THE CHARGE FOR PARENTAL COVERING

Parents are doors to certain blessings of God for their children and posterity. Yet they can be gates for satanic entry and works in their family if they play the careless.

In many ways, you are not safe unless your child is safe.

Many great destinies have been built due to proper parental covering in the spirit realm. Sadly, a lot more have been ruined due to the lack of such cover. As a parent you have the duty to serve as a spiritual cover for your children in all matters once they are under your care. Even when they are married, lineage demands you do not thwart the cover over them either through sin, carelessness, negligence or whatever odd. This is because once they are your seeds they do not depart from your spiritual authority entirely. Never toy with this principle.

Parental cover is vital. Parents, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). You see, he seeks to devour your children (born or unborn). Apostle Peter says he only seeks a certain class of people: those he may devour. He can devour your children if you are not sober and vigilant, whether you and your children are born-again or not. That is, Satan can devour if you do not erect a proper spiritual cover for your child(ren).

You owe your children the duty to preserve them under strict spiritual protection. Do not throw an empty statement that God is their Protector. If merely so, why pray? Or why not sleep all day, trusting God for food since He is also your Provider? The truth is, you are part of the workings of God. You are to provide this safe spiritual environment because, “if any provide not for his own [children], and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” (1 Timothy 5:8). Consequently, he opens his family to satanic attacks. Play your part and leave the rest to God.

But how can you provide this protection if you are not covered yourself? To say you are protected by the blood of the Lamb without biblical faith actions backing your profession is a cheap saying. You can be sure for an attack.

Peter warns believers to be sober and not ignorant or carefree. Doing that grants Satan an advantage.

So, where do you get covered? Your covering comes at your obedience to God the Father, submission to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, yielding to the sweet Holy Spirit, ardency in prayer and the study of the word. There is no sure other way.

The beauty is, doing these, your children copy it along and build for themselves a sure destiny.

Challenge: Be for your children a spiritual cover!

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