Father John Sheehan Quotes

When Gene Crutchfield brought his troubled friend to Hopkins in 1938, Hopkins was twenty-four years old and in charge of LeKies Memorial, the Methodist church in the Atlantic City neighborhood. He had taken over the parish the year before and wore a mustache to try to make himself look older. It complemented his horn-rimmed glasses and added a bit of distinction to an otherwise unimpressive medium height and build. Hopkins’s father and grandfather had been Methodist ministers, but tradition was not the reason he had dropped out of law school and entered the ministry. He had been attracted by the ideas then being promoted within the Methodist Church in Virginia. They were ideas of the kind that are now taken for granted in American life—nutrition and welfare support for dependent children; free medical care for the impoverished and the aged; the right of workers to organize a union, to receive a minimum wage, to strike; interracial cooperation.

Are you just a Nibling standing outside of the Holy of Holies or are you a son and daughter in the presence of Abba Father?

He had not felt any genuine grief until the moment he accepted the flag, because he had hardly known his father and knew even less about what his father had done.

No one can save you It truly seemed to be; outrages is my sickness of sin trying to kill me with darkness so clear I just could not see! A cross He did bear to fill me with the power losing control of what I was, so tried walking through this fire till it was all finished He did cry just for the likes of me! Spoken from the graves of outrages souls living to die and dying to live out what no one can see. Holiness on the inside of me till eternity comes speaking of things ancient tongues had never seen. From an angel's hand, coals of fire have sealed upon my lips words never known that speak of things angels can never see. Outrages me now sees! I'm becoming like the one who lost all control for me just to die; to live again through the likes of me. No one can save you like the one who only gave and gave from the cross and the grave, and from the grave, He gave life so I can live again. Hollow eyes, screaming from flames below the righteous one, had joined the living dead with head bowed flames all-around a whisper rumbled "Father." Screaming demons fell, trembling flames flickering "I Am, Who I AM" came the cry set them free, as eyes of fire could be seen with outstretched hands I was set free by the one who came for me!

Jesus prayed in difficult times: Your will be done (Mark 14:36); Forgive them (Luke 23:34); Were are you Father (Matthew 27:46); In your hands, I trust (Luke 23:46)! So why are we praying for money, health, and blessings in the American Church? Should we not be praying as Jesus did? Luke 11:1-13.

The funny thing about Jesus He never dictated to His Father, so why do we dictate to God; Jesus submitted to the Father's will; should we not do the same?

I am always amazed at those who spend so much time in prayer and Bible reading just for the purpose of retirement, and showing off for to be Christ-like is making it all about the Fathers business Luke 2:41-52

Distorted Individuality counterfeits our Spirituality as lust counterfeits love. Abba Father created us for Himself, and this distorted Individuality debases human nature itself to become a god to ourselves. The fruits of Individuality are independence and self-assertiveness, leaving no room for God or that of His Messiah.

When discipline and accountability are being neglected in our lives, we do not live as if we have a personal relationship with God but do with the evil one, clearly reflecting we are not a son or daughter of Abba Father.

If you are not being corrected by God you are not His child; you are the spawn of Satan your father!