Congratulations to all of the Daddys on this Happy Fathers' Day 2010! What a tremendous responsibility that each man is expected to give and to share with his spouse each day of the year as a happily married couple. There are many married singles that carry on their own agenda at the expense of a sound marital relationship. Many men forget to live their manhood and their fatherhood by giving their spouses the total responsibility of raising the children of their marriage rather than give an equal share of love, care, and guidance to the beautiful persons in their lives. When Dads understand that they are co-partners with the Heavenly Father and their spouse to bring about new life, they are well on their way to realize the value and the dignity of human life at all stages of development. A Man of God will give total respect to his spouse and be a GENTLE MAN; and in addition, the Achievement Ladder Enthusiastic Dad will be there for his children and his spouse for "better or for worse," "for richer or for poorer," "in sickness and in health," and "until death do they part."
Let us remember to encourage the Dads in our lives to understand God's plan for their families as God intended. We read in Ephesians 1:3-6: "Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has bestowed on us in Christ every spiritual blessing in the heavens! God chose us in him before the world began, to be holy and blameless in his sight, to be FULL OF LOVE; he likewise predestined us through Christ Jesus to be his adopted sons and daughters--such was his will and pleasure---that all might praise the glorious favor he has bestowed on us in his beloved." "May God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, grant you a spirit of WISDOM and INSIGHT to know him clearly. May he enlighten your innermost vision of WISDOM that you may know the GREAT HOPE to which he has called you, the wealth of his glorious heritage to be distributed among the members of the church, and the immeasurable scope of his power in us who believe." (Ephesians 1:17-19)
For all Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts who are living examples of DADS, may we ask the following: "That is why I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name: and I pray that he will bestow on you gifts in keeping with the riches of his glory. May he strengthen you inwardly through the working of his Spirit. May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, and may charity be the root and foundation of your life. Thus you will be able to grasp fully, with all the holy ones, the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ's love, and experience this love which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may attain to the fullness of God himself....live a life worthy of the calling you have received, with perfect humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another lovingly. Make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force. There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope given all of you by your call. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and works through all, and is in all." (Ephesians 3:14-4:6)
Happy DADS day for all Achievement Ladder Enthusiastic DADS who care!
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