Romans 1:24-28
{Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.}
Priorities should be:
1. Your relationship with God that comes first
2. Your relationship with your spouse
3. Your relationship with your children
4. Your relationship with your unborn generation(s)
We affect the generations to come with the way that we live now.
What we should pass down to our kids:
-Who God is
-What God has
-What God can do
-Who they are in Christ
-What they have in Christ
-What they can do in Christ
When God was taken out of schools people started putting Him out of their minds. He was no longer a priorty. We must have a relationship with God because we can't take people where we haven't gone, or tell them what we don't know.
God accepts us as we are but loves us too much to keep us that way.
People must feel liked, loved and accepted before they are open to change.
Our self esteem is affected by our relationships both good and bad.....as children of God we need to get our self image, self worth, self esteem from our primary relationship JESUS CHRIST! Not other people in our lives.
When we have an attitude of acceptance in our home that opens the door to something powerful in our children. Growth..
Isaiah 59:21
{As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.}
Teach your children to: Love God's word, Learn God's word, Live God's word and leave a legacy.
You can be a Christian/parent/spouse and not know your word but you can't be a VICTORIOUS Christian/parent/spouse and not know your word.
God has a covenant and wants it to be known. Parents are the best teachers/trainers!
Influence might come into our children's life but when they have a good foundation from what we teach them as parents, they will thrive. They do what we do, not what we say.
Proverbs 6:20-22 AMP
{My son, keep your father's [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you]. [Eph. 6:1-3.] Bind them continually upon your heart and tie them about your neck. [Prov. 3:3; 7:3.] When you go, they [the words of your parents' God] shall lead you; when you sleep, they shall keep you; and when you waken, they shall talk with you.}
Proverbs 7:1
{My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.}
The Word...Put it in when you don't need it so that when you do need it, it comes out of you naturally. Don't wait for a problem to happen in order to get into God's Word. Develop a habit of exalting God, learning His Word, treasure it and store it up! We prepare for battle in times of peace. We are to love God's word, learn God's word and live God's word before our children.
Deut 6:1-7
{These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.}
When we have the word on our lips, our children will have it on their lips.
If we praise, our children will praise!
If we talk the word, our children will talk the word.
It's a way of living. It's not duty or drudgery it's a delight.
