Today, we will discuss the importance of serving the Lord through the family. All family members should dedicate their lives and time to God’s glory. When the entire family gives time to God and surrenders itself to worship and adoration, God blesses that family.
May there be unity in our family life. When we all serve the Lord together, our relationship with each other and with God is closer. This united worship brings peace and happiness to the family. Jesus said that where two or more people gather in His name, He is with them. Through this, we understand that when a family prays to God and worships, God’s presence is in that family.
From the life of Noah, we see that when all people went down the path of unrighteousness, only his family remained steadfast in God’s way. As a result, God saved only his family when He destroyed the whole world with a flood. From this story, we can learn that if a family remains steadfast in God’s way, they will be rewarded.
Our families should teach their children about God’s love and His commandments. Parents should sit with their children in prayer and discuss the Word of God, through which children can establish a relationship with God. Children can follow God by watching their parents and following God’s plan.
When a family is surrendered to the Lord, no evil force can work on that family. The presence of God defeats all evil forces and makes that family victorious in all its endeavors.
Now look at the following Bible verses where families talk about serving the Lord.
Proverbs 17:6 : —
“Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their fathers”
Proverbs 1:8-9 : —
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, forsake not the law of thy motherFor they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, chains about thy neck”
Proverbs 22:6 : —
“Train up a child in the way he should go: when he is old, he will not depart from it”
Proverbs 31:27-28 : —
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, eateth not the bread of idlenessHer children arise up, call her blessed; her husband also, he praiseth her”
Deuteronomy 11:19 : —
“Ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest up”
Deuteronomy 4:9 : —
“Only take heed to thyself, keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, thy sons’ sons”
Deuteronomy 5:29 : —
“O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, with their children for ever”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 : —
“These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heartAnd thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest up”
Ephesians 6:4 : —
“Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture admonition of the Lord”
Colossians 3:20 : —
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord”
Psalm 103:17-18 : —
“But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, his righteousness unto children’s childrenTo such as keep his covenant, to those that remember his commandments to do them”
Psalm 127:3 : —
“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : the fruit of the womb is his reward”
Psalm 128:3 : —
“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table”
Acts 16:31 : —
“They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved, thy house”
Genesis 18:19 : —
“For I know him, that he will command his children his household after him, they shall keep the way of the Lord , to do justice judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him”
Matthew 19:14 : —
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven”
Titus 2:4 : —
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children”
Malachi 2:15 : —
“Did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth”
Isaiah 54:13 : —
“All thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; great shall be the peace of thy children”
Exodus 20:12 : —
“Honour thy father thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”