Godly Parenting

 What is Godly Parenting?

When you look at your children, don't look at them considering the nucleus family alone, you are raising a giant, nations.
You are raising up giants when you look after children, you are not raising up dwarfs,your children need to build spiritual muscles, not being tossed up and down by other religions.

What do children symbolize?
Proverbs 22:6

Children represent the future of our livelihood.
David perused and recovered all the children and wives that were stolen by the Philistines.

When God gives you children, then your future is bright.
As parents you are supposed to prepare the children, nature then, instruct them and command them into the statutes of the Lord.

Godly parenting means grooming a child so that the child can achieve there true purpose for life, this means that you are partnering with God to raise the Child spiritually, morally, mentally and physically.

Train the Child in the way he should go, and not the way you should go.

Proverbs 29:15
Don't live the child to the guidance of his own will, otherwise, they will by default choose wrong.

Isaiah 28:10

Have the wisdom of handling children, build them up in love.

Children are not the same, even when they have come form the same parents, so train them in love and be patient with them.

Train the Child knowing that much depends on you.
There are three things that can change one's destiny:
 - The Grace of God.
 - Nature, Paul struggles with nature in Romans 7:24
 - The training provided to the person

Parents are not to abdicate there responsibility to there family, to there children, train your child in a way they should grow.

As people partnering with God, look at your child as a page for you to write good things...

Godly parenting

Psalms 127:3

Blessed r you when your quiver (bag) is full....

Genesis 1:26

God expected Adam and Eve to bring up children in there likeness, and the likeness of God is embedded in Adam and Eve, so the likeness of God would be embedded in the children.

God is looking ahead in time in terms of Generations for your family.

In Genesis 6, God is grieved by the population of the Earth, God is not just interested in numbers, but also interested in the quality of the population.

God wants to:
-Live and reveal himself on the Earth.
-To manifest His character and authority on the Earth.

This could be manifested on the Earth through Godly parenting.

Genesis 5:1 Summary of Adam's life

Godly parenting is not just about getting a child and providing for them, it involves naturing, instructing, directing, love, etc.

God wants to affect nations, wants a holy seed, wants to manifest His glory on Earth through mankind.

God wants man to partner with Him in order to affect nations.

Genesis 18:16

Whatever the plan of God is, children are not far from it.

He chooses Abraham because he will direct, command his children after him.

The work of parents on the Earth is to bring up spiritual giants in their children.

Man is not only a physical body but is also a spirit.

Man is accountable to God, our children must be accountable, must be responsible.

Isaiah 58:12

Parents r supposed to raise up foundations for generations.

Godly parenting means pointing your children to God...

May God give you the grace to produce children who will fear Him...

God's design for the family

Whatever family you live in, God has a design for it.

God's design for the family is built around worshiping Him. Your main purpose in this life is to worship the Lord and glorify his name.

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

It can be challenging to be a Christian in a place sounded by non believers.

Paul wrote the roles of every family member, the Husband, Wife and Children.

Worshiping together as a family encourages peace.

If you worship together as a family, that sin is dealt with.

Worshiping together encourages the right doctrine.

When you don't worship as a family:

Genesis 4:7

2 Samuel 12:10

When you don't worship, you give the devil an opportunity to cause you to sin.

When you sin, you give the devil the legal right over your life.

2 Samuel 15:1-6

If you don't worship with your children, you will never know them, you won't know who to help. You won't know the one to correct and help.

Its not too late to start praying, worshiping God together, you can start worshiping him together.