Honour your Father
Today as we celebrate father’s day, I want you to know that you need a father. You need a spiritual father, and you need a natural father. There is no one who is able to release a blessing into your life other than your father. Your spiritual father will release spiritual blessings and your natural father will release natural blessings into your life.
In Genesis 27 30 to 40. We read about Isaac, and old man who was about to die, he called his son Esau and said, “prepare me my favourite stew so that I can bless you before I die”. In order for you as a son to get the blessing from your father, you need to please him, do something that will cause him to release a blessing. Today as a spiritual father, I’m very happy with how my children have honoured me, and I’m about to release a blessing, not as a prophet, but as a father.
As a prophet, I can declare and decree a blessing into your life, but as a father, I will release a blessing into your life. Now the most important question here today is , have you honoured your natural father? You cannot say because you honor your spiritual father, you don’t honor your natural father. When you want to honor your father, do not look at his weaknesses, just honor him and do what pleases him, and he will release a blessing into your life.
It does not matter whether your father is a drunkard or whether he is a poor or whatever weaknesses that he may have, he is your father and you need to honor him. It doesn’t matter whether you are more educated than your father, but you still need his blessing. Isaac was an old man when he blessed Jacob, someone might have thought that this old man who is blind and about to die has nothing to give, but he still had the power to release a blessing.
You are here today and you are facing different challenges in your life, honor your father, he will release a blessing and you will see how your life will change. Do not reject your father, otherwise you will live a life empty of blessings. Do not say he is a step father, or not my biological father, but honor him, and you will see the goodness of God.
You cannot say that only your mother raised you so you will honor her alone and ignore your father, you still need your father no matter what. Even if he had rejected you as a child you must still honor him. Your mother cannot release a blessing, but she will support you in order to get the blessing from your father. Rebekah gave Jacob support in order for him to get the blessing. If she was not there, Jacob might have not gotten the blessing.
Let your mother remain the support structure in your life, but honor your father, so that he can release a blessing into your life. If you are here and you are not talking to your father, you need to go and reconcile with him, if you are here and you have never honoured or respected your father, you need to go and start today. You are going nowhere without your father, he has your blessing, you need to honor him.
May you receive all the blessings as you go and give honor to your father.