“Teach a child to choose the right path, and when he is older, he will remain on it,” Proverbs 22:6.
The center for the teaching of God’s words to our children is in our homes. Parents need to present the salvation message to their children, teach them how to be in God’s plan, and explain how to have a relationship with God. This will prepare them for adulthood in our complicated world of today. Remember the future of their nation lies with the path our children and the children of their generation will choose.
This home teaching should begin at a very young age. You are the ones who have most access to your children. Read books to them, adding your thoughts when they apply. I have found the Arch books to be excellent, adding or deleting parts when changes are in order. You need to sing and speak about God and His plan.
Make the teaching a normal and natural part of their lives. A few simple songs are included along with these tips.
This time should be a happy and fun part of their lives. Make up songs and put them with familiar tunes. A sample would be — Row, Row, Row your boat, words — Believe, Believe, Believe the Lord! Do not be afraid! God’s provided all our needs, His promises He gave. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, words — Daniel’s in the lion’s Den, Hungry lions there with him. Daniel prays and does not fear, He knows the Lord is near. You can be a Daniel, too. Believe God takes care of you. Children are able to remember the training for a longer period of time when the words are connected with a tune.
As your children grow older and begin to ask questions, encourage their questions and answer them as honestly and as simply as you are able, using the children’s vocabulary. The children need to know about the Lord Jesus Christ taking care of their sin problem for them so that they are able to spend forever life in heaven with God. Communicate the salvation message, not overwhelming them or pressuring them into making a decision. Let the Holy Spirit prepare the soil in their souls and let them make their own decision to believe.
After the children believe, you need to explain they are now a part of God’s family forever and God has a special plan designed just for them. As part of this plan, God wants them to know more about Him and his promises for them. In order to know about God, the children need to be taught the stories about God that are found in the Bible (which is His letter to them.) Review with them the study guide messages from the “Letter from God” series for young people, adding your own thoughts and applying the stories to their lives. Have a fun time with your children with quiz questions. When your children need to think to answer the questions, they will remember the question and the answer.
Your children need to be trained in God’s thinking. They need to know about sin — the weed plants in their souls (soil) that make them do, say, or think wrong things.
Teach them the importance of the recovery procedure of I John 1:9. The sin nature of your children is the secret weapon of Satan that encourages your children to sin. You need to attack the fallen natures of your children by teaching them right from wrong. You need to feed the good-thinking-plants in their soil (souls) with God’s messages and your children will know that God is their best friend.
Explain to your children that they are able to talk or pray to God. Explain that they should use the recovery procedure first. “God will not listen unless they name their sins before they talk to God,” Psalm 66:18. As you pray with your children, remind them that God also will hear them when they only think the words because God is able to read the thoughts in their minds. Encourage your children to talk to God daily, looking to God, not humankind, for solutions to their problems.
Teach your children by your example. Let them see that you know and love God. Daily show that you are interested in God and His plan and in having a relationship with Him. Show your children how you apply the stored messages in your soul to your life. Children are always eager to learn and you need only patience and love to teach and encourage them. “You must teach the stories to your children and talk about them when you are at home or out for a walk; at bedtime and the first thing in the morning,” Deuteronomy 6:7.
Praise to your children is a very important part of their lives. Praise your children for right behavior and a job well done. Encourage them when they make correct decisions and teach them they are responsible for their own choices. Your children will be happy when you notice their right actions and will realize that you love them. Praising right decisions and actions eliminates weak characteristics that come from their fallen natures.
Children need and want boundaries in their lives to guide them. They need to know the rules and what the right behavior is for them. Keep the rules simple and be consistent. Your children are all going to make mistakes because of their fallen natures. They also need to realize there is discipline connected with their wrong decisions and actions.
Your children also need training in good manners in order to be thoughtful and respectful of others. Good manners include obeying the authority of their parents, teachers, coaches and the laws of the land. Your children need to be taught how to be responsible and polite young people.
Talk to your children about death. Explain the real person lives in their soul and when they die their soul (the real person) leaves their body and is at home with the Lord in heaven forever. Be honest and gentle. Explain God gives us our life and God takes us home to heaven at the right time.
When you tuck your children in bed at night, help them memorize the verses to “Remember and Use in Your Daily Lives.” Remind them of who and what is the “Essence of God.” These are all found in the back of the messages in the “Letter From God” books. Sing a song with them as you tuck them in. Finish with talking to God and thanking God for all His blessings and His love for us.
