Friday: Fathers 5

You Shall Not!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Friday, and as my dear friend R. J. Harris says, "it is Friday, Blessed Friday." Let me add that each day of your life is blessed, blessed by God the Father, Jesus His Son. We are just so blessed, so very blessed. Today is the day we pray for all who are working in the Fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus. Are you working those fields?

Also please keep praying for the Everhard family as wife and mother Peggy is gravely ill.
Yesterday I was with the family and anointed Peggy and we gave her fully to the Lord for His will to be done. Not always an easy thing to do, but we must trust God for His care. The fact is we need to give our children, our family, our friends all fully over to God in good health and bad, it just plain needs done.

Fathers 5: As I take another look back in my life I remember that my dad gave me some fatherly advice and then he gave me some FATHERLY ADVICE.... Yes, I guess I am saying that there was more than one level of advice that came from my good old dad. My dad would give me advice like be sure to look both ways when crossing the street ... be careful when riding your bike, don't ride it on the highways, just the side streets and alleys. Advice like that I would say was fatherly advice. Then he gave me advice like I do not want you running around with ________ ________ for that boy is bad news and you will get into real trouble. And that was FATHERLY ADVICE. I guess the big difference was, if I did not listen to his advice, there would be some action for my non-action, so to speak. Getting yelled at was one action, and believe it or not, I never liked being yelled at, but it was better then hearing this sound - brrrrrrzipppppppppppp - or however you write the noise a belt makes coming out of the loops on his trousers. And then the crack as he snapped it together and the crack as it hit my tiny little butt. (Well it was back then.) Once again, my dad did not beat me or abuse me, but I did learn right from wrong. So fatherly advice came with an enforcer, so to speak. And it came in different degrees of advice.

Fathers 5: I think God is the same way. Let's look today at some of the Fatherly Advice right from our Heavenly Father. Let's look at some of the commandments. Let's go to Exodus 20 and look at some of these ... Exodus 20: 3 You shall have no other gods before me (to me that is a biggie). Exodus 20: 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth below (again another biggie).

Dear Father in Heaven, we fathers on this line want to look to You for advice so that we might pass it to our children. Lord, we need help with this. Even after our children have left the nest, we still are fathers, we still are parents, and we find that kids still call on us for advice and/or help, and we sure need Your watchful hand over us as we help them. Lord, protect Your workers in Your fields, be with Anna Layman on her two-year pastor assignment in South Africa, watch over her and bring her home safe and sound. Be with her father Jay and all who are traveling to see her. Lord, guide our steps today and guide our mouth so we step for you and talk for you. Keep us from evil. In the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen ... Amen.

Happy Dads' Day, dads ... Be sure to share your blessings, and that goes for all of you. I got a note from one of the Saylor family. Seems they invited a neighbor in for a chicken dinner last night. That is just one more way to share your blessings, invite someone to dinner. Love ya, dan.