House On The Rock

“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.” Romans 13:11-12.

Ladies and gentlemen, many things are happening in our world today that are very shocking for the ear to hear and mind to understand.

As prophetic generation, we are being prepared to witness the final warfare of the Church against the Kingdom of darkness before we are called home. Until then, cheer up. Your best days are round the corner.

As God’s people, what we are seeing is disheartening truly.

Wickedness, disappointments and betrayals are daily occurrence. Many have turned so cold and loveless for God and even in their relationship it is shocking. But hold on, God is still on the throne and He is on your case for good.

The wickedness found in the world is peculiar to the world as we all know but when we now have to deal with the same in the church! That is where the challenge is for us all. The word of God tells us from the book of Prophet Jeremiah that “For among My people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as one who sets snares, they set traps; they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich….An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so, but what will you do in the end?” Jeremiah 5:26-31.

We have become a generation that seek after prophetic but cannot seek the Lord who gave the gift. We have become a generation that promote technology above relationship with human being in the Church. The caring aspect of the ministry of Jesus is nearly gone out of the window and some of us love the noise of the technology during worship, we love the laptop on the pulpit and microphone in the ear like a pilot ready to take off BUT after the whole show is gone, what happens to your spirituality? Are you strong to resist lust and minute temptation of the week? Are you a better husband to your wife or you go back home to still treat your wife or husband as a vessel to be abused or even worse your children who refused to follow Jesus because they cannot see Him at home since you have been going to Church?

Beloved, warfare is real! You and I cannot afford to sit at ease in Zion or say peace, peace when every wind that is blowing is against our comfort in Zion.

It is time for us to recognise the time and season and live responsibly, with sense of urgency knowing that the time is short and our redemption is nearer than when we first believed.

Recommended weapons for victory in this hour:

·        Watch and pray.

Jesus in His message to His disciples told them to watch and pray. “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” Matthew 26:41.

No soldiers go to battle to sleep. Even in the time of peace, a soldier is a soldier.

God expected you and I to be like the Gideon’s army who drank water by lapping like a dog in Judges 7:5-7. Be watchful.

To watch is to be on the lookout, be discerning and not be caught unaware by the enemy. This is a picture of a security guard responsible for guarding a house or a valuable site.

This is a serious statement as many of us claim to pray but we never watch. You cannot have one without the other. To say you will only pray and not bother to watch is to make the statement of Jesus irrelevant.

To say you will only pray and have nothing to watch is to live irresponsibly, not caring for your loved ones and the treasures that God gave you which by the way you will be held accountable for on the day of judgement is a sin.

To watch and not pray is to solely depend on your strength to deliver you in time of trouble. Prayer is communicating with God for His counsel to be given on how to deal with the situation.

Prayer is communicating with God and getting answers. You cannot know God’s purpose for the day until you talk to Him.

There are different types of prayer and different way of communicating to God. Whichever way or type, we are commanded to pray as believers.

Prayer that is backed with action of fasting and giving [like Cornelius,] and based on the word of God not traditions of men, goes a long way. Matthew 17:21, Acts 10:2

Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus that “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for me that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.”Ephesians 6:18-19.

What am I to watch for?

·        Watch for the little foxes. “Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoils the vines, for our vines have tender grapes” Songs of Solomon 2:15.

Foxes are corrupt elements within the Body of Christ.

The influence of mixed multitude that often gives canal counsel against the perfect will of God.

Those with Balaam counsel that made us believe that sexual sin before marriage is not bad as long as you are doing it with your girl friend whom you will marry at the end of the day. What we forget is that what Balaam could not do through his curses, he made Israel to do at Acacia Grove. Numbers 25:1-3.

·        Watch for habits that displeased the Lord and habits that make your body to be the abode of all kind of diseases and afflictions. It is in the Western world that you see “believers” smoke immediately after “powerful prayer session”

·        Watch the enemies of your vision so that you will not become victim of their schemes to hinder the work. The Sanballats and the Tobiahites.

      Nehemiah 4:1-3, chapter 6.

The warfare of today did not just start today. We were born into it both naturally and spiritually. The intensity of it and the moral decay of today makes it more fervent but it is the same weapon used by our fathers of faith of old, used today that gives us victory!

Remember, the Bible tells us that “for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4

·        Submission.

