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Children are..

Psalms 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalms 127:4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth.

Ps 127:5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

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Psalms 37:25  I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.

It is a promise by God concerning our children.

Psalms 102:28 The children of Your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before You."

Psalms 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children,

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Proverbs 11:21 Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; but the posterity of the righteous will be delivered.

Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Prov 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Prov 15:5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who receives correction is prudent.

Prov 15:20 A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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I am a grandfather I love this verse

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their father.  Praise God!! Mine sure are.


Prov 10:1 The Proverbs of Solomon: a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.  (NKJ)

Prov 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Prov 19:18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your heart on his destruction.

Proverbs 19:26 He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Prov 19:27 Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 20:7 The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

Prov 20:11 Even a child is known by his deeds, whether what he does is pure and right.

Prov 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Prov 29:15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Prov 29:17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.

Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring;

Thank you Father.

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Our children have peace.

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Isaiah 59:21 "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."

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Matthew 18:10 "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

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Matt 18:14 "Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Put God in remembrance of this if you have any sick children.

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Matt 19:14 But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven."

Luke 17:2 "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

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Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise:

3 "that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth."

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Instructions to FATHERS

Psalms 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which 
He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children,
7 That they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;
(NKJ)

Gary Kinnaman BA. MA. Senior pastor of Word of Grace Church Mesa, Az comments about these verses

"Parents passing along the faith to their children is extremely important. The primary source for religious instruction must always be the fathers."

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Ephians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

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WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO PROSPER? JEWISH PEOPLE ARE 2% OF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA AND HAVE 80% OF THE IMPORTANT JOBS. WHY

THEY BLESS THEIR CHILDREN CONTINUALLY.

AT AGE THIRTEEN THEIR CHILDREN ARE BAR MITZVAH. THEY LAY HANDS ON THEM AND PRONOUNCE BLESSINGS.

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When the disciples discourage the children from coming to Jesus, Jesus gave clear directions 

Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. (NKJ)

Mark 10:16 And He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them. (NKJ)

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SOME OF US PROCLAIM CURSES OVER OURS. EXAMPLE YOUR DUMB. OR YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING.  CHANGE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AND START BLESSING THEM.

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THERE IS JUST ONE WAY TO BRING UP A CHILD AND THAT IS TO TRAVEL THAT WAY YOURSELF.

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Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Here is a comment concerning Prov 22:6 made by John Garlock BA., MA Speaker + Teacher Christ for the Nations Institute Dallas Tx

Train up has the idea of a parent graciously investing in a child whatever wisdom, love, nurture, and discipline is needed for him to become fully committed to God. It presupposes the emotional and spiritual maturity of the parent to do so.  In the way he should go is to do the training according to the unique personality, gifts, and aspirations of the child.  It also means to rain the child to avoid whatever natural tendencies he might have that would prevent total commitment to God (for example, a weak will, a lack of discipline, a susceptibility to depression).

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The Scribe:  I'm not sure if this would be helpful but I'll post it in case someone could use it.

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Google Doesn't Want You to See This Letter From a Christian Pastor About Pride Month

By Paula Bolyard 3:59 PM on June 08, 2023

Dan Phillips, a Christian pastor and sometimes blogger, recently posted a letter he sent to his congregation to help parents explain Pride Month to their children.

The letter (read it in its entirety below) was posted on June 5 on the Pyromaniacs blog, which is hosted on the Google-owned Blogger platform. It was a thoughtful letter with sound biblical advice for families trying to navigate the rainbow-saturated month of June. In fact, I forwarded it to my son and daughter-in-law and told them to bookmark it for when those questions come up with our granddaughter, as they inevitably will.

Not long after the letter was posted, Google/Blogger stepped in and censored the post. If you try to access the page now, you will see this:

That’s because the powers that be at Google deemed it hate speech:

Not only that, but the post has been scrubbed from archiving sites like the Wayback Machine and Archive.ph. It has also been disappeared from Google Search. And Blogger apparently even removed it from the backend of the site—a scary development that I’d not heard of before.