It is Satan’s plan to distract us from traveling on God’s path. We as parents and extended family need to pray to God for guidance and direction in teaching our children. We need to put on God’s full armor and use our shield of faith (God’s stored messages in our souls, our true treasures in life). With our invisible armor and shield in place, we will have confidence that we are in God’s plan, traveling down God’s path, in a relationship with Him, and doing our best in training our children.
From time to time, we will all fail and make mistakes in this teaching process. We need to use the recovery procedure, move on determined not to give up, and keep trying as God the Holy Spirit stores more of God’s messages in our souls.
With God’s help, we will have a new generation of winners believers, with great leaders, that represent the Lord Jesus Christ on our planet. With courage, these winner believers will be under the guidance, protection, and provision of God. They will be relaxed, content, and happy while traveling on God’s highway, prepared to face their future problems on planet earth.
When a nation has a good supply of winner believers, the nation will be preserved.
http://www.kidslettersfromgod.org/A_Letter_to_Parents.htm
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Failure of Father’s role and responsibility is the failure of God ordained Family and the society!
God created man to be the leader of the home, the provider and the protector. The children are to look to their father especially for spiritual counsel and guidance. They receive this by watching their father's life as much as they do by talking to him. Many children will follow in the footsteps of their fathers when it comes to a belief in God or not. God put the father in the position as leader in the home, but the father is also a picture of God Himself. A father acknowledges his responsibility and commitment to his family. He provides good things to his family, just like our Heavenly Father and serves his family in the same way that Jesus came to serve us.
God has created women with a need to be loved by a man that only God totally understands, and it is very important that she gets that attention in the proper way from her father instead of from some other person who will probably take advantage of her. She needs to be touched, hugged, petted and cared for in a godly way by her father
Fathers supply many needs for their children, and their presence as well as their support is needed in the home. Not only is it important for a father to be in the home but also to be an active part in his children's life. A father is one who functions in a fatherly capacity. He is instrumental in the growth of his children’s life, to help them grow spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Father must be willing to sacrifice his life for his wife and children. Yet physical guarding is only a part of a godly father's protecting duties. He must also protect his family from evil spiritual forces, such as the devil and false teachers, who will tempt his family to believe falsehoods or become discouraged. The greatest tragedy of our society to the failure of fathers to take their responsibility parents.
How it has affected our families and society:
1. The failure of fathers to take their responsibility parents has caused directly or indirectly single parent families the most numerous with a mother and her children.
2. Children who grow up without a father grow up in an unstable home. With the mother working to provide for herself and here children she has little time to teach or raise the children.
3. Absence of father’s role as a spiritual head has damaged the families to live a godly life, to teach their children’s to pray and lead them to church and Christ.
4. Today it is a single parent family, or same sex parents, or children raised by their grand parents while mom and dad go their separate selfish ways.
5. The roots of epidemic divorce and homosexuality in our society can be traced to this failure of mothers and fathers.
6. God has given the responsibility to the parents and more specifically to the father. God’s plan is that the Father be the visible provider, protector, example, and teacher to his children. Absence of Fathers role has made Mothers to take up these responsibilities.
7. Many Fathers today spend or more time "supporting" their basketball, footfall golf or some other sport, watching TV, being workaholic, and spending more time outside the family than raising their children for God has negatively affected the family and children’s in manys. Most of them do not have time for families at all.
8. And many Fathers are busy in pursuing money, work, houses cars and material things, are failing to fulfill their spiritual responsibility.
9. Too many men are abdicating or ignoring their responsibilities as Fathers. In some families today, the children are left to raise themselves.
10. children who live absent of their biological fathers are more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. failure of fathers to take the responsibility for the spiritual leadership of the family according to the guidelines of the Word--giving, loving, serving, caring and strong leadership has contributed moral decline , Illegitimate births, Divorces, educational failure, illegitimacy, Teenage suicide and violent crimes. 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
11."It is fatherhood which makes childhood possible. It is father absence which creates ghettos and gangs and messed-up kids — boys trying to find their identity through violence, girls trying to find their identity through sexual promiscuity, which will lead to the violence of the next generation. They need real fathers, "sociological fathers," not mere studs interested in sharing a one-night stand with Mom."
12. Our perverted sick world view of real man is they praise the selfish, immoral father who has sold his soul to living the "gusto life," who shirks is responsibility to his wife and children. They then ridicule and make fun of the father who shoulders his responsibility, boldly proclaims his love and devotion to God and to his wife and children
13. The Good ideal Father Takes Responsibility and Leads His Family in the ways of God. Father, who follows God, makes every effort to be at home, to lead, guide, teach and counsel his children. Father who is both the wage earner and the spiritual leader in his family.
