Abraham: The Father of Faith | Steven Francis

Father's Day greetings to all of you in JMK I thank God for this privilege to be able to bring God's Word to you at this very interesting times that we have to do with the video and I know that some churches are not active at this moment but the Word of God is as powerful as it is in person or through TV through media you name it God's Word is powerful because the Holy Spirit he is everywhere you buzz I know this is Father's Day and we have a very wonderful message from the Word of God and it's a privilege for the leadership to give me this time to share God's Word and share some pointers which I feel in our hearts that God can bless us as fathers and also the young man who will be father soon at some stage in your life and these are pointers that we can have from God's Word and before we go through the scriptures can we pray together father I pray for the anointing of the Holy Spirit I thank you that God you are here with us I thank you for the warm presence of the Holy Spirit filling our hearts and I pray God that you will strengthen every father every young man who's listening to the Word of God now trade no matter what discouragement they have been experiencing because of the Kovach the delays the waiting for God's promises and so on I thank you you are our Father above all and I pray that the anointing of the Holy Spirit will come in rest in the name of Jesus amen you know I've been receiving different emails from different ministries and also from yeah actually ministries where they come up with our emails like the perfect father how to be the perfect father how to be the excellent father how to be the role model father and some of this could be very interesting some of this could be very idealistic some of this could be very can bring guilty to people because is there such a thing called the perfect father in the naturallyspeaking now I've heard a lot of testimonies where sons had given the testimony that their fathers protect and praise God but there are many sons who had not saved their fathers perfect they have said a lot of things and there are many father's on the other hand they try very hard to be as good as possible as perfect as possible and as much as they try they keep tripping down because the real time circumstances under them some come from battered families son come from challenging families and some fathers just to make their ends meet we have to work two or three jobs and they are never at home they never had had the time to be with their children so this guilt can always be heating up some of the men who are listening baxworth but i want to tell you my brothers and at this moment to receive the privilege to be called a father is a gift from god it started and i want to thank you for being a father to your children and new will receive the same grains that the father god has over us and who else is the perfect father who can teach us and anoint us as much as paul cain and i do that many times when i fail when i tripped when i become weak and look up to God and I ask for God's strength I ask for direction I asked for Lord give me more love and more understanding when I think I have run out of juice and sometimes just like that and love is both ways you give and you receive and so these are the challenges so the point is some people say you've got to be in the baseball or soccer practice is going to children as some people say you have to be in all the sports and do everything for them and but no one teaches the children how to be good children and that's a very interesting point but I want to bring you the Word of God is I thought about this I say God you can keep talking about many passages in the Bible that equally shares challenges of being a father challenges of being a son but sons who are listening remember that tomorrow you will be a father someday and so we are supposed to receive the Word of God that we can learn from the scriptures and when I thought about this in a fraction of a moment the Holy Spirit getting in our blood and I want to share with you as honest as possible and you know that every time I brought the Word of God I brought the Word of God in honesty in truth and never created a podesta for anybody then God's Word can encourage you I want to draw these lessons that we can learn from the father of faith Abraham and now I know many times we only draw the strength and positive aspects of Abraham so I want to show you a structure in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 8 by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive I mean heritance and he went out not knowing where he was going now this is the first step of being a father you see there are many many different aspects that a father can be I mean a father would be saving money for their children a father would be providing in every aspect of the family and the father would be making sure that the children have enough money for the education the father would need to provide for the needs and all the things that requires as the children grow up and all of that is great and many fathers have been doing well but there is also an aspect where we can draw from God's Word what fatherhood must be and should be and in the order of priority as much as we are looking to fulfill the earthly requirements of being a father there are also some heavenly requirements and I want to encourage you regardless whether you have money or not that's not the form of the scripture I think the point that we want to start is as a father mission possess a level of faith not only for us but also for our family so that we can meet you know the world is going through multiple amounts of challenges