FATHERS ARISE!
The world needs Fathers. I know because my heart was crying out for a Father my whole life. There was such a deep longing and need for someone to champion me the way only a father can. For a Father to guide and correct me with love and teach me values the way only a true Father can. To show me what a Godly man is, to reflect and show me the way to THE Father. At 4 years old my father left and my Mother was left to raise my younger brother and me. She did an amazing job keeping us going as a family, but even so, my heart was left aching in deep anguish knowing there was something missing.
My heart has been grieved lately at the attack on the very thing that is needed. Somehow in the worlds attempts to restore equality, we have emasculated what actually needs a voice - a healthy one, a righteous one, one that will serve women and mothers, and their families, not squash or oppress them... Fathers. I can assure you it hasn’t been men that have led their girlfriends and wives to clinics for an abortion, but boys. It hasn’t been Fathers that have so easily seen the only solution to rid a moment of passion and to flush it like it never existed. No, they were selfish boys in need of a saviour. While we extend grace to them, recognizing that they themselves are a product of their environment, we as the Bride of Christ need to rise with the answer.
All over the earth, the epidemic over the last centuries has primarily been the devaluation of the home, and the rise of 'self' before others, which has resulted in fatherlessness in epic proportions. From that place, an identity crisis has swept the world and we have suddenly lost our grid of what the difference between right and wrong is. Good and evil has been defined by 'how I feel' and 'what I want.' Suddenly, life itself stands as the last frontier of a world in need of a desperate rescue. But in the middle of the chaos, we see a generation is stepping out of family dysfunction, out of abuse, out of violent and addictive cycles, out of orphan mindsets and twisted identity perception. Out of the wilderness, out of confusion and choosing to yield to the Spirit of God.
I recognize there are mothers, like my own, who have stood in the trenches alone, and you could be asking, 'Well, what about my children? Will they too be a product of a Fatherless environment?' The answer is no, not if you invite the Father of all Fathers into the centre of your home. My life is an example of this. When I encountered our Father, He healed and reversed all of the effects of the fatherlessness I experienced in my life. I am not a perfect Dad by any means, but I know this: all of the cycles of fatherlessness were broken the moment I surrendered to the one true Father. Right now, we have an opportunity in this unique time of history, for families to invite the Father into the midst of our broken circles, allowing Him to bring healing where it's needed. We have an opportunity to be the light through our lives to a lost and broken world. Stepping up to the plate are real men, Godly men, loving and supportive husbands, and Fathers to the fatherless, and they are coming out of the shadows, into the light.
PRAY:
Pray with me today for true Fathers to arise in this hour that will be restorers and healers of the home and those who wouldn’t stand on the sidelines when life itself is being given a death sentence. Fathers arise to your rightful place!
DECLARE:
“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Malachi 4:5-6
WORSHIP:
Listen to this powerful song written by worship leader, Phil King, featuring Cody Ray Lee. An anthem for Fathers (and mothers alike) fighting for our unborn. CLICK HERE
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