Today is Father’s Day in the United States of America.  Many nations celebrate this special day on the third Sunday in June, while other nations celebrate on different dates.  Father’s day is a day to celebrate our father’s and fatherhood.So today, we say Happy Father’s Day to you Dad!  You must know that you are vitally important in the life of your children, your spouse, your family.  You are necessary to the balance of your family.  You are necessary to the structure of your family and the structure within your children.  You are necessary for imparting worth and value to your children especially your daughters.  You are protector and provider.  You instill valuable principles of discipline, vision, purpose, drive, and focus.  You are necessary.  You communicate love and value to your children just by your godly presence, touch, and involvement in your child’s life.  You bring masculinity to your sons and by exhibiting masculinity you foster femininity in your daughters.  Fathers…you are necessary.  You are vital to the health of your children,  You are the first picture of who Father God is in your children’s life.  You are necessary!  Sir, we honor you today.

Our Father God commands us to honor our fathers.  Honor means to give respect, recognition, and value to;  to show honor with your attitude, actions, words.  God says a lot about honor.  Father God says in His word:

Ex 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you

Romans 13:7
Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Eph 6:1-4
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Father’s you are necessary.  Your role is vital.  Don’t miss it.

A missing dad cannot be replaced.  And so there are many fathers who are absent in the life of their children leaving the mother the responsibility of raising the children.  To you single mothers, do not despair.  Forgive the children’s father for his absence.  Teach your children to honor their father if he is involved in their lives in whatever godly capacity.  Teach them to honor their fathers for by doing so you are teaching them to respect authority; you are teaching them to honor Father God.

Please know, single mothers, that God is the greatest Father that any person could have.  God understands the need for godly father figures in the life of His children. He says in the word that he sets the lonely in families–many times that is spiritual family.  Pray to God that He will lead you to a church family that emphasizes fatherhood and mentorship.  God will provide godly father figures for your children (ie spiritual family, coaches, mentors, etc).

Psalm 68:5-6 = A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing;

To those who have been wounded by your father, please forgive him.  Forgiveness doesn’t justify the wrong doing.  Forgiveness begins the healing process in your life.

So the encouragement and challenge today to fathers is this, be effective dads in the life of your children.  Be present.  Where you have missed it, apologize and seek out restoration in the broken places in your life.  Amen

Happy Father’s Day!  We honor you today.

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Seven secrets of effective father’s

by Dr. Ken Canfield

1.  Effective fathers are committed to their children
2.  Effective fathers know their children
3.  Effective fathers are consistent in their attitudes and behavior with their children; don’t consistently break your promise
4.  Effective fathers protect and provide for their children.
5.  Effective fathers love their children’s mother; this is one of the best things you can do for your kids
6.  Effective fathers area active listeners– put down the newspapers, block out all distractions
7.  Effective fathers spiritually equip their children–take them to church, teach them how to pray, and help with establishing an intimate
relationship with the Lord

Effective Father Inspiration:

Resources:
www.fatherhood.org
www.focusonthefamily.com
www.familydads.com
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“Call to Christians:  Go ye and tell”

By Pam Mangoma

Acts: 1:7 (New International Version):
He said to them:  “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

Matthew 24:36 (New International version):
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angles in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Of course no one knows the day nor the hour, but what we know is that its nigh. As one man of God said, “all I can tell you is that, its nearer now than Peter and Pauls’ time.” I know there has been a frenzy about the end of the world by many as seen in the “judgement day” fiasco broadcasted by Harold Camping.

How did you react to the news?  Some Christians reacted to this word with negativity, some in jest, scorn,  judgment.   Some found messages to preach as a result of all that.  Some just agreed with this word,  panicked and believed it. What then shall we say to these things? Where are the Christians with the word to teach the Truth?  Is it you who has it–the Word, that is? Have you shared it lately?  That’s the call I feel in my spirit. People are hungry for truth! A message that was broadcasted by a tiny station reached so many in the world and they believed the message. Are Christians sitting and waiting to be reactive to an ailing world?  Do we just wait to respond or waiting quietly for our own secret rapture? What is our take in “go-ye” and spreading the gospel? This “judgement day” issue just showed me that we have not done what we should be doing and that the field is still big and needs harvesting. We need to get out of our comfort zone and go share the good news.

If the world had ended on Saturday, May 21, 2011, I would not have been surprised.  I know, NOT BECAUSE I believed Harold Camping’s prophecy but because I KNOW it can be any day: today, tomorrow, next year. I believe the Lord does not want us to be pre-occupied with the date for His coming but be occupied in our assignments. What is your assignment?

I was thinking what Jesus said, … you are so busy and good at predicting the weather but not the times? Especially now, what shall we say to these weather patterns?

This is just a call to evaluation and prayer in one’s life and assignment. I, for one, believe that my scoring lacks and I need to PUSH. Surely if “Christians” can drive 3000 miles, throw their life savings away in supporting false prophecy, quit their jobs, pay atheists insurance money to watch their pets “if the rapture” takes place, then we need to preach to ourselves the Word of God first. May God help us!

My evaluation of the “Judgement day” fiasco caused me to repent before the Lord, on behalf of our brothers. God is sovereign and being God, the Lion and the Lamb, wrath could have been released in ways we have never seen, those that believed, those that stood to watch, those that spoke behind closed doors, and those that laughed at the brother instead of carrying him off the battlefield in love to restore.  Let’s pray for one another.   Above all, let’s thank God.  Even as we repent, lets thank Him for His forever love and protection.

Call His Name! Exalt and Worship Him!  Go Ye and tell!