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Ten Things Dad Doesn’t Hear
Lead by example. My children see me pray, my children see me weep, me children see me study. Some fathers just don’t get it. They enjoy sin for a season but when it’s over, as the song says, when you around to doing anything about it then it is already too late. And let me tell you that in our church there are some children without fathers today. They need you, as a father figure, to step up to the plate and guide them in the right direction. They need that figure in their lives. There are children in this community who are not only without fathers but who are without mothers. There may be a male or female figure in their house but there’s no mama or daddy in there.
Understand this! How you were born has nothing to do with how you come out or how you turn up. You came out a male or a female. You are suppose to grow up to be a man or a woman. But, I know a lot of individuals who are full-grown but who are still not adults because they act like children. The result is that their children don’t have any sort of leadership in the family. Doped up, drugged up, drunk -- no wonder the children have gone so crazy!
These “parents” are so busy that they don’t have time to love the children. I came from one of those homes. I was given away. I had no father figure. I love my mother but she put me with a lady who was abusive. I had absolutely nothing -- nothing -- until I found out that I had a Father who wouldn’t lie to me, a Father who wouldn’t leave me, a Father who loved me for who I am, a Father who loved me in spite of me. When I found that Father at the Westside Church of God, I fell on my face and said “Have mercy on me, oh God!” When I stepped up to that alter, I called him God. But when I stood up I called him Father! And I’ve called him Father ever since! He’s my dad, he’s the love of my life; I am the apple of his eye.
There are children in this church who do not have the positive influence of a mother or a father. Crack heads and meth heads for moms and dads. They come in here and they have no love, they receive no care. That’s the reason I hug on every one of them because you don’t know what that child goes through at home. Bend down and love him! Let him know that somebody cares. Let him see the love of the Father in you.
You may think “That’s just so you fill up the church.” No! It’s real love that fills up the church! I am the spiritual father of these children. I’m concerned about their welfare and their well-being. When you do thid, I promise you will stand taller in their life than any hero you can imagine.
The next thing Jairus’ daughter saw was that her daddy was not ashamed to bring Jesus into their home. I’m going to tell you something. When your children come in your house and all you’re watching is MTV and every other kind of vulgar movie, I can promise you that the presence of God is not in that place! But when they come in and see daddy with his Bible open or tears running down his face because he just had an experience with God, the house will change. No, Jairus wasn’t ashamed to bring Jesus in his home.
The fourth thing Jairus’ daughter saw was that anything that wasn’t of God in that house, daddy let Jesus put it out. Jesus told the crowd to get out because they were walking in doubt and fear and disbelief. Jairus was not afraid to let Jesus come in the house and clean out the stuff in there that didn’t need to be in there. Mama wasn’t in control. Not even daddy. was in charge. No, Jairus’ daughter saw that Jesus was in authority.
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