{"id":14753,"date":"2014-06-22T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T00:47:27","slug":"train-up-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/train-up-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Up A Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parenting is not for wimps. It\u2019s just not.<\/p>\n<p>Until your child has children of their own, there is no way they will ever comprehend why you do what you do.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it is vital to your heart that no matter how your days, months or years work out that you place your trust in what the Lord promised you.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that in this day and age where we are raising a generation that I lovingly call the \u201cEntitlement Generation\u201d that it is becoming more and more difficult to train up a child in the way he\/she should go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Let me remind you of a few of God\u2019s promises:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it \u2013 Proverbs 22:6<\/p>\n<p>Will your child stray? Maybe.\u00a0 Will they always desire their own personal relationship with the Lord? Maybe\u2026maybe not.\u00a0 But TRUST that God has them and cling to this verse.<\/p>\n<p>When I am afraid, I put my trust in you \u2013 Psalm 56:3<\/p>\n<p>There are times when we will fear for our children.\u00a0 Trust in the ONE that loves your child more than even you do!<\/p>\n<p>Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding \u2013 Proverbs 3:5<\/p>\n<p>There will absolutely be times that you do not understand why your child is doing what they are doing.\u00a0 There may be times that your heart and soul are crushed and the tears seem never ending.\u00a0 TRUST HIM even when you don\u2019t understand<\/p>\n<p>Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path Psalm 119:105<\/p>\n<p>When you are helping to light the way for your children, USE GODS Word.\u00a0 He is ever faithful, never changing and always preparing us to honor Him in some way.<\/p>\n<p>What verses do you cling to when it comes to raising Godly children?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have your children memorize verses so that no matter what happens they can hide Gods word in their hearts?<\/p>\n<p>One last thing\u2026sometimes there are no words of comfort on this earth.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to share 52 of God\u2019s Promises that you can use as a Quick Reference.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Marie at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spreading-joy.org\" target=\"_blank\">SpreadingJoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parenting is not for wimps. It\u2019s just not. Until your child has children of their own, there is no way they will ever comprehend why you do what you do. This is why it is vital to your heart that no matter how your days, months or years work out that you place your trust &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/train-up-a-child\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Train Up A Child&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}