Happy Faith Friday, Familia 🌱
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:
💞 Protect their innocence
💞 Raise them intentionally
💞 Allow your parenting relationship with them to reflect God’s fatherly relationship with His children
💞 Remember they are children, but don’t muzzle their gifts
This video is directed towards parents, but teachers and caregivers can also glean from and apply the wisdom shared in today’s 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 🍇
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 God’s 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 God’s 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
Sampson’s Parents — Manoah & His Wife (Judges 13)
Samuel’s Parents — 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 Baptist’s Parents — Zecharias & Elizabeth (Luke 1)
Jesus’ Parents — Joseph & Mary (Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 2:13-23)
Remember they are children, but don’t 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
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Your tummy & your chest will thank you later! Lol
Have a healthy & wholesome week!
Love you bunches 🍇
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As I’ve 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! 🌱
Speak it, believe it, and stand on it until you see it come to pass!
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Wear it as a declaration of God’s restorative power! Israel WILL be restored 🙌🏾💞
P.S.
If you haven’t 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 Lord’s sight. We don’t 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!
Welcome home 💞
Focus Verse 💕
The full book of Amos
Amos 9:13-15 MSG
"Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree.
“Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel:
“They’ll rebuild their ruined cities.
They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine.
They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables.
And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land.
They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them.”
God, your God, says so.