Message Outline (Parenting)

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Galatians 5:6</FONT></div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Parenting is an exercise that is reflective of the Triune God</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> LIKE GOD THE FATHER</div> <div>      Ephesians 1:4-5; Hebrews 12:5-11</div> <bR> <div> <B>Parenting is like God the Father conveying to each of His children his or her own preciousness</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Parents, like God, are full assurance and commitment:  full of hope, understanding, supportive, kind and sensitive in lowliness and meekness, long-suffering and patient</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Parents exercise discipline to bring children to their highest potential first humanly then spiritually </B></div> <bR> <div> LIKE GOD THE SON</div> <div>      Romans 5:8; Titus 3:4-5; Hebrews 4:14-16; 1 Peter 2:21</div> <bR> <div> <B>Parents always accept the children for what they are and what they can do</B></div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Reaching children where they are at and instilling “faith” and confidence</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>     Parents creating a “can do” atmosphere in the home</B></div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Parents rewarding positives and helping them to press forward </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Being their high priest, encouraging them, standing with them, supplying them</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>     Parents exercising ourselves to be their model and prototype</B></div> <bR> <div> LIKE GOD THE SPIRIT</div> <div>      John 14:17; Romans 8:26-27</div> <bR> <div> <B>Parents being their “paraclete” who comes alongside the children, raising them up to higher and higher standards as human beings. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Being their careful and diligent disciplinarians, teaching and training the children in all environments with all kinds of people.</B></div> <bR> <div>                <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Communication</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>                <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Learning to respect our children</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>                <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Giving our children “room”</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Always dealing with ourselves first</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Becoming one with God, by passing through the cross, bringing our natural man with his old manner of life to death</B></div> <bR> <div>           <B>Allowing the Lord to deal with us</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Making our selves approachable, taking the initiative to approach our children.  Finding an entrance into them.</B> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Becoming an intimate friend and confidant; communicating, reasoning and guiding by coming alongside; not provoking or vexing - Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Parents needing to bear the testimony of Jesus, as those who love the Lord, follow the Lord, and serve the Lord</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> in a fresh consecration, sanctified, bearing a positive burden for the building up of the church, dealing with the world under the cleansing of the blood of the Lamb.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Spiritual Labor With Our Children: Praying and Watching for the Lord's Move.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Working together with the Lord distinguishing between guidance in moral matters and spiritual matters, being confident in demanding obedience in moral matters, not insisting on spiritual conduct until we see the Lord's work.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Focusing primarily on life habits when the children are first saved and first love the Lord.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>