1. Your children are your source of strength. Psalm 127:4-5 To fight the shame of old age, to contend with and stop the enemy your children are your bullets. They are arrows.
2. God promised to prosper and preserve your children. Isaiah 61:8-9
This is enough promise to do warfare when your children are tempted to go wayward!
3. As parents you must be careful because your children will reflect your life.
When you lie – your children will cheat
When you steal – your children will rob
When you abuse – your children will curse and curse
4. The devil is prophetically after our children. Genesis 3:15
5. God has ordained some kids from the womb. We must be careful not to remove the ordination by our acts.
Isaiah 49:1-3, Jeremiah 1:5
Anything you do in the house your children will participate:
Jeremiah 7:18 – children were involved in the idol worship.
When the judgment came it involve the kids 0 Jeremiah 18:21.
Every creature will always reproduce after his kind… Genesis 1:11-12
(PRINCIPLE OF REPRODUCTION)
6. Be careful of the way you speak to your children.
Remember the principle of prophetic intention – every word carry in itself ability to come to pass.
Apart, it affects the self-esteem of the child / the psychology of the child.
For every negative word, you need 13 positive words to remove.
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7. Understand the principle of positive motivation.
8. Our children must be specifically taught. Psalm 144:12 (NIV), Proverbs 14:1.
Amos 2:10-12, we can raise up our children into the field, we want them to go.
Joel 2:28
Teaching – by instruction
– by example: Don’t give them polluted wine.
9. Forgive your children regularly.
BATTLE STRATEGIES FOR CHILD RAISING: 2 KINGS 4:8-37
1. Determination
2. She refused to cry hopelessly.
3. She approached God
4. She walked in faith.