Main Scriptures: Mk.9:50
More Scriptures: Matt.5:16, Mk.9:29, Am.5:15
As the head of your family and the spiritual leader in your home, it is very important for you to understand that you are the salt on the earth. Your life is designed to add flavor to humanity beginning with your wife and children. As the good and godly husbandman, you do not live for yourself anymore but for the blessings of your wife, children and the world. Your name, your words and your relationships are to inspire, motivate and empower your wife and children and the people around you to want to become the best of God. So, the question that you should ask yourself as the godly leader is this. Who am I mentoring and whose life is my life inspiring or motivating?
In our main text today, Jesus says that, salt is good, but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another (Mk.9:50). Jesus Christ is talking about impact and good and godly influence. God has ordained your life to inspire your children and wife unto godliness and good works. Your children should see you as the canvass on which to paint the glorious pictures of their lives. Your wife should see you as her mentor. But how do I have salt in myself and salt others?
The first step is to open your heart to Jesus Christ and let Him fill you with His life through His word. The more you allow His word to have His way inside of you, the more of His life you will contact and consequently your life will be renewed by the washing of the word of God (Rom.12:1-3). Secondly, you must confront the force of carnality with the force of spirituality. On a daily basis, we are confronted with the choice to live either spiritually or carnally. But in Rom.12:21, the word of God tells us to “overcome evil with good”. Thirdly, you must contend in faith, prayer and fasting to be salt to your wife and children. By faith the elders obtained the promises (Heb.11:2-3). And by faith they shot the mouth of lions.
Your life is a plus. You are to add value and flavor to your wife and children and thereafter enjoy respect and honour from them and the people around you.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
· Father, in the Name of Jesus, fill my heart with your life and let me be light to my wife and children and in the marketplace of life.
· Father, in the Name of Jesus, destroy the power of carnality in me.
· Father, in the Name of Jesus, let my life so shine before my wife and children and the world and let it bring You glory.
FAITH CONFESSION
I have the life of Christ and His Spirit in me and I am adding value and flavor to my wife, children and the world because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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