Through the Eyes of a Father’s Heart“Bring to me what You have spoken of me.”
Genesis 18:19 19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
“Bring to me, God, what you have spoken of me.” That is my prayer. I want what Abraham had. Every day for a week, I have prayed it all day long. In the night, I wake praying that prayer. In just a few days, we launch a major initiative for Fathers and Leaders. It will take enormous time, talent, and finances. Anything worth doing will meet resistance on all fronts.
This New Year, as I consider next steps, my heart turns toward my physical and spiritual and relational children. All are important. As a Dad, the children of my wife, Dian, and I are precious. They count a lot in my thinking and praying. As a pastor of some 30 years in the same metro and now assisting in Mexico and across the United States, spiritual children who look to me for guidance and leadership are priceless. As a businessman and manager and community participant, those that look to me for direction are powerfully on my mind. As a personal mentor of men, those that look to me are present in my thoughts. In all of these ways people have been impacted and had direction pushed into their lives through example.
“Bring to me, God, what you have spoken of me.”
Abraham was a commander of lives. Command pushes. Command influences. Command is generally not gentle. In Genesis 18:19, God tells us that Abraham received so that he could ‘command’ into the lives of his children and his grandchildren and his community. He was to command righteousness and justice. He was to command the way of the Lord. God gave to Abraham what He had spoken of him because He could trust him to live the message into the lives of others. Abraham was a generational influencer. God gave him much because of that.
Prayer:
So, Friend, I want to pray for you today as your life commands into the lives of those around you. What has been accumulated in your life and what is promised is meant to strengthen those around you.
Father, here is my friend, Friend. Take what has been built that is good in them and bless others. Take what has been built that is not so good and let it slide to the side. Grace over mistakes and build upon goodness.
Father, I speak love and life over Friend.
This is a New Day. Every day is a new day. Your mercies are new every morning.
Let the promises of the heart find fulfillment in the days ahead.
Cause vision to look up to a world of promise and a world of plenty.
Cause insight to see the good impact of life and yearn for more.
Stir the heart of The Father to grow and prosper those entrusted to their care.
And may the coming days be merry and bright and full of hope and constancy of dream and vision and purposeful generational influence to good.
More thoughts on this can be found at the full blog: Through the Eyes of a Father’s Heart « The Community Transformation Initiative http://ow.ly/grN9n
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