Main Scriptures: 2Corinthians 2:9-11
More Scriptures: Rom.12:20-21, Matt. 16:23, Matt.612
Yesterday, the Person of the Holy Spirit gave every husband the wisdom key on how to lead as the spiritual head in the family. He says, “husbands are peacemakers”. Today, He wants you and I to consider another attitude that we must confront as we lead our sheep. It is unforgiveness. He is saying that unforgiveness is a satanic device to keep you in perpetual bondage. For to this end also did I write that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also. For if I forgave anything to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; lest satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his device (2Cor.2:9-11).
As you lead your wife and children it is not unlikely that they will do things that may hurt you either intentionally or not. But God wants you to forgive them because unforgiveness is a tool your adversary, satan, uses to break your health, emotional and spiritual defences. Satan uses unforgiveness to produce toxic in your body that will hurt your health badly.
Now, consider this. When Peter took on (challenge) Jesus Christ, Jesus never held it against him (Matt.16:21-23). He forgave Peter. As Jesus prepares to go to the Cross, He said to Peter, “Peter, satan had sought to sift you, but I have prayed for you that your faith faileth not (Lk.22:31)”. That is the sign that He had truly forgiven him. Imagine Jesus going to the Cross with unforgiveness in His heart. He would have missed the plan of God for His life.
Every time you hold any grudge against your wife or children, you are opening the door for the devil to come into your home. If you find it very difficult to be kind to your sheep as a result of their past behaviours, then you have not truly forgiven them. I hear of some husbands who withhold some good things from their sheep because of the offence that they committed. Your greatest defence as the head of the family is love-Jesus’s kind. The Word of God says that love covers the multitude of sin (1Pet.4:8). If you walk in love as God has commanded you towards your wife and children, it would be easy to forgive and forget. And once you begin to operate at that level of love, satan would have lost his power over your life and family and hence the doors of answered prayers will be opened to you. The enemy of your position thrives on the ignorance of people. Don’t let him take advantage of you and destroy your glorious relationship you have with your wife and children.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, by the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, I declare the antics of satan null and void in my life as the head of the family.
- Father, by Your Spirit, let Your love that overcomes the tendency not to forgive, flood my heart continually.
- Father, give me a heart to love my wife and children truthfully, joyfully and heartily
FAITH CONFESSION
I overcome the satanic device of unforgiveness because I am a godly husband to my wife and children in Jesus name. Amen.
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