Main Scriptures: Phil.3:13-14
More Scriptures: 1Sam.2:6, Heb.7:12, Lk.15:22
Yesterday, by the Help of the Holy Spirit, we began the study on why you and I must grow unto maturity as godly husbandmen. We established from Scriptures that our desire for positive change begins with a decision in our inner man. That if we are not committed on the inside, we will struggle on the outside. I pray in the name of Jesus that the grace to make the relevant positive decision and changes in your mind and the power to stay at it, be given to you.
Today, let us continue the teaching, and we will be looking at how to become a transformational husbandman. If you want to become the transformed husbandman, you must acknowledge your headship and your call as the head of your sheepfold. Secondly, you must accept that leadership comes with higher responsibilities. Thirdly, you must learn to walk the talk. If you don’t acknowledge and understand that leadership is responsibility, there will be so many areas of your assignment as the godly man, husband and father that you will fail. This is why, you must take ownership of your office and seek from Scripture what God wants you to do and walk in that light.
Now, let’s take few areas where you need to change. God wants you to provide for your household. If any cannot provide for his household, he is worse than an infidel. (1Tim.5:8). You are the good shepherd. And one major characteristics of a good shepherd is his ability to provide for his sheep. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pasture…………(Ps.23:1). You must align with the truth of God’s and not the rudiments of man or the world. Other area where you need to improve as the godly husband man, outside of material and financial provision, is the protection of your sheep. As the good shepherd, you must also provide spiritual, emotional and physical protection for your wife and children. This means that as the head of the family, you must continually uphold your sheep in fasting and prayers. This will require a great deal of sacrifice from you- foregoing your leisure and pleasure for the good of your wife and children.
When you allow this transformation to happen in your life thereby affecting your wife and children positively, you will experience joy unspeakable in your home. You will also enjoy greater commitment from your wife and children. It will further create a stronger bond between you and your sheep. However, you must understand that you have the enormous responsibility of sustaining this change in your life because of satan, sin and the world. Therefore, you must develop the lifestyle of engaging in spiritual exercises of fasting, prayers and the study of God’s word as a lifestyle. You must always be on guard by putting on the loins of truth, the shield of faith, sword of the spirit and the helmet of salvation. So, your glory as the head of the family begins with a transformation from within you.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, make me a better man, husband and father to my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver from spiritual and physical complacency.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, give me the power to take full delivery of my position as the head of the family.
FAITH CONFESSION
I have dealt with my inner man with the word of God so that my outward man can be like Christ to my wife and children and the marketplace of life because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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