Children are an Heritage of the LORD

“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Psalms 127:3

The greatest inheritance and treasury we leave with our children and grandchildren is the Word of God deposited into their hearing, their hearts (Deuteronomy 11:18-22). Daily depositing and lovingly, joyfully demonstrating the words of Holy Scripture in the hearts of our children is essential to their knowledge of God and eternal destination.

“The character of your children tomorrow depends on what you put into their hearts today.” Liza Young

Parents who act like their children are ALWAYS right and don’t make them own up to their sins are sending them to hell! Repent devil (Prov 23:14).

TIP: Using age appropriate time span is wise. In other words, if your child is 3-8 years old, perhaps reading 3-5 verses per sitting, in a joyful setting, is good. This is what I did with my son and he never dreaded Bible reading.

Deuteronomy 32:46 
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 

Read that again and notice that we are to set our hearts upon the words of God and command our children also to observe them.

Observation… seems like children grow up to treat their parents like their parents treated them? If this is true, how should that change the way we parent our children?

ARE you training up your children to be church-goers or daily disciples?

Are you praying with your children? Are you teaching what God’s Word teaches us about prayer communion, communication with God?

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  Proverbs 22:6

Parents-You better get real, quickly! You only have 1 opportunity to train up your child!

The greatest heritage we give our children is God’s Word. Ps 119:111

ANY parent not teaching literal Holy Scripture to their children today, is out of God’s will (Proverbs 22:6).

Teaching our heritage (children and grandchildren) to know, worship, obey, and follow Christ daily is essential. Many today mislead their own children by teaching them that God and being a Christian is all about “going to church” on Sunday! This is tragic as it steeps one generation after another in religion or churchianity instead of a real walk with Jesus.  THE LIVES OF TRUE DISCIPLES OF JESUS REVOLVE AROUND CHRIST AND HIS BODY AND NOT SOME “CHURCH” BUILDING.

When you children hear the words “Christianity” or when anything about God comes up, what pops up in their mind? What have you instilled? Do they think of the nail-scarred risen LORD and Savior or going to “church”?

TIP: Prayerfully select Bible verses to write out on index cards with your children and beginning memorizing them together. Memorizing happens when there is repetition and association. Personally, I taught my son verses like Mark 10:27; Proverbs 3:5-6, and Philippians 4:13.

Are you daily teaching, instilling the verbatim WORD of God (King James Bible) into your children? What Scripture(s) did you teach your precious heritage (children, grandchildren, etc.) this weekend?

“Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;” Deuteronomy 11:18-22

PARENTS who don’t make their children take personal responsibility are God-less, evil!

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