FATHER -- EVERY-DAY FATHERS -- KING OF THE CASTLE -- BUILDERS OF NATIONS AND HOMES - FATHER'S DAY



A FATHER'S INFLUENCE AND EXAMPLE

Definition of FATHER

1. a male human parent <the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons>
dad, daddy, old man, pa, papa (also poppa), pater [chiefly British], pop, sire
2. a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor <Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science>
3. a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent <our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right>
  

STRONG FOUNDATION
  • Determination: "Stick with it, regardless"
  • Honesty: "Speak and live the truth--always"
  • Responsibility: "Be dependable, be trustworthy"
  • Thoughtfulness: "Think of others before yourself"
  • Confidentiality: "Don't tell secrets, Seal your lips"
  • Punctuality: "Be on time"
  • Self-control: "When under stress, stay calm"
  • Patience: "Fight irritability, Be willing to wait"
  • Purity: "Reject anything that lowers your standards"
  • Compassion: "When another hurts, feel it with him/her"
  • Diligence: "Work hard. Tough it out"
What is a family? It is a perpetual relay of truth! Watch the children as you organize a relay race, a running contest in which two lines of children wait as one from each line runs a distance and returns to hand the flag to a team member. Back and forth they run and pass the flag. If one drops it, there is a forfeit of returning to the starting place. What excitement is generated, as those finished (or waiting for their turn) watch to see how soon the flag will come back, groan when it is dropped, cheer when someone falls and skins a knee and then pops up bravely to run on again. This is a relay race in which it matters whether one person gets there, because if the flag is not handed on, the next person can’t start on his or her part of the course.
by Edith Schaeffer
  • “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations” (Deuteronomy 7:9).
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise: That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. [This is quickly followed by just as strong a command in the next verse:] And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:1-4)
  • Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Deuteronomy 6:4-7)
  • I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. (Psalms 78:2-7)
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  • And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever. (Joshua 4:21-24)
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  • Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15
  • Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1, 2:



Cats In The Cradle
My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then


Zac Brown Band - My Old Man (Lyric Video)

Walk a little Plainer Daddy

“Walk a little plainer, Daddy”
said a little boy so frail.
“I’m following in your footsteps
And I don’t want to fail.
Sometimes your steps are very plain,
Sometimes they are hard to see.
So walk a little plainer,
Daddy, for you are leading me.”
“I know that once you walked this way
many years ago.
And what you did along the way
I’d really like to know.
For sometime when I am tempted
I don’t know what to do.
So walk a little plainer, Daddy
for I must follow you.”
“Someday when I’m grown up,
you are like I want to be.
Then I will have a little boy,
who will want to follow me.
And I would want to lead him right
and help him to be true.
So walk a little plainer,
Daddy For we must follow you.”



Musings of a Good Father on a Bad Day


There is nothing sadder than the childless couple. It breaks your heart to see them stretched out, relaxing around swimming pools in Florida, and California, suntanned and miserable on the decks of boats, trotting off to enjoy Europe like fools - with money to spend, time to enjoy themselves and nothing to worry about.
Childless couples become so selfish and wrapped up in their own concern that you feel sorry for them. they don't fight over the kids' discipline. They miss the fun of "doing without" for the child's sake. It's a pathetic sight.
Everyone should have children. No one should be allowed to escape the wonderful experiences attached to each stage in the development of the young. The happy memories of those early years - saturated mattresses, waiting for sitters who don't show up, midnight asthma attacks, rushing to the emergency room of the hospital to get the kid's head stitched up.
Then comes the payoff - when the child grows from a little acorn into a real nut. What can equal the warm smile of a small lad with the sun glittering on $1,500 worth of braces - ruined by peanut brittle - or the frolicking, carefree voices of 20 hysterical savages running amok at a birthday party?
Children are worth every moment of anxiety, every sacrifice. You know it the first time you take your son hunting. He didn't mean to shoot you in the leg. Remember how he cried? How sorry he was? so disappointed you weren't a deer. Those are the memories a man treasures.
Think back to that night of romantic adventure, when your budding, beautiful daughter eloped with the village idiot. What childless couple ever shares in such a wonderful growing experience? Could a woman without children equal the strength and heroism of your wife when she tried to fling herself out the bedroom window? Only a father could have the courage to stand by ready to jump after her.
The childless couple lives in a vacuum. They try to fill their lonely lives with dinner dates, theater, golf, tennis, swimming, civic affairs and trips all over the world. The emptiness of life without children is indescribable.
See what the years have done. He looks boyish, unlined and rested. She is slim, well-groomed and youthful. It isn't natural. If they had kids, they'd look like the rest of us - tired, gray, wrinkled and haggard. In other words, normal.


