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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 2020
This week we’ll be talking about teaching our children how to know their purpose by specifically helping them understand how much God values their lives and who He made them to be.
The first thing we must say, though, is that a parent that struggles to see value in their own lives is going to have a very difficult time teaching His value to their children. To truly transfer truth, we must first believe that truth for ourselves. We can’t pass on what we don’t have. Hopefully, this Sound Mind Set series is helping you accept and receive God’s value for you. If you view your child to be of great value to you, if you would do anything for them to see and find their purpose in life to thrive and succeed, you must know this: that is exactly how your Heavenly Father views you and what He wants for you. One of the reasons God allows us to be parents is to see our children and understand that is how He sees us.
Let me ask you: Why else would God have created your children and given them life other than to have value and purpose?
Listen to the powerful passage in Psalm 139:
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them—any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! (Psalm 139:13-22 MSG)
I want to encourage you to accept this truth about yourself and then pass this on to your children. In fact, why not read these very words to them? If they are old enough to read, let ask them to read it out loud to you, so it is first-person about them. You can find this exact passage on any Bible app.
Do you believe your child is marvelously made? If it is true for your child, it is also true for you. God says so.
Let’s pray together: “Father, the psalmist’s words about your thoughts of our creation are amazing. My kids are beautiful and I have You to thank for that. Help me to teach them that truth and help me to believe it about myself as well. As above, so below.”
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This week we’ll be talking about teaching our children how to know their purpose by specifically helping them understand how much God values their lives and who He made them to be.
The first thing we must say, though, is that a parent that struggles to see value in their own lives is going to have a very difficult time teaching His value to their children. To truly transfer truth, we must first believe that truth for ourselves. We can’t pass on what we don’t have. Hopefully, this Sound Mind Set series is helping you accept and receive God’s value for you. If you view your child to be of great value to you, if you would do anything for them to see and find their purpose in life to thrive and succeed, you must know this: that is exactly how your Heavenly Father views you and what He wants for you. One of the reasons God allows us to be parents is to see our children and understand that is how He sees us.
Let me ask you: Why else would God have created your children and given them life other than to have value and purpose?
Listen to the powerful passage in Psalm 139:
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them—any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! (Psalm 139:13-22 MSG)
I want to encourage you to accept this truth about yourself and then pass this on to your children. In fact, why not read these very words to them? If they are old enough to read, let ask them to read it out loud to you, so it is first-person about them. You can find this exact passage on any Bible app.
Do you believe your child is marvelously made? If it is true for your child, it is also true for you. God says so.
Let’s pray together: “Father, the psalmist’s words about your thoughts of our creation are amazing. My kids are beautiful and I have You to thank for that. Help me to teach them that truth and help me to believe it about myself as well. As above, so below.”