“When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.” Psalm 27:8 NASB

Years ago, the Lord led me on a path toward a deeper place of knowing Him. So often in our walk with God, we seek Him for His help, for His plan, for His purpose. But in that seeking, we are missing something: The “NOW” of knowing what is on the heart of God. What burdens is HE carrying? What is breaking His heart? These things I wanted to know.

What is the Heart Cry of the Father?

I had known pain and heartbreak early in my life, some brokenness and disappointments. I felt the Holy Spirit use every vanquished moment to make my heart more open, more sensitive. He was creating in me the heart of an Evangelist: one who sees people not as they are but as what He can make from their broken lives. Just as He had so beautifully built from my broken dreams.

In the inner chamber of the Intercessor one can be overwhelmed by the grief of the very real feelings of hurt and rejection that run rampant over the earth. Father wounds. Mother wounds. One of the most devastating things that can happen to any person is for them to believe that “No one cares for my soul…”

That belief, when sown early into a life can lead to destructive and anti-social behavior that can put one at odds with the rest of the world for most of their lives. These things should not be. It is to these broken and rejected ones that we are called by the Love of the Father. WE are to be their family. We are to embrace them. We are to speak life to them. We are to bring a mother or father’s heart into their lives.

The Christian mothers and fathers that God brought into my life just in time, were those who brought that love, acceptance and friendship into my loneliness. From that bonding I became what the Father intended me to be.

Beloved. There is a world, crying, crying, crying for love and understanding. Their Heart Cry is rising up to the Father day and night.

The fact that all of creation is under travail waiting to see the full manifestation of the sons of God is proof that we, too, should be willing to live lives differently.

Can we see ourselves laying down our battling, our weapons of war, and walking towards them, set on love and healing, filled with grace and compassion?

The world is a wreck. We need to be Healers and Helpers. Amen.

~ Debbie Ecker