UNCOMMEN: Dads 2 – Day 5

Happy to have found another devotional by UNCOMMEN that we will finish today. This is a sequel to the first UNCOMMEN Dad’s devotional and will look to challenge us to be better dads, better Christians, and better men! This devotional will do so by tackling subjects like effort, trust, consistency, and more. I am excited to see Jesus in and through this devotional and how He can and will infuse us with life-changing power to make us become UNCOMMEN Dads!

Let’s check out our scriptures for today’s devotional:

• 1 Chronicles 29:19
• James 5:16
• 2 Chronicles 7:14

‘And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.” ‘

1 Chronicles 29:19

‘Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. ‘

James 5:16

‘if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ‘

2 Chronicles 7:14

As we close out our devotional today let’s dig into the last scriptures that are incorporated into today’s message. God’s Word is alive and active and is good for teaching and directing us! Let’s grab a hold of our responsibility when it comes to raising our kids and be the dads!

Let’s be the dads who are preparing our kids and pointing our kids to God! Let’s be the dads who are praying and in relationship with God so that we can ask Him to help our kids be wholeheartedly devoted to keeping God’s commands, statutes, and decrees! Let’s be the dads who live godly examples so that our kids will do everything to build the life God and us as dads have provided and prepared for them to accomplish!

Let’s be the dads who trust and lean in on God so much that we confess our sins to one another! Let’s be the dads who are living for the glory of God by praying for each other that we may be healed! Let’s be the dads who stick close to God and live to imitate God because we know that the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective!

Let’s be the dads who are walking humbly rather than prideful! Let’s be the dads who are called Christians! Let’s be the dads who will humble ourselves and pray to God! Let’s be the dads who will humble ourselves and seek God’s face! Let’s be the dads who will humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways! Let’s be the dads who God will hear from heaven! Let’s be the dads who God will forgive our sins! Let’s be the dads who God will heal our land!

Today’s devotional has been provided by UNCOMMEN (https://www.uncommen.org).

Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me:
(check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)

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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“The Power of a Praying Father“

• Let’s be the dads who choose to trust God with everything!
• Let’s be the dads who depend on God for everything!
• Let’s be the dads who pray without ceasing!
• Let’s be the dads who pray for our wives and our kids!
• Let’s be the dads who like David desire and ask through prayer for God to give our kids a whole heart!
• Let’s be the dads who like David desire and ask through prayer for God to give our kids hearts that will keep God’s commandments, testimonies, and statutes!
• Let’s be the dads who realize how important prayer for our kids is!
• Let’s be the dads who realize that prayer for our kids isn’t something to consider but rather something that is necessary!
• Today’s devotional speaks to it this way:
  • “Your prayer is necessary for your children. We live in a fallen, broken world filled with struggles. So, in a world that is poised and ready to tear down, you better be praying for your children (along with a lot of other people and things) every chance you get. Your children need to see you praying for them so they can learn to pray for others as well. “
• Let’s be the dads who realize that prayer wasn’t for back then but rather that it is for right here, right now!
• Consider what we read in 2 Chronicles for today’s verses and how applicable it is today!
  • “2 Chronicles 7:14 — “if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”“
  • Today’s devotional add to this:
    • “As you can see by that verse, the same fallen culture of their time is here today. But God tells us how to change that. “If my people…humble themselves, pray, seek God, and repent, then I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
      Looking at the news and social media today, I don’t think many people are applying 2 Chronicles 7:14 to their lives. Let’s change that today and start to be Uncommen!“
• Today’s devotional in closing gives us these “Uncommen Questions:”
  • “Do you spend time in prayer for your children? What do you pray for?“
  • “Do you encourage your children to pray?“
  • “Do you ask them what you can pray for?“
• Today’s devotional in closing also provides us with an “Uncommen Challenge:”
  • “I challenge you to spend some time speaking with your children to find out what they need prayer for and then spend time with God on that topic. Pray for your children as if their lives depended on it because many times it may, and you may never know it.“