Meaning.
Parenting or child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
1. “Spare a rod spoil a child” is directed at Parents when they desire to raise well disciplined children.
2. “As for me and my house we will serve the Lord” as spoken by Joshua is an expression of a Parent who takes full responsibility of building a family alter in a home.
3. One that desires the office of a Bishop “must be one who rules his house well and having his children in subjection” addresses a Parent who wishes to extend his leadership roles beyond the household level.
4. The prayer of Job for his children that “peradventure they have sinned” is a reminder for Parents that they can’t police their children everywhere they go but can surrender them to God for divine protection.
5. “Fathers provoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged” reminds Parents that take it for granted that they gave birth to these children hence can treat them anyhow forgetting God used them as vessels to bring forth new worshipers for Himself.
6. Hannah’s prayer that if God gave her a child she would give him back so he can serve in the house of the Lord speaks to Parents that wish to have children grow up serving God and not departing from His ways.
7. “But if any provide not for his own, and especially do those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” is directed at Parents that run away from the important Parental responsibility of them raising children up to adulthood but still prophecies to be Christians. Do your best as a Parent in every situation you encounter in bringing them up. Some times will be easy whilst other times will be hard but in both instances, the little ones will look up to you as you look upto God whose child you are.
Ephesians 1:3-5 KJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
” What brought on juvenile delinquency was parent delinquency, the parent failing to take care of the children”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
NORTON 15.08.2020
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