Fathers_Day

Father’s Day – 6/21/2015

To help equip us as fathers – here are four Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 8:6 (NASB95)

          6      yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

God send Jesus Christ as an ultimate example of what a father looks like on earth.  The more we look of Him for examples and learn about Him, we will become better fathers.

Genesis 17:7 (NASB95)

          7      “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 

God needs to be the guide in our life.  We are to teach ourselves and our children to walk in the light of God’s truth.  God is our influence and guide that we receive constant assistance for each moment of every day.  We want to have our children see that we are depended on God’s Holy Spirit for guidance.  We are to utilize God’s word as ‘a lamp unto our feet’ so that God directs our life.  (Ps. 119:105)

Deuteronomy 11:18–21 (NASB95)

          18      “You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

          19      “You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

          20      “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

          21      so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.

This is our privilege as a father to teach our children the words of God.  We want to be a good steward of what He has given us.  We want to be a leader in the faith.  This leadership passes on the requirement to disciple our children.

Proverbs 22:6 (NASB95)

               6      Train up a child in the way he should go,

         Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Another verse that admonishes us to train our children in their walk with God.  Is this easy?  Properly not, as one learns through life’s experiences that if something is of value, it take work to get it.  We have come to realize the value of setting a goal to be a father that constantly is involved in teaching their child.   We are not alone as God promises to be with us in this task.  

God empowers us with His limitless, unfailing strength.  Therefore, trust in Him whom has never failed.  The Holy Spirit resides in us to carry out God’s instructions.   We, as fathers, need to be equipped by regularly being in His Word and to be quick about praying for His guidance.