Your Children Are Our Prized Possession

“Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Training our children in the way they should go is very important when they are young, it’ll stick better, and the words of the bible in their hearts will not depart from them even when they are older. The power behind God’s word operating in the heart of a believer is the nightmare of Satan and his crew who have come to steal, kill, and destroy. The foundations of our life are supposed to be built by the family unit (good morals, discipline and behavior, etc.), preferably with dad in the picture. But things are not hopeless without dad. I was a single parent for three years and I did bible study with my two and four year old children every night, just the three of us making it happen, and the same thing with my youngest son later on. To this day as they are adults now, they are flourishing in life with children of their own learning about God’s word at a young age. The importance of training up a child in the way they should go, Is totally realized after they’ve gone through the normally scheduled hard places of life, which is to make you stronger, not an opportunity for you to give up the fight. The way we all should go is based on the living word of God. It’s alive and sharper than any two edged sword. As children get older, they begin to assert themselves. As their will is involved, parents are to simply keep them in prayer. Trust God!