Main Scriptures: Mk.6:30-40
More Scriptures: 1Sam.30:6, 1Pet.5:2, Is.55:3-5
Any husband who can solve problems will never lack influence in the lives of his wife and children. As the head of your family, you are a leader and a man of influence. God sent you to your wife and children to impact their lives positively. You are full of the wisdom of God. Our main Scripture today gives us a graphic illustration of a leader who was influential. His name is Jesus Christ. A time came when the people following Jesus became very tired and hungry. It was almost becoming a food crisis situation. Everybody seemed not to know what to do. Even His disciples advised that He send the followers away hungry. But He took the initiatives to solve the problem-He fed them all. So rather than the followers departing after food, they decided to stay much longer with Him because they saw Him as a solution provider.
That is exactly who you are. You have the mind of God working inside of you. The same life that He lived while He walked on the earth as a man, was transmitted into your life by His blood. Your wife and children will continue to honour you as long as they see you as their head who is not empty but full of the wisdom of God. When your flock sees you as their true head and the man who takes the initiative, you will always be the first person they will run to when they have a problem. Now there are three areas God expects you to take the initiative as the head of the family. Firstly, it is in the area of spirituality. You are to seek out the will of God for your flock and engage all the spiritual arsenals of prayer, fasting and consistent and aggressive confession and profession of the truth. You will continue to do your flock a disservice and ultimately lose your place as the head, if your wife and children are the ones who take the initiatives on spiritual matters or challenges that require spiritual answers. Another area is the place of the emotions of your wife and children. As the head of your family, you must understand that your sheep have feelings-they have the capacity to cry when they feel hurt and happy when something good happens to them. So it is your responsibility to ensure their emotional well being. When you take the initiatives to helping them, then you would have been said to have done well (Is.1:17). That is your heritage as the good and godly husbandman which your sheep will be proud of. You must make your life count positively in their lives.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to take the initiative to always provide help for my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver me from fear and doubt, fill me with faith and courage.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, pour out Your Spirit of wisdom and knowledge and of a sound mind.
FAITH CONFESSION
I take the initiative to always continue to provide help and support for my wife and children because I am ordained to be a good and godly husband in Jesus Name. Amen.
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