The word submission is a word used for ages to abuse many in the society especially women.

Submission is powerful if understood by revelation.

It means to surrender yourself to what you see to be above you in purpose or authority.

 “Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief for that would be unprofitable for you” Hebrew 13:17.

God’s blessing rest on those who submit. “The Angel of the Lord said to her, “return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand. Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude” Genesis 16:9-10.

James in his epistle wrote “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you” James 4:7.

You cannot resist the devil if you are not in submission to God. Your deliverance comes through submission to:

1: God’s spoken and written word

2: God’s delegated authority.  2 Chronicles 20:20.

The danger we face in this age of the Church is by allowing the enemy to make us look at the weakness of our Leaders to determine our levelof submission to their authority.

No one is perfect and is used by God.

No one is ever qualified also. He qualified the called and chosen. John 15:16, Isaiah 61:1[Amplified Version]

We are not to follow sinful and unrepentant leader for how can the blind lead the blind? Both of you will fall into the ditch.

Your leader is chosen by God for equipping you for the work of your ministry and if you begrudge your Leader, you cannot learn from him or her.

These are the list of the people you cannot learn from.

1: A person you cannot submit to his or her authority.

2: A person you resented.

3: A person you envy

4: A person you find fault with all the time

5: A person you will not forgive.

·        Thanksgiving & Praise.

Your appreciation of the goodness of the Lord over you and your household takes you past His gate.

When you approach His gate, you are to thank Him for the Blood of Jesus that made it possible for you to even come to the gate.

Remember, we the Gentiles were lost in sin and had no hope of knowing the true God until the price of Redemption for humanity was paid in full at Calvary.

“I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart and His courts with Praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4

One of the sign of this age is that men will be unthankful. 2 Timothy 3:1-2

Everyone believes that someone owe them something so why should they appreciate the good gesture done for them. Beloved no one owes you a dime!

Even God owes you nothing. He paid the ransom for your soul through the death of His Son at Calvary. As a matter of fact you owe God a debt you can never pay fully. All you just have to do is to open your mouth every second, minute, and the time is endless to thank Him for saving you.

Offer thanksgiving to God.

When you praise God, you declare His greatness. God inhabit the praise of His people.

When praises goes up, blessings come down.

Declare the praises of Him who was, and is and is to come.

 YOUR CHILDREN NEEDS YOU.

“Train up a child in the way it should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it” Proverb 22:6

Thank you for opening this site.

For you to still be reading this message now is because I believe the Spirit of God is speaking to you and if you agree with what you are reading kindly call some of your friends to open the page and read also.

This message I believe should be read by all ESPECIALLY my African brothers living in Europe.

The word of God for us who believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God teaches fathers to train their children in the way they are to go.

To train means, to equip or disciple your children.

The question then is how can you equip or disciple a child in a way he or she is to go when you don’t know the way your child is to go as a father.

As a result of not knowing the way God wants your child to go, some fathers either ignore the equipping or disciple programme or gave it to someone who will do the job poorly. At times, some have left the job completely to their wives.

Thank God for mothers but there is a place for mothers and there is a place for fathers.

Mothers are nurturers and they give wisdom while fathers give life and strength to their children.

Fathers are supposed to give vision and direction to their children. They are also to lead by example for their children to follow hence the issue of discipleship.

Disciples are those who are thought by impartation. What are you imparting to your children?

Life or death.

We are living at a time that stress is manifesting through individuals at an alarming rate and many times through lack of seeing dreams become reality, some are giving up on life and taking their venom of frustration on their children.

But wait a minute, because you did not get what you set out to achieve today does not mean that you are to lash out at everything that moves around you.

The word training does not mean you are to abuse your children.

You may say to yourself, how can I prepare my children for the future I never have?

My answer to that is that because you never had it does not mean that your children cannot have a beautiful, bright future.

Some of us from Africa came from a home where our fathers never had a bicycle but they sacrifice for us today to drive BMW, JAGUAR, MB, HONDA CVS etc….

I am challenging fathers to look ahead into 2010!

See greatness ahead of you and channel your children into it. They need you.

A man called Samson lost his sight to his enemies, but he cried to God to give him one more time opportunity to avenge himself against his enemies and God answered him by restoring his anointing. The Bible teaches us that Samson killed many at his death than while alive.

