WHAT A LOVELY HOME
Part 7

“His seed shall be in many waters”
(Numbers 24:7).

God wants your home to be a . . .

FULFILLED HOME

Do you feel hidden away in your home? Do you feel as though your daily mothering is taken for granted? Does a career outside of the home look a little more glamorous? Lift your eyes to see God’s vision. You are fulfilling the most important career in the nation. You are training the next generation. You determine the course of this nation.

Your neighbors may not be aware of what you are doing behind your walls, but just wait! There will come a day when your sharpened and polished arrows will come forth to hit the mark for God. There will come a day when they will come out of your home to reveal God’s truth and light in this nation, and maybe many other nations of the world! There will come a day when you will see the fulfillment of your faithful parenting.

Our scripture above says: “Your descendants will be in many waters.” “The waters” speak of “peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.” This was fulfilled in the nation of Israel who multiplied like the stars of the heavens and the sands of the seashore. They came out of Egypt a nation, populated Canaan, and have continued to infiltrate and bless the nations of the world until this day. It is through the nation of Israel that we received the Savior of the world (the Word made flesh). It is through the people of Israel we received the precious written Word of God.

God wants to continue filling the world with His truth, light, and love. He wants to reveal Himself through His people today to the nations of the world.
Mothers have a mighty part in fulfilling God’s plan as we train our children for God. Our assignment is powerful. We are training a task force! And our employer is the King of kings, the Lord of the armies of Heaven. The more children we raise, the greater impact we have for God in the world.

I love the comment of Finis Jennings Dake in his Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible. He says” “Each child will in the process of time be a defense, support and propagation of the eternal reproduction of man and fulfillment of the plan of God for man. The more arrows one has, the more enemies he will slay, and the more powerful will he be in the earth. The more children born and saved to help God administer the affairs of the eternal plan for man, the more reward God will have.”

When raising our children, I liked to write Scriptures, positive statements, and poems and put them on the walls for our children to read. One day when our boys were in their late teens, I wrote the following message in the boy’s bathroom: “Australia waits to see what will come out of 18 Welby Street,” which was where we lived in Australia. Yes, it was true. Australia was waiting. More than Australia—the world was waiting.

Our children have proclaimed the Gospel in many countries of the world. They have declared the name of Jesus in countries that I haven’t been to! I have influenced countries for God that I have not set my foot upon because I birthed these children into the world! And they haven’t finished yet! There are many grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, who will also fill the nations of the world with the glory of God. There is no greater work in the world than preparing children to take the gospel to the nations of the world.

We named one of our daughters “Evangeline Faith.” All through her life I said to her: “Evangeline, your name means “Evangel, the bearer of the good news of the gospel.” She knew her destiny. She has been a fearless testimony for God’s truth from a little child right up to this current day, now a grandmother.

Mother, we are not just holding the fort. God’s plan from the beginning was for us to take dominion over the earth and subdue it. We have authority to do this in the natural—and also in the spiritual. We are to be invaders, invading the earth with God’s presence and power. And we are to train invaders!

Keep faithful to your task, dear mother. Your fulfillment is coming. You will rejoice when you see your children proclaiming God’s truth in the nations of the world.

PRAYER:

“Thank you, Almighty God, for this mighty vision. Help me to keep focused and realize the importance of my task. Help me to see that my mothering is not only for today. I am preparing “arrows” to be ready for Your great purposes. I thank You that as I am faithful I will see the fulfillment of this great task.”

AFFIRMATION:

I may be hidden from the worldly view—

That’s okay.
I have a great and powerful work to do—

And must obey.

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