Series: Let’s Talk Family – Part 2 – Parenting
Speaker: Scotty Priest
Date: February 11, 2024
Psalms 127:1-5
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves. Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
1. How does this passage in Psalm 127 and the view that “children are a heritage from the Lord” affect your view of children and parenting?
2. In what ways can you help develop the faith, character and relationships of your children or other children that God has placed in your life in effort to point them to God.
Joshua 24:15
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve … But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
3. How can you practically apply the message of Deuteronomy to raising and leading your own children or to help guide the children God has put in your life?
