( Based on the sermon by
Bro. Lee Wee Min of Focus On the Family )
Some families have it all : A cozy home, loving parents and loved children;
some families continuously sit on a roller-coaster ride : Happy when something good happens, angry when something bad happens and sad when something tragic happens;
some families live for one day at a time : Momentary happiness, long worried faces and striving to make the best one day at a time;
some of other families are lost and broken : Missing a family member and unable to move on or just separated although nearby;
and some have no one at all.
We can change the situations we are in, we can have a better family. A stronger family. Because God called us to Build a Strong Family.
3 Foundations to consider...
- Love God.
Love the Lord, Yahweh and no one else. Knowing in every part of yourself that God is watching everything and testing everything I say, I think, I do. What we say and do affects our family members, our younger siblings, the people who see us everyday.
Sometimes do we really even think twice about the actions we take? Like when we snap back at out parents when they nagging at us.
When we say something we shouldn't, do we just pretend like its not important?
- Be captured by His word and Pass it On.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
The Message (MSG)
6-9 Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.
When we here or read from the bible, we should share what we've learned with the family. Letting God show us how to handle ourselves with our family..
For example,
Ephesians 6:1-4
1-3 Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right. "Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely, "so you will live well and have a long life."
4 Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.
Here it tells about children, to obey their parents and respect them dutifully. Also to fathers, they shouldn't provoke/ criticize/ pressure their child, but to guide them in ways that the child will find easy to follow.
- Bring His goodness and Providence into the Family
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
10-12 When God, your God, ushers you into the land he promised through your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you, you're going to walk into large, bustling cities you didn't build, well-furnished houses you didn't buy, come upon wells you didn't dig, vineyards and olive orchards you didn't plant. When you take it all in and settle down, pleased and content, make sure you don't forget how you got there—God brought you out of slavery in Egypt.
God's desire is to bless us, but watch out that we do not forget God's goodness.
It says in..
Deuteronomy 8:19
19-20 If you forget, forget God, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you firm warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it—destruction. You'll go to your doom—the same as the nations God is destroying before you; doom because you wouldn't obey the Voice of God, your God.
This is for us to be reminded that all we have is A Gift from God. Especially, the privilege of having a family whether perfect or not.
Let us refocus, to what's good about our families and work on it:)
3 Foundations to consider...
- Love God.
Deuteronomy 6:5
The Message (MSG)
5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!
Love the Lord, Yahweh and no one else. Knowing in every part of yourself that God is watching everything and testing everything I say, I think, I do. What we say and do affects our family members, our younger siblings, the people who see us everyday.
Sometimes do we really even think twice about the actions we take? Like when we snap back at out parents when they nagging at us.
When we say something we shouldn't, do we just pretend like its not important?
- Be captured by His word and Pass it On.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
The Message (MSG)
6-9 Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.
When we here or read from the bible, we should share what we've learned with the family. Letting God show us how to handle ourselves with our family..
For example,
Ephesians 6:1-4
1-3 Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right. "Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely, "so you will live well and have a long life."
4 Fathers, don't exasperate your children by coming down hard on them. Take them by the hand and lead them in the way of the Master.
Here it tells about children, to obey their parents and respect them dutifully. Also to fathers, they shouldn't provoke/ criticize/ pressure their child, but to guide them in ways that the child will find easy to follow.
- Bring His goodness and Providence into the Family
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
10-12 When God, your God, ushers you into the land he promised through your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you, you're going to walk into large, bustling cities you didn't build, well-furnished houses you didn't buy, come upon wells you didn't dig, vineyards and olive orchards you didn't plant. When you take it all in and settle down, pleased and content, make sure you don't forget how you got there—God brought you out of slavery in Egypt.
God's desire is to bless us, but watch out that we do not forget God's goodness.
It says in..
Deuteronomy 8:19
19-20 If you forget, forget God, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you firm warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it—destruction. You'll go to your doom—the same as the nations God is destroying before you; doom because you wouldn't obey the Voice of God, your God.
This is for us to be reminded that all we have is A Gift from God. Especially, the privilege of having a family whether perfect or not.
Let us refocus, to what's good about our families and work on it:)
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