PRACTISES YOU MUST NOT CONDONE UNDER YOUR ROOF (CONT)

Greetings to you all good people of steem, peace be onto you all. Today am going to continue with the topic i tagged PRACTISES YOU MUST NOT CONDONE IN YOUR HOME. I listed some on my previous post and today am going to take it off from there.

PRACTISES YOU MUST NOT CONDONE UNDER YOUR ROOF (CONT)

1. WATCHING OF SIN-LADEN FILMS
Dear couple, be in charge. Don't allow your loved ones, especially your children and family members to indulge in watching pornographic and other deadly films. From time to time, check what happens in your children rooms and apartments. Where it is possible, dont allow your visitors to indulge in such acts also.
It is very sad that one of the beloved of the Lord in the person of king david, made perhaps the greatest blunder and regret while watching Bathsheba when she was having her bath in her house. The consequences for david was terrible. Let us save ourselves from such error.

Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath. 3 He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home. 5 Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant. 2 Samuel 11:2-5.

2. GOSSIP
Couples must not allow their homes to be made the tabernacles of gossip and useless discussions. Let people know you for righteousness. Be an advocate of truth and godliness. Of course, not many people will like you if you don't have time for irrelevances. It is better to stand for something than allowing bad thing under your roof. The best way to do this is by not being a gossiper yourself. Don't waste time to interrupt and stop anyone gossiping under your roof. Where necessary, excuse such a person to leave your house.

3. CONSPIRACIES.
Anyone that allows CONSPIRACIES in his or her house will be consumed by it. Remember the story of Prophet Eli. God punished him for not taking the decisive steps about the errors of his children in his house.

Then the Lord said to Samuel, “I am about to do a shocking thing in Israel. 12 I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family, from beginning to end. 13 I have warned him that judgment is coming upon his family forever, because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn’t disciplined them. 14 So I have vowed that the sins of Eli and his sons will never be forgiven by sacrifices or offerings.” 1 Samuel 3:11-14

You may not be involved directly in a conspiracy but if you allow those who are involved in your house, you may be deemed a collaborator. There should be no sentiment. What you cannot eat, don't smell. Don't allow anything even in your house.

4 NON-PAYMENT OF TITHE BY THOSE WHO LIVE WITH YOU
Anyone that lives in your house is under your covering. Such people can bring blessings just as they can bring curse. Couples should do their best by educating everyone that lives with them about the blessings of paying tithe and offerings promptly and regularly. Don't allow anyone to bring a curse into your family through unfaithfulness to God. From the Word of God, non-tithers are robbers. Don't allow robbers under your roof.

Will a man Rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Malachi 3:8

5. STAYING BACK AT HOME DURING CHURCH SERVICES
Let couples carry everybody along vis-a-vis our responsibilities and commitment to God. Encourage everyone that lives with you to join you when it is time to go to church. Let people know that the danger of missing divine programme and services. Let us learn from the following two characters.
I. Thomas was absent when Jesus appeared to other disciples.

One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came. 25 They told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.”
26 Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”
28 “My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed. John 20:24-28

Everytime you are absent from an important meeting, you miss something.

ii. David stayed back at home at a time when all kings should be at the battle field, and it landed him in trouble.

Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath. 3 He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home. 5 Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant.”. 2 Samuel 11:2-5

6. POOR HOSPITALITY
Beloved couple, be hospitable. Make your house centre of God's hospitality. Don't allow any form of maltreatment under your roof. Don't treat people anyhow. Wives must be kinds to your husband's visitors. Where there is reservations, discuss with your husband and jointly do the needful. If in all sincerity, you cannot afford to host someone or where the person will bring problem, then don't allow the person to come into your house. In the case where you discover the problem late after welcoming that individual, reason and agree as a couple on the best way to deal with the problem. Determine the best and quickest way to let the person leave your house.

I will like to admonish that as a couple, Treat anyone that comes into your home well tithe best of your ability, pay special attention to servants of God. Bless them. Trust the Lord that the grace they carry will abide with your family and not live you the same way. The story of the shunammite woman in 2 kings 4:8-17, shows us the blessings that follows those who hobbit the servants of God.

One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come to her home for a meal. After that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat.
9 She said to her husband, “I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God. 10 Let’s build a small room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by.”
11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to this upper room to rest. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman from Shunem I want to speak to her.” When she appeared, 13 Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shown us. What can we do for you? Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’”
“No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”
14 Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can we do for her?”
Gehazi replied, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.”
15 “Call her back again,” Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, 16 “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”
“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”
17 But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.

THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY, GOD BLESS YOU.