Phillips told PJ Media:

After about seven years without a post, I posted a copy of a letter I sent to the congregation I serve in Houston, Texas. I wanted to help parents talk with their children about the ubiquitous “Pride Month” intrusions. Then I followed up with a sermon. But someone flagged it to Blogger, where it was ruled that my post was “Hate Speech.” Their definition: “content that promotes or condones violence against or has the primary purpose of inciting hatred against an individual or group on the basis of their …sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.” This, of a post that literally says “we don’t hate people who want bad things…. We love people who don’t know Jesus…” But today, to believe in the actual Jesus is to be called a “hater.” You will find my letter posted elsewhere, unedited.

In follow-up tweets, Phillips said,

The letter I wrote specifically forbade hatred and specifically enjoined love, prayers, and willingness to help. If a simple statement of the old-as-the-Bible Gospel of Christ — that sin kills, that we are sinners, and that Christ saves repentant sinners — is “hate speech” requiring censorship, then Christianity must be censored. What is real hate speech? Real hate speech is telling people that they are doomed to live hopeless lives as slaves of destructive sin. It is telling them that other sinners can be redeemed and freed in Jesus Christ, but not them. It is telling them that their only hope is paper-thin rationalization and censorship of all contrary views. That’s hate-speech. To say nothing of the speech that condemns and slanders Christians for simply telling the truth about Christ’s dying, redeeming, saving, transforming love.

(You can listen to Phillips’ sermon on the topic at Copperfield Bible Church here.)

Google and the other Big Tech giants are happy to promote content with a scrubbed-down version of Jesus — a hippie-dippie who only cares about love and winks at sin. But the real Jesus of the Bible? The one who condemns sin and talks about hell? He has increasingly become verboten.

We’re in a very scary place right now in America, where the “faith once for all delivered to the saints” is considered hate speech and censored by the world’s most powerful tech company. Christians are told to “contend” for that faith,” yet we are increasingly sidelined by the culture and its rainbow idols.

But please understand: This is nothing new. Jesus warned that the world would hate Christians just as it hated him. Throughout the history of Christendom, persecution has been the rule, not the exception. Now that pagans, heathens, and other God-haters are running the country (and that includes many in the so-called conservative movement), expect the attacks, censorship, and discrimination to get worse.

But take heart, Christians. The God who said that “all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” also said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” He also said that “the gates of hell shall not prevail” upon the church of Jesus Christ.

Parents, your job is to inculcate your kids with the truth of God’s word. Saturate their lives with it. Memorize scripture with them, take them to a Bible-believing church, and model your faith boldly and without apology. The world wants your children. Do everything in your power to protect them from the “flaming darts of the Evil One.” The sword of the spirit—the Word of God—is your most effective weapon.

Here’s the letter that Google doesn’t want you to see:

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Dear CBC parents,

We all wish we could shelter our children from the harmful and corrupt elements of our God-hating culture. Apart from living under a rock, this is becoming increasingly impossible. The homosexual-and-much-more agenda has increasingly intruded itself into every area of American life, from the media to sports to department stores to fast food restaurants and coffee shops.

I am writing to try to help you talk to your children. I’ll write it as one side of a conversation. Use any part that helps you address matters that arise in your children’s world.

You asked me what “gay” and “homosexual” and “trans” means, and why you suddenly see the word “Pride” everywhere. I’m glad you asked me! Let me try to explain it to you.

We’ve read Genesis together. You know that God created the world as a perfect, wondrous place. And you know in Genesis 1 He created Adam and Eve without sin, or any of the awful things sin does when it gets inside someone. Adam and Eve loved God and were happy with themselves, with each other, and with their world.

But then Satan came along in Genesis 3, and he got them to be dissatisfied with what God gave them. He tried to make God look like He didn’t care, and like He didn’t really want what was best for Adam and Eve. Satan tried to convince them that they knew better than God what was right and good, and what was best for them. Now you know, that is pride. Pride blows us up like balloons — all big and impressive looking, but with nothing but air inside. So in their pride, Adam and Eve rebelled against God.