THE MANUFACTURER'S HANDBOOK

HAS INSTRUCTIONS

ON FATHER'S

RESPONSIBILITIES
OF LEADERSHIP IN THE HOME
Fathers
We honour you in your God given duty
May you walk free from the lies of the world
That say a father is not important
...
For we say that you are important
You are to be a light in darkness
A living example of God Himself
We bless you to be strong and courageous
To wear the full armour of God
To resist the devil, and to stand
Stand firm for your wives and children
Stand firm for the body of Christ
We bless you to go out and do great deeds for the kingdom of God
To become oaks of righteousness
To rise to the fullness of Christ
And to run hard the race that has been marked for you
We claim this blessing for you
That you would be counted righteous in this life
That by the grace of God you would be blameless
And that in so doing your children would be blessed
What you do in life echoes in eternity.
O God bless these men
And may their echoes be loud and full and pleasing in Your sight
throughout all ages.


Psalm 127

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.

1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
    the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
    the guards stand watch in vain.
2 In vain you rise early
    and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat—
    for he grants sleep to those he loves.
3 Children are a heritage from the Lord,
    offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
    are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
    whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
    when they contend with their opponents in court.



Ephesians 6

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[

4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead,

bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

A Song For Dad - Keith Urban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JvJDu9sUeg

1 Kings 9 (Godly Father)

4 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, 5 I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’


21 Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ 

1 Samuel 3:12-14

12 At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end. 13 For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God, and he failed to restrain them. 14 Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”

PARENTAL DUTIES


TEACH CHILDREN GOD'S WORD
Deuteronomy 6:7
7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

1 Kings 22 (Evil spirit's influence on a dishonorable Father)

Isaiah 28:9
9 “Who is it he is trying to teach?
    To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk,
    to those just taken from the breast?

TRAIN CHILDREN
Proverbs 22:6
6 Start children off on the way they should go,
    and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Isaiah 38:19

19 The living, the living—they praise you,
    as I am doing today;
parents tell their children
    about your faithfulness.

BE AN EXAMPLE
2 Chronicles 20:13
13 All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.

BLESSING AND HONOR OR DISHONOR-- YOU GET TO CHOOSE
Exodus 20:4-6

3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,

visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,
on the third and the fourth generations
of those who hate Me,

 6 BUT

 showing lovingkindness
to thousands,
to those who love Me
and
keep My commandments.


ABRAHAM -- A FATHER OF HONOR
  • Genesis 18: 1-2, 19
  • Genesis 14:17-23
  • Genesis 25:7-11
LOT A FATHER OF DISHONOR
  • Genesis 19:24-26
  • Genesis 19:14
  • Genesis 19:9
  • Luke 17:32
FAMILY FIRST-- DON'T GO THE WAY OF ELI THE HIGH PRIEST
  • 1 Samuel 2:17, 22
  • 1 Samuel 1:15
  • 1 Samuel 2:12
  • 1 Samuel 2:22-33
  • 1 Samuel 2:4:18

MEN OF THE BIBLE OF HONOR
  1. Abraham was the father of faith
  2. Moses was the father of leadership
  3. David was the father of songs and poetry
  4. Solomon was the father of wisdom
  5. Isaiah was the father of redemptive prophecy
  6. Daniel was the father of vision and end-time prophecy
  7. Joseph was the earthly father of Jesus
  8. Peter was the father of Pentecost
  9. John was the father of the book of Revelation

