An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012

[williamjackson]

An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012
by William Jackson, M.Ed.

Going into the new year Pastors, Bishops, Apostles, Priests and
others of religious faiths should pray over all fathers. Now more than
ever in history do we need spiritual guidance, wisdom and protection.

As a father, educator and mentor, I want to inspire and motivate fathers, step-fathers,
grandfathers, fathers to be, divorced fathers and even absentee fathers, men who are
guardians: to be the best men their families, children, communities, and churches need.
Difficult times and many challenges are around us; spiritually, economically, educationally,
environmentally and politically.
As men we should be taking the lead in the direction to move to care for our loved ones,
our communities and supporting our churches. Fathers have a historical responsibility and
spiritual accountability to place our families above our personal needs. We cannot nor
should not be selfish in our love for family, devotion to God, giving to community and
mentoring to youth. These things as men we should pray and act on to improve ourselves.

1. Fathers, should go to Jesus in prayer and pray with their children and families. Leading
    prayer as the leader of the household.
2. Fathers, make mistakes, but own up to them and correct the mistakes they have made.
    Working not to repeat them and modeling responsibility.
3. Fathers, discipline their children with love and not with physical violence, verbal degradation
    or emotional manipulation.
4. Fathers, take their children/families to church and bible study to receive the Word of God
    and meditate on these words to empower, inspire and strengthen the family unit.
5. Fathers, are not perfect and should not try to be perfect, ask God for wisdom, direction and   
    discernment.
6. Fathers, don't blame others for their weakness, but work to strengthen themselves
    in the Word of God through prayer and reading of scripture.
7. Fathers, will not "follow the guys" when they are disrespecting women, this sets an
    inappropriate and dangerous model for their sons to follow.
8. Fathers, don't block their children's anointing with ungodly actions and modeling that may
    be repeated by their children as they mature into adults. 
9. Fathers, ask for discernment to recognize the signs of trouble, chaos and confusion
    before they happen.
10. Fathers, model respect for the spirit of the church and church representation.
11. Fathers, lead grace/prayer at meal time and anoint their children with oil.
12. Fathers, should be able to purchase their daughters personal items and be
     proud in doing so. Setting a standard of respect, pride and responsibility for the
     young lady he protects and loves.
13. Fathers, promote education in the household. Reading should come before video
     games, television or play time.
14. Fathers, talk to their children about drugs and sex before the street or television does.
15. Fathers, do not whine about what "HIS" daddy did not do for him, but follow a model
      indicative of Godly men and accountability.
16. Fathers, do not blame where he came from for his short-comings. He focuses on
      where he is going in a positive direction.
17. Fathers, takes time to visit their children's school and talk to teachers  about their
     children's progress, strengths, and challenges.
18. Fathers, will happily sacrifice for their family, showing how God’s love sacrificed
      for all of us.
19. Fathers, accept responsibility for their children's actions. Remembering that
      “the apple does not fall far from the tree.” Fathers recognize and work to stop
     generational curses so a new and positive direction is made for his children.
20. Fathers, will visit their children and spend time with them even though he
      may not be present in the home. A true father takes responsibility for a life that
      they helped create and a true mother/woman allows the father to do this and
      puts her feelings aside to allow a father to be a father.
21. Fathers, aren't afraid to show love to their children, children still need reinforcement
      that they are loved and respected by their father. Love cannot be bought, bartered,
      compromised, sold, exchanged. Love is a action word and actions speak louder than
      words.
22. Fathers, spend time just being together with their children and doing things their
      children like and will remember doing.
23. Fathers, teach your child to be responsible and accountable for their actions. Not to
      blame others for their actions or think they are owed anything. Respect is always
      earned.
24. Fathers must teach and model respect to women for their sons and respect to men
      by their daughters. Sex must be taken seriously not as a game, violence is not
     acceptable by men or women. Fathers must lead in the understanding of this.
25. Fathers must teach respect, honor, and fear of the Lord.

Quote:
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence
on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power
that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide
him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.
Edwards, Jonathan

[Dog Walker]

Right, teach your children to be afraid of a big, irrational, paranoid boogyman in the sky. 

Giving young children religious instruction of any kind should be considered child abuse.

[BridgeTroll]

Giving young children religious instruction of any kind should be considered child abuse.

Really?!  Seems a bit extreme...

[Doctor_K]

Right, teach your children to be afraid of a big, irrational, paranoid boogyman in the sky. 

Giving young children religious instruction of any kind should be considered child abuse.

So to all the Christians, Muslims, Jews, Mormons, Hindus, Taoists, Wiccans, polytheists, and Buddhists out there:

STOP THE ABUSE

[Nightman_Cometh]

Its definitely not extreme, religion teaches children from a young age to act different towards those who are different than you.

[buckethead]

I thought the title was leading me to an anointing massage...


My bad.

[JeffreyS]

Its definitely not extreme, religion teaches children from a young age to act different towards those who are different than you.

Yes extreme things like feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked and such abusive lessons.

People are different and deserve to be treated individually. 

[AKIRA]

ah, religious prejudice, one of the last prejudices acceptable left for the modern, thoughtful man.   

Instead of blaming a particular institution or allegiance for instilling the "fear of the other", the question should be what is inside every person's heart/mind that makes himself/herself so bent toward that fear, regardless of the person's politics, economics, country, politics, religion, etc...   or perhaps its just easier to blame the "boogyman in the sky" (or the belief in him) rather than look deeper.

