The Important Role of a Godly Father

The focus the following articles place on a mother influencing the growth of her son is not meant to replace the role a father plays in his son’s life.

We all know how important a godly, loving father is in a boy’s life. You and your son are very blessed if you have a man of God in your home during these critical years.

But tragically, one in four homes today is without a man in the house at all, leaving many mothers alone in their battle to raise their beloved boys. Countless other homes have fathers who have relinquished their God-appointed role in their son’s life.

Too many of our boys grow up seeing ungodly, critical, or controlling behavior displayed by the man in their home, rather than witnessing the example of a good, strong, loving leader.

You as a mother cannot replace the father role in your son’s life. However, you can raise a modern-day hero who will fight for his family and be a faithful, loving husband and father.

I pray you will grab hold of this truth: Our God us the same today as when He raised up mighty men in a fallen world.

Can you raise your son to one day love, lead, and protect a wife and family in a world like this?

The answer is yes. The heartbeat of NextGenHusband is to give you the tools to help your son become a tender warrior who will one day fight for his family, a godly husband who will faithfully love his wife , and a leader who will be a man of his word.

The time is now to take your love, tears, prayers, and influence and pour them into his future. Even if our world does not change its moral fiber, you can influence your son and bring hope to the next generation. It's an opportunity of a lifetime-yours.

The Problem We Face in Today's World

We are raising a generation of boys who have better relationships with their video games, iPods, televisions and computers than they have with their families. Their world is one where pornography is no longer a hidden shame, but encourages as entertainment.

With a 50 percent divorce rate both inside and outside the church, this generation's view on marriage is that is has little hope for success.

Our sons are embroiled daily in a battle of the mind. They are being bombarded by conflicting messages about what a real man is. Today's so-called heroes are exalted for selfish pursuits-pleasure, money, and fame. It seems our sons are educated on every subject except how to love a wife and lead a family.

Far too few role models are willing to take a stand against immorality and infidelity, to teach our boys to declare victory for themselves and the generations to follow.

What Will Happen If We Do Nothing to Prepare Our Sons to Fight for Their Future Families?

I have spoken at countless woman’s events the past two decades, and I can’t tell you how often broken women have shared the same stories with me, over and over, about how empty their marriages are or how the marriage ended.

Every time I come home, I cry out to God to give our men the strength to fight for their families, remain faithful, and gain knowledge on how to love their wives and protect their families.

Then one day it occurred to me: The way a man loves a woman has a lot to do with what he learned as a little boy through his relationship with his mother. This is because she is the first woman God placed in his life until he is married.

What if a husbands had a mother who invested her life not only in cooking, cleaning, and caring for her son, but also in carefully and deliberately bestowing upon him what every man desires to know—how to understand and care for the fragile heart of his bride?

Imagine how differently many tragic love stories would end if every new bride took the hand of a well-trained hero—a stronger warrior, equipped for victory as a loving leader. The marriage love story would be much more fulfilling if young princes were raised learning the art of loving their future wives.

Mommy Moment

It was a picture-perfect evening by the campfire on one of Southern California's beautiful beaches. My precious three-year-old son Jake, and I were snuggled up under a blanket, watching the sun set over the ocean. The waves gently lapped the shore. A young couple walked past us hand in hand, obviously in love.

I'll never forget what happened next. My little boy thought for a minute, turned his sweet little face toward me, and said, "Mommy, will you marry me when I grow up?" It was one of those moments that will be engraved on my heart forever.

I gently explained to him that mommies can't marry their sons. My heart ached as I watched tears well up in his big blue eyes and roll slowly down his kissable, chubby cheeks.

How I treasured that memory. In that "mommy moment," I realized the vast influence God had given me in my son's life. That night I got down on my knees and made a promise to God that I would use whatever time He gave me with my son to prepare him to become a man who knows how to love his wife.

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Focus on the Family .....

What Kind Of Husband Will Your Son Grow Up To Be?

Best selling author , Sheri Rose Shepherd goes to battle for our boys future families ... In Her New Book and Conference
"Preparing Him for the other Woman"
A mothers Guide to raise a Great Husband

This timely message gives mothers the faith, wisdom and strength to raise a toddler or a teen to grow up to be a great husband and a man of his word... equipped to remain faithful and experience a happy and healthy family.
"We do not have to wait for the world to change its moral fiber to win this war against broken homes, broken hearts, infidelity and divorce."

A mother is the first lady in her son’s life and her love and influence in her beloved boy’s life can help change the success rate of the next generation’s marriage and rebuild the foundation of family ... one boy at a time.

... The time is now to prepare our boys for victory.
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All Gods Best For You
Sheri Rose

In the News

Focus on the Family® recently interviewed Sheri Rose Shepherd after she spoke at a Glen Eyrie Conference. Her interview was about Preparing Him for the Other Woman.

The interview will be featured on an upcoming Focus on the Family® quarterly audio CD as part of their Focus On Your Child® ministry.

The ministry is dedicated to helping parents raise healthy, confident and well-adjusted children and has over 300,000 members.

A young mans prayer for His Future Bride

I pray for my bride wherever she is in the world right now.

Prepare me to become the kind of husband she will need when we come together and let the only relationship I seek be with You until You make me ready.

Blind my eyes from wanting any other women other
than the one You have for me and remove all the women in my life who would keep me from recognizing her.

Give me wisdom to seek what is pure and right
in Your sight while I wait for her.

Give me the mind of Christ that I might not lust for any other
Women while I wait.

Put such a deep a passion in my heart for my purpose
that I won’t be distracted or discouraged from
pursuing all that you have for me.

Deliver me from the traps of the enemy and train me now to resist temptation so that I will be able to remain faithful
to her when we are finally together.

Keep my feet from falling into a counterfeit relationship and give me the strength to not settle for second best.

Give me the stamina to run this “singles” race until
I cross the finish line and receive
her heart—and Your blessing—as the prize.

Amen.

by Sheri Rose Shepherd (for her son, Jake)