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Jesus And Your Children – A Great Team

by Nadine Sumithra June 20, 2021

written by Nadine Sumithra

Parents always desire the best for their children. The best school, the best soccer team, best cricket team, and best music school, the list is endless. Our hearts desire is to see our children grown up to be successful, well breed individuals. It is such a wonderful thing to dream big and great things for our children.

How about including Jesus in our dreams for our children!

Jesus and Children

Have you ever thought about it? Picturize your children and Jesus sitting together and working on a school project, your child and Jesus working out together for the next match, your child and Jesus practicing together. What a wonderful team!

It is for this very reason Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Luke 18:16.

Jesus is mindful of your children. He doesn’t in any way consider them amateurs to work with. The way God the Father desires to speak, reveal secrets and work through us adults, He desires to walk, talk, and show children a glimpse of heaven. God, our Heavenly Father, who better than Him will know our children? He works in their lives in the way they understand. What a wonderful team to build the kingdom of God!

The Threat

Through the ages we see Satan trying to destroy a generation, an attempt to stop God’s plan of Salvation. During the birth of Moses there was a decree to kill all the new born Hebrew children. He knew very well that from that generation would emerge the one to rescue the Israelites out of Egypt. Then again during the birth of Jesus there was a decree to kill children between the age group of 0-1 years. Satan’s attempt to destroy the Saviour of the world.

In today’s day and age our children are attacked but Satan’s strategy has changed. This time he is trying to destroy this generation by not only harming the children physically but also mentally. The evil one is attacking the minds of our children. Over the span of three to four years the digital world has gained a prominent place in the lives of this generation. It started off for good reasons but all the wrong reasons have over powered them.

The explosion of knowledge is making this generation smarter but not stronger. We see the rise of young children struggling with issues like insecurity, fear, hopelessness, depression, lack of confidence etc. It is because our children are so used to communicating to machines that they are getting insensitive to the real touch of the living God. Their minds are trapped in this digital world that is numbing our children’s creativity. They are losing the touch of their Creator. and invariably they get into a shell that makes them believe that they are all alone in all their struggles and they alone have to work it out. This is the lie the devil is using for his benefit. “Satan is a liar, and he is like the lies he tells. He is the father of lies.” – John 8:44

Our Mandate

In the book of John (6:8-9) Andrew brought the little boy to Jesus with the little that he had not knowing what would follow. And we all know the miracle that blessed thousands.

Let us make every effort to take our children to Jesus, trusting God to do a miracle through them. That doesn’t mean just dedicate them to the Lord and pray for them alone. It is for us to introduce Jesus to our children as God the Father, a loving friend, help them develop a relationship with their Creator. Help them recognize God’s love for them. As we feed our children with the word of God the Holy Spirit works alongside and speaks into their life. Just as the Holy Spirit renews us from within, He works within our children. No one can take the place of the Holy Spirit and no one can comprehend His ways.
Imagine this teamwork beginning, as your children begins to trust God for the little things that concern them. Father God trust’s our children with the mysteries of heaven then who are we to stop them. It is time we stop underestimating our children to handle what God has in store for them. He is still saying, “Do not hinder them.”

Teamwork

Comprehend the combination of this age knowledge and presence of Christ in our children’s lives!
The amalgam of this new age technology and inventions with the creations coming out from the throne room of The Father. This combination has power to create history and this power and combination is in your children. We are all coworkers with Christ building His kingdom and our children too are a part of this His expansion.

Encourage them to gain as much knowledge from the world but be not of it. Let’s raise up Daniels, Josephs who dared to stay in a foreign land adapt to their ways but yet preserved their hearts for the living God. These are examples in the Bible who paved the way for us to dare to live for the glory of God.

Warrior’s Arrow

“Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, are children born in one’s youth.” – Psalm 127:4
Dear Parents recognize what you have in your hands. You have arrows that has the power to bring down every plan of the evil one. Believe, your children can grow recognizing their identity in Christ each day. They are created to hear God’s voice we are the ones to teach them to listen and be sensitive. We are the ones to help them know they are loved by a Loving God. We are the ones to sharpen them.

With Jesus they have the power to make history. As parents believe your children are is the hands of the King of Kings and He has the best for each one of them.
Trust God with your children, they make a great team!

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June 20, 2021 0 comments

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Hope in the Lord

by Adeline Asante-Antwi April 10, 2019

written by Adeline Asante-Antwi

Hope is having the belief – strong belief – that situations will turn around.
When we hope in the Lord, we believe that God is the One who can turn things around, not anyone, not by our strength and intelligence, but the Sovereign One Himself.

