Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Don Whitney, entitled Five Reasons to Prioritize Family Worship.

Don Whitney's bestselling book is called Family Worship from Crossway.

Five reasons to prioritize family worship, written and read by Don Whitney.

Just about everyone I know feels overwhelmed, and most are busier than they've ever been,

especially if they have children at home. Pair that with my observation that most Christians I know would affirm that family worship, if they are familiar with it, would probably be a

worthwhile practice if they were to make the time for it. If these things are true for you,

then my prayer is that this article will persuade you, despite the many demands on your

time schedule, to make a priority of family worship. And I hope to persuade you, regardless of the

size of your family, and even if you've never had children, or no longer have children in your home,

by means of the following five reasons.

Number one, God deserves to be worshipped daily in our homes by our families.

This is the teaching throughout the Bible.

While there is no direct command regarding family worship, it is implied throughout scripture.

In Genesis 22, 7, when Isaac asked his father Abraham, where is the lamb for the burnt offering?

He knew something was missing in the worship of God because Abraham had led Isaac and the rest of the family in the worship of God before.

Job 1.5 says that after any of his grown children held a feast, Job would send for them

and offer up a burnt offering of worship for them in their presence. and thus Job did continually.

In 1. Peter 3.7, Jesus Apostle exhorts husbands.

Note, he addresses all married men here, and not just those who are fathers,

to live with their wives in an understanding way.

In part, Peter says this to husband, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

The prayers here are not just those of the husband. Rather, Peter is referring to mutual prayer.

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