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INTRODUCTION

Mother’s Day has to be one of the most celebrated days in the world.

Yaani for the time I lived in America, Mother’s Day was that one day if you have not booked a restaurant a month in advance you are not getting anything.

Every restaurant would be packed, every hotel, every luxury limousine, flowers have been completely sold out.

Millions and millions of dollars would be used to celebrate mothers and deservedly so.

Our mothers have sacrificed, blood sweat and tears in raising us up and there is not a person under the sound of my voice who wouldn’t have something to say about what their mothers have done for them.

But today Deliverance Church if you would indulge me a little bit i want to with todays bible study celebrate our fathers.

Father’s day comes and goes and no one even seems to notice.

So today I want to celebrate both physical Fathers and spiritual Fathers, and here I am talking about functional Fathers and functional Fatherhood.

Fatherhood is in serious decline in our years, due to the divorce rates and just a general irresponsibility from modern men.

Fatherhood is in serious decline in our years, due to the divorce rates and just a general irresponsibility from modern men, fatherhood has fallen into hard times, but can I tell you that if you want to measure the health of a community, the health of a family or society look at the fatherhood in that family or society

fatherhood has fallen into hard times, but can I tell you that if you want to measure the health of a community,

Fatherhood is in serious decline in our years, due to the divorce rates and just a general irresponsibility from modern men, fatherhood has fallen into hard times, but can I tell you that if you want to measure the health of a community, the health of a family or society look at the fatherhood in that family or society

the health of a family or society look at the fatherhood in that family or society

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about the single mum in America and her wayward boy.

ILLUSTRATION- STATISTICS ON FATHERLESS HOMES/COMMUNITIES

let me show some statistics that might shock you.

let me show some statistics that might shock you.

Like i said on Wednesday Kenya doesn’t yet collect these kind of statistics, so these are from America.

Like i said on Wednesday Kenya doesn’t yet collect these kind of statistics, so these are from America.

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You see when you enter a home you see paintings and maybe the TV hung on the wall, flowers hanging and the light bulbs hanging from the roof and carpets on the floor.

You know the one thing we haven’t noticed is that all those decorations and beautification depend on the foundation of that house,

without that foundation there are no walls, There is no roof and nothing to hang your flowers, TV or even bulbs.

Fathers are that foundation and everything else we see is dependent on that foundation.

Without Fathers as you can see with the statistics there is mass destruction happening on those homes and if the homes are a reflection of that society

then you can imagine that we are seeing the collapse of that society, but for the grace of God.

So today as we look at Fathers there are so many things I can share about Fathers and Fatherhood but for the sake of time I will share just three things I have observed about good fathers.

LET ME START BY GIVING 3 POINTS ABOUT WHAT FATHERS ARE NOT.

Fathers are not just titles-

especially na sisi Pentecostals there are these movements that have come in where some people are ascribing to fatherhood with fantastic titles.

The most right reverend apostle of the mountain of fire ministries,

The prophet to the nations, MD, PhD, LLB, MTV, NTV, CNN, KBC, Initials AKALA, AVUNJA.

A father is not titles, he is a repository, a storehouse of the anointing of God of heaven, borne out of the fires of affliction and tests

who by the constant use of his senses has trained to discern good and evil.

Secondly Fathers do not see their sons and daughters as disposable assets.

Many a son or daughter that I have met who has been severely hurt has come from a relationship with a father where they were seen as units of production.

Maybe out of a distorted view of ministry or life that father had used his sons and daughters.

Some of those hurts that I have seen shape the mind and hearts of those sons and daughters.

Some of them carry that pain for a lifetime.

3 thirdly Fathers and especially spiritual Fathers are not fly by nights- they are not microwaved and suddenly they appear.

They are not manufactured overnight.

It takes years of their own seasoning to establish integrity and authentic life transformation.

They have been through intense sifting and the trying of their faith.

Yaani nowadays you hear of a father, the brother is 17 years and he is already baba!!!

He hasn’t even yet finished eating cerelac na ametoka ma diapers hivi majuzi and he is already a father, wanting the priviledge and honors that accrue to that office.

That is not a father that is a wannabe.

And those kind of men will fascinate you then assasinate you.

They will thrill you and then kill you.

Those aren’t fathers.

When a Father comes into a place his presence alone will alert you that there is a Father in the house.

Thirdly Fathers and especially spiritual Fathers are not fly by nights-

they are not microwaved and suddenly they appear.

They are not manufactured overnight.

It takes years of their own seasoning to establish integrity and authentic life transformation.

They have been through intense sifting and the trying of their faith.

Yaani nowadays you hear of a father, the brother is 17 years and he is already baba!!!

He hasn’t even yet finished eating cerelac na ametoka ma diapers hivi majuzi and he is already a father,

Yaani nowadays you hear of a father, the brother is 17 years and he is already baba!!!

He hasn’t even yet finished eating cerelac na ametoka ma diapers hivi majuzi and he is already a father,

wanting the privilege and honors that accrue to that office.

wanting the privilege and honors that accrue to that office.

That is not a father that is a wannabe.

And those kind of men will fascinate you then assasinate you.

They will thrill you and then kill you.

Those aren’t fathers.

When a Father comes into a place his presence alone will alert you that there is a Father in the house.

SO WHO ARE FATHERS AND WHAT DO THEY DO

A) FATHERS MODEL OUT LIFE AND MINISTRY

We have all heard the saying that somethings are caught and not taught.

That is modeling.

We have all heard the saying that somethings are caught and not taught.

That is modeling.

That is they play a role and we watch how that role and learn to emulate it.

Modeling is a combination of Instruction, discipline and opportunities.

There is an apprenticeship going on.

You see the Jewish Kings as they grew older ruled together with the son who would inherit the throne.

The son would get to see how his father ruled, how he passed on judgment, how he communicated with his counsel, how they planned war etc. and progressively the Father would draw back and let his son make a few decisions here and there see how he would handle things.

Sometimes the son would experience failure, because there is no modeling without failure.

But together with instruction, discipline and opportunities the Father would model to his son.

A father models praise God.

That is they play a role and we watch how that role and learn to emulate it.

Modeling is a combination of Instruction, discipline and opportunities.

There is an apprenticeship going on.

You see how the indians do it.

you go to their shops and the son and daughter are there assisting the dad.

they help at the counter

they take inventory, help with accounts, check on the workers.

they are doing what they see their Father doing.

and the father provides instruction, he disciplines.

they have to be there early in the morning before any of the workers are there to check and make sure everything is ok

and they are provided with opportunities in decision making and the running of the business.

A father models praise God.

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A concern i have with our younger generations is that we sometimes feel we don’t need our Fathers.

We have so much information that we mistake information for formation, we mistake expertise for experience.

We have so much information that we mistake information for formation, we mistake expertise for experience.

Just because we are so savvy on our electronics and we have so much information on our fingertips-We feel we know more than our Fathers.

Just because we are so savvy on our electronics and we have so much information on our fingertips- our expertise is not experience.