Ephesians 6:3 (NLT)
3 If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you,
and you will have a long life on the earth.”*
Listen to these stats on those who don't have fathers from www.parents4justice.us
- Girls without a father in their lives are two and a half times more likely to get pregnant and 53% more likely to commit suicide.
- Boys without a father in their lives are 63% more likely to run away and 37% more likely to abuse drugs.
- Both boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of school, twice as likely to end up in jail, and nearly 4X as likely to have emotional or behavioral problems.
In the gospel of Matthew in chapter 28 we are challenged to "Go and make disciples..." I really believe that begins in our homes. Our children are our main disciples, and then we work outward to all others. Disciples are made by discipline, which simply means training. When we intentionally train our children in the ways of the Lord three very interesting things occur:
1. You really feel like you belong to God.
7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Heb 12:7
- As you train(teach them how to live) your kids develop a feeling of belonging to you.
2. You have the capacity to believe God
8 If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. Heb 12:8
- Training makes you legit, as MC Hammer said, "To legit to quit"l.
- When it's real to you, you can beleive.
3. You have the ability to become.
But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. Heb 12:11
- It produces something good in us, a peaceful harvest of right living.
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