THE POWER TO TAKE AGAIN

Main Scriptures: Jn.10:17-18

More Scriptures: Mk.9:29, Heb.1:3, Lk.1:38

Yesterday, the Person of the Holy Spirit helped us to understand that without power you and I cannot function as godly husbandmen to our sheep efficiently and effectively. Today, I want to take it deeper and show another aspect of power you need to function as a good and godly husband. And that is the power to take it again.

The power to take it again is the grace of God at work in the life of a husband, making him to enjoy the rewards of his investment in his wife and children. In 2Tim.2:6, the Scripture says, the husbandmen that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. And in 2Tim.5:18, the word of God says, for the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that thresheth out the corn. And a labourer is worthy of his reward. It takes the power of God to enjoy the rewards of loving your wife, training and admonishing your children. You need power to enjoy your wife spiritually, emotionally, physically, sexually and mentally. You need power from God to exact enormous godly influence over your sheep to the extent that they call you lord.

But for you to be empowered by the Holy Spirit for effectiveness and efficiency, you need to submit yourself to the demands to continuous word study, prayer and fasting. These three responsibilities give birth to supernatural abilities to lay down and take again whatever you have laid. If you lay down love, you take honour and respect from your wife. If you lay down kindness, compassion, provision and guidance, you take goodwill and defence from your wife and children. In Gen.8:22, the word of God says, as the earth remaineth seed time and harvest shall not cease. And in Gal.6:7, the Scripture says that whatever a man sows that is what he will reap. Jesus sowed His life. He has reaped billions of saved souls around the world.

However, two things are needed if your laying down will result in your taking it again. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. NO MAN TAKETH IT FROM ME, but I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father (Jn.10:17-18). As a husband, you must lay down your life for your flock sacrificially. Secondly, you must lay it down willingly. It is an honour to be a godly husbandman. Celebrate it!

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, by Your Spirit, empower me to receive the rewards of my service to my wife and children
• Father, by Your Spirit, endure me with power on high to enjoy the fruits of commitment to my wife and children.
• Father, by the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, break every invisible barrier standing against my rewards.

FAITH CONFESSION

I receive power from God to receive my rewards for serving my wife and children as a good and godly husband in Jesus name. Amen.

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