Wednesday, 14th August, 2024
Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 4:9, Psalm 34:11
Memory Verse: Teach a child to choose the right path, and when he is older, he will remain upon it. Proverbs 22:6 (TLB)
The Message Translation of Proverbs 22:7 says, “Point your kids in the right direction—when they’re old they won’t be lost.” Shall we complete the lessons on raising responsible children:
9. Teach them good table manners; not the one recited in nursery schools rhymes. Teach them to chew with their mouth covered, not to make noise with the cutlery on the plate, not to talk with their mouth full, etc.
10. Let your children know that washing only their own plates after eating is not a noble idea.
11. Remind your children that jumping into a conversation when adults are talking is a sign of bad manners. Discourage this both in your home and elsewhere.
12. Help your children not to be social birds online and anti-social bugs offline. They should relate well with people around them, much more than they do with virtual folks they meet online. Please, discourage this idea of young people locking themselves in the room hours on end without communicating with anyone in the house – all because they are on the phone.
13. Empower your children to uphold your family values wherever they are. But before then, make sure that your family values are credible, empowering, socially and morally beneficial.
14. Teach your children to control their appetite and learn to turn down certain offers, even when such offers come from people they know. And at home, it is not compulsory that they must taste everything they see someone eating. This will help them to take their eyes off certain things when they are in other people’s home.
15. Always remind your children that they are the window through which the world sees you. If your children’s behaviour outside is bad, the general consensus is that they lack home training. And since children are not meant to give themselves home training, it means that you failed as a parent.
16. Finally, make sure your children know God. Salvation is not hereditary; that you are godly or highly spiritual is not a guarantee that your children are saved. You must consciously and deliberately lead them to God
Quote: Parenting cannot be delegated. Act wisely. Take responsibility for your children.
Prophetic Decree: I command the gates of the hearts of your children to open for the King of glory to come in, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. My Father, deliver my children from strange friends who are after their souls, in Jesus name.
2. Spirit of self-destruction sent against my children, backfire in Jesus name
3. Evil family spirit that has vowed that my children will not do well, die, in Jesus name
4. Anything programmed into the life of my children from infancy to make them a societal nuisance, die, in Jesus name.
5. Appetite for alcohol, illicit drugs, sexual immorality, etc., die, in Jesus name.
6. Spirit of the end-time working in the children of disobedience, my children are not your candidates, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 26-29