Fathers I pray for one more time anointing on you so that you can arise and see your children become the dream of greatness you once nurtured and in return see your enemies flee.

Now the major challenge facing parents now is the social services department.

My brothers please wake up!

These guys are not joking. They are out for kill if you will not obey the word of God.

I believe that a child equipped well or disciple effectively will not report his or her father to social services when disciplined. On the contrary, your discipline is a proof of your love.

Love exercise discipline.

Brothers, the way you were beaten, should not be repeated by you towards your children. Majority of our fathers never know how to show affection towards us.

Yes they sacrifice for us to have education (for those who have such fathers).

But for many of us, it was the affection and the warmth of our mothers that we know and thank God for that.

For some of us, our fathers were wonderful men. They not only sacrifice for our education they suffered family humiliation to stay loyal to our mothers and us their children.

The crunch of the matter is that, you cannot raise your children in Europe the way you were raised in Africa.

Some of the discipline given to us can be categorised as abuse (and if you will be truthful to yourself you hated it at that time too)

Please obey the word of God and enjoy the latter days of your life rather than grow with bitterness because the social services took your children away from you.

There must be a key to unlock the hearts of your children apart from a little slap on the face, electric wire on her back side, compulsory fasting while you are eating, African Koboko or painted stick ”Mr white”, keeping malice with your children for a week, tying the hands and feet on a spot for a while etc….

There are ways of Loving and Understanding your children. Being there for them not as absentee fathers, celebrating their achievements not criticising them all the time (I know you are always the first in the class during your time) giving them self worth, value and FINALLY LIVING BY GODLY EXAMPLE!

This goes a long way!

Look out for part 2 next week for the completion of the message and about mothers……….

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It is that time of the year once again that all of us should be taking stock of how we had lived our lives in 2009.

I am always amazed to see how we think the year is far ahead and we never put our plans to action.

It is called PROCASTINATION

I am amazed how we think we still have many years to live so we are not bothered about anything.

It is called COMPLACENCY

I am amazed at the rate with which many of us set out on a course this year but have changed our minds many times.

It is called lack of FOCUS

I am amazed how many of us are suffering today because we want what other have and we did everything to get it and now it has become a serious burden and we wish never had the stuffs.

It is called JONES SYNDROME.

I am amazed how our stubbornness has affected us and pushed us out of the will of God as it did King Saul of Israel.

It is called PENTECOSTAL WITCHCRAFT.

I am amazed how cold we have become in our love for things of God and fellow brethren that nothing move us to care for the man next to us again. Even if they drop dead, we still careless.

It is called SELFISHNESS & PASSIONLESS.

I am amazed to see how fast we judge others but are lenient with ourselves.

It is called JUDGEMENTAL SPIRIT.

I am amazed how we point fingers and forget about the rest of the fingers where they go.

It is called ACCUSATION & ALLEGATION

I am amazed at the rate of divorce in the church and we are Bride of Christ in waiting.

If you are seeking divorce, no matter how justified you are as a believer in Jesus Christ. It is A REFLECTION of your walk with the Bridegroom!

I am amazed as to how we never bothered about soul winning when he or she who win soul is wise. But instead, befriend them in their sinful state, laugh at their crude jokes without conviction.

It is called PARTAKING in the sin of others.

Be careful of good the enemy of the best.

Brethren, today in my message, I want to believe God that by the time you finish reading this article, you would have changed your address and relocate to another place in your mind where:

The environment is called NO LIMIT

The neighbourhood is called GREATNESS

Your neighbours are people who move from GLORY TO GLORY

·        What is the meaning of the word ”to settle”?

It means:

1: To establish yourself in a place. The only place the scripture allows us to be established is in your belief of God and the truth of His word. 2 Chronicles 20:20. You are to be rooted and establish in Jesus Christ. Acts 17:28 tells us that “in Him we live and move and have our being as also some of your own poets have said”

2: To relax. It means to loosen up, to be at ease, to put one’s feet up. The people of Laish relax and the Danites took over their land from them. Judges 18:27-29. When you settle for less, the tendency to lose what you have gained is paramount.

3: To be complacent.

When you become complacent, you have no reason to push for the best. You become self-satisfied, serene, unconcern about the best for you.

