Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

trouble. If I ask, “Where is your dad?” many of them answer, “I don’t know,” or “He’s doing time,” or “He’s running around with some woman.” The death of a father is different from the disappearance of a dad. Death is a natural process of life, but dads gone AWOL become silent signals to children: “I’m gone, and it’s all about me and not about you.” Although Ishmael was alone with Mom, God planned a great future for Ishmael’s children. God promised Ishmael He would bless him, making him fruitful and multiplying him from one man to twelve sons who would be princes over great nations (Gen. 17:20; 25). The sons of Ishmael produced twelve nations, whose descendants settled throughout the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. Ishmael’s kids ended up with the oil in the Middle East. Not too bad for a rejected son! Ishmael’s blessings followed his descendants because his natural dad was Abraham, and Abraham had a covenant with God. What Can a Single Mother Do? With so many one-parent families, especially single mothers, what spiritual provision does a single mom have in affirming and blessing her children when a father is absent from the home? First, a believing mother has a true friend in God, in Christ, and in the Holy Spirit. When Christ was preparing for His departure back to heaven, He said, “I will not leave you comfortless . . . I will send you another Comforter.” (See John 14:16–18.) The word comfortless is the Greek word orphanos , from which we derive the word orphan . Paraphrased, He was