"Dear Jesus, Please keep Seth safe and warm....."
Our nightly prayers start out the same every night. Seth (2 years old) clasps his tiny hands and nods his head in agreement when I pray for sweet dreams, sleeping all night (can I get an Amen?), health over his body, and that he will always walk with the Lord.
I am not sure how much he understands but we continue to do it. We read his little devotional (Jesus Calling for Little Ones by Sarah Young) every night before bed and we point to the picture of "Je-ju". We sing 'Jesus Loves Me' and pray for eachother when we get "owes."
I try to do as much as I can to introduce my little men to the Lord.
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"Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],
Even when he is old he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 22:6 (AMP)
This verse is one that, as parents, we are always thinking about. We want to point our children to Christ. We want to encourage them to live a life after the Lord. We want our little ones to live out their calling and follow Jesus.
I am trying to navigate my way to do that. How do I lead my sons to be strong men of God?
What does that look like?
Sarah wrote a blog post the other week about how our children are imitating us and watch what we do.
It clicked for me that maybe that is how I train up my children.
Of course teaching my children to pray is important. But is he seeing me pray? And not just for dinner or while I say my prayers with him.
We do need to take our children to church and talk to them about the Lord. We teach them and guide them with our words.
But is my son seeing me read my Bible and devotional?
Is he seeing me respect my husband?
How am I treating the barista at the coffee shop.... or the person who just cut me off in traffic?
What do I talk about with my friends when my children are around?
Am I showing my sons to honor the Lord with my actions?
My children are seeing what it means to be a follower of Christ by my example
We are human and of course we make mistakes.
We all fall short.
But I just pray that I will always be mindful of this divine responsiblity for my children.
Its one thing to tell my children to go to church to stay out hell, its another to show them the life I live because I love the Lord.
My prayer for my children (and all of yours too) is that they will witness how I live to honor God and they will desire to live the same.
xxoo, Monica
This is beautiful!! So true. Your night sounds alot like ours. Our prayers go like this "Holy spirit, angels of God and warrior angels. We welcome you to guard and protect our hearts, mind, ears and eyes. Help us to understand how wide, how high and how deep and how strong the love of God is and give us eyes to see and ears to hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying. And give us wisdom and revelation and knowledge of you God. And teach us about Jesus and cover us with the love of Jesus and God bless all of our friends and family. And God bless Dada, mama and Evie and Liya and tonight as we sleep we are yours. Amen. Thanks for your post sweet friend and the Jesus calling devo is awwwweesome!! We're reading it the second time
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DeleteThis is beautiful!! So true. Your night sounds alot like ours. Our prayers go like this "Holy spirit, angels of God and warrior angels. We welcome you to guard and protect our hearts, mind, ears and eyes. Help us to understand how wide, how high and how deep and how strong the love of God is and give us eyes to see and ears to hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying. And give us wisdom and revelation and knowledge of you God. And teach us about Jesus and cover us with the love of Jesus and God bless all of our friends and family. And God bless Dada, mama and Evie and Liya and tonight as we sleep we are yours. Amen. Thanks for your post sweet friend and the Jesus calling devo is awwwweesome!! We're reading it the second time
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