 

Malachi 4:4-6

4 “Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
5 “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”




DAD'S turn out all right in time!
  • 4 years old: My Daddy can do anything
  • 7 years old: My Dad knows a lot, a whole lot
  • 8 years old: Dad doesn't know quite everything
  • 12 years old: Oh, well, naturally Father doesn't understand
  • 14 years old: Father! Hopelessly old-fashioned
  • 21 years old: He comes up with a good idea now and then
  • 30 years old: Must find out what Dad thinks about it
  • 35 years old: A little patience; let's get Dad's input first
  • 50 years old: What would Dad have thought about that?
  • 60 years old: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more


What Makes a Dad
God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,...
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family in need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad


DADDY'S HANDS
A beautiful song by Holly Dunn





WALKING IN DADDY'S SHOES
I remember times when I was just a child
A little boy's imagination still untamed and wild
The times I'd sit in daddy's lap and kiss his stubble cheek
He'd catch me doing wrong, I wouldn't sit down for a week

Walking in my daddy's shoes, I wished to be like him
Waiting for the change to make me grow up to begin
I remember in times, before
There was nothing that I wanted more
Than walking in my daddy's shoes

Then I heard stories and knew they were true
A bigger Daddy in the sky watches over me and you
I heard about my Daddy's love. He gave His only Son
And all there is was known by Him before time had begun

Walking in my daddy's shoes, I want to be like Him
It's part up to me, you see, to make the change begin
I want to praise the Father, Lord
There's nothing that I want more
Than walking in my daddy's shoes

Nobody can fill them
No one ever could
If I could grow my feet that big
You bet your boots I would

Walking in my Daddy's shoes





Grandpa Tell Me Bout The Good Old Days
The Judds



Conway Twitty's "That's My Job"


Rodney Atkins - Watching You

    Trace Adkins - Just Fishin'



    Daddy, you can let go now



    Seein' My Father In Me - Paul Overstreet



    Ricky Van Shelton - Keep it between the Lines



    sawyer brown the walk



    Confederate Railroad - Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5R-T_YF-wU




    s
    butterfly kisses

     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-Qk07KxA
    Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXg8E0kzF1c
    Montgomery Gentry - Something To Be Proud Of



    Proverbs 31
    1 The words of King Lemuel, the oracle which his MOTHER taught him:...
    2 What, O my son?
    And what, O son of my womb?
    And what, O son of my vows?
    3 Do not give your strength to women,
    Or your ways to that which destroys kings.
    4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
    It is not for kings to drink wine,
    Or for rulers to desire strong drink,
    5 For they will drink and forget what is decreed,
    And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
    6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
    And wine to him whose life is bitter.
    7 Let him drink and forget his poverty
    And remember his trouble no more.
    8 Open your mouth for the mute,
    For the rights of all the unfortunate.
    9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
    And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.

    Proverbs 23
    22 Listen to your FATHER who begot you,
    And do not despise your mother when she is old.
    23 Buy truth, and do not sell it,
    Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
    24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
    And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.
    25 Let your father and your mother be glad,
    And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
    26 Give me your heart, my son,
    And let your eyes delight in my ways.
    27 For a harlot is a deep pit
    And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
    28 Surely she lurks as a robber,
    And increases the faithless among men.
    29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
    Who has wounds without cause?
    Who has redness of eyes?
    30 Those who linger long over wine,
    Those who go to taste mixed wine.
    31 Do not look on the wine when it is red,
    When it sparkles in the cup,
    When it goes down smoothly;
    32 At the last it bites like a serpent
    And stings like a viper.
    33 Your eyes will see strange things
    And your mind will utter perverse things.
    34 And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
    Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
    35 “They struck me, but I did not become ill;
    They beat me, but I did not know it.
    When shall I awake?
    I will seek another drink.”


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPBFWm2pac
    Daddy's Don't Leave

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