Pumped About Kids

  

When you see how much time you have left, you tend to get more serious about the time you have now.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

-Psalm 90:12

Your routines will create your results

  

We become what we repeatedly do.

-Sean Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

-Proverbs 22:6

Thought #1: A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t

  

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

-Joshua 1:8

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

-2 Timothy 3:16-17

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

-Psalm 119:105

If you are in God’s Word more than you're not, your life is substantially different.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword,it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

-Hebrews 4:12

Do first things first

Early in the morning, Jesus went to be with the Father.

Seek significant conversations

A conversation that helps your child take one step closer to Jesus.

Thought #2: The declarations of your lips can change the direction of your child's life

  

The tongue has the power of life and death.

-Proverbs 18:21

Remind them of who they are and whose they are.

  

Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

-Romans 12:2

Thought #3: We are better together

  

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

-Proverbs 27:17

Make church non-negotiable

  

And let us consider together how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

-Hebrews: 10:24-25

Attend the same service every week

  

Thought #4: Our kids are not the church of tomorrow; they are the church of today. So let them lead!

  

Have ICNU Conversation (Have an “I see in you” Conversation)

  

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