Scripture References: Luke 18:1-8

Pray for Our Homes

Now turn your thoughts to your home and where you live, and who you live with. How we need to pray for our homes! The devil is doing everything he can to destroy, especially, the American home. If he does, he has destroyed the foundation of Christianity, the bulwark of American liberty and American civilization. He has already practically destroyed the Lord’s day, turning it into a fun day, a commercial day, not to mention days we set aside as holy. The three great institutions upon which American liberty, religion and civilization were founded are the church, the Lord’s day, and the old-fashioned Christian home. If the devil can destroy those three, then he will have destroyed the foundation. And God said, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3).

So how much more we ought to pray that the enemy will not be able to destroy the family devotional time. Most homes don’t have time for the family to have devotions together anymore, the place where they can freely talk and discuss the Word of God and where they can pray together. When the devil gets us too busy to have family devotions and prayer, he has gone a long way toward destroying the foundation of Christianity. The spirituality of your church or any other church cannot rise any higher than the spirituality of your homes and the individuals within it.

We pray for the spiritual church. We pray for the power of the Spirit upon our churches. But it must start in the homes where we live seven days a week, twelve months a year, every year.

Oh, how my heart goes out to young boys and girls who have a thousand times the temptations today whereas I only had a few! The times have changed but spirituality shouldn’t. Jesus Christ is the same day in and day out, unchanging, (Hebrews 13:8), and since He is the head of the family and thus the church, change shouldn’t happen in our devotion to Him or toward one another.

I was raised in the Catholic church until just before my seventeenth birthday when I gave my heart to Jesus, but I had a step-mother who was faithful to take myself and my siblings to church, so I was given a taste of church. I had a matriarchal grandmother who loved the Lord and told me of my mother whom I never knew but who loved the Lord. My background until my seventeenth birthday wasn’t spiritual, but it was religious and when I met my wife-to-be, in High School, I gained a family that taught me about the Lord Jesus Christ. Many do not have even the background I had; they have never set foot in a church, and never had questions about God and Jesus. I was fortunate to meet the love of my life who came from a family who was spiritually devoted to the Lord and willing to share the Word of God and their insights.

Today, it seems, mothers and fathers have gotten too busy after the things of the world and, in the rush and hurry of everyday modern life and all the programs deemed necessary to grow successful families, yet they have lost what makes the family truly successful, and that is the time spent together in familial devotions and prayer.

With divorce rates so astoundingly high, abuse and neglect in the home, so many single parent homes, children living in foster care, with little to no love, it appears that we need to not just pray for our homes, but we need to lift up the homes and families of our neighbors and those in our communities. Again, the key is to pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).

To Be Continued

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