catastrophic challenges and fake news and evil news and real news and the Kovac has revealed the many aspects of faith lack of faith more faith little faith fearful faith and you name it and there is also another thing I think very interestingly I call the conspiracy faith and people put all their faith into conspiracy and we fail to just come back to God's truth and that's why every hem is very interesting because God showed me many things about him from a different approach of all the times that I've spoken about Abraham so I want to encourage you firstly regardless whether the times are good all the times up there the Bible requires us that we should have faith and we should walk mindfully we should grow in faith we should live in faith and the Bible says faith called those things which are not as though they are so it is not true that faith is a substitute it is not true that faith is an SOS that when when you fail everything else that you lose faith faith must be the beginning in the end of everything that we do because the moment you pray and ask God to do something and then you are already using faith so faith is required no matter where and what we are doing the question is my mind brothers during this Father's Day message that I want to remind us that as much as we are working so hard are you at the same time taking some dosages lots of scriptures like if I can use the term like whether you are taking some table it's of faith and making sure now you see the Bible says faith only comes by the Word of God right so when the Word of God is lacking faith we'll be lucky when the Word of God is struggling in your life then faith will struggle in your life so now God is not asking us to devour God's Word not everybody have this time but if I will encourage you and it's one chapter a day and this two chapters a day a daily dosage of God's Word so that the faith increases in an incremental measure that when you need faith it is there for you even when you don't call our God faith respond every time when there is a challenge that is facing now Abraham went through this challenge time ever ahem did not know the challenges that are waiting for him in the new place when God called him do you see every time God from watch you that is a new challenge every time and the enemy comes that is a new challenge every time you walk into another face that is a new challenge every time you walk into another physiological development of your life that is a new challenge but we don't know what the challenge is and God knows and that is why because we don't know faith must become the advanced step forward before you can even go tomorrow faith is stepping forward when faith takes over tomorrow then God is in action I mean and that is what we are talking about we don't know the tomorrow of us of our children of our family of our business we don't know the circumstances of tomorrow just think about Kobe there are people who lost their jobs the people who have taken pecans and some companies preserve they are employees and thank God if they did well this are the challenges some many businesses have closed down just because they have incurred too much of losses that I can keep in mind and when company closes down the father's lose their jobs and when that happens faith takes over now praise there's an element when faith is in your life that is a prophetic nassif aim where faith will prepare you for the coming danger and that is why faith is not just about phasing mini-mini a church challenges faith is about everything faith pleases God amen so when you have faith you will be able to please God so number one I want to share with you seven things right number one every I'm walk by faith so you and I are supposed to walk by faith because faith pleases God now the Bible also says anything that is not of faith is a sin therefore any other attempt that we do without God any other time we do without faith it's a sin it's not really accepted and so whatever produce that we do we can't afford to be like Cain Cain brought the produce of the ground when God said you cannot where else Abel brought the produce of an animal that he sacrificed before God because blood was shed now Jesus had shed of his blood just for us so therefore that when we commit our works unto God when we commit our challenges under God when we commit our income and to God and we bring that as a living sacrifice now that is accepted by faith the number one what life okay number two when I was looking at the Scriptures very interestingly do you remember in Genesis chapter 16 God will give a wood actually to Abraham a little bit earlier then he will have a son now remember Abraham was very old his wife was very old he was not able to have a son but yet God gave a promise and in the promise that you will have a son now let's give Abraham a break he he was starting out so when God said that to him he was also conditional to his wife because it was the first experience of receiving a word from God that beyond the natural order of life he will be able you have a child come on some people are just 3035 years old they don't want to have a child you're talking about with 75 years old receiving a word out of the wilderness then let's give him a slack right give him a break there could be some aspects of unbelief said this point there was an unbelieving so his wife came up to the story and she said in Genesis chapter 16 and the Bible says in verse 2 and Sarai said to Abram behold now the Lord has prevented me from bearing children go into my seven and you know her name is Hagar and she may be that I shall obtain children by her and Abraham listened to the voice of Sarai now that's where the problem