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...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Monday, 12 June 2017
Godly parenting
Blessed r you when your quiver (bag) is full....
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.
-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.
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.
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...
Monday, 5 June 2017
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.
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:
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.
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.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Sex
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Restore the things that God wants you to have.
Let all the gifts that ever manifested in you to come.
Whatever mountain, valley, challenge you are going through, it has an expiry date.
After every storm, the sun will smile.
Sex: Meaning got from the complete Christian dictionary for office, home and personal use.
Sex causes multiplication...
Sex is a very strong instinct, its the second strongest to fear.
You can't have sex where there is fear, but without fear, the sexual instinct overcomes.
Sex was instituted in the beginning for the purpose of procreation.
Sex is relevant and allowed according to God's design, when God brings man and woman together.
Once u get involved in a sexual relationship with anyone other than your married wife or husband, its sin. You are commanded to flee all resemblance of sin.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5
Once u get married, you r duty bound to provide sex to each other.
Once u get married, you r duty bound to provide sex to each other.
A marriage without sexual inter course is not fulfilled, there is no union.
If the bed is not okay, the marriage isn't.
The danger if sexual denial is that it will cause the partner to look else where for satisfaction.
A body denies sex for a long time, might preach to itself not to ever have sex, and when a man's body gets to this place, he becomes importance.
Total denial can lead to enemies.
Sexual denial also causes breach of the vow.
As you continue to live in a relationship out of your marriage, you end up having children outside your marriage.
To the in married, a sexual relationship is illegal, immoral and sin.
Sex outside marriage causes defilement of our bodies, transfer of demonic spirits.
Sex outside marriage causes guilt, the guilt that you carry is a heavy burden.
Once sex is done out of marriage, there is loss of blessings from God. You loose the package God prepared for marriage.
Please flee from sexual sin.
Don't be so careless and stupid. Don't give yourself to conditions that will give the devil opportunity to tempt you.
Sunday, 21 May 2017
FamilyLife
Genesis 2-18.; Gen.1:28
Prov.18:22 In a marriage God gives favour to the family
Ps.133:1-2 It is in family that you see people walking together
God has bestowed certain blessings exclusive to the family setting.
we see, Authority, Dominion, Favour, Companionship, and all this causes us to be fruitful
Matt.1-20; God chose to have Jesus Christ come through a family.
Your destiny might be wrapped up in the extended family thus causing us bareness.
We need to open up to the extended family and thus break free from bareness.
Laban lived with his uncle and they were blessed.
Jesus brings us to the family of God when He makes us joint heirs. Romans 8-17
When we are in God's family, Jesus is our brother, and with him we cant be barren.
If you don't have any other form of family then you should know we are placed in God's family- Psalms 68-1
How many people have we welcomed in our family?
It is amazing that the people you place in your family are the ones who help you achieve greater.
Ask God to place you in a family where you will bless them and they will be your blessing.
The prodigal son even after rebelling against his father, repented and returned to family. a place of reconciliation, peace making, protection, support, companionship, unconditional love, total freedom, acceptance etc.
Think about;
These people prospered in these families, because they found favour, and they had dominion and the blessing was two-way.
If you want to go to the next level, be faithful and allow God to use you in the place where He has placed you.
Prov.18:22 In a marriage God gives favour to the family
Ps.133:1-2 It is in family that you see people walking together
God has bestowed certain blessings exclusive to the family setting.
we see, Authority, Dominion, Favour, Companionship, and all this causes us to be fruitful
Matt.1-20; God chose to have Jesus Christ come through a family.
Your destiny might be wrapped up in the extended family thus causing us bareness.
We need to open up to the extended family and thus break free from bareness.
Laban lived with his uncle and they were blessed.
Jesus brings us to the family of God when He makes us joint heirs. Romans 8-17
When we are in God's family, Jesus is our brother, and with him we cant be barren.
If you don't have any other form of family then you should know we are placed in God's family- Psalms 68-1
How many people have we welcomed in our family?
It is amazing that the people you place in your family are the ones who help you achieve greater.
Ask God to place you in a family where you will bless them and they will be your blessing.
The prodigal son even after rebelling against his father, repented and returned to family. a place of reconciliation, peace making, protection, support, companionship, unconditional love, total freedom, acceptance etc.
Think about;
- Joseph in Potiphar's house- Gen.39
- David in Saul's house,
- Ruth in Naomi's house
- Moses in Pharaoh's house
These people prospered in these families, because they found favour, and they had dominion and the blessing was two-way.
If you want to go to the next level, be faithful and allow God to use you in the place where He has placed you.
Monday, 1 May 2017
How God desires a family
How should the family be managed?
God created man and told him to multiply.
God created man and woman, man not with man and woman not with woman.
Genesis 1:28 The family is thw only isntitution that was blessed to multiply.
