YOU, FIRST! (2)

Main Scriptures: Phil.3:13-14

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

Yesterday, we understood that every change you and I want to see in the lives of our sheep must first start with us. Now, let us take it a step further today. To be a transformed husbandman, you must acknowledge your headship and your call to higher responsibilities. You must behave like God by providing for the needs of your wife and children. In 1Tim.5:8, the Word of God commanded you to provide for their households. Secondly, 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 family in fasting and prayers. Thirdly, you must devote your precious time to your wife and children. This will require a great deal of sacrifice from you- forgoing your leisure and pleasure for your family. When you allow this transformation to gain root 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 also create a better bond between you and your wife and children.

However, you must understand that you have the enormous responsibility of sustaining this change in your life because of the devil, 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. 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 Him(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, make me a useful husbandman 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 will perform my full responsibilities to my wife and children because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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