{"id":2182,"date":"2026-07-05T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:57:30","slug":"the-father-heart-of-god-michelle-landis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"The Father Heart of God &#8211; Michelle Landis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from a 10-week prayer School (Embark at Gateway House of Prayer, Ephrata), this sermon explores what it means that God is our Father, not a harsh taskmaster. Using the Prodigal Son parable, Matthew 7, and the analogy of a child delighting a parent with a tiny first jump, the Michelle contrasts God&#8217;s lavish, delighting love with the comparison trap we fall into among peers. The core message: God isn&#8217;t impressed by our abilities or comparing us to each other. He delights in our trying, however small the jump, and desires that we look to Him rather than to each other for validation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6084\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2182-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260705.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260705.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260705.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260705.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2182-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260705.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20260705.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from a 10-week prayer School (Embark at Gateway House of Prayer, Ephrata), this sermon explores what it means that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermons","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/livinglightmc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lion.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}