What does God say about parenting? (2)

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Reevaluating your goals.

What are your goals for your children?

Developing Special Skills?

Will this matter in eternity?

Adjusting Psychologically- Self Esteem

What about others?

Well Behaved Children

Who are you trying to please with this goal?

Education

Are all educated people

That they would Follow their Heart (ETC)

Jeremiah 17:9 NASB95
“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

What is your definition of success in raising your children?

What is the biblical definition of success?

Developing Skills?

To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.
1 Corinthians 10:31 NASB95
Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Isaiah 12:2 NASB95
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”
Psalm 144:15 KJV 1900
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: Yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
3rd Principle- Our purpose in parenting is to shepherd our children to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

Come Back to the Heart

Proverbs 4:23 NASB95
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
4th principle- All behavior flows from the Heart.
Example- Two Children and a Toy
Every Action. Every Word. All disobedience flows from the Heart.
Matthew 12:34–35 NASB95
“You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. “The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil.
“This understanding does marvelous things for discipline. It makes the heart the issue, not just the behavior. It focuses correction on deeper things than changed behavior. The profoundest issue is what happens in the heart. Your concern is to unmask your child’s sin, helping him or her to understand how it reflects a heart that is strayed. That leads to the cross of Christ. It underscores the need for a Savior. It provides opportunities to show the glories of God who sent His Son to change hearts and free people enslaved to sin.” Tedd Tripp Shepherding a Child’s Heart
5th principle- You can’t change your child’s heart.
Psalm 51:10 NASB95
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

What you CAN do is shepherd them toward the one who can!

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