*SHALOM* *EVENING DOSE* *👑 FATHERS, WALK Tall, A SERIES FOR OUR GRACIOUS DADS.* *🎈CALL HIM OUT, THE SON NEEDS HIS FATHER’S VOICE* 🧔🏾‍♂️ Gracious Dads… Let’s Flip the Script. Yesterday, we spoke about daughters. Today, let’s talk about sons. Because boys may act tough, hide their emotions, and try to "man up" early, but they’re still asking one loud question, “Dad, do I have what it takes?” And if you don’t answer it, the world will. 📖 “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” — (Matthew 3:17) Even Jesus, sinless, divine, God-in-the-flesh, needed to hear His Father’s voice. So what about your son? 🧠 Here’s the Reality, Sons Learn Masculinity from Presence, Not Pressure. If you always criticize him but never affirm him, he’ll chase praise in broken places. If you tell him to "man up" without showing him how, he’ll act strong but remain scared inside. If your words are only correction without connection, he’ll see fatherhood as a wound, not a gift. You don’t raise boys by yelling at them to be men. You raise them by walking with them into manhood. 🔥 Your Words Shape His Inner World 💬 “I’m proud of you” gives him confidence. 💬 “You’ve got what it takes” gives him courage. 💬 “I see strength in you” tells him he’s not invisible. But silence? It creates a gap he’ll spend years trying to fill. Harshness? It writes scripts he’ll recite to himself for decades. Fathers, your affirmation is not weakness. It’s warfare. You are raising a son to fight demons you never taught him to name. 📖 “Fathers, do not exasperate your children, or they will become discouraged.” — (Colossians 3:21) Discouraged sons become distant men. And distant men become disconnected fathers. And the cycle repeats, until one man breaks it with love and truth. 🧔🏾‍♂️ Dear Dad, Look Your Son in the Eye and Say This, “You don’t have to earn my pride, you already have it.” “You’re not perfect, but you’re not alone.” “You’re not weak for needing help, you’re wise.” 💬 “The most dangerous boy is not the loud one. It’s the one who gave up trying to impress his silent father.” “Affirmation is not feminine, it’s foundational.” “Be strong and courageous... the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6) Teach your sons this truth, but also live it out. Let them never question whether you’ll walk with them, even when they fall. 📌 Therefore dear Fathers, Call him out. Speak him up. Walk with him. Your son needs more than rules. He needs your voice. He needs you. *🛐 Father, Let My Son Hear My Voice and Find Your Heart* Heavenly Father, You who looked down upon Your Son and said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” we come before You today with open hearts, lifting every father and every son into Your embrace. O God, You understand the heart of a father. You know what it means to affirm, to bless, and to speak purpose into the life of a child. Today, we pray especially for fathers raising sons for men entrusted with shaping boys into men, not just in body, but in spirit. Lord, many fathers today carry silent questions, “Am I doing enough?” “Do I even know how to father when I was never fathered well?” Wrap them in Your mercy. Speak peace over their uncertainties. Strengthen their hearts, that they may strengthen the hearts of their sons. We pray for fathers who never heard the words, “I’m proud of you.” May they be the first in their family line to break that silence. We pray for fathers who speak in harshness because no one taught them gentleness, Lord, teach them the power of kindness and truth. Give fathers the courage to call out the strength in their sons, to look them in the eye and say, “You matter. I see you. You don’t have to be perfect to be loved.” Let no son be left starving for a word of blessing. Let no son wander, lost in silence, looking for himself in broken places. Let fathers rise, not just as providers of bread, but as proclaimers of blessing, teachers of truth, and mirrors of divine masculinity. And when fathers feel like failures, remind them: Your grace covers gaps. Your mercy rewrites stories. Your love restores what is broken. May our homes be places where boys become men not through pressure, but through presence, not through fear, but through faith, not through shouting, but through speaking life. O God, heal every wound in father and son alike. Let forgiveness flow where words have failed. Let legacy begin where love is rekindled. Grant this, Almighty God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. *✨Enjoy a gracious evening - God bless*