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God also has a need.

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The good father takes care of all our needs. He recognizes our weaknesses and knows that we all have our individual needs and he does not fail as a father to provide for these needs.

There is no mortal or god as busy as this great God, that listens to and answers over a trillion people at the same time, yet he does not get tired.

” I took care of you during the wilderness hard times, those years when you had nothing. I took care of you, took care of all your needs, and gave you everything you needed. You were spoiled. You thought you didn’t need me. You forgot me.”
‭‭Hosea‬ ‭13:5-6‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Our gracious Father does not cease to listen to our cries and attends to our needs. Yet, we are so selfish and do not realize that He also has needs that MUST be met as a father and a benefactor.

Who amongst us is in a deep relationship and you do not have needs that you expect your partner to meet as you meet theirs?

Christ put all our needs before him by sacrificing himself as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of mankind. He bore the pain, the shame, and the humiliation for our benefit.

He did not have to do it BUT he did!!!!

Brethren, our loving and gracious savior also has feelings and needs like any of us. He wants us to help him gather the “lost sheep into the pen”. Millions of souls out there are perishing in their sins, the prodigal sons need someone to show them the way back to the Father and the enemy is wasting the lives of thousands of souls every day.

We need to hurry! Snatch them from the mouth of the devourer and help them back to the pen before it is too late. “save others by snatching them from the fire;
‭Jude‬ ‭1:23‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“I am the Good Shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They’ll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd.
‭‭John‬ ‭10:14-16 MSG‬‬

Friends, we are more focused on our needs and always bombarding heaven every second with these needs. Do you know what? Your needs are already taken care of, just believe and trust Him.

“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:32‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The greatest sacrifice or need that God can ever meet is giving us His son to be slaughtered like a nobody. If He did that for you who is mortal with no significance before Christ’s death, how much more will He not freely give you whatever you desire?

Can you for once, put your needs aside and think of ways you can meet His needs? Can you spend time in prayer for the lost sheep in your family, community, and nations? Can you sacrifice a coin and support the mission work? Can you give someone a tract on the bus or the grocery stores? Can you tell someone about the love of the Father and Christ’s sacrifice on the cross today? Can you reduce your frivolous time spent on social
media and use it to share the gospel?

If you delight in the Father and the Son by taking care of their needs, then be rest assured that you will never have to worry about your own needs being met again.

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:33‬ ‭KJV‬‬

This is a wake-up call to all of us as soldiers of the cross!!!!!!!

“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tiding of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭52:7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

How many of us will say yes today to this Clarion call?

Please forward this to every child of God that you know and let us all rise and delight our great and awesome Father that has an urgent need and depends on us all to meet this need.

I love you with the love of Christ.

Maranatha,

Jummy Akinjide

Parenting 101. Your kids are vulnerable!

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Just last week, I was having an Instagram live conversation with Mrs. Toyin of Discipleship Parenting Academy, I had such a great time. While I do not parade myself as a parenting expert, I want to share one of my thoughts.

One of the major thoughts that has ravaged my mind is one I found in the Bible. It’s about rape and the vulnerability of our kids found in that scripture in Gen 34. My manager can attest to how I have not stopped to drum this in our conversations since the time that scripture jumped at me. There is a translation that says, Dinah was left unattended to which resulted in her rape and that caught my attention in no small way.

Parent, our kids are very vulnerable if there are no systems in place to protect them and if you are not doing what you should do. Our children will not be protected and supported. Our parents did their best within the limits of the much they knew to shield us but some of us still grew up in situations unsupervised, you owe it to your children to do better because you now know better.

Thank God for these days, they are a lot of parental coaching programs and academies.

Nothing is new under the sun, the Bible has many examples of events that have happened in the past, open your children to Bible study, this will give them an opening to learn and see the consequences when they do not adhere to parental guidance.

So how do you go about helping your children?

Parents must realize that their kids need care, and they don’t own their kids, God does. So, we need to go back to the manuscript which is God’s word and find what God says about training up a child. You can learn a lot from the book of Proverbs in the Bible [the little advice given to Solomon by His mother.]

Most parents have to protect their children and encourage them to be open. Please do not try to be superstars that did not make any mistakes while growing up.

A lot of times we parents tend to present to our children that we were never vulnerable and that everything was smooth when we were young. We should open up to our kids and also know that they can learn from our mistakes.

As a parent, know how to correct with love and teach them.

