Parenting 101 - Leg 4.

Leg 4 starts with: 
Some of my favorite verses: Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children. Lamentations 2:19 

Deuteronomy 6 
6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Simple, usually unnoticed testimonies of little kids sharing and living Jesus never fail to touch my heart and make me teary-eyed. And they never fail to make me realize how important it is for us parents to pour out our lives on the young ones God has entrusted us with – to train them in ways pleasing to the Lord and allow them to start loving Jesus.

They are not afraid to make a difference in a street kid’s life. They share what they could and don’t make fun of others. They understand, as early as they could, just how precious people are for the Lord. They pray for a friend’s upset tummy and trust unwaveringly in Jesus. They pray, not because they have to, but they do so because they love to converse intimately with their BestFriend. They adore their King and pour out songs from their heart that says, “Lord, You are more precious than silver...”

It needs sowing of tears and laboring in prayer, laying down of our own selfish agenda for our children’s lives, and dedicating them to the Lord. It needs consistent intercession on their behalf. It needs for Mom&Dad to spend time with God, on their knees, fully dedicating the whole family. It needs for Mom&Dad to lay down facebook time just to spend time with them in studying God's Word. (And who said it’s boring? Mom&Dad are there to make it fun!) 

What is your vision for your kids? Would you be willing, with God’s super strength, to lay down everything at the foot of the Cross? Would you empty yourself so that the magnificent God of the universe is free to move and use your family as His hands and feet?

"Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve..but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.." (Joshua 24:14-15)

- with joy :)