is happening more so the second point that I want to share with you number one won't I table number two temptation there will always be a temptation to create solutions instead of keeping up with God's plan you see as fathers we need to overcome this temptation to use our game instead of listening to a God and say to you we think that God is late we always think that God is very slow we tend to think that God forgets his promises all we tend to think God is very slow and we are very smart that we will arrive on time and God is always late and that is why sometimes what people do just in case god doesn't do a miracle let's have a back-up plan you see God decides when he wants to do that miracle your backup plan is just for you it's not for God okay and so I want to encourage you in these times which are uncertain at this moment if you want to create backup lines you'll never stop creating backup lines the world is smarter the enemy will try to beat you in the game of your mind but when you walk in the spirit when you walk by revelation the enemy will not be able to create the fear in your life because you are walking with the steps footsteps of God amen so you need to overcome this temptation to create solutions which will kind of very costly and it will linger all through your life and look at this situation do not create in a smile problem when you are waiting for your prompts and it's important you need to have faith in the integrity of that God knows his time now God was not a a a I'm trying to think of a better word but we've all the respect that we have for God now just to use a human kaliesha God is not a fool where he will give a promise to a simplify your old man that you'll have a son the only thing about it this is the Living God the Book of Numbers says that God will not lie when he makes a promise he will fulfill it and so God did not lie to him and he said he will have a son but it was sorry who said yeah I know this has been said but you know I don't have a child so you go to to my servant and and have a have a child but the thing is God spoke to Abraham Abraham should have stopped his wife from interfering with the promise but because he listened to the voice of Sarai at the moment a new problem was created and so my brother's I want to encourage you during this Father's Day if you will make a habit to listen to God then you will grow up with the headed no matter what your challenges are today you can be single today you tomorrow you can be married to be a husband and the next day you will be a father and you'll have a child and the child will start growing up now if you would make a habit not to create a smile solutions in your life but to work by revelation to want by faith and wait for the timing of God you know you will start giving these spiritual principles to your family the devil will not be able to create situations where faith will do not have an answer I mean faith always has an answer no matter what the devil creates and that's the power or the revelation things that's the power of God that is working through your life and I wanted to trust that and that is why it is important do not have a habit of creating solutions when you create solutions the enemy will use them your witness and instead of waiting for God you will create more in smile problems that tomorrow you won't be able to solve it and the worse is when they smile problem grows and some people at Beck's like some people can't some people can't wait for God's timing and they create new issues and that issues piles up to bring discredit to the integrity and this is the time the devil is running to and fro trying to discredit God's people so walk in faith walk by revelation amen don't create new issues in your life number one one bucket number to walk in God's timing learn to handle temptations when it comes to you it could be your wife saying could be your son saying could be your daughter saying it's a father you need to walk by God you need to walk by what God is saying you need to take some time yes it is true your wife can say they are concerned who is true your family can say they are concerned as a father as a head of the home you are supposed to wait upon God the bigger the challenge the more you wait until God gives you a word and then you have the clearance and you'll be able to do what God puts in your heart right number three and so father that we face many many challenges we have a lot of relationships some people are bound they fear more there are relationships at home they are dynamics of a brothers sisters a mother father and cousins and all of that it sometimes it is interesting when all of them have a say of what you do hold on you see your revelation with God is personal your walk with God must be personal that brings us to point number three in these end times when you are walking by things when you are doing what God wants you to do when you have rearranged your life to fulfill the plane and the will of the Lord now you must be mindful of your relationships you must be mindful of who are your counselors you must be mindful of who has the power to speak into your life and confuse or bring mister to your soul you see the devil has a way to keep nagging when you say no they will keep nagging when you say no they keep nagging until it will become like a leech that will stick onto your soul but God is a gentleman here it's for you to make up your heart make up your mind the moment you say yes God then the Spirit of God works in your heart to bring solutions to your problems and to your challenges the moment you say God I will follow you then he will make a path over your life now look at this picture and he'd bring him it