10 Things to Remember when Raising Children

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I can't remember where I took this, so my apologies to the owner...


10 Great Things to Remember when
Raising Your Children
  1. Start training them as soon as they are old enough and when they are older they will know better.  “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it”  (Proverbs 22:6)
  2. Discipline them whenever they need it.  “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him”  (Proverbs 22:15)
  3. Teach your children something from God’s Word every day.  “These words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up”  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
  4. Trust that your children are not destined for trouble.  “They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them” (Isaiah 65: 23)
  5. Pray fervently day and night for your children.  “Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.  Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street” (Lamentations 2:19)
  6. Give them godly training, not angry commands.  “You, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord”  (Ephesians 6:4)
  7. When you do what’s right, your children will be blessed.  “The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him” (Proverbs 20:7)
  8. Keep praying when things get difficult and refuse to give up.  “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!”  (Psalm 27:13-14)
  9. Know that your children are God’s reward to you, no matter what it feels like sometimes.  “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward” (Psalm 127:3)
  10. Trust that the Lord hears every prayer for your children.  “For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him” (1 Samuel 1:27)

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