Father-Son Fellowship

Since the time my children were barely able to speak and read, my wife and I have taught them how read the Bible and pray. They simply followed and repeated whatever we read to them and prayed to the Lord Jesus. Almost on a daily basis, we would ask them to kneel down, fold their hands, and repeat after us in prayer. When they grew older, they learned how to read the Bible and pray by themselves. In this way, we have trained up our children to inculcate the habit of Bible reading and prayer. Then, gradually, we also helped them to open up and fellowship with us as parents concerning whatever matters they need to fellowship. They have been very open to their mother in this matter and with me, they fellowship urgent and important matters.

Now that my son has grown up, I personally arranged time for us to have intimate and personal fellowship. During this father-son fellowship, I poured out my heart's desire to my son concerning him; my prayer burden for him that he should established a strong, stable, and sweet personal relationship with the Lord Jesus directly and daily read the word of God which are my daily living. As an earthly father, I also fellowshipped with him my prayer and burden concerning his future; his studies, his attending the full-time training, his further studies even to the level of doctorate degree if the Lord would lead him, and to serve the Lord in whatever way the Lord would guide him. As he began to open up on some of his personal matters, I also looked to the Lord and fellowshipped with him what I felt before the Lord. Besides, some of my feelings concerning time scheduling for daily living, honoring the Lord with whatever He blessed him with and concerning material offerings. I also imparted the burden to take care of the Lord’s need by taking care of the church, the Lord’s work, and the needy saints.

These are just few things that I wanted my son to learn. My fellowship was based on what I have been learning from the Lord. Now, I am imparting the same to my son.

That said, I consecrated and commit my children, especially my son, to the Lord that they may become useful vessels to the Lord. How and what they will turn out to be  in the future, I do not know. That's all upto the Lord’s mercy. But to all that I do know, I must be a faithful shepherd to my son.

These days, I have been spending time in fellowship more often with my son. May the Lord lead him and guide him. My praye is that that I may be faithful to impart all that I have been learning from the Lord and not withhold anything good from him. I believe, as a father, I must do my best to raise him up, a new generation for the Lord’s testimony, and even to bring the Lord Jesus back!

Train up a child according to the way he should go; Even when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6, RecVer)