You cannot move house or change your address this morning until you know the alternative on offer.

God always offer us His BEST for our lives but the Adam and Eve nature in us always settle for less.

We are people called to a progressive lifestyle. Spirit, soul and Body.

In order not to settle for settlement mentality, you have got to know the promises of God for every areas of your lives.

Your personal lives, marriage, children, career, business, ministry, etc…

For example, God gave Israel promise through Abraham confirmed again to Moses in Exodus 3:7-8. The Elders of Israel also confirmed it was so Numbers 13:1-3,26-28 but the men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad settled their families and possessions before the promised Land - Numbers 32

When you know the promise of God for yourself NOT THAT SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS IT FOR YOU. It comes with a drive/passion.

Beloved I have revelation for you. God is PASSIONATE about His promises being fulfilled in your life. God is PASSIONATE about your life progressing and achievement in life that glorify His Son’s name.

God is PASSIONATE about us possessing what is ours.

Caleb an 80 years old man from the tribe of Issachar took over his inheritance Joshua 14:7

Ladies and gentlemen, ENTRING your LAND is not the issue (if you get there) POSSESSION is the issue.

Never settle for right of abode visa in any country but to possessing what God says is yours is the issue.

Never settle for your wedding day but look to celebrate the progressive married life which includes endurance, romance, sexual relationship that is alive. The boy in you becoming a man daily and the girl in you becoming a woman also. That is what we should all look forward to celebrate.

Never settle for mediocrity in business. Because you become self employed does not mean you have arrived to now get to your office/store/shop at whatever time you want.

 Never settle for just being called a mother because you gave birth to a child/ren but raise up greatness in them and through them. Who wants to celebrate the womb that produced a child that is terrorising the elderly, the weak and the destitute?

Having degrees is not the problem, being productive with your degree in life is the crunch of the matter.

Going into ministry is not the matter, staying with finishing in mind and keeping faith is the issue.

Speaking in tongues is not the matter, walking in DOMINION is the goal.

Finally, never allow today to dictate or determine your future for you.

Stop settling for less. Go all the way as Joshua was commanded by God that there are still more land to possess so also I am here to tell us this today. OPPOSITON OR NO OPPOSTION, BARRIER OR NO BARRIER, VALLEY OR NO VALLEY, MOUNTAIN OR VALLEY,

Press on!

Ladies and gentlemen, life has no significant meaning to anyone who allowed the spirit of defeat to knock them down and refuse to get up.

No matter where you are right now in life, there is more bridge to cross! Don’t give up

Maybe you even feel like a failure after trying to succeed many times and you are at the verge of giving up.

Beloved, don’t give up.

You are not a failure because you fail! You are only a failure because you stop trying.

Get up and try again!

If Graham Bell had conceded defeat while trying to invent telephone, we will never have one today.

Born to a deaf mother and married to a deaf wife, two of his sons died at infancy yet never gave up on his inventions. Failed many times but did not give up until today we have phones in every corner of the globe! This generation and the next expect you and I to conquer our challenges.

If you believe your dream is real, get on with it.

No one ever expect the level of opposition to their dreams to be so intense but the greater the dream, the greater the barrier or opposition to it and if you are willing to go all the way, you will see it become reality soon.

Remember you are not alone in this race. You are surrounded by cloud of witnesses who have gone ahead of you and they are cheering you not to give up but to keep going.

Then He said a “certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me’. So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journey to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living………………….” Luke 15:11-31.

Beloved, it is not by accident that you open my blog to read this message and I pray that you will read it with seriousness of heart.

The word of God tells of two sons from the same father. The younger one demanded his portion of goods (inheritance) before time and this was given to him. As a result of his sudden wealth, he left home to a far country where he became the “star” of the nation. He became so important that in every occasion he was the donor. Every social occasion he was the centre of attraction with so many girls screaming for his attention. Until he spent all his money and found out what we all have to learn in life that you are as important to your friends when you are still useful to them.

You are as important to your friends and associates when you are the giver who pick up their bills. You are as important in your relationship as long as you have the blood for the leech to suck! As soon as you have no more blood, you are insignificant.

This son when he spent all that he had then went to another level of humiliation. He joined himself to the citizen of the same country that he once was a star to work on his farm looking after swine, and since there was no more money, he had to eat the food of the swine!

