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Thursday, January 1, 2014
This Year: A Family Altar
As the New Year begins parents have an opportune time to establish a family altar, a place in the home to gather on purpose for concerns or problems, and to seek the LORD's wisdom in prayer.
The family altar is for training—a special, established place where each one grows in capacity to worship, both children and parents, together; and for gathering together, before the Lord, to receive wisdom for decisions and planning and to gain insight into God’s will for family matters.
- For generational issues seemingly “always with us,”
- For specific health challenges common to family members—those that “run in our family,”
- For specific petition prayer to teach younger ones the principle of asking AND receiving.
A family altar is the center – the heart of the home. It’s where we exchange what we inherited in the natural sense for a spiritual inheritance. It’s where faith develops, heartache is pre-empted, and families grow spiritually—together.
“Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart like water
in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children…” (Lamentations 2:19)
Expect 2015 to mark your home.
Amen.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Deuteronomy 11:19-21, Jeremiah 31:17, Lamentations 2:19, Hosea 4:6, Luke 11:13, Ephesians 6:4, Verses@Once
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