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A child dedication is simply dedicating your child to or giving your child back to God.
I tell my kids that it is a good thing they are past their return date or I’d take them back to the hospital.
What does it mean to give your child back to God?
Let me explain by giving you three reasons we do this!
1. Dedicating your child or giving your child back to God means you are acknowledging true ownership.
Children are a heritage - a gift.
Better - they have been entrusted to us.
We are a stewardship.
We are recognizing that God can do what He wishes with them.
It is our job to prepare them for that.
We have a responsibility to give them up.
Don’t push them into what you think they should be.
Help them seek God’s will.
We should see this blessing the way the Psalmist talks about it.
An arrow must be sharpened.
Arrow heads were made from stone.
Carefully and meticulously chiseled and shaped.
An arrow must be straightened.
Choosing the proper branch.
Carefully whittling away the crooked parts.
This is a slow meticulous process.
This takes focus.
An arrow must be aimed.
An arrow must be released.
An arrow will travel a long way.
It will reach farther than you can.
An arrow is deadly.
It is a weapon of war.
It is an offensive weapon that penetrates the enemy.
2. Dedicating your child or giving your child back to God proves your own love for God.
romans 12 tells us to be a living sacrifice.
That sacrifice comes from all that God has done for us!
Our children are part of that sacrifice.
Give them back to God.
Prove your love for him.
Show that you love God more than your kids.
Teach your kids that they have been given back to God.
Let them know that whatever God has for them is what you want them to do.
3. Dedicating your child or giving your child back to God is an outward commitment to raise them God’s way.
First: Fathers, do not provoke.
Don’t irritate them by unreasonable demands and blame.
Lest they be discouraged.
Bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Discipline
Training by chastening.
Instruction
Encouragement, reproof, whatever is required.
Intentional training and educating your child.
Disciple your child.
Adaline Lamb
Charlotte Cornell
Harper VandePanne
Hudson VandePanne
Matthias Belson
Isaiah Boutwell
Hazel Boutwell
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By dedicating my child today I am acknowledging that true ownership of my child belongs to God.
As a parent I am have been stewarded this young life.
My child’s life is God’s and He can do with it whatever He finds to be good and pleasing.
2. By dedicating my child today I am acknowledging that my love for God is greater than my love for my child.
Thus I will pursue God’s will for my myself and my family.
I can also trust that God’s love for my child is a greater love than I can ever give.
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By dedicating my child today I am committing to intentionally raise my child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord no matter how hard it may be.
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