🙏 for your labour!
That is very eye opening for me.
Can you discuss how to reorganize dismissive avoidant attachment style from the Biblical point of view.
This is the kind of discipling I never know I needed. I never understood what resting in God even meant and did exactly what you talk about here. Find comfort and literal rest, as in falling asleep. Lol.
*knew
As I'm starting to read 📖the book 'Experiencing God's love as your Father' here my journey.
👑Day 1: 3 July 2024
_Your Greatest Need_
That's a cool chapter. I like that it's mentioned it's not about head knowledge but heart knowing.
👑Day 2: 4 July 2024
_Love Connections_
Love is meant to affirm your identity and satisfy your need for validation.
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Omg yes i am an "avoidant" attatchement style also
How can we learn more on these principles ? I need to work on making it a practice but don't know how to start. ❤ this message is a blessing. I need to heal my parental wounds.
He has books and many videos on this subject. God bless you 🙏🏻
Please pray for me... I'm dying on the inside...
Do you have practical tips in how to practice our love in our quiet time
SO good!! I needed to hear this... thank you!! 🙏🧡
Hey Mark, can you do a video on coping with obsessive thoughts when you go to church and they are pointing out what you're not doing, conviction, or what sins you're struggling with? I seem to go into an obsessive loop, feel guilty because God has taught me so much about rest, but it's so different than what I hear from most of Christianity and it makes me feel like I'm not as devoted to God or I'm doing something wrong if I don't speak on that and those messages of getting people to do things for God rather than ministering the rest found in him.
Thanks so much Mark for bringing women into it too. All I ever used to hear were males, God is male, Jesus, Satan, the trinity are all males. And all I used to hear was sit down, shut up, please the males in your life basically because they're above you. And maybe once a year Mother Mary would be mentioned, but she seemed to be the only beloved female. Every time you mentioned women, I burst out crying. I find so much of what you say to be powerfully healing. Thank you!!
Hi Mark, so can you do too much overrepenting? I mean not repenting of sin but focusing too much on repenting? I sometimes feel that, I guess maybe cause I am still learning to receive the Father’s love and that I am accepted in His sight as His son? Could you touch on this a little? Thanks and God bless brother
Hey Mark, please help me, when you were talking about avoidance patterns and resistance in 10:10, what did you mean by that? What is the context? Because it stirred a terrifying fear inside of me. Yesterday i watched this video and till this day i am submerged by fear and this fear just expanded. I suffer from OCD, fear of the future, fear of “how hard it will be”, fear of “if i can handle it”, fear of “what God wants me to go through and how harsh will it be” etc, i ruminate a lot, i have a bad interpreter inside of my head and i also suffer from perfectionism, religious legalism etc so that part of the message just stirred up a hurricane and i am completely beaten. Please i ask you to help me and to just clarify what you meant in that part of the video. I am thankful for your help, may God bless you
this can be a sermon
I wonder if this is why I gey lost in my owm head a lot as a Simultaneous escape and need to know
ADHD people have these issues as well
I’m confused tho, how do you know when your in avoidance or your just starving compulsions. I do a lot of Godly things out of guilt , feeling responsible for others salvation and obsession and compulsion.I’m try so hard to starve compulsions but it’s so hard to know when u should starve it or actually do it. I also ruminate a lot
I have the same question.
@@LexHeroux I also find it hard when people don’t understand the complexity of not doing things compulsively when they are actually Godly and biblical . Nevertheless I believe God will give us the strength to prevail through his word, u should try speaking fear, anxiety, self control,peace,condemnation scriptures with faith esp when the compulsive & anxious temptation rises and praising God when intrusive thoughts and rebuking them. And listening to worship music or singing worship (not guiltily)
I wonder the same thing!! 😅
With OCD, you starve the compulsion and face the fear that rises up as you starve the compulsion. The healing journey never involves doing the compulsion.
You learn that over time, as you develop renewed discernment. You can't "perfectly" do this. You have to practice. When we engage Christian practices out of chronic disturbance, thats when it becomes compulsive.
How do you fix it and let God fix it? 😢
Mark, I need help. I am totally suffering from religious OCD and have most of my adult life. Receiving love and rest has not be something I have done. I was already having a very rough time when I was hit with a crisis last week. Since then I have been very limited in what I can do. The feear has gripped me so bad. I've prayed, proclaimed scripture, rebuked, cast down so much that i am drained and can barely eat. I am not looking for an easy life, just to be able to rest in God, be loved, and have peace to face things. I feel terrible becuase i have done these things to fight and am still in such agony. How can I get relief enough to get back to living?
@@janetholmes The Bible does tell us to cast down thoughts and imaginations and does state that we are to cast out devils and exercise authority.
I have never felt god loves me truly. I don’t know what true love actually is. I’ve only ever known having to work and sacrifice and be obedient for everything for god.
Also why would god allow me to have a miscarriage? I did everything possible to show obedience and faith.
I know you need answers & I pray God speaks to you. I’ve been there too. This is how I’m dealing with disappointment (especially when I obeyed & exercised faith):
1) being resilient in trusting him even when it doesn’t make sense; even when I’m hurt or confused.
2) Remembering that God IS LOVE; his default intention is not to hurt , harm or abandon me. - ”So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.“~ 1 John 4:16 ESV
3) I constantly commune with the Holy Spirit; asking for grace , strength, help- ”Let us have confidence, then, and approach God's throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.“~ Hebrews 4:16 GNT
I’d love to encourage you with this;
”For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.“
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
You’re not alone!♥️ You’re loved by God; don’t allow the enemy to steal your devotion to God! ~ ”A thief has only one thing in mind-he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect -life in its fullness until you overflow!“
John 10:10 TPT
So is he saying God’s love is both “mom “ and “dad”?
I think he is saying that God's love encompasses both confidence and nurture, both forms of love.
Men and women are both made in God’s image, not just men. It would make total sense to say that every aspect of a good father AND a good mother come from God’s image in them.
God designed that His love flow through both father and mother. They carry unique aspects of His love that we were designed to receive and be equipped in.
With so many people going to hell, according to the bible. It seems more like God does production style, creating of mankind, then picks the cream of the crop to take to His kingdom.