My bible and I Josh 1:8, Ps 119:105
The bible is God’s way of communicating to His children the knowledge of him, His ways, His promises and what he wants us to do.
This post aims to reinforce the action points highlighted in the previous post: ‘new beginning-back to school spiritual preparation’
1) Have you supported your child to schedule a feasible time for ‘Jesus & me time’?
-Do an assessment daily and at the end of each week, listen to your child’s questions/challenges and agree on a few realistic goals towards growing their relationship with God.
-Does your child need to go to bed early to allow early morning ‘Jesus &me’ time? Make necessary adjustment to accommodate this. e,g serve dinner on time, schedule devices to go off at a certain time, fix a regular time for bed time prayers so they don’t have to stay up late waiting for prayers etc
-Assign one of the children to remind everyone when it is time for prayer (your children may welcome the idea of making a rota for this as some children love to be given ‘leadership’ roles).
2) What is your child doing during his/her ‘Jesus &me’ time?
Provide guidelines on what can be done during this time and provide age appropriate resources. Please click here to leave a message if you need help with this including free Christian books.
Some helpful tips:
-You can create a chart where your will child colour/tick what they have done for each day. You can add a photo of your child reading his/her bible to the chart and do a coloured printing.
The columns on the chart includes: Pray, read my bible, write in my journal, meditate on a verse, memorise a verse, practise what I learnt.
*see sample below.
-Give incentives, probably monthly, to encourage your child.
3) Dad& mum,
-Assess your personal walk with God regular and lead by example
-Bring to God in prayers whatever challenges your child mentions during daily/weekly review of their ‘Jesus & me time’
-Schedule quality time to fellowship as a family (this includes prayer and fasting, bible study, question & answer, sharing testimonies and experiences (past/current) to edify one another.
Family circle: Take turns to pray for each family member, ask them for what they would like you to pray about.
I pray that God will help us seek after Him whole heartedly that we may find Him in Jesus name. Jer 29:13, Ps 42:1
# Consistency is key
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Raising Godly Children 