Parents should teach their children
the power of prayer to strengthen
them
to be morally clean in this challenging
world. Parents should not allow
their children to march out the front
door each morning to face Satan and
his myriad of temptations, without
spiritual backup from prayer. Night
prayer is also of utmost importance.
Teach your children the routine of
prayer.
Another meaningful thing is to
direct their time into productive
gospel-oriented efforts by being
loving, but firm. There may be initial
resistance and complaining but you
need to have the vision and will to
stick with it.
Parents are the immediate role
models of their children. As a parent
who
smokes, cheat, lies and indulges in
other immoral conduct, have you
asked
yourself what you are indirectly
teaching your children? When your
child
decides to stay back from church, it is
your responsibility to make he/she
aware of the essence of church
service. Charity begins at home, they
say. I
beseech parents to take it upon
themselves to raise leaders of
tomorrow,
not menace to the society.
“TRAIN UP A CHILD IN A WAY THAT
HE SHOULD GO, AND WHEN HE IS
OLD, HE WILL
NOT DEPART FROM IT.” – PROVERBS
22:6
It is time for parents to ask
themselves: “do our children receive
our
best spiritual, intellectual and creative
efforts? Or do they just receive
our leftover time and talents, after we
have given our all to our church
calling or professional pursuits?”
Father and mother are titles that will
continue to be revered, worlds
without end.
One may ask, “how about orphans?” I
would like to make it clear that the
context in which I am using ‘parent’ in
this article does not mean ‘a
person from whom one is immediately
biologically descended; a mother or
father.’ I am referring to you who may
be a friend, a brother, an uncle or
a neighbor. You can also assist in
raising up that orphan in God’s way
and
God will reward you real big.
As parents, you can proceed with the
assurance that God never gives us a
responsibility without offering divine
aid. You might have not been doing
these things. Do not give up; nobody is
perfect and it is not late. Where
there is a will, there is a way. Ask God
for guidance and HE WILL NOT FAIL
YOU. I pray that you may, in your role
as parents, in partnership with God,
become the prime gospel teachers and
examples for your children, in the
name of Jesus Christ, amen.