Conclusion: Our families need men like Joshua, who will dedicate themselves to the Lord, and be a godly influence in there families and nation. The only way to become a godly father is to become a godly man in everything, and the only way to become a godly man is to humbly submit to God and live according to Gods way instead of worlds way, where there is pride, egoness etc. parents are the key agents in communicating the Word of God to their children so that God’s truth and the moral integrity and character that goes with it is communicated generation to generation. If the fathers are not truly godly, the chances are neither will the children be. Children are born with sinful natures and unless they have the godly influence of parents who are themselves faithful, obedient, and walking with the Lord, their children will go the natural way of their sinful natures.
(Compiled from various resources)
God has created women with a need to be loved by a man that only God totally understands, and it is very important that she gets that attention in the proper way from her father instead of from some other person who will probably take advantage of her. She needs to be touched, hugged, petted and cared for in a godly way by her father
Fathers supply many needs for their children, and their presence as well as their support is needed in the home. Not only is it important for a father to be in the home but also to be an active part in his children's life. A father is one who functions in a fatherly capacity. He is instrumental in the growth of his children’s life, to help them grow spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Father must be willing to sacrifice his life for his wife and children. Yet physical guarding is only a part of a godly father's protecting duties. He must also protect his family from evil spiritual forces, such as the devil and false teachers, who will tempt his family to believe falsehoods or become discouraged. The greatest tragedy of our society to the failure of fathers to take their responsibility parents.
How it has affected our families and society:
1. The failure of fathers to take their responsibility parents has caused directly or indirectly single parent families the most numerous with a mother and her children.
2. Children who grow up without a father grow up in an unstable home. With the mother working to provide for herself and here children she has little time to teach or raise the children.
3. Absence of father’s role as a spiritual head has damaged the families to live a godly life, to teach their children’s to pray and lead them to church and Christ.
4. Today it is a single parent family, or same sex parents, or children raised by their grand parents while mom and dad go their separate selfish ways.
5. The roots of epidemic divorce and homosexuality in our society can be traced to this failure of mothers and fathers.
6. God has given the responsibility to the parents and more specifically to the father. God’s plan is that the Father be the visible provider, protector, example, and teacher to his children. Absence of Fathers role has made Mothers to take up these responsibilities.
7. Many Fathers today spend or more time "supporting" their basketball, footfall golf or some other sport, watching TV, being workaholic, and spending more time outside the family than raising their children for God has negatively affected the family and children’s in manys. Most of them do not have time for families at all.
8. And many Fathers are busy in pursuing money, work, houses cars and material things, are failing to fulfill their spiritual responsibility.
9. Too many men are abdicating or ignoring their responsibilities as Fathers. In some families today, the children are left to raise themselves.
10. children who live absent of their biological fathers are more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. failure of fathers to take the responsibility for the spiritual leadership of the family according to the guidelines of the Word--giving, loving, serving, caring and strong leadership has contributed moral decline , Illegitimate births, Divorces, educational failure, illegitimacy, Teenage suicide and violent crimes. 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
11."It is fatherhood which makes childhood possible. It is father absence which creates ghettos and gangs and messed-up kids — boys trying to find their identity through violence, girls trying to find their identity through sexual promiscuity, which will lead to the violence of the next generation. They need real fathers, "sociological fathers," not mere studs interested in sharing a one-night stand with Mom."
12. Our perverted sick world view of real man is they praise the selfish, immoral father who has sold his soul to living the "gusto life," who shirks is responsibility to his wife and children. They then ridicule and make fun of the father who shoulders his responsibility, boldly proclaims his love and devotion to God and to his wife and children
13. The Good ideal Father Takes Responsibility and Leads His Family in the ways of God. Father, who follows God, makes every effort to be at home, to lead, guide, teach and counsel his children. Father who is both the wage earner and the spiritual leader in his family.
Conclusion: Our families need men like Joshua, who will dedicate themselves to the Lord, and be a godly influence in there families and nation. The only way to become a godly father is to become a godly man in everything, and the only way to become a godly man is to humbly submit to God and live according to Gods way instead of worlds way, where there is pride, egoness etc. parents are the key agents in communicating the Word of God to their children so that God’s truth and the moral integrity and character that goes with it is communicated generation to generation. If the fathers are not truly godly, the chances are neither will the children be. Children are born with sinful natures and unless they have the godly influence of parents who are themselves faithful, obedient, and walking with the Lord, their children will go the natural way of their sinful natures.
(Compiled from various resources)
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