Pray For Your Children!!

We discipline our children because we love them, and the Lord has told us that if we love our children, we will discipline them.

Proverbs; 13:24
(He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.)
If we don't teach our children right from wrong, then society will teach them. What they are taught is that if it feels good, then it must be good, and if it is feels good, then it must be OK. All we have to do is go to the store and we will witness children who have not been taught right from wrong. Children will back talk their parents, and we don't see any discipline because our society has told these children that if a parent disciplines "spanks" them, then they should call the police and turn their parents in because parents don't have the right to spank. Now where did this foolishness come from?

God tell us to discipline our children for their own good. God also disciplines His own children for their own good.

Hebrews; 12:5-6

(And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives,")

Because all of us are imperfect and need of discipline and training, all true children of God are disciplined at one point or another in one way or the another.

God, our heavenly Father, loves us and wants us to live a life that is pleasing to Him. He knows what is best for us and when He sees us heading down the wrong road, He needs to get our attention and put us back on the straight path. It is no different when we see our children doing something that could cause them harm, we go to them and instruct them as to the right choice to make. No discipline is fun to endure, but we all have had it at some time or another.

Hebrews; 12:11

(Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.)

If you are a child of God, He disciplines you when you need it.

Hebrews; 12:7-8

(If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.)

Notice that it says we have all been disciplined by God at one time or another. You might ask, "why do we need disciplined"? It is for our own good.

Hebrews; 12:9-10

(Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.)

God knows what is best for us and He wants us to become more Christ like in our behavior. A child left on their own without parental discipline, will always have to learn the hard way. Sometimes this could cost them their freedom or even their life. We want our children to become children of God, and the only way for that to happen is for us to teach them. Read the Bible to them and take them to church. Conduct your life the way God wants you to and your children will see your godly behavior and learn from you. We cannot expect our children to live a righteous life if we are living in sin. None of us are perfect and all we can do is give our life to Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us from then on.

One of the best weapons the parent has is prayer. We should pray for our children that God will soften their heart and they will turn to Him. Jesus tells us that no one comes to Him unless the Father draws them to Him.

John; 6:44-45

(No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.)

We need to be in continual prayer for our children that God will call them to Jesus for forgiveness. There is no other way for them to receive salvation, for salvation is in Jesus alone.

Acts; 4:12

(Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.)

Never give up praying for your children no matter how hopeless it may seem. Most of us don't even know the amount of prayer that has been prayed for us. I know that my parents never stopped praying for me and I will continually pray for my children, and grandchildren, and son in law's. I pray you will do the same for your family.

God Bless You!