Genesis 2:19-24 God desires that we marray, that we have families, that we multiply.
Collosians 3:18 Wives were instructed to submit to there husbands.
1 Corinthians 11:3 We should not have power struggle in the home.
Husbands are instructed to love there wives as Christ loved the church.
Ephisians 5:28-29, love your wife as your own body, don't be harsh to your wives. Your wife is your body
Association brings assimilation which in yirn brings importation. You will always appear like the people you associate with.
Choose a friend that will help you in life, that will not break you, the people in your life either make or break you.
Love is a must, but relationship is a choice.
God created man and told him to multiply.
God created man and woman, man not with man and woman not with woman.
Genesis 1:28 The family is thw only isntitution that was blessed to multiply.
Genesis 2:19-24 God desires that we marray, that we have families, that we multiply.
Collosians 3:18 Wives were instructed to submit to there husbands.
1 Corinthians 11:3 We should not have power struggle in the home.
Husbands are instructed to love there wives as Christ loved the church.
Ephisians 5:28-29, love your wife as your own body, don't be harsh to your wives. Your wife is your body
Association brings assimilation which in yirn brings importation. You will always appear like the people you associate with.
Choose a friend that will help you in life, that will not break you, the people in your life either make or break you.
Love is a must, but relationship is a choice.
Sunday, 23 April 2017
#FamilyLife
We are family and there are levels of family.
Breaking bareness in Gods family (The Church)
Some fundamental questions that we may relate with personally,
Sometimes bareness might confuse us, we might see things (bareness) as if they are all ok.
Scriptural Ref. Gen.30:1-3;
Breaking bareness in Gods family (The Church)
Some fundamental questions that we may relate with personally,
- What is my role in this family of God as far as breaking bareness is concerned
- How am I contributing to breaking bareness or otherwise promoting it.
- How possible is it to be a peacemaker in times of bareness, to give out love in times of bareness?
Sometimes bareness might confuse us, we might see things (bareness) as if they are all ok.
We shouldn't give up and settle for less but press on for fruitfulness
Sometimes the bareness comes because we are fighting the wrong battles
What bothered Rachael was Leah's' productivity because she took her eyes off God
Sometimes we have taken our eyes from God and focused on others things which seem to be productive. But this was not the case with Hannah when Penninah was productive unlike her, she continued fixing her eyes on God. and she was rewarded.
Scriptural Ref. Gen.30:1-3;
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Fruit of the spirit
Galatians 5:22-23New International Version (NIV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
We all must bear spiritual fruit
The Spirit of God who lives in us is producing results as long as we are born again.
pro-activity is a life of a christian-
John 15:5 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus emphasizes the connection to Him (the branch rather than the process of fruit bearing).
to be connected is a life of sacrifice, it is demanding of us.
Its obvious to see and tell what tree a fruit comes from.
The fire within us is covered by the ash, we need to blow away the ash and this fire will be rekindled then we will bring forth the fruit of the spirit that lies within us.
If we are to stay alive, we must stay in the spirit because we are born of the spirit, lest we die and not bear fruit
John 6:63 New International Version (NIV)63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life. The words of Jesus are spirit and life, the flesh accomplishes nothing.
You can't build walls with no foundation neither can we build a roof without walls
We can't manifest the fruit of the spirit when we live outside the spirit realm.
everything that happens in this life first happens in the spirit.
The assurance that Jesus lives in us and works in us is the key to our victory over the sinful nature.
The Holy Spirit doesn't immunize us against the fruit of the flesh but He empowers us to be able to stand in the moment of trial and temptation and resist the power of the sinful nature.
Romans 8:13 New International Version (NIV)
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
An encounter with the Holy Spirit will not leave one the same; because He will master us and thus we will bear fruit of Him.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
We all must bear spiritual fruit
The Spirit of God who lives in us is producing results as long as we are born again.
pro-activity is a life of a christian-
John 15:5 New International Version (NIV)
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Jesus emphasizes the connection to Him (the branch rather than the process of fruit bearing).
to be connected is a life of sacrifice, it is demanding of us.
Its obvious to see and tell what tree a fruit comes from.
The fire within us is covered by the ash, we need to blow away the ash and this fire will be rekindled then we will bring forth the fruit of the spirit that lies within us.
If we are to stay alive, we must stay in the spirit because we are born of the spirit, lest we die and not bear fruit
John 6:63 New International Version (NIV)63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life. The words of Jesus are spirit and life, the flesh accomplishes nothing.
You can't build walls with no foundation neither can we build a roof without walls
We can't manifest the fruit of the spirit when we live outside the spirit realm.
everything that happens in this life first happens in the spirit.
The assurance that Jesus lives in us and works in us is the key to our victory over the sinful nature.
