What does it mean to be a father?!
The essence of the father’s role is to mirror God’s, own heart
And to value instruction in God’s ways
With the grace that God imparts.
Every father needs God’s wisdom
To carry out his role,
As the tower of strength and support
For each fragile heart, he holds.
And there’s no greater reward in life than
For a father to take his place
And uphold the values of the Lord
With integrity and grace.
Fathers have a special role
In each young child’s life,
To mould and shape them to become
A follower of Christ
To show them the Father’s heart
And help them understand
How God’s love can be their guide
As they take Him by the hand.
Fathers have an awesome task
To show what love is made of,
So when their children look at them
They’ll see the heart of God
And grow to want to know God more,
To walk in all His ways
To learn from their Father’s wisdom
And be taught how to pray.
Happiest Father’s Day to you fathers after God’s Heart!
In the mighty Name of Jesus, I pray this day for every man that has been a true father to someone.
I thank God for our Father; You are the first, best, the everlasting Father; no other father compares to You. Original Father, Wise Father.
First and foremost, Happiest Fathers Day to You Almighty Jehovah!
Please, I ask that You continue to
Increase the anointing upon our Spiritual father, Rev. Olusola Ayodele Areogun, my biological father and other genuine fathers everywhere.
Let them continue to be strengthened by their dependency upon You.
Let them evermore be fathers after Your heart.
Let the example of their faith and love shine forth powerfully in all they do.
Grant that we, their sons and daughters, May honour them always
With a spirit of profound respect.
Thank You, Holy Spirit
Amen!
As you continue in the enjoyment of this fathers day…
Below are some of the Best Scriptures about God our Father, Spiritual fathers, and fathers – please read and meditate on them:
• Ephesians 6:4: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
• Proverbs 1:8: “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.”
• 2 Corinthians 6:18: “And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
• Psalm 103:13: “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
• Proverbs 22:6: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.”
• 2 Samuel 7:14-15: “I will be a father to him, and he’ll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I’ll discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls and obstacles of this mortal life. But I’ll never remove my gracious love from him.”
• Proverbs 23:22: “Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
• Proverbs 23:24: “The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.”
• Psalm 32:7-8: “You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.”
• Proverbs 4:11-12: “I will guide you in the way of wisdom, and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.”
• Luke 15:20: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
• Deuteronomy 1:31: “There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
• Malachi 4:6: “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.”
• Hebrews 12:7: “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”
• Ephesians 5:28-29: “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.”
• 1 Corinthians 16:14: “Do everything in love.”
• Proverbs 30:18-19: “There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.”
• 1 Peter 3:7: “In the same way, you husbands must give honour to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together.”
• 1 Corinthians 7:14: “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”
• 1 Peter 4:8: “Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
• Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.”
• Mark 10:9: “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
• Lamentations 3:22: “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end…”
• Psalm 103:8: “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
• John 15:9: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”
• Jeremiah 31:3: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
• 1 Corinthians 13:7: “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
• Joshua 24:15: “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
• 1 Corinthians 16:13: “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.”
• Proverbs 14:26: “Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children, it will be a refuge.”
• Proverbs 3:3-4: “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favour and a good name in the sight of God and man.”
• Philippians 4:6: “Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
• Romans 12:12: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
• 2 Timothy 2:15: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”
• Proverbs 3:11-12: “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.”
• 3 John 1:4: “It is the greatest joy of my life to hear that my children are consistently living their lives in the ways of truth.”
Fathers, you are celebrated.
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