WHAT KIND OF CHILDREN DOES GOD WANT US TO TRAIN?

WHAT IS THIS TASK FORCE TO BE LIKE?

As we discuss the following character traits, we will realize that they first have to be a living reality in our own lives before we can teach them to our children. In fact, we will impart them to our children by living example, rather than by teaching.

Children will learn far more from your daily attitude

in the home than they will learn from what you teach them!

I have commented only briefly on the following points. However, I would ask you to pray about each one and ask God to show you how to impart each character trait to your children. God will give you wisdom and anointing. Above all, pray these attributes into your children. More is wrought by prayer than any other method. I have not mentioned the obvious point, which is that we need to lead each one of our children to know Jesus as Lord and Saviour and into a born again experience. We know that this can only happen by the working of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, but God has chosen you as their mother to lead them to the foot of the cross. They need a revelation of Jesus and His blood sacrifice for them and a personal encounter with God if they are going to continue to walk with God as they grow and leave the nest.

CHILDREN WHO LOVE GOD.

Deuteronomy 6:5 is one of the great scriptures in the Word of God. God says, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." Mark 12:30.

Matthew 22:38 says that "This is the first and great commandment." If this is the first and greatest commandment, this is where we must start. Love for God is the foundation of everything. We can know all truth and have all knowledge, but without loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, it is lifeless. It becomes legality, and children will eventually run from legality. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)

How can we teach our children to love God? This same passage in Deuteronomy tells us how. v 6-7, "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up…"

Our children will learn to love God in the atmosphere of our home where God is loved. Children imbibe the atmosphere of God’s love. They won’t grow up loving God where parents take their children to church on Sunday but there is bickering and hypocrisy in the home during the week.