GO BEFORE THEM

Bible Texts: Is.45:1-2, Jn.10:3, Gen.24:6-7, Mk.9:2, Is.55:4, Mk.9:29, Lk.18:1, Gal.2:19, Philp.2:13, Jer.35:14, Lk.10:19

I want to admit that as the husbandman I owe the Person of the Holy Spirit, a tremendous gratitude for teaching me what to write everyday for every husbandman, including me. I submit that without Him, my calling as the husbandman and an instrument to raise godly husbandmen around the world through The Husbandman Mission, would not have been possible. To God alone Ii give all the glory.

Today, I want us to consider how to prepare our wife and children for a glorious future. And we shall be considering the Word of God from Isaiah chapter 45 and I want you to note the underlined words in the passage.

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of king, to open before him the two leaved gates and the gates shall not be shut. I WILL GO BEFORE THEE…………(Is.45:1-2)

Do you know what it means to go before? Well, let me explain using something you can relate with.

When a governor or president is scheduled to visit a place, a team is sent to go ahead of his arrival. This team ensures that the place the governor or president would visit is conducive and safe and meets the expectation of important personalities. The team prepares the place to ensure the safety of the visiting governor or president. The governor or president arrives the venue, assured that he or she is safe and so enjoys his or her visit. Why so? It is because a team went before the governor or president to prepare the place. That is your assignment as the husbandman towards your wife and children.

As the husbandman, you are ordained by God to go before your wife and children. You are to be in front, leading the way. You are to stand on the watchtower to see farther and better than your wife and children. This is an important assignment you have towards your wife and children in addition to providing education for them or what they will eat, drink or what they will wear or where they will live. God wants you to go before them.

But how do I go before them?

Principally, you go before them by engaging the prayer altar and by your conduct, which are your values and virtues. The husbandman Abraham went before Isaac, his son regarding his marital destiny by praying ahead for him (Gen.24:6-7). The values and virtues of the father of the house of Rechabites, Jonadab, went before them so that they were able to overcome the landmine of drunkenness (Jer.35:14).

Men ought to always pray…..(Lk.18:1)

What happens if I go before my wife and children in prayers, preparing a glorious future for them? Firstly, you make the crooked path straight for them so that they can have a smooth sail in all their life pursuits.

Secondly, when you go before them you pull down every barrier and remove every landmine that the enemy has laid on the way for them. For instance, you don’t wait for your children to get to a marriageable age before you start praying for their marital destiny. You don’t wait for them to graduate from school before you start running around seeking for employment for them. You can go ahead into their future to prepare a glorious landing for them by the weapon of prayer and intercession. My little children of whom I travail in birth again until……(Gal.2:13).

Personally and over the years I have prayed and I am still sowing the seed of prayers into every aspect of my wife and childrens’ future. And I am confident that they will enter into their rest spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially, maritally, bodily, career and in all their life’s endeavours.

Pray your wife and children into their future so that they can arrive their tomorrow gloriously.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, revive my prayer altar and empower me to take the lead in my family fold.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me with the spirit of grace and supplication.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, increase my faith in You and Your words and deliver me from fear, doubt and discouragement.

FAITH CONFESSION

I engage the weapon of prayer and fasting in preparing a glorious future for my wife and children because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure

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