Prayer: Father, I ask for Your direction and guidance today. Open my eyes to see Your truth, open my ears to hear Your truth. Open my heart to receive Your truth. Amen.
Reading: 1 Chronicles 28 key: vs. 8-9 “Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of Adonai and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the mitzvot of Adonai your God so that you may possess this good land and may bequeath it to your children after you forever. “Now you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.” TLV
Attention: Most of will never hear our fathers commission us with words like David gave to Solomon. What a difference it might make in our sons if we as fathers, would model and commission them to “serve God.”
We can see other biblical examples of fathers who on their death beds, blessed or commissioned their sons to serve Adonai. Perhaps the greatest example is Jacob (Israel) as he calls each of his sons to him and blesses them (Genesis 49, emphasis vs. 33, “When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, then breathed his last and was gathered to his peoples).”
I am going to commission the men today by using David’s word. As you read this, please insert your name, and I am going to insert my son’s name Christopher.
“Now you, (insert your name) Christopher my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.”
Please allow these words to come over you from a spiritual father. May you pass them along as a heritage of faith to your son or sons.
Action: I choose to pass along a heritage of faith to my son(s).
Yield: I choose to submit to the sovereignty of God.
Engage: I choose to engage with the help of the Holy Spirit in commissioning my son.
Relationship: I choose to live in holy, intimate, obedient relationship with Adonai.
Prayer: Father, may we as fathers, commission our sons to seek You and live for You as servants. May we establish a heritage which they can follow. Amen.
Memory Verse: Psalms 78: 4-7 “We will not hide them from their children, telling to the next generation the praises of Adonai and His strength and the wonders He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob and ordained Torah in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach their children, so that the next generation might know, even the children yet to be born: they will arise and tell their children. Then they will put their trust in God, not forgetting the works of God, but keeping His mitzvot.”
Music Video: Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes—The Blessing https://youtu.be/u2q9UbaBHzI?si=o6MfFLh7tcDON3S9
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”