brought a lot of strength to my soul and in psalms chapter 16 and many of you know the scripture but it's you know every time I release it brings tears to my heart it is in psalms chapter 16 verse 11 you make known to me the path of life and in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore you make known to me the path of life how beautiful is that number three is to be mindful of your relationships now what happened in Genesis 14 remember God said to Abraham go alone yes bring your family so what Abraham did was to bring Lord Lord brought his wife and his two daughters so now they came alone right instead of going alone with his family he brought his cousin mouth it's understandable it will be very long and lonely to go into a place he don't know what to do so you need a cousin that you grew up together so let's tag along so he he brought Lord and in Genesis chapter 14 and you'll be very surprised in verse 12 that Lord was kidnapped you know that the Bible says that they also took Lord the son of Abraham's brother who was dwelling in Sodom and his possessions and when they away you see the enemy the king of Sodom came the king of gomorrah came the king of admah came the king of the bullying and the king of bela went out join battle in the valley of Siddim which is in verse Edom reading now they came the fall Kings came together against the five and there was a war that was going on and they began to come to each other and in verse 12 they captured law now Lord God stop now because Lord got stuck Abraham has to interfere and the Bible say see many times you get to hear ever ahem as a father of faith you did not know that Abraham was a warrior as well he brought his Kingsman he he brought his trained men born in his house 318 of them and they went in pursuit as far as day and then was 18 and says that they went and fought the enemy he was able to create a strategy in the night and he recovered Lord recovered the possessions and the woman and the people in brought them back amen you see when you involve in the wrong relationships during this times in God he's doing things in your life that will cause unnecessary delays it will cause unnecessary involvement in the things you should not have involved in the very first place we try to think that we are the Savior instant God becoming the Savior in many challenges number two you have another problem in this problem is Genesis chapter 19 Genesis chapter 19 you'll have another challenge we're not enemies why okay in Sodom and Gomorrah that's the next challenge when they people were growing so large in so big ever ahem say okay Lord we are growing too big and our servants are getting into our given all the time so let's pick a place and Lord chose this site and he went to Sodom in so while he was involved now God comes and saying again to Abraham I'm gonna judge Sodom and Gomorrah Abraham please and he intercedes and then God sends in Genesis chapter twenty first it was in Genesis chapter forty Abraham got to rescue Lord and then he will find in Genesis chapter chapter 19 God has to go and rescue Lord at this time very interesting you see this is what the thing that I want to tell you that you have to be mindful of your relationships during these times now you can involve the wrong people they're gonna track you down you get involved with people who are not walking in step you're gonna get in trouble as a father in faith we have to ensure that if you are called by God that your wife and your children are keeping instead with what God is saying to you there are many fathers who have lost their calling because their wives are not ready there are many fathers who have lost their family because they fail to prepare their family to keep instead with the work of God you see no matter what they challenge no matter what promises God gave prepare your family together be mindful of unnecessary relationships that is strangling you or slowing you down be mindful of wrong relationships that will delay the cause of God in your life you see there are some of the father's are involved in worms and certain industries that causes them to have more temptations than other men they could be in the cinema industry they could be in the F&B industry they could be in a nightclub industry they could be in industry that has a lot of other challenges that gives you a lot of options for compromise it can be woman it can be wine it can be wealth it can be challenges where your integrity is put into care where there are a lot of compromises and you need to make a stand you want to please God you can really please the world the Bible says he that is a friend with the world will become an enemy so I want to encourage you during this time the third thing I want to I want to remind you number one walk by faith number two don't create their new problems what with what God is asking to do and remember about Hagar and number three we mindful of your relationships during this time some people they are more concerned about their relationships in the natural then their relationships with God and so if you are so mindful about your natural relationships and you don't bother about keeping in step with God and walking might be God then how can God open the windows of heaven and bless you you see as a single man if you can honor that and tomorrow when you marry and you have challenges and you'll be praying to God because you have gone through a system of not honoring there will be a time again of a surrender then you'll become a father the same challenges will come true so I want to encourage you today if you would put your heart 1 and all of the relationships which God is giving to you learn to be with the right people