God Give Us Christian Homes

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Genesis 2:7-15  
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. ⁸ The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. ¹⁰ Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.¹⁵ Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”

Vs 8 & 15  – God planted a garden and put the man in it to tend and keep it.

God is the founder of our homes! He planted our homes and put us there to tend and keep it inside Christ for His glory.

• Thank God for the privilege of being planted into our homes and for the good plan that He has for each home.

• Lord - Jesus Christ was faithful to God who appointed Him as Son over His own house. Help me to manifest the faithfulness of Jesus over the home You have put me in.

• Grant grace and strength to stand firm on the platform of Calvary to the end, and perform my responsibility. ‘Sons’ must be brought to glory from my home. Please do not allow me to miss the purpose for which you planted my home, and put me in it.

• God, give us Christian homes – true disciples’ homes –  where the order of God is upheld for the glory of God; where husbands love their wives sacrificially and they submit to each other, children obey, fathers  do not exasperate their children, mothers are tender-hearted and God is feared.

Vs 15  – to tend and keep it.

The full Gospel is the only tool that can be used to tend and keep our homes. Our responsibility to tend and keep God’s home means that the message of the cross must be preached in its fullness to everyone in our homes.

2 Timothy 4:2,5 "Proclaim the message, press it home on all occasions, convenient or inconvenient, use arguments, reproof, appeal, with all patience that the work of teaching requires.  ⁵ But you yourself must be calm and sane at all times; face hardship, work to spread the Gospel and do all the duties of your calling." (NEB)
Leave nothing undone that you ought to do. (TLB)

• Lord - Let my home be a place where the Bible is loved and taught; where the Mater's will is sought. Let my home be a conducive environment for the purpose of God to be established. Let my home be a place where the Gospel is preached when convenient or inconvenient - in season or out of season.

• Let the message of the cross be proclaimed in me so that I can preach it with grace to my family. I cannot preach a crucified Christ if I myself am not crucified with Christ. Bring me into practical knowledge of “It’s no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me.”

• Take away fear from me and give me courage to use all opportunities wisely. Reveal my duty to me, and grant that all the ones you have entrusted to me (e.g. spouse, children, siblings) will be given to You in fruitful labour. (Like Hannah, who was entrusted with a son in order to give God a prophet).

• Let every plant that the Lord has not planted be uprooted from my home in Jesus’ name. Matthew 15:13. Rid us completely of any form of waywardness. Deal with any form of disorder manifesting from my home. Let all things be done decently and in order in my home. 1 Cor. 14:40.

• Help me to know that if the hedge is broken (due to lack of tending and keeping my home), the serpent will bite. Eccl. 10:8 KJV. Reveal where the hedge has been broken in my home and seal it with the blood of Your cross.

• Grant that I will do all the duties of my calling in my home, leaving nothing undone.

Vs 10 – Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden.

Water for the Garden was also provided by God to keep the garden fertile.

Water represents the Word of God – Ephesians 5:26

Ezekiel 47:1, 3-5  “Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. ³ And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles. ⁴ Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist. ⁵ Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed.” (NKJV)

• Thank You for giving us Your Word. Thank You that the Word became flesh. Let the Word become flesh in my home.

• Cause us to be deep in the Word. We want to be totally submerged. Let Your Word shape our lives and the lives of our children.

• Grant that our homes will be fertile ground for the fruit of the Spirit to grow, as the water of the Word flows into it from the temple of God.

God, give us Christian homes!

God give us Christian homes!

Homes where the Bible is loved and taught,
Homes where the Masters will is sought,
Homes crowned with beauty Your love has wrought;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the father is true and strong,
Homes that are free from the blight of wrong,

Homes that are joyous with love and song;

God give us Christian homes;

God give us Christian homes!

God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the mother, in caring quest,

Strives to show others Your way is best,

Homes where the Lord is an honoured guest;

God give us Christian homes;

God give us Christian homes!

God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the children are led to know

Christ in His beauty who loves them so,

Homes where the altar fires burn and glow;

God give us Christian homes;

God give us Christian homes!

B.B McKinney

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