The home should be the first place a child learns anything not in school or on social media and not from random people. So, if the child doesn’t get all the home training, love, and affirmation from home, He is going to get it somewhere else. The best thing is for a parent to teach their children all they need to know and to protect them. They should do all they can to be closer to them, teach them good morals, and pray for them. They should know that if they are too protective it might not work.

Parents should also pray for the leading of the Holy Spirit.

I am not asking you to overprotect your children. Overprotective parenting is the parenting style that do too much out of fear and never explains why they do what they do to their kids.

For instance, my daughter always says, Mummy, you do too much. I would give her 30 minutes out and go to pick her up myself. I give her too many rules and recently I had to open up to her about why I treat her that way.

Being overprotective is not good, we should know they are children and they should be room for them to learn and make mistakes that are not grave though.

Sometimes my daughter would say, “do your best to pray and teach us, that’s all.”

I hope I have convinced you that your kids are vulnerable and they need you so much.

Happy holiday!

THE HOME AND MOLESTATION (Part 2)

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Weddings!

We all love to attend them. Love stories and their attractions for all of us. Cakes! Dance! Laughter! Light and decors!

I love the father daughter dance whenever I attended weddings, I’m sure you do as well. It is beautiful to watch and more so, to see the bonding between a father and his daughter. I’m a very emotional person, so when I see that; I could just shed some tears.

I want to give some closure on my last week article, let’s explore the roles fathers play in their daughter’s life.

Firstly, fathers help their daughters to prepare for and know the kind of man to look out for marriage.

Sometimes if you are not careful, it is what most ladies do not want that they end up getting attracted to. Some might start attracting the type of Dad that they have. I believe that a girl can learn how a man treats a woman from her dad.

Secondly, it helps her to know a man is supposed to protect her.

A father is suppose to be as Christ is to the church, He is supposed to shield and protect his family from evil.

Thirdly, she can also learn to achieve her goals through words of affirmation from her father. This is part of what propels her to be great in life. If a child does not get that, it might take determination to achieve greatness on time. A girl is supposed to know that the sky is her beginning.

Lastly, we cannot deny the facts that only few men have been awesome with their daughters. However, if you never had a father figure in your life, how do you manage this seeing how important this is for your emotional growth.

One of the ways you can manage the situation is if God leads you to a father figure for your life. We have a lot of single mothers; they can never take the place of a father. Hopefully and prayerfully, if the child gets a father figure in somebody else, like a Godly pastor, it might be a better way.

Moreover, there is a father in God and he wants to father you more than any father would have done. Give Him your heart today and let him introduce you to the father-daughter dance

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Cheers!

THE HOME AND MOLESTATION (Part 1)

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THE HOME AND MOLESTATION, Part 1.

Charity they say begins at home. The home gives the foundation and this is why I love the scripture that says, “if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3)

For a female child, her father plays a key role in deciding her view of men. So I believe that there is a connection between a Father and a daughter.

God created us male and female and created marriage for companionship. Even a relationship between a man and a woman has a special thing it does in one’s life. For a lady, the truth is that her first love is her Father.

She learns everything that she needs to know about men from her father i.e, how to relate with a man in the exact way God has created it.

A child should be able to receive free words of affirmation from her father which is very important and a lot of fathers do not recognise their roles in their daughter’s life. They are supposed to show the daughter what it means to be a man, how to protect a woman, and how to love, so the daughter will know what love and protection should look like.

A lot of times we see young ladies that have low self-esteem and are excessively timid, if you look deep into their backgrounds, you would find out that they probably never got a word of affirmation from their fathers and that has fueled their insecurities alongside that feeling of unworthiness.

The Father is like a God figure to the daughter. A Father is supposed to be a priest, a provider to the children. If this is missing in a child’s life it will show.

I will tell you a short story,

When my mom gave birth to me, my Dad came to the hospital and the first question he asked was, “what is the sex of the baby?”

When He was told, he was disappointed and left the hospital. My Dad wasn’t happy and this affected my Mom for a long time. She was constantly bringing this up in my presence and this made me feel unloved and a sense of just being tolerated.

I remembered when my mum and I would go to our family hospital, the nurses who were witnesses to my Dad’s attitude would call me “oh my God” mimicking my father’s exclamation when he saw me.

I would laugh but they were unaware of the effects their jokes had on me.

Fathers please love your girls and affirm them, this is one way of securing them from predators who have dastard intentions.

See you in my next post

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Cheers!