The Holy Spirit doesn't immunize us against the fruit of the flesh but He empowers us to be able to stand in the moment of trial and temptation and resist the power of the sinful nature.
Romans 8:13 New International Version (NIV)
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
An encounter with the Holy Spirit will not leave one the same; because He will master us and thus we will bear fruit of Him.
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Fruits of the Flesh
Anger, Idolatry, witchcraft, desires of the flesh.
The fruit if the Spirit are produced by the Spirit in us.
As long as you are born, you are capable of sin.
Why doesn't God take away sin once someone is Born again once and for all?
Being born again means u r capable of the fruit of the spirit, so there is a declaration of war against the flesh. One against the other.
Mark 11:13 God expects us to have the Spirit producing fruit at all times.
There is always a war going on in the inside of us, and where there is war, one side wins.
No one who lives with the values of the flesh will inherit the kingdom of God. There is need for you to examine your life to find ourselves and if we find the fruit of the flesh, we repent and ask God to give us His Spirit.
You need to command the body to follow the desires of the Spirit.
Because there is war going on, we r not able to do that good that we know we should do.
God doesn't take away son when we turn to God because God wants us to entirely depend on Him.
Let the Holy Spirit guide your life, there is no other way to overcome the desires of the flesh but by the Holy Spirit.
You need to make a decision to stop committing sin with the help of the Holy Spirit.
You cannot succeed without the help if the Holy Spirit. Live and be guided by the spirit of God.
We should yield to the Holy Spirit and allow the desire if the Lord to fulfill us.
We shall live with this battle until we leave this world.
The duty we are called to as Christians is I align with the Holy Spirit.
How shall we perform this duty.
- Be ware of the desire of the Holy Spirit as opposed to the desire of the flesh
- Commit ourselves to the guidance of the word of the Lord.
- We need to depend on the Holy Spirit and His influence in our lives.
Monday, 20 February 2017
Christian Living that honors God
People should look at your life and see the glory of the Lord.
You become what you are connected to.
There are things that when you plug into, you start to live a holy
life.
You cannot live a life beyond the revelation of yourself.
Its easy for you to know sin, but you still go ahead and sin.
Let not iniquity have dominion over you. Sin has potential
to rule over you.
Let the word of the Lord guide me... Order my steps according
to your word.
- Your life has to be ordered by the Lord
- You need to delight in the Lord
The word of God establishes a saint and whatever he does, prospers.
You demand your entire being to obey the Lord.
Magnify the word of God Psalm 138:2
"I have magnified my word and exalted it above my name"
~God
- Every knee will bow before the name Jesus.
- Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
Yet he says he has magnified His word above His name.
Make the word of the Lord workable in your life
Sometimes your defenses are so broken, but every time you
realize it, magnify the Word of God.
Stop living a life of mixture.
Your leader becomes to you what you call him.
When the Holy spirit came upon Peter, 3000 people gave there
lives to Christ
You need to come out if those intoxicating environments
- Build Character
- You become a reflection of your company
- Change counsel, it matters who you are listening to.
Monday, 13 February 2017
The fruits of the flesh continued
Isa.54: Do not hold back, some are tired of being;
Last in class; children being disobedient; etc still don’t
hold back stretch out
The fruit of the flesh can fail us to attain what God has
planned for us. It is pleasing to meet someone who is righteous and very
fulfilling.
The fruit of the flesh stands between the enlargements of
your tent- the song am so glad that Jesus set me free makes sense when you know
what God has saved you from.
Rom.7:25.
The reason the weeds comes back in our lives is because we
believe when we got saved the rest is a smooth walk. But the Psalmist said;
Search me O Lord Ps.139:23
Gal.5:19- The works of the flesh are Obvious, when I allow these fruits to be manifest in
me, how much has the blood washed out of me, what is the effect of this blood
in my life?
Eccl.2:4—11 The fruit of the flesh causes us to focus on
material things- but all will come to nothing
The fruit of the flesh leads us to unquenchable desire and
pleasure
There is nothing of the fruit of the flesh that will cause
satisfaction.
The fruit of the flesh causes you to believe yourself partly
and you cannot trust God that much.
Where this fruit prevails we trust the
devil with certain terms. When it comes to what the devil can
do, no believer
can’t doubt it.
On the contrary, God is faithful and He gave us a helper.
The only problem each one of us has the pressure of Marah Exo.15:22. The only
thing you need to do is to EXAMINE
ourselves. Matt. 21:19.
After doing what we are supposed to do, do we see the fruit
or the leaves of the, the fruit of the Spirit will always prevail over the
fruit of the flesh.
When you are isolated from the good and rosy picture of a
glow- which fruit will be manifest in our lives?
Lets us uproot the fruit
of the flesh, not only through your prayer, but total surrender to the Lordship
of Jesus.
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