Make God the EVERYDAY LEADER for your family, not the EMERGENCY CONTACT!
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
1 These are the commands, decrees, and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children, and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy a long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, lie down, and get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and your
- The will of God is that we enjoy life.
- Living God’s way is about living under the umbrella of God’s peace in a world full of chaos.
4 things we are challenged to do
1. LOVE GOD.
Loving God should be with no compromise. We should manage our expectations and not compare our lives with others.
Let go of stress because how we feel will make others around us feel the same.
Your FAMILY looks more like YOUR CHOICES than LIFE’S CIRCUMSTANCES!
2. TRUST GOD.
We should love God enough to trust Him when life is not going our way.
We have to trust God through all circumstances no matter where we are. Trust is about believing more than we are feeling.
Seasons are represented in the story (2 Kings 4):
- Season of barrenness.
- Season of blessed business
- Season of desperate feeling
We should trust in God in all seasons.
A PARENT’s priority is gradually transferring a kid’s dependence from THEM to HIM!
3. FOLLOW GOD
We should teach ourselves to follow God.
How we live our lives get reproduced in the next generations. The younger generation follows the actions of the older generations.
4. PROCLAIM GOD
We should focus on talking about God in every circumstance.
We should let integrity and uprightness protect us.
We should trust the Lord with our hearts, and our hope should be in God.
We should proclaim the blessings of God in our family even when we go through tough times.