MFM Daily Devotional 5 August 2024 

TOPIC:  Dangers Of A Word Of Advice To Fathers (I)

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Proverbs 6; Proverbs 7; 1 Peter 3; 1 Peter 4

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Esther 2:5-7
⁵ Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

⁶ Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

⁷ And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

MEMORY VERSE
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther 2:7

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.

PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: Destinies shall be changed for good because of your presence, in the name of Jesus.

MFM Daily Devotional 5 August 2024 MESSAGE

Mordecai played the role of a father in the life of Haddasah, his cousin, and he played it well. Even though the orphaned Haddasah was not his biological child, he allowed her to enjoy the love of a father. He compassionately took her for his daughter and gave her the feather to fly through godly teaching, counsel and training. He never left his parental training to chance. When he heard about the beauty pageant that could move Esther’s life forward, he gave her a push.

Beloved, how much of a father can your children or children around you boast that they have in you? Some people are just fathers in their homes just because they make money available for housekeeping and then pay school fees and nothing more. Being a father figure is way more than that, beloved.

READ MFM Daily Devotional 2 August 2024 – Dangers Of An Unbridled Tongue (II)

It is being a priest over your home. It is a feather for your children and wards. It is being a watchman at the gate of your home. In Ephesians 6: 4, fathers are admonished not to provoke their children to wrath. “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord”- NLT.

Father, how much of time do you devote to being with your family? When last did you have a special time of fellowship with your family? When last were you there to have a heart-to-heart talk with your children? When your boys and even your girls need a father figure to pour out their minds to, were you there for them? God said of Abraham that he would command his children after him and he did.

He trained Isaac to know his God. How is your parenting skill? Are you a parent or y0u are just paying the rent? How much interest do you have in their overall well-being? Or do you just drop money and off you go? Some fathers are lions in their own homes. No child dares talk when they are around. Their wives shiver when anything is to be said.

Fathers, please retrace your steps in handling and nurturing the children and wards God has placed in your care.

MFM DAILY PRAYER POINTS 5 AUGUST 2024

MORNING
1. I refuse to be a bad father to my Children, in the name of Jesus.
2. Father, help me to father my household according to your laid-down rule, in the name of Jesus.
3. My children will be greater than me, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. Like father, like son evil pattern, break by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. My children shall possess the gates of their enemies, in the name of Jesus.
6. As a father and a priest over my home, I command greatness on my Children, in the name of Jesus.
7. By fire, by force, my children will serve the living God, in the name of Jesus.