 My name is Pastor Ti Mwangi, resident pastor like... ...and also the founder and president of True Mentorship Society. I want to thank the Y254 for this opportunity, even to share the word of God on this Father's Day. Let me begin by saying happy Father's Day to all the fathers outside there. And congratulations because the responsibilities and the roles of our Father are very technical, but you have made it bravo to you and congratulations. And I want me to briefly speak about fatherhood. One of the things that we need to understand, there are almost five types of fathers. There are almost five types of fathers. Number one, we have absent fathers. That means the father is available, but he is absent. In a too busy looking for money, too busy trying to make ends meet, they are too busy outside there, but they are absent. One of my lecturers told me the effect of an absent father, whether he is a drunkard or a preacher. The effect of an absent father to their children is the same. So there is no excuse, I am a pastor. If today I am not present for my children, the effect of my absence is the same as the effect of possibly a socially irresponsible father. The second thing we have abusive fathers. And we find all these fathers in the Bible. Abusive fathers, remember there are two ways of abuse. One there is verbal abuse and there is physical abuse. And sometimes what we don't know is that when you become an abusive father or you are raised by an abusive father, it affects you psychologically. There are many people who are distorted psychologically because they grew in the presence of abusive fathers. Physical abuse is very painful. But one wise man wrote and said, when you break my leg, I can put a bandage on it. But when you break my heart, there is nothing I can do. And words once spoken, they can never be returned back. It is more heartbreaking when words are sent to people. The other father that we have is what we call an absent or no father at all. There are people who have grown and they've never met their fathers. Possibly they are dead or something happened along the way. And it's also there. The other one is we have present fathers. These are fathers who are there and they have sacrificed. And I want to talk majorly about these present fathers. They have sacrificed. I want to make sure that everything is available. And if you are there and you are a present father, congratulations on you. If you are there, you are an absent father, an abusive father, please I believe we can pull up our socks and just be present. The greatest thing that children remember in life is not even the presents that we give them, but is our presents. Memories are not made of gifts. Memories are made of time spent together. I know we live in Adalwalt country and sometimes we can be caught up chasing on the paper. We can be caught up trying to give our families a decent life. The worst thing that can happen is for you to do everything as a father, but you're still a stranger to your children. That's the worst thing that can happen. That you have paid school fees, you're provided a decent house, you've made sure that they have decency of life, but you're still a stranger to them. That when you meet on the platform of conversation, you're still a stranger to them. And the Bible of course is very key. When we look at the language of the Bible, is that God introduced himself as a father. And Jesus came to play the model of a son. That is why he's called the son of God. And we see this language from the beginning of scripture. In the book of Genesis Adam is a son of God. And God introduces himself as a father. In the book of Malachi we begin to see it is the language of father and son that I will restore back the hearts of the sons back to the fathers and the hearts of the fathers back to the son. Meaning that this is a very paramount theme. Jesus came to model sonship and God himself models fatherhood. There are many fathers mentioned in scripture, when you go through the story of Eso and Jacob and we see the dealings of them both before their father. One of the things that we begin to acknowledge is that fathers carry blessings, fathers carry blessings. And this is very key especially in our age. Najwa sometimes atuna shida ya kutafta pesa na kupelekea pasta. Sometimes atuna anga shida ya kutafta pesa na kupelekea But sometimes we have a problem to look for a gift and to honor our parents. Allow me to tell you there are only two offices that are mandated by Zion to bless your life. The first office is the office of a priest and the second office is the office of a father. And fathers are very important. Even though they are the most ignored, they are very important. And so whatever blessings that a priest can give you a father cannot give you. And whatever blessings that a father can give you a priest cannot give you. So we cannot substitute. These are very important authorities. Very important. Tanshi yamzazi especially Baba Ineza kua lana na ineza kua baraka They are destinies of men that shifted because a father spoke and they are destinies of men that went downward because a father spoke. Fathers are authorities and that is why they are two children of the same father iso and Jacob and what they needed, what they needed from the father was the blessing. And you need to understand that whatever Abraham gave them was not money. Whatever Abraham gave them were words. The greatest thing you can get from your parents when they are still alive the greatest thing you can get from your father when he is still alive is his words of blessing. One writer wrote and said the greatest treasure and inheritance you can leave for your children is not what you leave for them but what you leave in them. Now two children are presented and of course Jacob mascarids as iso the body, the voice is Jacob's but the body is iso and the father ask him is this really iso and he says yes and then the father blessed him. When iso came back the father said I have no other blessing to give you because I have given your brother all the blessing. Now in the Jewish culture the first bone was mandated for a double blessing and the second bone was mandated for the other blessing. So what happened is that when iso sold his birthright he sold the legal gate for Jacob to receive the blessing that's what the father said I have no blessing left Listen to me in this blessing there is nothing material that was given to Jacob Akupewa do Akupewa homba Akupewa makaja aliandewa tunimeko bless and when iso came the father said I have nothing to give you Now when you studied the life of Jacob after the blessing was announced when Jacob landed in the house of Laban the father says that Laban succeeded