Ephesians 5:25

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”

Colossians 3:19-21

“19. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”

We live in a time where everyone is busy. Even  when we are together we seem to be separated because we are too busy being lost on our electronic devices. We cannot afford to take family for granted.

A happy family does not just happen. It is cultivated by a husband and wife who take time for each other. Who enjoy spending time together. Who refuse to allow anyone or anything come between then. It is cultivated by parents who take time to raise their children in love.

This requires spending time with your children talking to them, listening to them, and getting to know them. Most importantly, being an example for them – in front of them. Family time is important, and it is God ordained. 

How can we cultivate a happy marriage if we don’t make time for one another? How can we show our children what a happy, and respectful marriage looks like if we don’t cultivate it in front of them? 

Single parent families may have more challenging circumstances, but their duty is just as important. It is not an impossible task. Many do it successfully every day. 

As husbands and wives, or single parents, the best we can do is make time for the ones you love. Keep the word of God as your relationship guide, and you can’t go wrong. 

We only fail when we neglect to make time for family, and/or leave God out of the process.

Romans 12:21

“21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

Don’t waste your mental energy trying to figure out why people act the way they do, or even do the things they do. Just concentrate on showing love to everyone you come in contact with.

There has always been loud voices filled with hate. Our goal is to let the love of God put them to silence.

Share love, speak love, do what loves does.

Increase your faith, and walk in it. Abolish fear, and the baggage that came along with it.

Love is the only effective weapon against evil. Let’s use it wisely.

James 5:13-18

“13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 

14. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 

15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 

16.Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 

18. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”

There is power in prayer, but the world needs people who are willing to stand in the gap and interceded for the nation. 

Are you willing to be an instrument of prayer to effect change that is so desperately needed?Or is your goal to spread fear with no real solution? 

We live in perilous times, but God is still the same. He is the only answer.

I encourage you to pray – it is a powerful weapon. It works.

***be blessed by the word and have a great Sunday. 

1Peter 4:17-18

“17. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?  

18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”