TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TO BUILD YOURSELF IN CHRIST

Bible Texts: Jude 1:20-21, 2Tim.2:15, Jn.5:39, 2Cor.3:18, Philp.3:10-14, Jos.1:6-8, Mk.9:29, Lk.18:1

While I was asking the person of the Holy Spirit what to teach today, He directed me to a verse of Scripture that talks about taking personal responsibility for our successful leadership as good and godly husbandmen.

But ye beloved, building up yourself on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Keep yourself in the love of God for the mercy of our Lord Jesus  Christ unto eternal life (Jude 1:20-21)

Let me begin by saying excuses make a man lame and responsibility is a proof of maturity. You will not become the good and godly husbandman by chance or by luck. You must build yourself up in your most holy faith.

For you and I to succeed in our roles as godly men, husbands and fathers, we must take personal responsibility to do these three things.

First, we must seek to know from the word of God who we are in Jesus Christ as the husbandmen (Gen.1:26-28, 2Cor.5:17). Secondly, we must be committed and passionate to do all that God commands us to do as men, husbands and fathers (Ex.28:1). Thirdly, we must continue to renew our minds to be conformed to the image of God through Jesus Christ (Rom.12:1-2).

But what are the areas I need to develop myself in so that I can function maximally as the good and godly husbandman?

You must build yourself in the knowledge of the word of God.

Search the Scriptures, in them ye think ye have eternal life (Jn.5:39)

And in 2Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 18, the word of God says,

But we all with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory , even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2Cor.3:18)

The more you look into the word of God for the things spoken concerning your office as the man, husband and father, the more you are transformed into the image of Jesus Christ in your conduct, action, thought and relationship with your wife and children.

Secondly, you must contend for your inheritance as the godly husbandman in prayers.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3)

You must contend in prayers and fasting for those godly virtues of faithfulness, forgiveness, tender- mercy, compassion, loving-kindness, diligence, courage, holiness, giving, faith, hope and joy that make up the person of the good and godly husbandman to reflect in your life.

Just like the natural man goes to gym to work out in order to build his muscles and physical fitness, so are you to accept the demands of the word of God for you as the man, husband and father in order to become the good and godly husbandman.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, give me hearing ears and seeing eyes, as I learn from Your Word.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, guide me through Your Word to discover Your plans for me as the husbandman.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to pursue with passion and dedication the mandate of the office of the godly husbandman.

FAITH CONFESSION

I make definite commitment today to take personal responsibility to build myself in the fullness of my calling as the husbandman because that is what makes me to function as the good and godly man, husband and father in Jesus name. Amen.

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Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure

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