Godly family! – Sis. Stella Dhinakaran

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2).
Are worried that you are not able to see your loved one being delivered from their addictions? God says to you, “I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). Are you finding it difficult because of people who are trying to hinder the godly family life you want to enjoy? The Bible says, “Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly” (Proverbs 14:29). We have to be patient with the people who persecute us by their godless behaviour. We shouldn’t become quick tempered and act out in anger. We read in the Bible, “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2). This is how we influence people to bring them to God’s fold.

In a family, the Lord had blessed a wife with a very loving husband.  But he was a alcoholic. The wife loved the Lord dearly and hence was showing love to her  husband being filled with patience and the strength of the Lord and humbly doing whatever the husband asked her to do. One day, when he was thus enjoying himself in his friends company and taking liquor, she served them with food and went into her room, knelt  down and started praying with both her hands raised up. With faith she cried out to the Lord saying, “Lord, please look at my condition. Won’t you save my husband?” At that exact moment the husband who was pleasurably spending his time with his friends sent them off and came back to thank her. Her room was open and he was moved by the sight of his wife praying with tears telling, “Lord, draw my husband towards You. Give him the grace to taste Your love.” He did not know what to do. In that instant the Lord touched his heart and he too knelt down beside his wife and folded his hands in prayer. The Lord changed his heart. Since then, his lust for alcohol, all unwanted desires and evil friends departed from his life. He became a new man.

Today is the day when the Lord’s love would be manifested in your family in a similar manner. The mighty God who changed Saul into Paul and who received that man who was filled with transgression and sin, wants to do a miracle in your life. We read in the Bible, “Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behaviour of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives” (1 Peter 3:1-2). Not just wives but all of us can win people who are away from God only through our behaviour. When we show them the love of God they will definitely change. Then our family will be full of God’s presence.

Prayer:
Loving Father,

Thank You for this assurance that there is deliverance in Your name. Lord, deliver my loved ones from all their weaknesses. Let Your presence fill our home. Bind us all with Your cords of love. Give us grace to be Your special people by walking in Your ways. Make us a godly family.

I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.