I ask myself this question, what was the agreed salary for his labour?

The food of the swine.

Ladies and gentlemen, no matter what your condition is today, come home.

Yes I know you left the relationship with Jesus Christ soon after you got married to the man of your dream but now it has become a nightmare, yes I know you walked away soon after you got the promotion at work, soon after your prayer was answered and you became so important in the society that you hardly have Christians in your circle of influence. You now see them as hypocrites and unrealistic people who are not living in real world. You said to yourself that those days are over of walking with fellow Christians!

Who need all those boring friends you said. All they ever talked about was “Praise the Lord” “God is good” they pray in tongues all the time, stay in church for hours when you should be enjoying a day at the beach with “friends” driving your latest MC cruising around the town with your new “friends”…

Now where are your so called “friends” now in this time of economic crunch?

Where are all the money and fame you once enjoyed? Where are those shares and bonds and the job that occupied your heart and turn you away from God. Where are the “girls and boys” who lured you away from your wife and even your husband as we are also finding out now.

Remember, whatever you had in life will be kept through the way you received it.

If your wealth and prosperity is from God through prayer in Jesus name, it is through the same process you shall keep it. If it is through scheming, plotting and immoral act, it is through the same you shall keep it.

Beloved, come back home to Jesus Christ today.

Remember when you used to be in fellowship with Him. The joy you once shared and peace you once experienced is still available for you once again!

Remember the testimonies you once shared about the Lord.

A SON IS A SON!

You are a fallen son, not a fallen angel, there is still hope for you while you are still alive. You can still get up and come back HOME.

Pick up your Bible and visit the Bible believing Church next to you. Yes you can even visit us if you are in London. The details of our church services can be found on our website www.Hotric.org.uk. But to not respond to this call is to regret forever.

In our Father’s house are many blessings and mansions waiting and He is waiting for your return home.

The son said to himself I will arise, go home and ask my father for forgiveness and he did. He went back home and instead of judgement and rebuke, there was a big PARTY.

When you ask for forgiveness and you turn to Him, He will receive you.

Go on your knees and pray the way you know to do in your own words.

God’s Angels are waiting for the celebration party right now!

Firstly, I want to thank God for every father whom God has used to bring us into the world.

Often times we hear of irresponsible fathers and few notes were ever written to appreciate responsible fathers.

To all fathers who doted on their children, to the ones who are always there to share their moment of joy and pain; who never abdicate their responsibilities to their wives no matter what happens to them.

To all fathers who taught their children what it means to never pass the buck, I salute you.

To fathers who show their children the path of righteousness, and see them established in faith. Your record is noticable before Christ.

To every father who knows how to discipline their children when necessary even through different strokes as painful as it was and still is but it saved many from self destruction on the long run. Thank you.

To every father who taught their children especially their sons how to honour women and treat women special I celebrate you.

To fathers who when they had the reasons to divorce their wives in the moment of madness of life endure the pain and challenges of life in their marriages looked on their children and say “you know what, I will give it another try” and today the children are strong to never throw in the towel at every crisis point in their lives too. You are wonderful.

To every father who even after the divorce as painful as it is, never give up on their children. To those of you who says that “I may not be the husband to my wife now BUT I am still the father to my children and my responsibilities are mine forever… You are not forgotten.

To fathers who showed their daughters what it means to be a man and gave these daughters lessons of manhood before they ever met a man outside their home, may God continue to bless you.

To fathers who understand that giving gifts to children is not a replacement for being there for them you are preciously celebrated today.

To fathers who showed their sons that being a man does not mean that you cannot cook in the kitchen, clean the house, cry if necessary, laugh and have serious fun, be friendly and respectable, contribute to the wellbeing of others outside their home. We thank God for your lives.

These men are still in our societies all over the world and may we never forget to take our hats off for them in appreciation today!

All these are attributes of fathers who are connected to God because I believe that our human nature is selfish and self-centred. It is only interested in self alone.

Today as we celebrate father’s day, I want to remind you that whether you were born through natural conception or by IVF, you are a product of a father.

Whether you like your dad or not you came from his loin and what he was or is, is what you will be to an extent. Whether you like it not.

Fish gives birth to fish to behave like a fish.

In the animal kingdom, various animals with their distinct behavioural pattern gives birth to it’s kind to have the same behavioural pattern.

