FOLLOW FATHERS INSTRUCTION

IF WE DO WHAT GOD TOLD US TO DO WE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY.

...It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
Thus did Job continually.
JOB CONTINUALLY PRAYED FOR FEAR.

Jobs confession for his children was a fear based confession.

Job didn't rise up and say, "I have taught my children and instructed them to go in the way of God and they shall not depart from it."

( This is what our confession is if we are instructing our children or have instructed them)

Stop saying they will stray or they may go to the left or the right.
They will if that is your confession.
I don't care if your girlfriend says, "I did all I could do but they still turned out wrong."
She did all she could do, now you do all God told you to do.

God is not a man that He could lie and if His Word says, Raise them up in my nurture and instruction and when they are old, they will not depart from it.
That's what it means.

Job couldn't speak in faith where the children were concerned because he hadn't taught them in the way that he practiced.
Confidence comes when you know you have done your job.

If I am driving the speed limit I am confident that when a state trooper comes flying down the road, he ain't coming for me.
Fear enters in when you know that you haven't done what you were supposed to do.

You looking for leaves to sow together and cover yourself.

If you have a test Friday that you knew about Monday but all week you have been watching TV, talking on the phone, shopping, gossiping and you haven't cracked a book to study for it Monday through Thursday, when Friday comes you will have some doubt about whether or not you can pass the test.

You will walk into class afraid of getting a failing grade, because you didn't do what you were supposed to do.
And your confession will reflect it.
You will say things like, "I will be happy just to get a C."
Lord help me through this test!

We were made to excel, to prosper, to overcome.

When the Lord has already given you a mind that can retain knowledge and the Holy Spirit to bring it all to your memory.
But you didn't take the time to utilize either one.

That's what happened in the garden.
We have been made righteous and wealthy because our Father in heaven is and we have been given instruction along with our gifts.

Jobs children were wealthy because Job was, and they were given many things but had they been given instruction?

The prodigal son was given wealth without instruction, and he blew it.
Some of us want things that our head and our heart are not even mature enough in God to operate in right now.

The Lord wants us to know something.

He is a good and merciful God.
It's not about us as parents doing all that we can do, it's about us as imitators of God the Father doing what He instructs us to do.

The devil is busy.
Ignoring the fact that he exists is not how he is shut down, it's knowing how he operates.

If you are under attack or a family member is under attack, denial will not quench those darts.
Knowing what God has told you to do and doing it will.

Our enemy has been busy from the beginning that won't change until the Lord comes back.
So the itinerary of our adversary has nothing to do with what we allow.
You give place to the thief in your life by not doing what Father said to do.

There is a hedge built out of Faith and Faith is obedient.

Kids follow our example and they also follow our teaching and disciplinary rule if we instruct and discipline.

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Genesis 2:15-17; Job 1:1-5; Proverbs 22:6; Luke 15:11-18; Ephesians 6:4