We will be praying for
strength as mothers, to be able to fulfil our responsibilities properly.
The Lord has committed the
building of the home into our hands; so if anything should go wrong in our
homes, the Lord will hold us responsible.
Proverbs
14:1 (NKJV) The wise woman builds her house, but the
foolish pulls it down with her hands.
1 Kings
19:7 (KJV) 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second
time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too
great for thee.
This was
Elijah after Jezebel had threatened to deal with him.
Please read Job chapters 1
and 2 on your own; because of our time we will not be able to do this. You can
read it in both King James and Easy to Read version of the Bible.
From these chapters, let’s
look at the following verses:
Job 1 Easy-to-Read
Version (ERV) 1 There was a man named Job who lived in the
country of Uz. He was a good, honest man. He respected God and refused to do
evil. 2 Job
had seven sons and three daughters. 3 He
owned 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 1000 oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He had many
servants. He was the richest man in the east.
- Does this describe you or your husband or family?
Job 1:8 Easy-to-Read
Version (ERV) 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you
noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him. He is a good, faithful man. He respects God and refuses to do evil.”
Job according to God’s
recommendation in verse 8 was:
- A perfect (He is good) and upright man(faithful)
- One that feared God (respects God)
- He eschewed evil (refuses to do evil).
What Job’s
children like doing because of their rich parents
Job 1:4 (KJV ) And
his sons went and feasted in their houses, everyone his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
- They feasted in their houses; everyone have their own special day for eating and drinking.
What Job like doing
Job 1: 5 And it
was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and
sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings
according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have
sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
- Job likes CURING BUT NOT PREVENTING his children from committing sin by offering burnt offering to God day after each of these parties.
What God expected from Job and his wife towards their children
Deuteronomy 11 (KJV) 1Therefore
thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments,
always. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children
which have not known, and which have not
seen the chastisement of the Lord
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,3 And
his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto
Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;……..
7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I
command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And
that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your
heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the Lord's wrath be kindled
against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the
land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land
which the Lord giveth
you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up
these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon
your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And
ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou
risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of
thine house, and upon thy gates:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the Lord sware
unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Did Job
and his wife do this to their children? NO.
So what
happened? Job’s fear came upon him. His curing, that is offering burnt
sacrifice on behalf of his children; did not prevent disaster. Satan struck at their
unguarded hour when the children were busy doing what they know how to do best;
eating and drinking.
Job
3:25-26 (KJV) 25 For the
thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is
come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job
1:18-19 (KJV) 18 While he
was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy
sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's
house: 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the
wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young
men, and they are dead; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
These
shall not be our portion in Jesus name. Amen.
In all
these, where was the woman, the wife, the mother I asked? A woman whose
responsibility is to build her home spiritually. Eventually I found her comment
in
Job 2:9-10
9 Then
said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and
die.10 But he said unto her,
Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What shall we
receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did
not Job sin with his lips.
Brothers and sisters we
are going to start praying at this point; for ourselves as women and brothers,
for your wives and then for our children.
Prayer points:
- O Lord, my Father, send me help, good speed and show kindness unto me this day concerning my purpose/ assignment as a mother and a wife in Jesus name. We need this to repair the damage the enemy has done already in our homes
- O Lord, make me an answer to your prayer concerning my husband and children in Jesus name.
- O Lord, make me a woman of spiritual strength in the name of Jesus. We need this to be able to feed our children with the word of God regularly and stand in the gap for them.
- O Lord, help me to give rest to your burden carriers my home in Jesus name. In Job’s case, he was the only person carrying the burden of his children; even though he had a wife, an help meet.
- We are going to pray and say anything in my life that will make me curse, offend God, in my life or that of my husband or that of my children or the help he will send my way ,O Lord arise and scatter them in Jesus name.
- O Lord, my Father, please envision me to know my roles and responsibilities as a woman, wife and a mother in Jesus name. Amen.
- Thank you Lord, for hearing my heart cries in Jesus name Amen.
