Bible Texts: Pro.4:18, Gen.17:1-3, Ecc.7:9, Gen.2:15-16, Jn.3:1-8, 1Cor.13:10-11, Gal.4:19, 2Cor.5:17, Rom.6:1, Rom.8:1, Pro.4:20-24, Ezk.2:2
One of the greatest attributes of the husbandman is when he takes personal responsibility for his life. This means that the husbandman must understand what he is ordained of God to do, and doing it with joy. This is what makes him better as the man, husband and father, which results in him becoming the good and godly husbandman.
For the path of the just man is like a shining light that shines brighter and brighter unto a perfect day (Pro.4:18)
The perfect will of God for the husbandman is for him to keep growing in knowledge, understanding and wisdom of the word of God. God wants the husbandman to have a better version of himself in goodness and godliness. But the husbandman must play his own part in this growth process by taking personal responsibility.
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect (Gen.17:1)
God wanted the husbandman, Abram to grow up. God wanted Abram to be better in character and attitude. God wanted him to be matured. And that is what God wants for you.
When I was a child, I spake like a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things (1Cor.13:11)
God wants you to put away childish behaviours such as your inability to control your appetite for food, sex and power. God wants you to put away the ungodly nature of bitterness, hatred, unforgiveness, envy, anger, lack of generosity, bad will and laziness.
Now, one of the principal ways you can grow and become better as the man, husband and father, is by taking personal responsibility to study the word of God. The word of God is God’s manual of instructions, commandments and precepts (Pro.4:20-22, Ps.119:105, Jn.8:32). As you keep searching, you will keep discovering a new and a living way of how God wants you to conduct the affairs of your life as the husbandman. Also, you must take personal responsibility to think on the word of God and engage the forces of the spirit of grace and supplication so that you can pray for empowerment of the Holy Ghost to empower you in obeying all that God commands (Deut.28:1, Jos.1:6-8, Ps.1:1-3, Gal.4:19, Ezk.2:2, Jn.5:39, Philp.2:13, Jn.15:5, Rom.5:5)
You must always remember that you are a three-in-one personality. You are the man, the husband and the father. And the perfect will of God is for you to be like Jesus Christ in all aspects of your responsibilities as the man, husband and father. Therefore, arise and take up your bed and work in the word and you will experience steady growth and improvement as the good and godly husbandman (Jn.15:4).
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to grow in Your word for my life as the man, husband and father.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, let Your word dwell richly in me and let it influence my walk and work.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to dominate the influences of the flesh and make me to live by Your word.
FAITH CONFESSION
I take personal covenant responsibilities for my growth and development because that is the pathway for me to continue to grow and develop into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ as the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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