Gods Plan for Mothers Happy Mothers Day Gods

God’s Plan for Mothers Happy Mother’s Day

God's Plan for Mothers 1. Raise Godly Kids Malachi 2: 15 Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking Godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

God's Plan for Mothers 1. Raise Godly Kids �How do we Raise Godly Kids? Proverbs: 16: 3 commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 1. Being a Godly Example Yourself Mark 12: 30 Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind…

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 2. Know & Obey God’s Word Yourself… John 14: 21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. "

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 3. Tell Your children frequently of God’s Works Ps 78: 3 -7 what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 4. Teach Your Children God’s Word Deut 2 Tim 6: 6 -9 2: 15 These to Study commandments show thyself approved that I giveunto you. God, todaya are workman to be upon that your hearts. need not to be Impress ashamed, themrightly on your dividing children. the Talk wordabout of truth. them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 5. Lead them to an understanding to Accept Jesus as their Savior Rom 10: 9 -10 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord, " and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 6. Teach them to Bring God into every situation and decision in their lives Prov. 3: 5 -6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Prov. 16: 3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

God's Plan for Mothers 7 Steps for Raising Godly Kids �Step 7. Encourage and train them that nothing is more important in life than loving and serving the Lord Deut 10: 12 what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

God's Plan for Mothers 2. Pass the Baton (Your Legacy of Faith) Psalm 71: 17 -18 O God you have taught me from my youth: And to this day I declare your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God do not forsake me, Until I declare your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living A First Chair Person: Is not only saved, but knows the Lord as a personal friend and savior and displays a meaningful growing relationship with Him for himself and those he’s responsible for. He willingly puts himself/herself under Christ’s authority and direction. The apostle Paul would call this the “spiritual state”. The First chair the Chair of Commitment

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living The Second Chair Person: Represents someone who has received new life in Christ but hasn’t decided in his heart how much or how little they want to follow Him. The Second Chair the Chair of Compromise

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living The Third Chair Person: Represents someone who has not committed their heart and life to the Lord. A Third chair person may have always known he wasn’t a Christian, he may have consciously rejected God or he just may be confused about his spiritual state. The Third Chair the Chair of Conflict

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Committed Compromised Conflicted Saved Unsaved Spiritual State Carnal State Natural State

God's Plan for Mothers How Each Chair Relates to God First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Characteristic Commitment Compromise Conflict Knows God As a Close Friend As an Acquaintance Is aware of God Relates to God Relationship Responsibility Religion Serves God First Self Second Self First God Second Self Only

God's Plan for Mothers How Each Chair Relates to the World First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Characteristic Commitment Compromise Conflict Shaped by The Scriptures Other Christians Society Lives by Convictions Beliefs Opinions Sees Work As God’s Calling God’s Blessing A Proving Ground

God's Plan for Mothers How Each Chair Relates to Marriage & Family First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Characteristic Commitment Compromise Conflict Approach to Marriage Unconditional Covenant Conditional Contract Legal Convenience Approach to Parenting Apply Biblical Principles/ Confident Influenced by Principles/ Hopeful Chooses Own Approach/ Confused Parenting Raise Godly Kids Raise Good Christian Kids Raise Good Successful Kids

God's Plan for Mothers Picture of the Generations First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Commitment Compromise Conflict Joshua The Elders The Elder’s Children David Solomon (David’s Son) Rehoboam (Solomon’s Son)

God's Plan for Mothers Picture of the Generational Slide First Generation Second Generation Third Generation First Chair Second Chair Third Chair Knows God Knows “OF” God Doesn’t Know God First Hand Faith Second Hand Faith No Faith at All Has Works Saw the Works Doesn’t Believe in Works Submits to the Bible Respects the Bible Owns a Bible

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living Joshua 24: 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. " Joshua 24: 31…. Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living Judges 1: 27 -30 Judges 2: 1 -3 The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you, and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars. ' Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be [thorns] in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you. "

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living Judges 2: 10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living Examples of generations in the Bible that shows how the Chair 1 Position passing on the Baton of Faith…. 2 Timothy 1: 5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. Ruth, Obed and Jesse (Who was King David’s Father ) (Book of Ruth)

God's Plan for Mothers 3. Chair One Living �The Key to Raising Godly Kids and Passing the Baton of Faith is which Chair you Sit in…. . Sit in a Chair – Choose a Destiny!!

Happy Mother’s Day