Dog Walker and Nightman, would you be so general/obtuse in your statements toward the totality of religion if you were one of the city council people that interviewed Parvez Ahmed about his qualifications for the Human Rights Commission?  He has been introduced as a Muslim.  By your statements, his belief in Allah is a hindrance that would make his involvement in Human Rights issues a problem...

[Nightman_Cometh]

AKIRA:  I could care less who he believe in, as long as they are passionate and work hard on the Human Rights Commission, I dont care who is on the council. 

JeffreyS: "extreme things like feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked and such abusive lessons"  You can do all those thing without being apart of religion.  YOU CAN LEARN MORALS, RESPECT AND WHEN TO DO THE RIGHT THING WITHOUT RELIGION!

[AKIRA]

But Nightman, if his adherence to a religion means he has been taught "from a young age to act different towards those who are different than you" then how can he be "passionate and work hard" for the rights of all, not just his own folk?  Your statements means that he has to either rise above his own religious based prejudices to care about others or he doesn't...  perhaps it would have been best to stack the Human Rights Council with only atheists or agnostics, that way you could be ASSURED to have the fairest minded of people.

Nobody is making the statement that you can't learn proper behavior without religion.  The question is can you learn proper behavior from religion or does religious teaching equal exclusivism and child abuse.

This thread was started by someone calling fathers to better action.  I don't agree with everything he said but the comments making a blanket statement by finding fault in his overall faith and not offering anything other than the usual generalized, smart-alek one liners, seems more about making your own prejudice known that seeking a greater truth.

[AKIRA]

Your spinning my words around, Stephen, to fit your own argument instead of responding to my statements as they were posted.

If there is a miscommunication, I'll restate.  I hate quoting myself, but I guess it needs to be done...

At no point have I promoted any particular religious belief as sound or lack of belief as unsound.  Going through a list of "crazy" beliefs does not argue against anything I posted, although I like your timely potential stab at the Church of the LDS considering Romney and Huntsman on the horizon..  a preview of your next political piece? 

My response about the statements made by DW and Nightman were not finding fault their possible unbelief.  How could I ever demand anyone to believe anything they find nonsensical?  I could not.  Nor did I find fault in them for not.

I find a fault in the statements they made, as I said when I typed "Dog Walker and Nightman, would you be so general/obtuse in your STATEMENTS toward the totality of religion....etc"  That entire sentence was an "if/then" statement, to boot.

Too review further, I stated in the same first post "that the question should be what is inside every person's heart/mind that makes himself/herself so bent toward that fear, regardless of the person's politics, economics, country, politics, ***religion***, etc... "  Have I any statements about any one belief or lack of belief system making them more or less hypocritical...?

I contend this, that we are all bent toward hypocrisy.  It is something deep in us as people, shown as it surfaces in people all across the globe, regardless of affiliation.  Blaming it on religion is taking the responsibility away from individuals.

The statements I take issue with I do because they are so broad, blunt and all assuming (and in that become prejudicial, since they are based on limited observation). Perhaps you would see the obtuseness in the statements is it were slightly changed:

"Its definitely not extreme, ________(religion, atheism, agonistic thought, communism, boy scouts, liberal thought, conservative though, socialism, capitalism, etc) teaches children from a young age to act different towards those who are different than you".

"Giving young children _______(same as above) instruction of any kind should be considered child abuse".

We should put priest and pastors in jail for child abuse?

Any other beliefs of people numbering in the billions that you would be comfortable making a simply, demeaning criticism of...?  Are not things more complicated that to be summed up in a single sentence?  I know its easier to see obtuseness in an statement when it involves people, beliefs, ways of life that you enjoy and harder when it concerns the "other".

I am surprised that you would accept such a broad and general statements alone without questioning that it may be at least over reaching, except for perhaps anything regarding the Tea Party (politics and religion, no he didn't!), pardon me, I mean the tea baggers... why miss the opportunity to assign a sexual context to someone to devalue them.. After all, they are all horrible people who deserve it.

[Dog Walker]

Morality does not require religious belief.  Good people do not need to be frightened into behaving righteously.  Children can be taught right from wrong without scaring them with some vision of everlasting torment from some big daddy in the sky.

Abusing children by distorting their emerging awareness of reality doesn't rise to the level of criminality, just immorality.  Trying to make them believe in non-sensory things is cruel and handicapping.  Luckily, most children are resilient enough that it doesn't cripple their intellect permanently.  We all learn to compartmentalize.

[JeffreyS]

AKIRA:  I could care less who he believe in, as long as they are passionate and work hard on the Human Rights Commission, I dont care who is on the council. 

JeffreyS: "extreme things like feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked and such abusive lessons"  You can do all those thing without being apart of religion.  YOU CAN LEARN MORALS, RESPECT AND WHEN TO DO THE RIGHT THING WITHOUT RELIGION!

Sure you can but that isn't the way the world actually played out the religious taught the world morals that went beyond their religion.  We live in a western culture whose morals and laws are for the most part based on Judism and Christianity.  So when our country feels charity is important we have our religious  backgrounds to thank. 

[AKIRA]

Stephen, I eagerly await a response that shows you actually read AND considered my previous response before your fingers went a flying on the keyboard.

[AKIRA]

Show me were I called another commenter a name, plz?