TOPIC: WHO’S YOUR
DADDY?
MEMORISE: 1
Corinthians 4:15
“For
though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.”
READ: 2 Kings
3:11-12 (KJV)
11. But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
Israel’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which
poured water on the hands of Elijah.
12. And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with
him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to
him.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 59-63
MESSAGE:
These days, people just call anyone Daddy in the church, and not
necessarily out of respect as it is done in the Yoruba culture. You need to be
careful who you call your father; Apostle Paul told the church in Corinth that
they have only one father but many instructors, as seen in our memory verse for
today.
I miss the good old days when we all used to call each other Bro or Sis.
The choice of who you call your father has a lot to do with your destiny. In
our Bible reading for today, the only introduction that Elisha needed was that
his Father-in-the-Lord was Elijah and Jehoshaphat immediately concluded that
“The word of the Lord is with him.”
First, you cannot be greater than your father, at least not while he is
still alive. Luke 6:40 says:
“The
disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his
master.”
Whoever your father is sets a limit to how far you can go in life. This
information alone is enough to make you careful with respect to whom you refer
to as My Father-in-the-Lord.
Secondly, anointing flows from the head downwards, so if you don’t check
that the character of whoever you make your head is very good, well, he could
be passing a dangerous anointing to you. It is from my Father (Pa Josiah
Akindayomi) that I learnt that holiness is the master key; it is from him that
I learnt discipline. His anointing was not the kind that you use to extort
money from congregants, it was not the kind that needed a special concoction
for it to work. I inherited the pure anointing of God from him.
It is not wise to choose a Father-in-the-Lord by yourself; ask God who
your father should be. Your destination in life will determine whom you should
understudy. The affluence, eloquence and large congregation of a man does not
necessarily make him fit to father you. My Father-in-the-Lord had none of those
things. He was illiterate, yet God told me to submit to him. Today, I give God
the glory that Pa Josiah Akindayomi was my Father-in-the-Lord.
REFLECTION: Let God choose a
Father-in-the-Lord for you. Don’t call everyone Daddy.
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