Our hope is not based on how smart we are, how hard or easy the situation is, or what people say, it’s solely a submission we make to the Lord.

A foundational scripture is John 1:12, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”

Children of God

A father-daughter / father-son relationship has been bought by the Blood of Jesus, so when you believe in Jesus as your Messiah and Lord, you get access to all the rights and privileges that come with being the children of the King of Kings. Children of royalty are princes and princesses.

Ephesians 2:19 says, “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.” I am a part of His household. Under His wing, under His care.

Oh, how often we act like orphans, like we are not under the Master’s care.
Even as humans, we care for those in our household, you must stand and put your hope in this understanding, you call the Maker of Heaven and Earth, “Father”, and Jesus Christ paid for that access by His blood.

When I say, “Put your hope in Him”, put your hope in your Father – your hope for a turnaround in your prayer life, in your spiritual growth, in your finances, in your marriage, in your career, and what has gone wrong or is going wrong.

Put your hope in your Father and His power. He says nothing is too hard for Him. He is the Unchangeable Changer. “Can a man open a door He shuts? Can a man shut a door He closes?” He has said bring every problem to Him, so take it, and take it all…

1 Peter 5:7 says, “Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” Is there any situation too hard for Him?

You may say, “But the problem I face is my own doing. I committed abortion that affected my womb leading to infertility”, or “I chose to marry the wrong guy”, or “I made a mistake at work.” In a household, are you thrown out when you make a mistake?

Even for humans it takes so much for a man to kick his children out of his house, how much more God? The all patient One. When the neighbors come to complain about you, does your mother throw you to them to beat you? NEVER! When the devil accuses you, God says, “Hey! Don’t come near! God will discipline you Himself, He will not throw you out!”

You are Royalty

The devil will come hard at you with accusations. It is his nature and job. If you don’t understand who you are in Christ, your identity and relationship with God – every wind will blow you. When you make mistakes, you give up. Has God told you He cannot change things despite mistakes? 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Confess, repent, and run back into the Father’s open arms You are so loved. A wooden bloody cross at Calvary is a witness. Romans 8:38-39 tells us, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Excess love

We all need a turnaround. And as long as we are alive, we will need a turnaround in one area or another. Start putting your hope in the Father, that we are so loved inspite and despite everything. Speak to the issue as ROYALTY, go to your Father as a princess, all our hope in in YOU our loving Father. Amen.

If you were encouraged reading this, get more from my book The Princess Code.

April 10, 2019 0 comments

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Adorable New Children’s Devotional Aims To Lead Kids To Christ

by Joanna Flavin December 8, 2018

written by Joanna Flavin

As parents we are spread very thin and pulled in every direction by so many demands. We often feel guilty that amidst the laundry, school pick-ups, cooking, cleaning, disciplining, we don’t have time for what really matters. We don’t have enough time to focus on the eternal work – leading our children to Christ and helping them lay a foundation for a lasting relationship with Him.

Kids soak up everything

If there is one thing I know for sure on this journey of parenthood it’s that our kids are always watching and listening, even when you think they aren’t. They hear our every word, watch our every move, and soak up everything we are doing – for better or worse.

For example: my five-year-old knows every word to Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” (but it doesn’t always sound like that) is what he is saying. And I often hear my three year old talking to his baby brother in quite a disciplinary tone, “If you don’t share your cookie, I am putting you in time-out!”

They are watching, they are taking our cues and we are modeling their behavior – appropriate or not. Author Ginger Payne has given Christian parents the opportunity to pour out the Good News into their kids. Her new children’s devotional, Blessings, My Child, contains 101 blessings for parents and children to sit down and read together or even easy enough for a child to enjoy in their own devotional time.

The lessons are simple enough for a young child (geared toward 6 to 12-year-olds) to understand, but also draw in their attention with an eye-catching illustration followed by a devotional passage. What makes this devotional book unique is that it is written to the child from God’s perspective, in the first person.

How special that each child will feel personally blessed by their Creator, and how important that they feel His love at such a young age! Ginger has even put discussion questions at the end of each devotional to help engage the reader and parents in a conversation about what they learned.

It is every Christian parent’s wish for their child to know their worth in Christ and to feel His unconditional love at an early age. Sometimes it is hard for parents to put that into words for their kids, but Blessings, My Child, gives parents the tools to point them to the Lord in a direct and effortless way.

December 8, 2018 0 comments