I think one of the job of the parents, too, of parents is to like, kind of like receive words for your kids and like ask, seek the Lord for a vision for them on their behalf.

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we love to tease out different verses,

passages that seem to have implications or applications for fatherhood. One of them is in Job

chapter one. There's tons and tons of things to apply from the book of Job to children. But there's

something that says at the very, very beginning of the book

that I always found interesting. And it says in Job 1, 4 and 5, his sons used to go and hold a feast

in the house of each one on his day. And they would send and invite their three sisters to eat

and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them,

and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of

them all. For Job said, it may be that my children have sinned and curse God in their hearts.

Thus Job did continually. So first of all, how cool is it that all of his siblings were going to

each other's houses constantly to have parties? I don't know. Joe's family was pretty epic.

I couldn't understand why this was really a hard thing for him to lose. But I love what Job does here.

It's an interesting decision to say, you know, these appear to be adult children, and he was

interceding for each one of them because he saw that the biggest problem that his children

were going to have in their life was whether or not God engages them directly.

And so he did not want to see a rift develop between God and any

one of his children. And so individually, he would go through and offer burnt offerings for each

of his children after these different feasts that they were enjoying. And so it's a really cool to

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