in your life that they can push you forward towards the will of God now don't handle around or hang around confusing people man they don't have faith they will kill the faith that is in you so be mindful of your relationship now number 4 I wanna encourage you a father's life is a life of sacrifice not only in the natural some fathers they are rally at home they leave very early in the morning and they came very late in the night leave me work two or three jobs just to make their ends meet so that their children and the family is provided for and some father's the sniper in the job some of them they take a nap and you don't even eat well and all of that and I want to thank you on the I want to I want to say on behalf of heaven father's thank you thank you for being a spot for your family thank you for being an example to your son and to your family around that you tirelessly work to provide and make sure a family don't get into problems now Abraham had the same challenge God the Bible says I you know you see Abraham did not know what we know now listen in Genesis chapter 22 after these things God tested now every him did not know God was testing you we know because we know we are able to read the story well but ever ahem did not know it was attached he took literally for everything God saying and I want to go and understand whatever God tells you something taken literally he's not speaking in cliches he's not speaking in shadows if God gives you a clear message then obey with the clear message if God say now then the now is now did God say tomorrow I mean God speaks in clear English to you right so God can speak to you in clear English God can speak to any language that you think you can understand better so when God speaks to you don't act dumb Yanik stupid don't question whether God knows what he's doing not God knows exactly what he's saying amen so as a father the the life is a life of sacrifice now God tested Abraham and asked a question which would be a would you sacrifice your son Isaac and Abraham Sidious imagine this I don't know what people will think about the father what's wrong I mean God our son people will question but you see in the Old Testament I'm sacrificing children were part of the game and so it was not strange for ever him to say yes in his pagan practice of before he knew god they used to do this every hemes father was a big interest so they used to do this so for him it was not changed for what he did not know that God was not really asking you know whenever God requires sacrifices from you when God said you will seek God first and his kingdom now that's exactly when God says that you shall build a house that's a second when you give sides and you're offering States a psyche when you come to church when you come when you honor God I don't know recently someone told me that instead of coming Church I can actually in that two three hours I can make a little bit more money how dumb and foolish people are they think they can earn more and replace God for money you see my brothers and sisters when you mock God God's judgment as fathers into water need to walk in the spirit of humility you need to walk in a way that honors God don't try to talk in faith in the same time mock the prominent and Providence's of God in so I've experiences when I honor God in that time God will make the time to you when you honor God with your money God will make the money back to you amen a father's life is a life of sacrifice sacrifices keeps your faith active and and that's the challenge that you must know and sometimes you think why God is not moving in your life I wanna encourage you why don't you make a perspective and whenever five of the blessings of Abraham then we will study in our life he said ever hand anchored on the promises of God you know in Genesis chapter 22 you know about the time when God told him to bring Isaac right up to the mound to bring him as a sacrifice there in the midst of this pain in the midst of the challenge that he went through a challenge which no father should and there are many father's to know who have gone through this they have have to say yes to unplug the life support of their children fathers who have made decisions to unplug the life support of their wine and some of this Gil the fathers go through God can encourage them to me some fathers did not get the time to say goodbye to the children or the spouse when they passed on but I pray that God will strengthen you and encourage you blessings number five is that God will anchor his faith in his promises into your life Genesis 22 was a when Abraham went through the challenge in verse 20 verse 8 of chapter 22 he makes a statement everyone said God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son so they went both of them together you see they itself ever ham makes a prophecy that God Himself is going to provide for Lent now that prophecy was fulfilled by Jesus many years have to take thousands of gnu's now you know when God gives you a prophecy God gives you a promise it is able to sustain your life when he walked through the challenge and but how do you get the promises of God Hebrews chapter 6 verse 15 says by faith Abraham inherited the promises of God by faith now the question is but where does the promises of God come from he comes from the Word of God when you study the Word of God harvest the promises of God gather the promises of God confess the promises of God by faith God Himself will provide when you come to the end of your bank account when you come to the end of your challenge some of us are limited by your education that's how much you can get some of us are limited by a time that's how much you can work some of us