Week 14: His Fatherhood

Lord, teach my husband to be a good father. Where it was not modeled to him according to Your ways, heal those areas and help him to forgive his dad. Draw him close to spend time in Your presence so He can become more like You, and understand Your Father's heart of compassion towards him. Grow that same heart in him for his children. Help him to balance mercy, judgment and instruction the way You do. Show him when to discipline and how. May he never provoke his "children to wrath, but bring them up in the admonition of the Lord" ~ Ephesians 6:4. I pray we will be united in the rules we set for our children and in agreement as to how they are raised. Give him skills of communication with his children. Help him to be kind, loving, warm, interested, affirming, affectionate, involved, strong, consistent, dependable, understanding and patient. Lord, I know we pass a spiritual inheritance to our children. Let the heritage he passes on be one rich in the fullness of Your Holy Spirit. Enable him to model clearly a walk of submission to Your laws. May he delight in his children and long to grow them up in Your ways. Amen