Faith Filled Family Magazine December 2016 | Page 45

is constant chaos? Well I didn’t
visit, I lived in a home like this
and when I married and we kept
our home at peace it was so different that I didn’t know how to
always function. I was so conditioned for dysfunction that I had
to learn to live in peace. I learned
that I didn’t always have to lose
control to share my feelings or I
didn’t have to break something
to show I was serious. God bless
my hus-band for giving him the
grace to walk this out with me
as I learned to not make a guest
room for strife. Strife allows the
enemy to live in the house while
Jesus becomes an oc-casional
visitor.
there am I with them.” (Matthew
18:20). Can you imagine a home
where God is involved in every
aspect as parents and children
pray together. Parents, when
you have a need in your home
in-clude your children and pray
together. Let your children see
God active and included in your
home. They may not always
hear what you say but they will
remember how you lived. Jesus
did not come to be hung on the
wall in your home but to be the
Mas-ter in your home. I wonder
what we would have to clean out
of our homes if he showed up in
the natural. Well, if He lives in
you then He is already there and
is ready to clean out anything
that robs you of your peace. He
not looking for a family to invite
Him in for a visit but to see Him
as the ruler over the home and
a permanent family member. He
created family, keeps the family
and builds the family.

is in your home then the enemy
knows he loses influence and
power in your home. This is why
he wants to cause divorce, rebellion and disunity. The enemy
does his best work in the midst
of chaos.

Keep Peace A Priority

The story of Adam and Eve and
their responses after sinning reveals our human self-ishness to
blame others. When God came
calling out to them after they had
taken part of sin, they hid. When
When Disunity Is In The House they were confronted they begin
to blame others. God knew what
The bible says in James 3:16 they had done but was giving
“For where envying and strife them an opportunity to run to Him
is, there is confusion and every and not from Him. We know the
evil work.” The enemy needs an story, Adam blames the woman,
atmosphere of jealousy and self- Eve blames the serpent and the
ish ambi-tion to do his best work. cycle con-tinues. We tend to feel
He provokes siblings to rival one
another and husband and wife
to keep contention in the home.
It’s his invitation to bring not only
confusion but every evil work.
He can bring cousins of confusion! He brings cousins such as
fear, resent-ment, bitterness, favoritism, selfishness and every
thing possible to keep peace
outside. You can’t allow those
The enemy hates when God crazy cousins in the house cause
is in the house because that they will rule the place. Have you
means he is evicted! When God ever visited a home when there