“ We have a family crisis in the World today.”

Our families have fallen victim to world culture. The research shows:

♦ Only 34 percent of World’s families eat one meal together each day.

♦ The average father spends only eight to 10 minutes a day with his children. This includes television and mealtimes.

♦ Only 12 percent of World’s families pray together.

♦ The average couple spends only four minutes of uninterrupted time together a day.

The seven marks of a “hurried” family:

1. Can’t relax
2. Can’t enjoy quiet
3. Never feel satisfied
4. Absence of absolutes – Absence absolutes truths in life
5. They are suffering servants—some are great people, who do wonderful things for others, but are unhappy because they do good things for wrong reasons.

6. There is a storm rumbling beneath the calm.
7. They are “world-class” overachievers. 

It is time to reshape your family by God’s design—and the good news is that He will give you the strength to do it!

Reexamined under the light of God’s purposes as revealed in His Word. If mother and father are working to provide the basic necessities, that is one thing. If they are working to get a bigger house, one more car, a bigger piece of the “dream,” perhaps they need a bigger home and a smaller house. More than at any other time in history, families are asking the questions, “What is a healthy family?” and “How do we become one?”

 It is crucial that parents learn to unify their family around a central, godly purpose.

The family is under immense stress because it has no central focus—and that central focus should be Jesus Christ & God.

Seems as if all the world has gotten away from God’s design.

Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Does anything here describe you and your family?

If so, it’s time to fix it and get back to God’s design!

Family by God’s design

Fathers – Husbands – Head of house

Mothers -Wives – Operations of the house

Brothers – Brethren-Workers together in the house

Sisters – Brethren–Workers together in the house

House Rules

Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Acknowledge God, Jesus and Holy Spirit!

Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.  We must pray to our Father in Heaven!

Mothers

1Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:   We must pray for one another!

Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

Fathers

Leviticus 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Proverbs 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

1John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

1John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

God’s Family

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.     {teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen} (Deu 11:19 similar)

Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

 Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 

Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.