Scripture Saturation for Your Childs Soul A Lost Discipleship I have heard it wisely said that at any given time we should be mentoring someone in Christ and we should also have someone who is mentoring us. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior . . . They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, . . . that the word of God may not be reviled. ( Gods gift of children to a mother is precious. For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent (dedicated) him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent (dedicated) to the Lord.” ( God has given us the weighty task to train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. ( I was asked recently, “How do I impart that desire for my kids to love Scripture and know God for themselves?” We know that, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” ( Scripture and relationship are at the heart of the discipling we do as mothers. We will fail our children but the Word of God will stand true and honorable to their legacy in life. God reminds the children of Israel very passionately of this truth: “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you? And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.” ( What a tremendous Daddy we have in God the Father! He tells us throughout Scripture how to have the Scriptural saturation for your child’s soul. I want to reiterate Deuteronomy 6:7-9, “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Using this passage here are some practical applications: 1. Memorize Scripture and help your children memorize Scripture. 2. Teach your children the meaning (doctrine and precepts) of Scripture. You don’t have to do this alone. This is where church, Sunday school, AWANA, Patch the Pirate Clubs, Frontline Clubs, children’s church, youth group, etc… help us in this task. 3. Discuss Scripture. It should be a natural part of your day to incorporate the wisdom of Scripture in your daily tasks from sunrise to sunset. You want your children to turn first to the Lord as they mature. Intentionally make it a part of your conversations, your routines, and your schedules. 4. Decorate your home or rooms with Scripture. It can be a beautiful framed painting with Scripture on it. Or it could be a 3x5 index card with a verse the child needs to work on for a particular issue in their life. For example, if the child is struggling with anxiety and fear, find passages of Scripture that address those difficulties. Write them down so they can see them (or if they are too young to read so you have access to it to read to them). Use the verses in prayers with the child. Help them see it and memorize it. Have Scripture visible all over the home to continually turn their eyes back to the Word of God. 5. Read Scripture together. We have made it a pattern to read through our kids’ Bibles in our family devotions. We started with a storybook God’s Love. (Link to the website below.) Each day we would read through one story from the beginning through the end of the book. This particular storybook also has a separate app to purchase that reads to the children. So our kids could use it to read to them for their personal devotions. We also read through the Beginner’s Bible. Yes, these were for our younger kids. We want the kids to know the Bible as a fluid, living Word. It helped our family to read these cover to cover. Now that our children are older we are reading the Bible through as a family using the ESV Study Bible plan. It takes time. We want our children to learn from a young age the necessity of knowing Scripture for themselves. 6. Equip your children. Do research and find really good, age appropriate studies for your children to use on their own devotional time. Get them a nice Bible to treasure as their own. As we disciple our children we are doing our best to glorify God. Be encouraged through Scripture and saturate your children’s lives with the Words of life. https://positiveaction.org/product-group-gods-love-storybook#product-gods-love-storybook about.esvbible.org/resources/reading/
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