{"id":4273,"date":"2015-02-04T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:21:20","slug":"genesis-chapter-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Chapter 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Genesis.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"Genesis\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As a father, two thing stood out to me in this chapter.\u00a0 First, Israel wanted to pass on the truths of God.\u00a0 Our priority in life is to make sure our children know God.\u00a0 We must live out the ways of God, and teach our children the things of God.\u00a0 Our children can have many things in life that make us proud of them.\u00a0 But anything outside of Jesus Christ will fade, and be burned up.\u00a0 Secondly, I saw that Israel wanted to pray over them.\u00a0 To pray a blessing on them, and their families.\u00a0 Our family ended everyday praying together.\u00a0 Joyce and I pray together before bed now.\u00a0 Going to our heavenly Father on behalf of our family is our privilege and honor as fathers.\u00a0 Remember fathers are called to be the spiritual leader in the home.\u00a0 Pray with your family, and pray over your family.\u00a0 Not in private, which is good, but praying with them will create a blessed experience for them and you.\u00a0\u00a0 Talk about doing thing biblically, and lead them to say no to events in life that are dishonoring to God, showing them it\u2019s against God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}