Happy Faith Friday, Familia đ±
Children are gifts from God!
It is a blessing to be given the responsibility of cultivating their life on earth, their walk with God, and their growth in their God-given destinies. God wanted me to remind or inform parents of the gravity of rearing a child, and provide specific guidance on His expectations of parents, specifically reminding you to:
đ Protect their innocence
đ Raise them intentionally
đ Allow your parenting relationship with them to reflect Godâs fatherly relationship with His children
đ Remember they are children, but donât muzzle their gifts
This video is directed towards parents, but teachers and caregivers can also glean from and apply the wisdom shared in todayâs Faith Friday video. I will continue to pray for you and your children, and may God bless you in your journey to raise a little human in the way God would have you to!
Love you bunches đ
Have a healthy & wholesome week!
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Focus Verse:
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Video Notes
Follow-Up Instructions
Study
Study the scriptures shared here and do a deeper study on Godâs overall principles and guidance for raising children.
Meet with the Holy Spirit
Carve our regular time to meet with the Holy Spirit for guidance in raising your children and stewarding their gifts
Go to Him for every decision, from small moments of correction, to life altering decisions like their education
Scriptures to Study
Protect their Innocence
Matthew 18:1-6
Ensure your relationship with them reflects Godâs relationship with His children
God commends and blesses His children for their obedience
Deuteronomy 28:1-14
Matthew 7:11
Psalm 37:23
God guides, instructs, and prepares
Psalm 32:8
Jeremiah 33:3
Titus 3:1
God corrects His children when we are wrong or off course
Hebrews 12:6
God establishes and maintains order, not chaos
1 Corinthians 14:33
Seek specific Instructions for Each Child
Sampsonâs Parents â Manoah & His Wife (Judges 13)
Samuelâs Parents â Elkanah & Hannah (1 Samuel 1)
Note: Hannah did not receive explicit instructions as was written in the text, but in seeing her wisdom and how she went about following through with her promise to dedicate Samuel back to the Lord, we can infer that her wisdom was from God.
John the Baptistâs Parents â Zecharias & Elizabeth (Luke 1)
Jesusâ Parents â Joseph & Mary (Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 2:13-23)
Remember they are children, but donât muzzle their gifts
Walk by the Spirit & Operate in the Fruits of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22-26
Honor & Encourage them in their spiritual gifts and callings
1 Timothy 4:12
Jeremiah 1:7
Acts 2:17
As Iâve said before, most, if not all of the words I share here are for me first and then I share with you as the Lord leads. This one is no different! God brought me back to Amos 9:13-15 about a month ago and let me know that this would be a season of restoration. I immediately believed it and began declaring it over my life, because if God said it, it is so! This word is not just for me, though. God is restoring His remnant, those that withstood the correction and sifting. Those who have been on their face and at His feet. Those who have come to repentance and remained through the process, only to come out better and more pure than before, ready and willing to be radically obedient and to go forth and do as He leads!
The tears, trials, and tests have not been in vain.
Welcome to your Amos 9:13-15 Season! đ±
Speak it, believe it, and stand on it until you see it come to pass!
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P.S.
If you havenât repented, put away your idols, and turned to God, this message may not be for you today, BUT as long as you are living, there is still time to do what is right in the Lordâs sight. We donât know the day or the hour that our souls will leave this earth or that Jesus will return, so TODAY is as perfect a day as any to give or resubmit your life to Christ. If that is you today, head over to this link for next steps. Say the prayer aloud and begin to let the Lord cleanse you and turn your life around. He is waiting for you with open arms!
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The full book of Amos
Amos 9:13-15 MSG
"Yes indeed, it wonât be long now.â Godâs Decree.
âThings are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You wonât be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at onceâand everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. Iâll make everything right again for my people Israel:
âTheyâll rebuild their ruined cities.
Theyâll plant vineyards and drink good wine.
Theyâll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables.
And Iâll plant them, plant them on their own land.
Theyâll never again be uprooted from the land Iâve given them.â
God, your God, says so.
Happy Faith Friday, Garden Fam đ±
I hope youâve had a wonderful week!
This week, weâre keeping it candid. Iâm sharing a bit of my journey with God and the importance of listening to the Holy Spirit. I pray todayâs video blesses you and strengthens your walk with God! See the notes below for the scriptures referenced. If you decide that you are ready to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, or youâre a prodigal who is ready to come back home, welcome / welcome back! See the Salvation Prayer & Scriptures below & check out this blog for support in growing your relationship with God.
I love you bunches & Jesus loves you more!
Have a healthy & wholesome weekend đ
Prayer of Salvation
Heavenly Father,
I have sinned against you! I repent of everything Iâve ever done that was against your will (you can also confess specific sins here). God, I thank you for sending Jesus Christ to die for my sins. I welcome you into my life and into my heart. Please cleanse me of all unrighteousness and lead me into all truth, Your truth. Please begin to work in me so that I may look more like You from the inside out. I lay down the life I have. and choose to pick up the life you have for me.
Thank you God for receiving me!
In Jesusâ name,
Amen đđŸ
Salvation Scriptures
John 3:16
Godâs love & Jesusâ sacrifice
Romans 10:9-10
How salvation works
Luke 15:11-32
For those who strayed away and are coming back home
Who is the Holy Spirit?
John 14:15-17
âIf you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you foreverâ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
The Holy Spirit is the helper and comforter that Jesus left for those that have received salvation. The Holy Spirit helps us to know Godâs Will by guiding us into all truth according to Godâs Word and Godâs divine plans for each of our lives (which are in line with the Word, of course). When we quench the Holy Spirit, we extinguish His influence over our lives in a particular area, or many areas. Because He is the one that was sent to lead us into all truth, we put ourselves in danger of being outside of Godâs will.
Other Scriptures Referenced
Romans 1:28
Romans 2:5-16
Joshua 24:15
Ezekiel 36:24-27
James 4:17
Luke 12:47
1 Kings 13:11-25
Closing Prayer
Lord, we repent of all of our sins and iniquities against you.
We repent for quenching the Holy Spiritâs leading in our lives and allowing ourselves to be overtaken by sin.
Father, we thank you for sending Jesus to die so that we may have our sins forgiven.
Please forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness as you promised to do in 1 John 1:9.
God, we ask you to strip us of any idols we may have that stand against us following your will and your way. Please take your rightful place in our lives and help us to willfully submit to your perfect plans for us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us, to give us a future and a hope.
If there is anything that we love, but you hate, please take it away from us and give us the willingness to let go, for you said in your Word that it is You who worketh in us both to will and to do of Your good pleasure.
God, I prophesy over us today, that according to Ezekiel 36:24-27, You will
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Help us to be radically obedient to the leading of your Spirit within us.
We thank you for being such a loving God who cares enough not to want anyone to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
Please receive our repentant hearts today and lead us in a new direction, along the path of righteousness for your namesâ sake. Realign us to the plans you had for us before you formed us in our mothersâ womb.
Thank you for being our God and embracing us as your people.
We love you and we honor you, Lord!
In Jesusâ name, Amen!