The Family, a Divine Gift of God

4.THE PROMISES OF GOD FOR HIS ORDAINED FAMILY.

God has abundance of promises, plans and provisions for His ordained family.

(i)  God has a Plan of Salvation.

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved and thine house” Acts 16:31

(ii)  God has a Plan of Protection and Safety.

“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Ps 91:10

God saved Noah and his family by sending an angel. But God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by raining fire and brimstone. Gen 19:1-28

(iii) God has a Plan of Provision and Supply of both Earthly and Spiritual Blessings.

God blessed Abraham, Gen 24:35

God blessed Isaac,         Gen 26:12

God blessed Job,           Gen 42:12 also see Prov 10:22; 22:4; 3:9,10

Malachi 3:4,16; IISam 6:11

Our God is ‘ a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.’ Ps 86:15. He knows our needs and sufferings, our sicknesses and struggles. He is a God whose name is Jehova Jereh which means Jehova will provide. He provides our needs both physical and spiritual.

Ex.23:25”And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”

Our God is a God who provides His family with abundance of blessings , temporal and spiritual. Mal.3:10 says,

“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith , saith the Lord of host, if I will not open you the windows of heaven , and pour you out a blessing , that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”