"The presence of the father"
Channel: Theophilus Lambo
Date: 2021-06-21

Fathers’ Day Special Message by Pastor James G. Mannah                                                                                                                        Senior Pastor Mt Zion Fellowship Church. Beltsville. Maryland. USA.
A message of exhortation and hope sent to our today’s world full of dysfunctional families. A world in which perfect families are rare to be found and which new generations of future families are being raised. Is our world under a curse as in the days of Noah or we are living through the fulfilment of the prophesy of our Lord, Jesus Christ, in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”  
The Servant of God, led by the Holy Spirit, gave us an insight into the causes of crisis within the families, the expectations from the man in the house as well as the moral virtues expected from the children. His befitting theme for his message was: “The presence of the father”. The Scripture text reading gave a glimpse of this message of exhortation, motivation and admonition as we read it from Malachi 4:4-6 ““Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” 
A message for all men, married and single, as panacea to a happy family build on the foundation of love, trust, respect and godliness. It could not have come at any other better time and season as our present time that many homes are going through marital storms and avoidable family upheavals, if only someone is sent to guide them along the path of agape love.