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 about 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!
Today’s Scripture from the devotional:
‘Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. ‘
Colossians 3:20
God’s Word is applicable day and night. God’s Word speaks to us when we dig into it as well as when the Holy Spirit brings it back to our memory in the situation we are facing. Let’s meditate on God’s Word so that we know it and will understand it when the Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth!
Let’s be the dads who demonstrate obedience to God in from of our wives, our kids, and our world so that they will know and understand the importance of obeying God and doing what He asks and calls us to do! Let’s be the dads who obey our Heavenly Father in everything in order to please Him! Let’s be the dads who please God by obeying our parents!
Even as I type this I flashback to that pivotal point in my career when I gave my parents and in-laws the power to decide my next step. I could either leave the company I was working for or I could move far away in order to work at corporate headquarters. Looking back I wasn’t really walking with or in a relationship with God and yet I took the commandment (which must have been in me from those years of Sunday school as a kid) to honor your father and mother as it is the first commandment with a promise that things will go well with you. I didn’t realize it at the moment, however, when I made the big move of taking away their only grandchild at the time, God intersected my life and transformed the rest of the story. It was during that initial time that God revealed to me the scripture and how it was the reason for the blessings I was receiving and experiencing in my life.
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 Authority“
- Let’s be the dads who know and live the reality that God has all authority!
- Let’s be the dads who know and praise God because all authority in heaven and on earth belong to Him!
- Let’s be the dads who know and thank God because all authority in heaven and on earth belong to Him!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives under the supremacy of God!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives that any and all authority we have has been given and delegated to us by God!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives that God has given us authority in order for us to accomplish His good and His perfect purposes!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a spiritual leader for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a coach for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as an uncle for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a grandfather for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a mentor for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a pastor for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who realize and live our lives touched by God so that we can live our lives as a father figure for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who are guided by the Holy Spirit into all truth!
- Let’s be the dads who are guided by the Holy Spirit in the revelation of God’s character and nature towards us!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to be guided by the Holy Spirit daily so that we can be good stewards of the authority God has given to us!
- Let’s be the dads who always remember and never forget that any and all authority we have was given to us by God!
- Let’s be the dads who look to our Heavenly Father who is good and who is love as our example as to how to live out our own lives!
- Let’s be the dads who turn to God to receive spiritual vision for our lives and for our wives, our kids, and our world!
- Let’s be the dads who lean on God in order to see things with God’s spiritual vision!
- Let’s be the dads who lean on God in order to see those under our authority that way God sees them!
