Children can overcome most anything if they know their father is in their corner. If he consistently is not, their motivation and self confidence receives a heavy blow.

Some of you need to learn to “wait” for your change. You have been impatient and have wrongly deducted that since you have not been able to overcome whatever your particular battle has been, God has not heard your prayer, and you are just going to have to learn to live with this limp or defect.

We believers have a great tendency to involve ourselves in too many things, which over time whittles away at our pursuit of Christ and Him alone. This is especially a snare for those of us in ministry, as many of these things we are involved in are “for the Lord” or “for His kingdom” and thus surely are good and necessary things

When a husband and father gladly opens his home (hopefully in oneness with his wife) to others - it teaches children that people are important, and our “things” are not just for our enjoyment.