Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Replaced Destiny II

Text:1 Sam. 3: 1- 10
MORE LESSONS: Isa. 8:1-18
Bible Reading in one Year: Psalms 10-12

We started considering the issue of replaced destinies. In 1Sam. 2:18,the Bible says, But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. Take a look at how this destiny took off; it was introduced first as a miracle child, next as a child that was weaned and submitted to the church, directly to the presence of the Lord, the next report we hear about him is that this destiny became a minister. Samuel ministered as a child. Samuel began his destiny by ministering to the man who brought him up. He brought a word from the Lord to Eli. Eli's children had become very rascally to the extent that God could not use them to replace their father.
One of the greatest things God can do for you in life is to help you raise children that are greater than you, who can pick up from where you stop and do greater works than you.

Eli forfeited that privilege and that is why the study of the home is important today. In the story of Lazarus and the rich man, the rich man remembered the life his younger ones were living and begged father Abraham, Please send someone to the face of the earth, that these people may hear the word of God and be careful because I don't want them to come and meet me here. But Abraham refused, Sorry, if you didn't teach them or whatever you taught them before you left that is the best they can get. If not let them listen to God’s servants that minister to them now. If they don't listen to them, they will also come to meet you where you are now.

How many parents can look back and be glad about their children? Now that you are alive and your children are in secondary school, away in the boarding house, it is not too much to watch over what they are doing; it is not too much to watch over things they do on the computer. They read and study all manners of material, some even stay at the internet cafe until 1a.m.

Somebody needs to watch over them because there is so much pornography and terrible things on the internet, and as a father you sleep in the house snoring while your child is inside the room in your house, sitting down with her computer and watching all manners of crazy things; that is asleep of death. Look at Samuel, his mother was proud of him forever, but Eli was not proud of his children. May the Lord make you and your children signs and wonders and not a shame in the land.

Prayer/Action
*Pray that the spirit of Belia l will not enter into youths to do wickedly.
*Pray against whatever makes young people to hate godly instructions.
*Ask that your children will be for signs and wonder sin the land of the living.

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