When they did, they died inside. The happiness and wholeness they had were gone. They weren’t happy with themselves, or each other, or their world — or God. So they had to find ways to try to make themselves feel happy, and to hide the guilt they had inside. They felt guilty, because they were guilty. They had sinned against God, their Maker.

All those words you asked me about come out of this. They are all about people dead and broken by sin, still trying to find happiness by defiantly shaking their fist in God’s face and pretending they’re smarter than God.

You remember that God made Adam and Eve, a man and a woman. That’s what sex means — it means being a man, or being a woman. People say “gender” today, but gender is really a grammar-term, about words, not people. “Sex” is the better word here. How many sexes did God make? That’s right: two. And when God saw it wasn’t good for the man Adam to be alone, what did God make for him, in Genesis 2? That’s right, a woman, named Eve. So God invented marriage, when a man wants to be with a woman in a special way, and a woman wants to be with a man — only the two of them, with each other.

But all of us children of Adam are sinners, and sin ruins all our good desires and feelings that God gave us. Sin makes us want what we shouldn’t want, and it makes us not want what we should want.

So some poor sad men don’t want to have a woman as their wife. They want another man. And some poor sad women don’t want a man, they want another woman. They are ashamed to want these things, they feel guilty. When we feel guilty, we can only do one of two things. We can go to God, confessing our sins and finding His forgiveness and help. Or we can pretend that we’re okay, and just keep holding to our sin. When people want to pretend these broken, wrong desires are okay, they call it being “gay,” pretending to be truly happy. But they don’t have peace with God, and they won’t be happy when God’s patience comes to an end and He judges them.

And then there are other people so broken by sin that they aren’t willing to be what God made them. God made them a man or a woman — remember, He only made two sexes — but they want to pretend to be something else. Men want to pretend to be women, and women want to pretend to be men. Of course, we are what God made us, and no one can really become the opposite sex. They may try very hard, and even hurt themselves, but it just can’t be done. Still, sometimes we keep pretending, even though it really harms and shames us to do so. And when men or women pretend to be the opposite sex, they call it being “trans.”

So they took the whole month of June to pretend together that all these wrong and harmful things are good, and they call June “Pride” month. Like the Bible says, their “glory is in their shame” (Philippians 3:19).

But things are what God calls them, aren’t they? Not what we call them. So men are always just men, women are always just women, and we can only really marry someone of the opposite sex from us. A man marries a woman, a woman marries a man. Anything else can never really be marriage.

Isn’t it sad to think about people so badly wanting things that are bad for them? Isn’t it awful that what people think will be good for them is really bad for them? But that’s what sin does. It does that to all of us! It’s why children want to disobey their parents. It’s why parents sometimes fight each other, or don’t do such a great job being parents. Sin is behind everything bad that we do or feel.

But remember, God so loved sinful men and women that He sent Jesus to save sinners. Jesus can save any sinner! There is no sin too big for Jesus. He shed His blood so that His people could be forgiven and freed from every last sin of every size! When we turn from our sin and believe in Jesus, we can know that all our sins are forgiven. Isn’t that just the most wonderful news there is?

Even more, Jesus died so that His people could be given new hearts, and so that God’s Holy Spirit could live in our hearts. So God removes our old heart that wanted awful and bad things and hated God, and He gives us a new heart. That new heart wants to love God, and believe Him, and walk in His ways. So all of us, whatever our sins were, can be made new people, children of God, learning to love what God loves and hate what God hates.

So we don’t hate people who want bad things. We would be exactly the same if it weren’t for Jesus. We love people who don’t know Jesus, we pray for them, we want to help them, we want to tell them about Jesus. And when they believe, we accept them and love them and help them to learn to walk with Jesus, just like we’re doing.

Thank you for asking me. Always feel free to ask me any questions you have!

I pray this is helpful to you.  Pastor Dan

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The parent that is afraid to put his foot down will have children that will step on his toes.

A child that knows how to pray, work and think is already half educated.  - Don Drake

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