HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE - Daily Devotional
EVERY WORD OF GOD FOR DAILY LIVING
BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA
(Int'l Director)
THURSDAYMAY 10
2018
TOPIC: LEADING YOUR CHILDREN TOCHRIST AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
TEXT: 2 Timothy 3: 14-15
Key verse: 2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Our children are a heritage from the Lord. The children God gave to us should be our first responsibility to bring to Christ's salvation. If we are born again, then we must make frantic effort to do this. It is our duty to help them grow in holiness and righteousness. Parents should learn how to bring their children to Christ early in life.
See the example Grandmother Lois, mother Eunice and Timothy himself (2 Tim. 1:5). It is easier and more effective to train children from infancy than struggling to bend them when they are grown up. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child
in the way he should grow, when he is old he shall not depart from it”.
Therefore, children training should begin very early:
i. From ages 0-5, psychology tells us that this is the personality formative years.
Use these years to mould the child into godly character and other moral values.
ii. Science has also proved that six weeks old baby in the womb can hear. So, speak God into your child in the womb, prophesy.
iii. It is the parents' responsibility. Emulate Abraham who received God's commendation for this in Genesis 18:19.
iv. It is in keeping with God's commandment (Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 4:9-10).
v. Our Lord Jesus received complete parental training from childhood (Luke 2:40-52). Training must include: Spiritual (God's word) Luke 2:40; Physical (skills and human values in the society, Jesus was subject to his parents Luke
2:51); Physical and social development feed the children well, Jesus grew in
wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man Luke 2:52.
vi. Things parents should not do to their children:
• Don't leave the training of your children to house helps
• Don't leave the training of your children to after-school lesson teachers, so that you remain in office till late in the evenings
• Don't leave the training of your children to Daycare homes its destructive.
• Don't leave the training of your children to Boarding Schools it is the breeding ground for the nurturing of all kinds of evil
• Don't lose your children to your work (office, business, pastoral/ministry work).
Don't be too busy to take care of God's heritage in your care.
Thought for the day: If you don't train your children, Satan will. Children are yoursure pension scheme give personal attention to their training.
Song for the day: All that concerns me is touching God…
Bible reading for the day: 1 Kings 21-22; John 3:1-21
#Horemow.
EVERY WORD OF GOD FOR DAILY LIVING
BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA
(Int'l Director)
THURSDAYMAY 10
2018
TOPIC: LEADING YOUR CHILDREN TOCHRIST AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
TEXT: 2 Timothy 3: 14-15
Key verse: 2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
Our children are a heritage from the Lord. The children God gave to us should be our first responsibility to bring to Christ's salvation. If we are born again, then we must make frantic effort to do this. It is our duty to help them grow in holiness and righteousness. Parents should learn how to bring their children to Christ early in life.
See the example Grandmother Lois, mother Eunice and Timothy himself (2 Tim. 1:5). It is easier and more effective to train children from infancy than struggling to bend them when they are grown up. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child
in the way he should grow, when he is old he shall not depart from it”.
Therefore, children training should begin very early:
i. From ages 0-5, psychology tells us that this is the personality formative years.
Use these years to mould the child into godly character and other moral values.
ii. Science has also proved that six weeks old baby in the womb can hear. So, speak God into your child in the womb, prophesy.
iii. It is the parents' responsibility. Emulate Abraham who received God's commendation for this in Genesis 18:19.
iv. It is in keeping with God's commandment (Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 4:9-10).
v. Our Lord Jesus received complete parental training from childhood (Luke 2:40-52). Training must include: Spiritual (God's word) Luke 2:40; Physical (skills and human values in the society, Jesus was subject to his parents Luke
2:51); Physical and social development feed the children well, Jesus grew in
wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man Luke 2:52.
vi. Things parents should not do to their children:
• Don't leave the training of your children to house helps
• Don't leave the training of your children to after-school lesson teachers, so that you remain in office till late in the evenings
• Don't leave the training of your children to Daycare homes its destructive.
• Don't leave the training of your children to Boarding Schools it is the breeding ground for the nurturing of all kinds of evil
• Don't lose your children to your work (office, business, pastoral/ministry work).
Don't be too busy to take care of God's heritage in your care.
Thought for the day: If you don't train your children, Satan will. Children are yoursure pension scheme give personal attention to their training.
Song for the day: All that concerns me is touching God…
Bible reading for the day: 1 Kings 21-22; John 3:1-21
#Horemow.
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