Train up your child

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6(KJV)

The word train in our opening scripture means to narrow the child. This means that training is aimed at giving you a focus. To train up a child also means to discipline a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I encourage you if you are a parent reading this today to take your children and your teenagers seriously. The reason is because you have to narrow them in the way they should think, the way they should talk, and the way they should act, because if you should get it right with them as children, you will not struggle with them as adults.

Personally, my parents didn't need to start advising me not to carry women because I had already being trained in the way I should go. So, the way the lives of your children will turn out to be as adults starts when they are still children. What quality of training are you giving to them now? What are you exposing them to? Are you exposing them to the wrong kind of movies and music? It is amazing to know today that some parents are not even concerned about what their children are exposed to on television and on the internet. If you don't narrow their focus today in the way they should go, you may start trying to repair them later, after they have departed from the right way.

I encourage you to train your children and narrow their focus both by teaching and by example. Whatever you do not want to see in your child, do not practice as a parent. Don’t tell them, don't watch this and then they see you watching it. Don't tell them, don't do this, but then they see you doing the same things you told them not to do. Don't even hide to do the wrong thing as a parent, because what you fail to deal with or overcome in your life, you will fight in your children. Think about it.

INSTRUCTION
Make intercession for children today that they will stand perfect and complete in all the will of God for their lives, and that the fear of God will be established in their hearts from an early age.

For further study read:
Genesis 18:19, 1 Samuel 3:13, Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 23:13-14, Proverbs 29:15,17  Ephesians 6:4, 2 Timothy 3:15.

DOING THE WORD
Always be a role model even as you exhibit the right character always before children.