because of Jacob because he was working with a man that is blessed in fact Jacob left the house of his father with a staff kijiti there was nothing, no blessing nothing akingia bethel akilala juyamawe he had nothing but he carried the blessing and personally I believe that the words of a father in blessing are powerful to shape and navigate your life there are destinies that are shaped because a father spoke there are destinies that are aborted because a father spoke the difference between a curse and a blessing is that a blessing is the utterance of wellness but a curse is the utterance of dun and a blessing is not released when a man is about to die a blessing is the words of wellness that are released by a father when he is still alive when I look at the systems of the scripture many men and fathers spoke after people served them and one of the things that we can do number one we need to serve our parents remember the Bible does not say honor your good fathers it says honor your father and mother meaning that it is the role of us is young people to understand that we ought to honor those that are senior pastor you trying to say that my drunk and father can bless me yes are you trying to say that my polygamist father can bless me are you trying to say my father and I know all his weaknesses can bless me listen when he stands as a father he stands in an office and according to spirituality that office when it speaks an authority has spoken his flaws have no power to hinder the authority of his blessing let us not weigh fathers according to their results and actions we need to see them as authorities and people that have stayed in a certain place and they step and speak from a certain area so the blessing is wrapped up in a father and it is very key for my generation to understand that fathers are destiny shapers and fathers are destiny handlers how we treat them matters a lot we need to serve them number one you need to serve your father you need to be available service is about sacrifice and time you need to be available the second thing that we need to do we need to honor them there is a difference between obedience there is a difference between respect and there is a difference between honor those are three words obedience is unto instruction respect is unto rank but honor is unto grace obedience is unto instruction we can obey anyone even policemen but we don't honor them respect is because of rank you know that these are persons who has a certain office but honor is a language of grace what is grace? you begin to acknowledge there is a deposit in this man or there is a deposit in this person that this deposit is from above and the language honor has everything to do with substance when the Bible says honor your father and mother it is not about instruction it talks about substance nika kitu ii lango jia honor inakwa nga nika kitu tumaka enpesa mba ii lunch mba ii kitu bless that is how you honor your parents mafari siwali kujia Jesus aka wambia ii ne onam na faku pewazazi mumile takama kwa tempo mumile takama koban mumile takama sadaka na kuna generation wana leta don't charge they don't struggle giving to church kuna wa say they don't struggle kuru siyama dem te ii they don't struggle doing that but there is a man who paid a prize for you to be where you are there is such a struggle even sending 1500 to tell that man dad you labored and I just want to honor you and any time a man is honored the heart is open and the tongue at us blessing wukingia katika kachunon nga nga mzumem pepesa me temia tumate na mesema palez me toka wacha zirudi that's how men receive their blessings and they are doors that can never open until you honor your parents this is a principle thing allow me to read a scripture in the book of Genesis 49 as I begin to conclude the Babu says and Jacob called his sons and Sahid gather together that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days gather together and hear you sons of Jacob and listen to Israel your father gather together you sons of Jacob the name Jacob means trickster but Israel was the name that Jacob was given by the Lord after he wrestled with the Lord he got a new name now we need to understand when we are looking at our fathers there is a Jacob site this is the site of weakness you know you stay with your dad for long but never forget every father has an Israel site he said sons of Jacob gather and listen to your father Israel because they knew their father from a place of weakness but it was not the place of weakness that was going to bless them Israel is the sign of strength and prophecy and ordination so it was Israel who was blessing the sons and when you read the whole of Genesis chapter number 49 what happened is that Jacob blessed and cast in eco-mesha like he begins by saying Ruben you are my firstborn my might and the beginning of my strength the excellence of dignity the excellence of power and stable as water you shall not excel now that's a curse and the words that were uttered upon Ruben happened it took Moses to reverse the curse upon Ruben what am I trying to say at times the words there are people who struggle with words that were released by men who died what am I saying the words of a man don't go with him to the ground and man can be buried but he has left living at a once either of blessing or of curses and my prayer is that in this father's day anyone that has a problem with your father you will seek for reconciliation remember the junior should always pursue the senior it is wisdom you should seek for reconciliation the tongue of your father is tied with blessing the second thing if you are there and your father possibly the bible encourages us also not to offend our children you should also seek for reconciliation as a father please master the art of always blessing your children the utterance of a man over his children over his family is more powerful because a man is the priest of the house on this father's day I want to celebrate all the fathers for the battles that they have fought for the sacrifices that they have made and for the things they have gone through just to see us wherever we are and for my generation what we are young let me remind you kuna bara kaza mzazi awezi zi pata supa awezi zi pata chaat bara kaza mzazi mara ngingi na kuanga tied kuamze namzenu na kuanga the priest of the house so please be wise enough serve that man honor that man submit under that man fellowship interact with that man one word from that man is enough to open possibilities over your life may god bless you may god watch over you and have a blessed father's day that was really powerful I want to appreciate pastor Tim Mwangi for doing that video for us it was really a