YOU, FIRST!

Main Scriptures: Phil.3:13-14

More Scriptures: 1Sam.2:6, Heb.7:12, Lk.15:22

The title of today’s teaching is picked from the buy-line of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, a Nigerian financial institution. It says, “you first”. And the Person of the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you and I to the end that we take personal responsibility to change ourselves before we change our sheep. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that you will be humble to accept this truth so that your change will impact your wife and children and the market place of life positively (Ps.133:2). Amen!

You must understand that the hallmark of your position as the head of the family is your decision to improve yourself consistently in the way you relate with your wife, children and other people. It also has to do with the choices you make on a daily basis. As the head of the family, you cannot continue to live your life outside of God’s will and expect to make a positive impact in the lives of your wife and children. This is why those negative and ungodly things you do to your wife and children and think it doesn’t matter must stop if you want peace to reign in your family, and attract blessings from the Lord. Anything good and godly attitude or conduct from the word of God that you want your wife and children to manifest, begins with you, first. You have to first behave it and live it for them to see. For instance, if you want your wife and children to conduct themselves honestly, faithfully, be diligent, be prayerful, be forgiving, be hospitable, be caring, be givers, trust God and His ability, then you must first of all be all of these. They must see these characteristics manifest in your life. So, think again, are you what you want your wife and children to be?

God has positioned you as the head of the family to oversee your wife and children. If He has placed you as the head of the family, it is because He considered you a responsible leader and has prepared you to bring godly transformation into the lives of your wife and children.

Therefore, you must develop the lifestyle of engaging in studying, meditating and living the word of God daily and watching over your life with fasting and prayers. You must daily contend with the adversary of your position if you hope to remain a changed and a godly husbandman. You must always be on guard by putting up the loins of truth, the shield of faith, sword of the spirit and the helmet of salvation. The Scripture tells us that as we behold Jesus Christ as in a glass, we are changed from glory to glory. So, your glory as the head of the family begins with a transformation from within you.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, deliver me from every spirit of corruption and sin.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to effect the changes You would require in my life.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, give me a heart to remain meek and be willing to change.

FAITH CONFESSION

I take responsibility to effect the positive changes within me because that is my pathway to becoming the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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