are limited by our physical capabilities and physical limitations that this is all I can do I wanted to understand when you come to the limit of what he can do declare by faith God Himself will provide that means the future of your children's education is in the hand of God the future of your children's marriage is in the hand of God whatever the things that you aspire to do for your family is in the hands of God when I come to the end of my line God Himself welcome on my brothers this has been my faith all through my Wakita I've been walking with God for 35 years now I've been serving God 29 years full-time the challenge has been great I've spent times in tears and fast in praying living god proper sighing over bills that he must be paid I've done all the things which many people do God always came when there was so much of challenges and no results I kept on declaring God himself anything and I want to encourage that faith to you today God himself God is not obligated to provide the winds and the fancies and the dreams and the fantasies of our family God knows what is right and he will provide for what he's needed to trust alone he meant number-5 anchored in the promises of God now let's go to the blessings of number six in Genesis chapter 15 verse 18 the Bible says when ever ham walked with God now God and Abraham had to enter into a covenant the Bible says in verse 12 as the Sun was going down a deep sleep fell on a brown in that deep sleep God king walk around the final that day make a covenant his name was changed from Abram to Abraham now later on another challenge game that is in verse 16 Sarai in Hannah so I wanted to encourage you walk in God's covenant do you know what is God's covenant there are many covenants which God has given to us in the scriptures covenants and God will bless you and not kill you to promote you to lift you up in the midst of all the healing in the midst of all the diseases he will heal me if the demons are coming against you he will protect you God has done more than what we could imagine the covenants of God are important for us to understand now how do I know what is God's covenant with the Bible the Bible is God's contract Ronna me chapter 28 verse 1 to 14 see if you obey God these are the blessings that will come on you if you read the book of Matthew the Bible says blessed are thou blessed art thou you'll find the blessings of the kingdom then you will find in the epistles all the blessings that our covenants God name upon his children now one of the very prominent Covenant blessings is that God will prosper you even as your soul prospers third John was to the Bible also says that Jesus was broken crucified and through his tribes that we are healed now that's a covenant with tension all who call upon the name of Christ will be saved salvation that's a covenant promise I will never leave you nor forsake you that's a covenant from gather this covenant promises and walk in God's coming my brothers in this end times God is marking out his people next year is going to be a very challenging truth those who walk in God's covenant of obedience will escape and will be protected for the challenges that is coming to the body of Christ and to this please do not be like the world 20 clean fill live anxiety or hopeless that is a hope there is a plane and there is a future for the house of stone coming in number seven blessings of God in Genesis chapter 20 you will find in the scriptures Abraham and a blank came together you know Abraham went to Egypt and he kind of made a site tour and he went to Egypt and there he had to lie that Sarah was his sister instead of saying it was his wife now that was the challenge God appeared in a dream to a blemish and warned him that woman is another man's wife if you touch again God and so then have McCain gave all these concessions and told whoever ahem please leave my land leave my household with me alone you just do whatever you want to do and then in other words he prosper Abraham prospered in the midst of all the documents Abraham prospered in the midst of all the challenges and that's the blessings number seven over your life Kobe come Kobe don't listen nuwell prosper in the name of Jesus the Bible says that God desires to prosper you and bless you and to thank you no matter what the challenges happens in this world God will bless you you need to trust the Lord during these times the Lord is for you not against you amen my brothers there are many blessings that I shared with you in the life of Abraham you know I preached on Abraham many times but God showed me for this Father's Day in a very different life the challenges and the blessings of Abraham now Abraham was a real man he walked with God he was tempted he did something wrong God we saw him and the challenges were the same today as a father our challenges are the same but God is more than our challenge God redeemed himself for you and he will redeem you and your situations as he has done for me our God is a faithful God why don't I pray for you right now father in the name of Jesus I pray for every father and your blessings will come that your blessings will prevail in their life and you are the Lord of their life father as a father from heaven give our fathers on earth wisdom knowledge and understanding what we must do me and my household we shall serve the Lord in as the head of the home bless the fathers and the brothers lift them up in the name of Jesus maybe your blessings will come I thank you founded on behalf of heaven once again thank you for the opportunity to bring this word to you a very great birth bless Father's Day to everybody let's see

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