Psalm 37:23-24
Psalm 119:9-11
Psalm 119:113
Acts 13:22
Topic: How to become a man (father) after God’s own heart
In the Word of God, there are some principles that men must follow if he desires to become a man (father) after God’s own heart. To become a man that is after God’s own heart, a man must learn to do the following important things:
1. To become a man after God’s own heart, first of all the man must be born again. He must be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He must be a man who is saved, sanctified and filled the Holy Spirit.
St. John 3:3 says, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Romans 10:9 says, “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Ephesians 5:18 says, “Do not be drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.”
2. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must read, study, learn, be trained/taught, and obey the Word of God.
Psalm 119:11 says, Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.”
Psalm 119:133 says, “Order my steps in thy word.”
St. Luke 11:28 says, “Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it.
2nd Timothy 2:15 says, Study to shew yourself approved unto God, a workman needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.”
James 1:23 says, to “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.”
3. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must be a man of prayer.
St. Luke 18:1 says that “Men should always pray and not faint.”
I Thessalonians 5:17 says to “Pray without ceasing.”
Philippians 4:6-7 says, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God.”
2nd Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
4. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must praise and worship the Lord daily.
St. John 4:24 says, “God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
St. Matthew 4:10 says, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
5. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must serve the Lord daily.
Deuteronomy 10:12 says, “And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him; and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.”
Joshua 24:15 says, “And if it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell, but as for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
6. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must love, cherish, provide for, protect, encourage, guide, and uplift his lovely wife.
Ephesians 5:25 says, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.”
Colossians 3:19 says, Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them.”
7. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must love and train up his children in the way of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 6:4-8 says, “Hear O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and sahlt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates.”
Proverbs 22:6 says to “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Colossians 3:21 says, ‘Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”
Ephesians 6:4 says, “And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
8. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man must work to provide for himself and for his family.
2nd Thessalonians 3:10 says, “For even when were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
I Timothy 5:8 says, “But if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
9. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man will go to church, and be active in the church.
Psalm 122:1 says, “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
Hebrews 10:25 says, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
Ephesians 4:1-6 says, “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, for bearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all who is above all and through all, and in you all.”
Hebrews 13:17 says, to “Obey them that have rule over you and submit yourselves; for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.”
10. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man will learn to share the gospel to the lost.
St. Mark 16:15 says, to “Go into all the word and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jews first, and then also to the Greek.”
11. To become a man after God’s own heart, the man will learn to reach out to those who are less fortunate.
Psalm 41:1 says, “Blessed is he that considers the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.”
Proverbs 19:17 says, “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
12. Last, but not least, to become a man after God’s own heart, the man must realize that he is not and will not be perfect; for King David was known to be a man who was after God’s own heart, but yet he was not perfect. For King David had committed adultery, and had a man killed so he could marry his wife. But yet when King David’s sin had found him out, and was convicted by the Spirit of God because of his transgression, King David immediately repented and asked God for forgiveness. And immediately God forgave King David; for King David said in Psalm 51:1, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thine lovingkindness; According to your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.”
And likewise, to become a man after God’s own heart, we must repent daily of our sins, and ask God for mercy and forgiveness.1 John 1:9 says. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleasne us from all unrighteousness because the blood of Jesus Christ is able to cleanse us from all our sins. And every day, daily basis, to become a man after God’s own heart, we must always seek the Lord Jesus Christ for wisdom, guidance, and for strength.
James 1:5-6 says If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God , who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
