Fatherhood

Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.

Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father.

May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers; You have given me wisdom and might, And have now made known to me what we asked of You, For You have made known to us the king’s demand.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.

So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

“I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.