Family Stewardship

Esther 2:5-9; 4:13-14

I. The Stewardship of Our Families Requires Prayer.

A. Prayer of faith.

1. Leaving it with God.

2. Not micro-managing the process.

B. Prayer of acceptance.

1. Accepting what God’s will is.

2. Accepting the responsibility.

II. The Stewardship of Our Families Requires Leadership.

A. Be an example.

B. Be an encourager.

C. Be an enabler.

III. The Stewardship of Our Families Requires Wisdom and Planning.

A. Plan on instilling Christian values in each other.

B. Plan on opposition.

1. From family. 2. From friends. 3. From authorities.

C. Plan it out together.

IV. The Stewardship of Our Families Requires Co-operation.

A. Everyone doing their part.

Eph.5:31-6:431 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. [1]

Phil.4:1-2 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. [2]

B. No room for individual philosophies.

Col.2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudimentsc of the world, and not after Christ.[3]

C. Needs a Christian world-view.

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[1]The Holy Bible : King James Version., electronic ed. of the 1769 edition of the 1611 Authorized Version. (Bellingham WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995). Eph 5:31-6:4.

[2]The Holy Bible : King James Version., electronic ed. of the 1769 edition of the 1611 Authorized Version. (Bellingham WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995). Php 4:1-2.

c rudiments: or, elements

[3]The Holy Bible : King James Version., electronic ed. of the 1769 edition of the 1611 Authorized Version. (Bellingham WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995). Col 2:8.