What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them! “I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you. And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:5-8
God’s kingdom title is Father. “And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth” – Luke 11:2. God has a will which must be done both in heaven and on earth not because he is a God but because he is a Father.
God conferred this great kingdom title on the male gender. “Your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you” – Genesis 17:5. A nation is a kingdom. So, God by conferring fathership on the male, has made him father of kingdoms.
Jesus has taught us to say: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom” “come” . Why should God’s kingdom come to earth? It is because he has given the male the capacity of a father to take care of his kingdom on earth.
So, to be a male is a responsibility rather than just be an opposite sex. Jesus has taught us that, God as a Father sets the pattern for his children to imitate. “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise” – John 5:19.
The job of the earthly father therefore is to set the example for his children to follow. If he sets a good example for his children, like Jesus they will do likewise. But if he sets a bad example, his children will do likewise.
If children see good character traits in their father, society will be affected with those traits. But the challenge of most children today is that of absentee fathers. Some don’t even know their fathers until they’re grown to marry. We have fathers who don’t look after their children but are alive to take dowries from suitors.
Today, fatherlessness has damaged our society so badly that fatherless children rather imitate those seen in social media with no one to correct them. That is how come, some people in society talk anyhow, insult the elderly with no conscience.
No one advises fatherless children. Everyone is wrong except them. Any position of power they get to, they mind themselves more than the people they represent. Unless the challenge of fatherlessness is cured our nations will fall apart. If you’re a male be good father so to represent our heavenly Father on earth.
LET’S PRAY
Heavenly Father, give me to always remember that, until males rise up to be fathers, the evils in society will cry out against them.
AGREE WITH ME
You are a plant and you just need water to flourish and bear fruit to fulfill your destiny. So, you need to be connected to the Source that never dry. I therefore decree and declare this morning “May your business, finances, career, academics, marriage, family, health, physical person and spiritual person be connected to the Fountain of life, by the Power of the Holy Spirit in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!”
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