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
Always seeking to be like Jesus Christ, walking in divine wisdom and authority demands your involvement. It requires that you work at it and not watch. This is why today’s teaching is reminding every husbandman to take personal responsibility for his spiritual growth towards becoming the good and godly man, husband, and father. His consistency in taking personal responsibility leads him to become better each day.
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 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 mature. And that is what God wants for you. 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 do 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.
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. God wants you to grow up.
But what must I do to grow up and become the good and godly man, husband and father, and be consistent in my walk with God through Jesus Christ?
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 meto 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.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
- TESTIMONIES/IMPACT
Please send us a mail of the impact/testimonies from today’s teaching to
thehusbandmaninternational@gmail.com
- DOWNLOAND, SUBSCRIBE AND INVITE OTHERS
- Kindly download the daily devotional from Google play store. Type husbandman devotional. It is FREE.
- You can also SUBSCRIBE TO and COMMENT ON today’s daily devotional by visiting www.thehusbandman.com
- You can follow the devotional @thehusband_man
- HOUR OF PRAYER ENCOUNTERS (HOPE)
It holds every Mondays and Fridays at 5.45pm to 6.20pm. Pray, plan and come and let us intercede for the advancement of the kingdom of God on earth.
Venue is Government Junior Secondary School, Karu, opposite Karu Market, Abuja
- GIVING OF YOUR FINANCIAL SEED
You can give your financial seed towards the work of the Mission to the account below:
The Husbandman Mission International
ECO Bank
4092019983
Jesus Christ is Lord over all.
Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure
Head of Mission
We are expanding,
If you are interested in contributing to the growth of this devotional, willfully contribute using the button below
How does meditating on scriptures like Proverbs 4:18 and 1 Corinthians 13:11 help shape a godly character?
God bless Bro.
I want to deeply appreciate you for this question you asked and for being a part of the work of raising good and godly husbands. The Lord bless you, sir.
In Proverbs chapter 4 and verse 18, the Scripture implies continuous improvement. The perfect will of God is for you and I to become better each day of our lives in our thoughts, words, actions, and conduct. As you and I understand that becoming a good and godly husband is a journey, then we will commit ourselves to learning and relearning so that we become better. So meditating on Proverbs 4:18 is to help us understand the perfect will of God for our lives and to challenge us to be better each day and in the way we relate with our wife, children.
Furthermore, 1Cor.13:11 tells us to grow up. Some husbands still manifest childish character. They think like children and behave like one. They are unable to control their emotions and appetite, for example, sex, food, e.t.c. Some husbands even abuse their wives because they delay in preparing the meal to serve them. Some husbands only think about themselves when they want something from their wives. They do not have regard for the feelings, hurt, or pain of their wives as long as they (husbands) get what they want. So this Scripture is asking the husbands to discard those attitudes, such as selfishness, a nonchalant attitude, and inability to control their anger, that are often the characteristics of a child. God wants husbands to mature in their thoughts, words, and actions in line with the virtues as highlighted in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8.
In all, God wants the husband to be like Jesus Christ.
I hope this clarifies and gives clearer context from the word of God to the question you asked.
God bless you and please continue to share with us your thoughts as we work together to be the light of Christ on the earth, beginning with our families and in the marketplace.
Your servant,
Bro. Ebenezer
Head of Mission