As the final step of your 14 days of prayer and introspection, make a commitment to yourself and your teen that you will seek God’s guidance in your parenting. Write out some specific actions you will take to hold yourself accountable. Do this in your prayer journal or download and print our Commitment form here.
KNOW: What Truth did you learn about God and how is that Truth connected to your daily life struggles? What key point has really been an encouragement? BE: How has that Truth changed your inner-person’s desires and thoughts? DO: What would God have you do in light of being encouraged and challenged with these Truths […]
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood… Esphesians 4:11-13A Do not […]
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 The word “anger” here can also mean discouragement. True godly discipline and instruction will not provoke our teen to anger and discouragement. When anger and discouragement are present, there is a deeper cause […]
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. Proverbs 29:15 Two elements are essential to a child learning wisdom: pain and instruction. If either of these two elements is left out of our active parenting, we just simply aren’t doing our job. The main point of […]
…for he (the authority in our life) is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Romans 13:4 One of the hardest things we do […]
I can do all things through him (Christ) who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able […]
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Following up from yesterday, in […]
…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37-39 Sometimes we need to simplify. Your job as a parent is boiled […]
KNOW: What Truth did you learn about God and how is that Truth connected to your daily life struggles? What key point has really been an encouragement? BE: How has that Truth changed your inner-person’s desires and thoughts? DO: What would God have you do in light of being encouraged and challenged with these Truths […]