Prayers for Dads – Day 1

Coming out of our last series I did a search for “dad” in the devotions within the Bible app and scrolling through this new one appeared. With my other reading speaking to me the importance of prayer over fear and worry, this felt like a great devotional to pick up. Looking at the description, the topic feels so relevant and important that I have decided to get started. Today’s devotional shares the following description: “Spend time praying for the fathers and father figures in your life and worldwide through this seven-day plan. Pray over various biblical aspects of fatherhood.” So let’s get started, spending time praying for the dads and father figures in our lives and around the world!

Scripture from today’s Devotional:

• 2 Thessalonians 3:3

‘But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. ‘

2 Thessalonians 3:3

Let’s grab a hold of God’s Word! Let’s receive what God is telling us in and through His Word! Let’s trust God at His Word! God’s Word is active and alive and knows where we are at right now! God’s Word can speak into our very situation to help us to live out our lives complete and lacking nothing! Let’s trust in Him! Let’s choose not to lean on our own understanding! Let’s choose to acknowledge Him with all our hearts, minds, and souls so that He will show us the path to take!

Let’s be the dads who believe that God is faithful! Let’s be the dads who are strengthened by God! Let’s be the dads who are protected by God from the evil one! Let’s be the dads who do what God is calling and purposing for us to do! Let’s be the dads who do what God has prepared in advance for us to accomplish!

Today’s devotional has been provided by Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale.

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:
“Fatherhood Is Protection“

• Let’s be the dads who come to our Heavenly Father humbled and in awe!
• Let’s be the dads who come to our Heavenly Father in awe of His grace and mercy!
• Let’s be the dads who come to our Heavenly Father thankful for His purposeful design of the family!
• Let’s be the dads who come to our Heavenly Father thankful for the specific role He has ordained us to have as fathers!
• Let’s be the dads who receive and accept the responsibility of being protectors!
• Let’s be the dads who pray for God’s strength in helping us be the protectors He is calling for us to be!
• Let’s be the dads who pray for God’s perseverance in helping us be the protectors He is calling for us to be!
• Let’s be the dads who pray for God’s discipline in helping us be the protectors He is calling for us to be!
• Let’s be the dads who with God’s “strength, perseverance, and discipline” are able to protect our children on a spiritual level!
• Let’s be the dads who with God’s “strength, perseverance, and discipline” are able to protect our children on a physical level!
• Let’s be the dads who with God’s “strength, perseverance, and discipline” are able to protect our children on an emotional level!
• Let’s be the dads who lean in and trust God and His Word!
• Let’s be the dads who grab hold of what God speaks to us in and through Proverbs 14:26 when it says:
  • “Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.”
• Let’s be the dads who live lives in reverence and awe of God and who He is!
• Let’s be the dads who because of our reverence and awe of God enable our kids to find refuge because of it!
• Let’s be the dads who lean in and ask God to help us to be “the watchmen of our homes and families, give us the wisdom to see the spiritual, physical, and emotional threats that lay ahead, and provide us with the ability to safeguard their children“!
• Let’s be the dads who are good examples to our wives, kids, and the world by modeling “what it means to follow You and love our kids by teaching them how much You love them“!
• Let’s be the dads who surround ourselves with other godly men who love you!
• Let’s be the dads who build our community and through that community are able to protect each other while teaching our kids to find safety through a community of believers!
• Today’s devotional closed with the following close to the larger prayer:
  • “Father, thank You for the privilege and blessing it is to be a dad. I ask that all dads be filled with Your Holy Spirit to shepherd their children from the overflow just as You have shepherded them. I pray their children would always sense a loving, gentle, consistent pursuit of their souls from their dad, so they know regardless of what they face or what they’ve done, and they always have arms to fall into. Amen.“