Service Notes
Sunday Service with Pastor Earnest
Title: Family
Subtitle: The Father
Pastor Earnest Teaching:
***Kindly note that all scriptures are in the King James Version (KJV) except otherwise stated***
There are 5 major persons you find in the family
- Husband
- Wife
- Father
- Mother
- Children/child
Of these 5 groups, who is the head?
Ans: the Father is head of the 5 groups not the husband
The husband is the head of the wife
The father heads the home
The father plays his role as the head one the husband, the wife and the children
The father is the head of the husband, the wife, the mother and the children; so he is actually the head of the home
This morning we are looking at the role of the Father
The husband may be very focused or goal oriented but if the father is confused the whole home is confused
The prosperity, the joy, peace, increase, multiplication, and whatever God desires for the family, the family will only enjoy when the father plays his role well
If all the other groups play their role well but the father does not play his role well,
as far as this unit (the family) is concerned the father is the head of all
Sometimes when the father does not play his role well, the wife takes up his responsibility, its not supposed to be like that
Sometimes even the children take up such roles if the father is not functioning well, it is not supposed to be like that
If you must enjoy all that God has for, the husband, thus the man in the house must play the role of father
What does father mean?
Father primarily means the male parent of a family
We are talking about the Christian home
Jesus Christ said, one woman one man
The definition of family is not a home of 2 adults, that’s not what God said
God said a male and a female, not 2 adults
Father also means:
- a leader,
- one who provides care and protection
- the originator (the initiator, creator)
When you put all these synonyms of the word father, you will see the responsibilities of the father
The father is supposed to set the whole family on the path that is ordained by God
Where does God want this family to go?
How does God want this family to go?
The father must see for the home
The vision belongs to you
If the woman’s vision cannot be integrated with the one the father has for the home, it is not worth pursuing
As far as God is concerned, He brings the wife in as a helper to the man
When the father doesn’t play the role of a father, you are leaving the whole family for destruction
The woman may try but she will never be able to get to where God has ordained for the family to be (thus, when she plays the role of the father); that’s how God ordained it and that’s how it must be
God has a destination for the family
The father is the one that has a vision
He is the one recognised as the initiator and creator
What do you want for your family?
How far do you want to go?
God will not create an office and not make available the various resources required for that office
Remember that He is God, the Creator
Genesis 18:16
Verse 18: at this point I want you to see God as the father of Abraham and Abraham as the father of a nation
- A father is the one that is given the vision
- So, in playing the role of a father, tell your children what you see, tell them their future
Someone may ask what if what you see is not a good picture?
Remember that you are a creator
Verse 19:
God was looking at thousands of years and not Abraham’s state
There are lots of family that miss God’s direction because the father has not been able direct his family towards it
When you have the word of God with you and you communicate the word to those that God brings to you, you will definitely arrive at where God wants you to arrive
Deuteronomy 4:5-10
As a father believe in your:
- Children
- Wife
It is common these days for a husband do away with their wives because she is ‘useless’, but it is uncommon for a father to do away with his daughter
In this institution of a family, don’t just see yourself as only a husband, because when you do, you will easily be dissatisfied with the actions of the wife
So if something goes wrong, see that it is not because those you are leading but because of the head
So, learn to see your wife as your first daughter
God does not expect us to be destroyed by the things that are destroying other families
The word of God will prepare you for life
When you immerse yourself in the word, the word will give you a vision for your life
The man is run by intuition
But when the man is not able to communicate the vision to the woman, the woman will not be able to run with the vision
It is not always about what you eat, or what you wear, there is a future
There are things that matter
There are things that will sustain your family
God is so close to us by His word
When you follow the word of God you will become a wonder to your world
That’s what God desires for you
Don’t struggle the way others are struggling
Sit your family down, let them be ruled by the world of God and not by TV
Gather them together, sit them down to study the word
Deuteronomy 6:7-11
When you fill your mind with the word, your home will be filled with goodness
Raise your children up with the word
As the father of the home, raise your child with the word
Never live a day without the word, the rhapsody
God designed a finished live for you, follow the word
Psalm 78:1-7
This word that God has communicated to you must not end in your hand
How does the father train his home?
* Through the meditation and study of God’s word
* The word of God must be the number one
* You must consciously bless your children
Apart from praying for them you must pronounce blessings in their lives
The prayer of a mother has its own place and the blessings of the father has its own place
the prayer of the mother cannot replace the blessings of the father
For them to know that you are the father of the house, it is not by shouting nor by the whip it is by your blessing
Those of you who are not yet married, you can see yourselves as fathers in the spirit and say to yourselves this is the kind of father I am going to be
Hard things are made for hard people
I am tough
The father is supposed to cast divine spell on the family
God gave your children and your family to you to direct them
God has empowered me I will never fail
Circumstances favour me
Speak the right words
First of all see your wife as your first daughter
If God was to deal with us according to our errors, we would have all been gone by now
The only time it looks like the family is under the spell of another is when the father has abdicated his role
Stand as the priest and prophet of your family
Speak words, speak into their future, job, health, finances
You must discipline your children
Proverbs 19:18
When you tell a child ‘you are on your own’, you have already destroyed the life of that child
Proverbs 22:6
Proverbs 29:17
God wants you to be excited
He wants every member of your home to be excited
He wants a house full of joy and excitement
1 Thessalonians 2:11
There’s a way a father comforts, exhorts, charges (instructs) his children up, find out such ways
Don’t become a military father in your home
Give them instruction in love
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