Thursday, October 11, 2007
Blessings For your Life - Family Harmony

Finally....



Blessings For Your Life - Family Harmony (30 sep 2007)
Rev Richard Ong
Malachi4:4-6, Colossians 3:18-21

Mal 4:4-6 - Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.

Col 3:18-21 - Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

To receive the blessing of family harmony, we must first accomplish these 3 points:

1) Wives and Husbands - Switch on your mind to submit and love

2) Children and parents - Turn on your emotions to obey and encourage

3) Families and God - Act on your will to remember and restore


1) Wives and Husbands - Switch on your mind to submit and love

Col 3:18 - Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

If the Lord is in your life, you will know what is best between the two of you.

Col 3:19 - Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

3 Basic Reasons why Men Fail To Love:

a) Our passivity at home
- Don't take part in family affairs

b) Our private caves
- our own matters and stuff

c) Our insensitivity

2) Children and parents - Turn on your emotions to obey and encourage

Col 3:20 - Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

To obey is also to honor

To obey is to esteem them highly, value them

4 things that will provoke our children to anger:

a) Living in the Past

b) Over-controlling

c) Under-controlling
-When time is not spent with the children, you are lacking them of your love.

d) Living an inconsistent life
-Parents must be an example themselves.

3) Families and God - Act on your will to remember and restore

We have to take responsibility over our own hearts.

A commitment from God to bless your family with harmony:

a) Turning the hearts of the Families

b) Turning the hearts of the Fathers

c) Turning the hearts of the Children

http://www.fcbc.org.sg/audio/sep30_e.mp3