Saturday 1 February 2014

TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD I - 02/02/2014

TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD I - 02/02/2014

Happy Sunday to everyone. Yesterday’s message was titled “THE BLESSING OF THE LORD?” and today’s topic is titled “TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD, PART I” as given by Pastor E. A Adeboye in Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have been asked to memorise Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” and read Psalm 127:3-5 Our Bible in one year for today has been taken from 1 John 5 to Jude 1 and Psalm 31 :1-8 (Adeboye, 2014).

Today's message is quoted below for our usual discussion. God bless you all as we continue to sharpen the faith of one another in this forum.

“The major undoing of modern civilized society is an abounding generation of untrained children. This trend did not just start, but has been on for some time now. The result is that many untrained children of few years back have become parents themselves. It is the multiplier effect of their lack of proper home training that is now being experienced in the society. Home training is a moral training by which such virtues as honesty, diligence, respect for elders and also some abilities cum skills - such as care of the body, cooking etc are inculcated into children. You will observe that the children of these days have no respect for older ones except in some few cases where parents are not too busy to give attention to the training of their children.

The Bible clearly shows that some children have cut their lives short for being rude to people who are old enough to be their parents (2 Kings 2:23-24), hence time and energy must be invested by parents into their children to forestall such. What about the area of marriage? Some ladies have everything going fine for them but have failed in the area of marriage. They are beautiful, highly educated and have good jobs, but they lack some basic housekeeping and home making skills like preparing good food. Such demeanour have pushed their husbands into the hands of other women who can do better, thus they lose marital joy and peace which often results into a total collapse of the marriage. In many cases, the wedding day was full of all pomp and pageantry, the officiating pastor would have preached from his heart a message such as: ”Keys to a Happy Home”, he also would have prayed his heart out at the occasion. But all these ought to be on the foundation that should have been laid a long time earlier. Psalm 11:3 chiefly sums up such cases.

Rather than orientating their children into godliness through godly conversation at home as Deuteronomy 11:18-19 commands, some Christians only engage themselves with worldly counsels and jokes. Our memory verse says train up your child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. God knows better than we do. He did no say wait until these children become old, but rather from their infancy we need to begin to train them up in the godly way so that their tomorrow would be bright. God says in Deuteronomy 11:19&21 that what you teach your children when you're with them at home will determine how God will respond to them.

Prayer point: Pray that the eyes of parents will be open to see the evil of not training their children and that God will  touch the heart of our  youths to live godly lives.” (Adeboye, 2014).

Reference:

Adeboye, E. A. (2014) . Open Heavens: A Guide to Close Fellowship with God, Volume 14, 2014. Nigeria: Open Heavens Media Limited.

14 comments:

  1. Happy Sunday and Happy New Month everyone. Let's have it mind that this blogosphere isn't meant for Nigerians in Nigeria's only consumption. It's the global village (worldwide). When you comment, discard Nigerian codes as some of us are left guessing what you are saying such as "dt, apy and so on."
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  2. The overflow glides to the next level- happy new beautiful month of feb! Many today have to the church, not to be changed but to change the church to what suits them! Many today have held on to the bible, not to learn of it but to rewrite it! The crowd of these deviants are satisfied with their mission to make the church worldly while making the world churchy. These are curious times and the Lord would guide and keep the faithful!

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    1. Jacob, your comment is insightful. "in the last days, they will gather themselves teachers that will say what their itching ears wants to hear; similarly "because of their being unrepentant God have given them to a reprobate mind to do those things that are not convenient"

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  3. Hmmm, this is a serious task which must be handled with care. I pray that Parents will follow the law training their children who will become leaders in different facets of life. The right and appropriate measure of reproof and the children to accept rebukes with love. So that the world will be filled with the righteousness of the Lord

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  4. Thank you sis Yetunde for drawing people closer to God everyday, may God continue to empower you. Bible says and I quote that unless the Lord build the house, the builder build in vain, unless the Lord watcheth over the city, the watchman watcheth in vain. May the Lord in his infinity mercy build and watch over our house for us and may God destroy every ungodly behaviour in the life of our children for them to live according to his will and purposes in Jesus name. Happy new month and enjoy your new week.

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  5. Happy new month. Its absolutely necessary to focus on child training not only because of the effect on the society but also on the parents themselves. God has given us a mandate. If we fail to actively plan then we have planned to fail. I am not concerned about country laws as regards child correction as a sincere parent will correct the childas appropriate. Do not spare the rod but always corect in love.
    Sis Yetunde God bless u abundantly for including bible in one year as a direct mail and it has audio version. I believe we will grow to overflowing greatness in the spirit this year. Thanks

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  6. I follow this blog everyday and can't help your time and energy to bring this msg across to the world. God bless you ma and I pray Ɣoů make Heaven IJN

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  7. Most parents concentrate more on how to make money and live a good life that they fail in their divine duty of parenting. If parents can just put in as much effort as they put in their jobs, to train their children, there will be a great hope for the younger generation.

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  8. Thanks everyone for your encouragement and prayers. Today's topic is a very serious one for we parents. I pray for everyone of us in this forum that we will never fail God in the assignment of bringing up the children that He has given us. I also pray for our children that as we make effort to bring them up in the way of the Lord, they will never depart from the path of righteousness all the days of their lives in Jesus Name, amen.

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  9. Oh lord thank u for ur word today and I promise to give in all my effort in training my children in a godly way if u will have mercy on me and bless me with my own children this year in Jesus name. Amen!!!!

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    1. The Almighty God, the Jehovah Jireh, The God of all flesh that remembered Hannah will remember you in Jesus name
      You will testify of his faithfulness this year.

      God bless you.

      Ade.

      You shall know the truth and the truth shall set u free.

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    2. By the power of Divine Visitation, the world will celebrate you and your baby before the end of this year and your joy will overflow in Jesus name, Amen.

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    3. By the power of Divine Visitation, the world will celebrate you and your baby before the end of this year and your joy will overflow in Jesus name, Amen.

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  10. after having a.. good training dey should be prevented fromunholy environment eg environment filled with evil

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