SATAN DOES NOT WANT FAMILY TOGETHERNESS!

“Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches,
as they sit all around your table”
(Psalm 128:3 NET).

What’s the atmosphere like in your home? What’s it like at mealtimes? Do you gather together around your table? Talk and fellowship together? Open God’s Word and pray together? Do you do dishes and clean up the kitchen together? Or is Mom left with the mess and everyone goes on their merry way?

I am aware that in many homes that family mealtimes don’t happen together. Even if they do, mother is left doing dishes while children run off to do their own thing. You can’t run your home this way. Family life is togetherness. Family life means that everyone pulls their weight.

Dear mother, you are the one to make this happen. Don’t allow everyone to do their own thing. Gather the family together. Be a gatherer. Make the table and your meal so attractive and inviting that the family will want to come to the table.

Think of subjects to discuss with your children at the table rather than sitting there with small talk that doesn’t interest anyone. And of course, you’ll never allow iPhones at the table! Have a basket where they drop them in as they come to the table. The table is the place to communicate together as a family. To look at one another and communicate face to face.

The table is a gathering place for the family. The Bible picture of a family that lives in God’s blessing is a family with the children all sitting around the table. Psalm 128:3 in The Living Bible says: “Your wife shall be contented in your home. And look at all those children! There they sit around the dinner table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.” God delights in this picture of the family. God loves the table because it is a place of communication. He wants to join you at your table. He wants to speak to you all as you open His Word at the end of the meal. He wants you to communicate with Him as you each pray together.

Dear mother, can I encourage you to make family times happen in your home? Don’t let your family dissipate into their own world and the world of social media while your family fragments away. When you plan and make things happen, it brings order. It establishes peace and harmony and drives out chaos.

Satan does not want family togetherness. God wants families communicating together but Satan wants to fragment families. He is intent on scattering the family in every direction. Be aware of his subtle plans and fight against them. Push through every obstacle and make it happen. Oh, what blessings will come when you do.

When have order and peace in our homes, we will begin to get order and peace in the nation.

PRAYER:

“Dear Father in Heaven, I thank You that You want the atmosphere of Heaven to be the atmosphere of my home. You tell us to pray: ‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Help me to fulfill the picture You have for my home of all our children sitting together around the table. This is what brings delight to Your heart. Help me to make it happen in my home. Amen,”

AFFIRMATION:

I am seeking to bring the atmosphere of Heaven to our home.

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