WHAT MY GRANDPA TOLD HIS FRIEND

My Dad told us a story: While they were still young and their Dad was doing all he could to get them educated. A concerned friend walked up to his father saying, “Why are you not using your money to build a house instead of using the money to pay for education?” My grandpa’s response was simple- he mentioned the name of all his children and said, “Those are the houses that I am building now”.

There is the spirit of fatherhood. It is not every man that is doing things in the spirit of fatherhood. A father thinks and acts generationally. A father weighs his words, actions, and decisions from a generational point of view.

For a father, it is never just about them. It is about their children and their children’s children. The spirit in the latter years of Hezekiah the King is a strange spirit that must be resisted.

Some Fathers build for generations and some fathers waste what a generation laid and built up.

Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 39:5-6 KJV

A strange father is not bothered about his sons. As long as things are fine in their own time. As long as they are fine, they do not care. It is a strange spirit.

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

Isaiah 39:7-8 KJV

Do you know the next prophecy to the nation about those strange words and actions by King Hezekiah:

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

 Isaiah 40:1 KJV

Today, I speak the comfort of God to everyone who has not enjoyed a generationally thinking fatherhood. I speak comfort to everyone who had the wrong picture of fatherhood. I speak comfort to ladies abused by their fathers. I speak comfort to hearts that were hurt by the decisions of fathers. I speak comfort to our nation, Nigeria!

Finally, you are either a Father or a potential Father. Make sure you do it right in your time. Make sure you make decisions thinking about generations. Do not just think of yourself.