Main Scriptures: Gen.1:26-28
More Scriptures: Gen.25:21, 1Sam.30:18, Gen.14:15
By the grace of God and the help of my Teacher, the Holy Spirit, I will be teaching on the three dimensions of the head of the family. This means that the head of the family stands on three platforms that are interconnected. If one stand is missing, the entire platform collapses. So, as the shepherd of the sheep, your greatest need is to stand firmly and consistently on the three pillars.
But what is the first platform? It is the platform of MANHOOD. As the head of your family, God demands that you function as a man. Therefore, you must see yourself in this light. Now, what function describes the manhood? The Bible has the answer. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over……………….. So, God created man in his own image and in the image of God created him……..and God be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and have dominion over….. (Gen.1:26-28). As a man in your family kingdom, you are empowered to be fruitful, multiply, replenish and have dominion.
Now, when the forces of hell are fighting against your fruitfulness be it in your body, career or business, then it is in your power to fight back. It is not the time for you to run away from home or allow your wife to bear the cross as is the case with many families. The wife is the person who attends all the prayer meetings, all the deliverance sessions and all the believing. You cannot sit and watch. You must contend. That is what makes you a man. When satan visited the family of Isaac with barrenness, it was not the wife that fought back. It was the husband. And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, and the Lord was entreated of him and Rebekah his wife conceived (Gen.25:21). When the enemy came behind to steal the treasures of David’s household, it was not the wife who went to battle. It was the husband. And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire… and Davis was greatly distressed…but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God…So David went, he and six hundred men that were with him…but David pursued…and David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away …….David recovered all (1Sam.30:1, 6,9,10,18,19). You are a recovery agent. You are a man. Take your place in manhood
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, by Your Spirit, always help me to function as the real man to my wife and children.
- Father, by Your Spirit, empower me to reign as the godly man indeed to my wife and children.
- Father, by the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, deliver me from the spirit of fear and timidity.
FAITH CONFESSION
I pursue and recover all that the devil has stolen from my life, wife and children because it is my hallmark as a man and a good and godly husband in Jesus name. Amen.
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