We are concluding the 40 days of Reconciliation series in the next four days. We are going to have an overlap. Day 37 of the 40 days of Reconciliation is going to be day one of our Family Leadership series.

The only thing that is not yet certain is how many episodes we are going to have. At minimum, they might be seven, but there will not be 40. The maximum will be 20. That should help you to expect how long this journey is going to take.

We encourage you to participate more than you during the 40 Days of Reconciliation series. I hope everybody here is part of a family, you are either leading a family or you are just young in your parents' home. This is relevant to everyone. We are all born in families.

We are going to look at the significance of helping children grow in the fear of God, and we are going to look at biblical examples. The first one being Moses. We see God walking with Moses as he is leading the people of Israel.

But there is one thing that happened: when God told him to speak to the rock, Moses remembered that God had earlier told him to hit his rod on the rock. So what happened here is that he dwelt on the past and forgot the current.

God told him to speak to the rock, but the people were very hard, so they made him angry, and he ended up hitting the rock in anger. This did not please God because he did not do what God had told him to do.

He is also a very good example because the people you lead can really make you angry to the extent that you even forget where you were. So Moses is a very good example. You really don't have to be so angry to the extent that you lose focus.

So, the lesson we learn as we lead our families—there are about three things in this one element: Paying close attention to God's word is essential. We should not take it for granted. Many times don't we think that what God did yesterday is what he's going to do today? We know He is alive, he's not static. But we think He works like a machine. We don't think He has a mind.

God changes things. Even when he doesn't change, he changes things. He's a God of innovation, and as some people will tell you, He is also a God of humor. He's a God of wisdom. If you don't listen intently, you will miss a lot. Our elder Moses missed this because the people made him angry.

Why is this crucial to us? Respectfully, Moses was a very key prophet. There has been no one like him from history to date. That's why we need to carefully address this topic as we pick our lessons. So may God help us.

When we deal with our children, they can make us angry and we speak to them harshly, thinking that we are disciplining them. In the end, we lose our relationship with them, and we also cannot pray effectively because we are covered in anger. May God help us.

We find the story about Moses in Numbers Chapter 20, verse 1 to 13.

We also have an example of Eli, the High Priest. His story teaches us to raise our children in the fear of God. Unfortunately, for Eli, this wasn't a priority for him. He thought he was serving God, but the challenge is he did not give attention to his children. In the end, these children disobeyed God. Imagine children who are cooking meat, who are sacrificing animals at the altar, but they can still remove pieces of the meat and take it for themselves. Imagine at the altar! These were Eli's children!

It had to take young Samuel to rise up and speak God's prophecy against them. This helps us know that by keeping quiet as our children continue to live ungodly and doing abominable things before God, we are shooting ourselves, we are hurting our own children. We should be awake and attentive, and we should walk with them and help them to grow in the fear of God. The sons of Eli missed this. You really don't want to repeat Eli's mistake...

Thank you so much. See you next time.