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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"steemchurch",<br>"author":"mycar",<br>"permlink":"honour-your-parents",<br>"title":"Honour Your Parents",<br>"body":"![10.25.15-Sermon-400.png (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQq8ywXzhAQe3mhVjUeTFPNLBLvavLGSmEpqHmgohWWok\/10.25.15-Sermon-400.png)\n[Source (https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/4a3V2v)\n\nThere are many kingdom people who diligently pay their tithes and give offerings,<br> but who things are still not well with,<br> because this block is missing from their covenant walk \n\nHonour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. - Exodus 20:12 \n\nHonour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) \nThat it may be well with thee,<br> and thou mayest live long on the earth. \n- Ephesians 6:2-3 \n\nIt is neither well with some believers who are great givers,<br> nor with their homes,<br> businesses and careers because they are dishonouring their parents. \"A son honours this father..\u00e5fter then I be a father,<br> where is mine honour!\" (Mal. 1:6). God has given our parents a covenant place in our lives that we can't afford to toy with. Honouring them is a command from God,<br> and it is the first commandment with a promise attached to it. \n\nYou are to honour your parents by relating well with them d caring for their needs. You can't be eating so well and all in affluence while your parents are suffering hunger d deprivation. God says it won't be well with you,<br> no an natter what you give to Him and His kingdom. You are breaking the hedge,<br> and the serpent must bite. \n\nSome live in very big houses in the cities,<br> but their parents are sick and live in huts,<br> with leaking roofs in the village. No! It can't be well with you living like this. \n![images (5).png (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeKL2oWC5o64LTTqfq6xaskXrTkC6aXMvaB4ic39PxiSS\/images%20(5).png)\n[Source (https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/jEbpQ5)\n\nYou should cater for your parents according to the level that the Lord has blessed you. You don't have the fattest calves in your flock and take the blind and the lame to them. You don't take friends to five-star hotels but send some miserable amount of money to them as though they well beggars. Our parents carry special blessings for us which are released as we relate well with them. Remember how Isaac blessed \n\nJacob after he had eaten the venison he made for him? (Gen. 27) Our caring well for our parents is that venison that will release the blessings for us. Visit them regularly and place them on your regular budget,<br> not on a once-in-awhile,<br> hit and miss budget. \nI know that some of our parents have done us wrong in time past. But that is in the past. With your knowledge of God and His ways,<br> you should put it behind you and go forward through obedience. The Bible tells us that: \n\nWhoso curseth his father or his mother,<br> his lamp shall b put out in obscure darkness. \nAn inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. \nSay not thou,<br> I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD and he shall save thee. Proverbs 20:20-22 \n![d41c8836ff4266db3abef17da4f4580c.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZHELjVDPoU7hKSrvLXiZxhiZXhUYQ8RaAQgvEnHBSZbG\/d41c8836ff4266db3abef17da4f4580c.jpg)\n[Source (https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/M4vB6v)\n\nNo matter what they have done to you in the past,<br> that does not give you the licence to dishonour them. According to God's Word and wisdom,<br> you are not permitted to retaliate Leave it to God to handle. This is especially for children from polygamous or separated homes,<br> where one parent has poisoned their minds against the other You are now a new creature; old things are passed away,<br> and all things are become new. \n\nAfter teaching on this subject in church,<br> some members obeyed the Word of the Lord and put things right with their parents,<br> and they had diverse kinds of testimonies of blessings and healings to share. Don't break the hedge; go and put things right,<br> so you can be prosperous and live long on earth. Until you start doing what God commands,<br> you'll keep struggling,<br> no matter how much you give. Note also that your parents don't have to be in need or a problem before yo fulfill your covenant responsibility to them. It is a covenant demand that must be obeyed.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"steemchurch\",<br>\"christian-trail\",<br>\"communitynews\",<br>\"nigeria\",<br>\"life\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQq8ywXzhAQe3mhVjUeTFPNLBLvavLGSmEpqHmgohWWok\/10.25.15-Sermon-400.png\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeKL2oWC5o64LTTqfq6xaskXrTkC6aXMvaB4ic39PxiSS\/images%20(5).png\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZHELjVDPoU7hKSrvLXiZxhiZXhUYQ8RaAQgvEnHBSZbG\/d41c8836ff4266db3abef17da4f4580c.jpg\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/4a3V2v\",<br>\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/jEbpQ5\",<br>\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/M4vB6v\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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