Any seeking of truth or discussion of truth without a humble and obedient pursuit of the knowledge of Him and an ongoing deepening relationship with Him will end in deception or the misuse of truth

"Because of our sin nature and this evil world system in which we live and because of the father of lies and his lying demons swirling around us truth is often hard to see, hard to hear and hard to heed"

The love of money causes people to do awful things to others, even those close to them. But it is equally true that money and lots of it is vital to expand God’s kingdom purposes on the earth, which includes meeting the needs of your family and extended family.

I have to say this is where the secular money managers are often blind. They do not understand how the ability to make wealth is one thing; but the ability to keep it and use it appropriately is quite another.

A surprising number of Jesus’s parables have to do with our stewarding of what He has entrusted to us. His purpose for we believers is to free us from all of the things that would keep us from stewarding His money and material possessions well, and thus reaping the blessing of such.

Unless we are giving ourselves to knowing our God and His will and ways, we can easily observe the prosperity our fathers enjoyed and the apparent blessing of God financially and materially on them and deduct that God was pleased with them. When in fact He was not at all.

The people of God today (just as in that day) will never break free of the sins of the fathers until we by the leading of the Holy Spirit identify those sins and see them as God sees them.

We praise You Jesus that for the joy set before You which included seeing billions of people like us saved, healed and delivered by Your precious blood – You endured so much shame, pain, grief and trauma.

"When God wants His people to understand the depths and seriousness of their sins, He deems it necessary at times to help them see the connection with their sins and the sins of their fathers."

Fathers not loving God with their whole hearts and clinging to Jesus their wonderful Savior and then imparting that devotion to their children is at the root of so many of the world’s problems including the sobering rise of antisemitism we are seeing

"....regardless of what contemporary culture says about fathers, the church needs to be crystal clear on the importance of fathers walking with God and fulfilling their parenting (and grandparenting) role in Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit."

"....one of the ways we fathers are motivated to obey and fear the Lord and greatly delight in His commandments is by knowing the full consequences of our disobedience on us and on our children and grandchildren if we don’t."

From the beginning of time husbands have struggled with hardness of heart towards our wives because from the beginning of time we have not sought God with all of our hearts and have not understood how our hearts have to be cultivated and cleansed from sin and defilement on a regular basis

In a marriage, Jesus’s law or expectation is that the more mature and healthy spouse will fight for her/his fallen spouse knowing that part of being in a marriage is bearing the burden of their spouse.

"....the clear testimony in scripture is that while rewards perhaps should not be our primary motivation for serving God, looking for and expecting rewards is a legitimate Biblical motivation for persevering and laying our lives down for Christ and for the brethren and for the lost."

"We fathers need observances built in to our everyday life with the people of God so we will not allow the pressures and responsibilities of life to overwhelm us and distract us from instructing and reminding our children of God’s great mercy in saving and delivering us."

In Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit via the blood of Christ we can be clean and pure in His sight. It is up to we fathers to walk this out and help our wives and children walk it out as well.

A man made idol is simply that – a man made idol. But the practice of putting one’s trust or security in or deriving one’s pleasure or satisfaction from that idol is inspired and orchestrated by demons. And believers must be sober about this reality.

Whenever adults practice idolatry, children will eventually be the casualty of such.

Fathers, the greatest gift other than Jesus Himself that we can ever give to our kids is faithful intercession for their spiritual growth and well being. They will be eternally grateful for it.