He Will Rejoice over You

 He Will Rejoice

March 16, 2026

Deuteronomy 30:8-10 (NKJV) 

8 “And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments which I command you today. 9 “The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 10 “if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, [and] if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Do you know that the Father God loves you and rejoices over you? Today’s scripture is from the Old Testament, so relates this to obeying the law, but the principle is the same in the New Covenant. The Lord God loves the people that He has chosen and rejoices over them. That is, He rejoices over you. That is sometimes hard for us to comprehend, especially if we are going through hard times or are in relationships that don’t express that kind of love. It is unfortunate that many don’t have an earthly father that demonstrate this kind of fatherly love. I was fortunate to have a good father that loved me and taught me many valuable lessons about life. But regardless of the kind of earthly father you have, the Lord God, creator of the universe, is your loving Father. He loves you, has a plan for you, and rejoices over you. That is cause for rejoicing and praising the Lord.

Father

 Father

August 8, 2025

Ephesians 3:14-19

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christmay dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Yesterday we talked about the importance of fathers in bringing order out of chaos.  But to be a good father, we need to emulate the perfect father; our Heavenly Father. He is the pattern. Here in Ephesians it states that every family derived its name from Him. That is to say that He has a plan and purpose for every family. Wisdom is seeking His plan so that we can be strengthened with power in the inner man. When we find the plan for our family, it will include faith and love. When we find His order, we can push back the chaos. His love surpasses our knowledge, but when we seek Him, He can help us to comprehend the breadth, length, height and depth His love. It is behind me to even explain It properly, but I pray that we, as fathers, can find the wisdom to bring his order and love to our families, that we may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Chaos

 Chaos

August 7, 2025

Genesis 1:1-2

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Last night I dreamed about chaos. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that my niece and two other teenage girls were visiting! Anyway, I digress. My dream was about chaos in society and the role of fathers in bringing order and stability. The natural order according to the law of entropy is chaos. Like it was in the beginning, formless and void, the universe was total chaos until Father God started to speak order into existence. It was only after a series of “Let there be..”s that order came into the universe. Then, on the sixth day, God created man…

Genesis 1:26

26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The first purpose of man was to rule over the earth, to continue to bring order out of chaos. That is still the purpose of fathers today (not to rule out the very important role of mothers, as well). So what happens when fathers abdicate their role in the family and society? Chaos ensues.

Take the story of the old farmer and the preacher. A young preacher had just moved into town and was walking around his parish to meet the people when he came upon the old farmer in his field. “My, what a magnificent and beautiful field the Lord has given you!”, he said as he greeted the farmer. “Well”, the farmer replied, “you should have seen it when He had it all to himself.” … Without constant work and attention, entropy takes over and order descends into chaos.

So what does that have to do with affairs today? When you look around you see chaos. Crime in the streets, drug abuse, child trafficking, pornography, evil of every sort. One judge had the habit of asking the young men he sentenced about their relationship to their father. Not one of the young criminals in his court had been raised with a decent father. Fathers bring order. They are charged with ruling the family and teaching discipline. When fathers are missing in action, chaos ensues.

How do we fix society? That a deep and complex problem, but one critical component of the answer would be to encourage the Biblical role of fathers in the family. America was formed on Biblical principles, including the Ten Commandments. And one of the most important one, the only one with a promise is this:

Exodus 20:12

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

So whatever we do to rescue society, restoring the honoring of fathers and mothers is a critical step. So pray for revival, pray for repentance, and pray for fathers.