We human being are created with the same features except for our will to change what we do not like from experience of our past life and we can only do this victoriously through the wonderful power of Redemption e.g. If a person is from a family where the father was abusive to women, uncaring by nature to children and never hug his wife or children. The children from such a home will continue such behaviour whether they like it or not. Not because they wanted to but it is in their gene. Alcoholic father often produce at least an alcoholic son

To change such is to have an experience of a new life that Christ purchased for humanity at Calvary. Psychology can help the mind but can never help the heart of a man. Psychological treatment can calm the mind down and make you reason why you are like that and give you treatment for the mind but it cannot help you defeat the demons of your father in you. The demons of abuse and fear that drove him to act wickedly against the ones he loved is in your unbroken flesh.

The first father of human race Adam produced a murderer son as a result of sinful nature. Genesis 4:1-15. Whatever is born from the sinful nature can never be pure. It is already polluted.

Sin pollutes and only through the precious Blood of Jesus Christ can the nature be cleansed.

Ladies and gentlemen, to be a father that is worth celebrating not only by your children but by your generation and the one to come through the work done by your children (after all everyone heard of the father of President Obama) good or bad the following truths need to be address:

·        Get to know God as your own father.

You cannot father any child successfully without being connected to your spiritual root. By this I mean connected to God the Father through Jesus Christ.

Human fathers are limited in thoughts and actions but our heavenly Father is unlimited in knowledge, understanding and wisdom and through Him, all fathers derive their names.

·        Get to know your child

Every child is different and assuming knowledge of your child is dangerous. The more time you spend with him or her helps you to know the child. Also through prayer, God reveal to you your child and His purpose for your child on earth.

This is a serious issue that most fathers are not prepared for because of busy lifestyle. Making money that most of their families never enjoy anyway. Yes your money can pay the bills but never bring joy and happiness to you. It can buy the bed but will not make you sleep on it.

Children you are there for today, are the harvest of your future!

·        Develop interest in their interest.

The reason why children love their mothers is not because they pamper them only on the contrary. It is because mothers are interested in their interests.

Mothers will be there on sport days, special occasions; they are interested in their dates, friendships, pains, education etc…. and so if such children are disciplined by such mothers they take it as painful as it is. To discipline a child you are not there for is abuse of right of fatherhood. Yes you can discipline your child but you will provoke such child to wrath. Ephesians 6:4.

·        Be a providing father.

Every king provides for their subjects at least that is how it is supposed to be! If you are a king and not the provider, there will be constant revolt in that kingdom and to make it worse if you them placed a terrible tax over the citizens, there will be crisis.

Many fathers have left the aspect of provision to their wives and the children know this. To even make it worse such fathers now demand from their children percentage of their children’s income monthly (from certain part of the world from knowledge) they call it food money when the word of God teaches us that a good man leaves inheritance for his children’s children. These are fathers who even to pay school fees was done by mothers, rent by mothers etc….

It is a joyful and rewarding thing to provide for your home. A man who is not providing is worse than an infidel (1 Timothy 5:8). Yes at time finances are tight and your wife support and yes she should support for the progress of the family but she is not to carry your responsibility of being the provider.

·        Lead by example.

Every child looks up to his or her father to give leadership in life. If you are a lazy father, your children will believe that is how all fathers are until the day they meet another father who is zealous and industrious. If you beat their mother in their presence or behind their back, they will believe that is how marriage is to be and continue such lifestyle after all that is how you too probably saw it done.

Lead your family to prayer, lead in serving in the house of God, stand out to honour men/women of God not to destroy them behind their back and in the presence of your children and then smile when you see the ministers. You have sown hypocricy to their spirit and you wonder why they are not interested in God? If you are not a giver to God’s House. Your children will do likewise, if you are not interested to lead the family to service that it is their mother, it is a challenge for some of the mothers to take their children because their dad is at home watching TV and when their is crisis mother is the one to cry to God! Start today to lead by example and see miracles in your lives. Remember you produce your kind.

Be a “leader” dad and not a “follower” dad.

Finally, if you do not like the music you are dancing to in life, change it now while you still can do it. A time is coming when it will be too late.

Happy Fathers Day! May your children know the joy of celebrating you more next year should the good Lord tarry!

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