Children Are A Gift From God

 While many regard this proverb as a precious promise, others consider it a severe warning, but all would be wise to recognize the godly principle on which this word of wisdom is founded.
 Children Are A Gift From God and to dedicate time and patience in the child-training process is the right, responsibility, and joy of all parents. All children are born with a propensity towards evil, and training infants and young people in godly conduct, wise choices, and appropriate accountability for their actions and attitudes is a God-given, tool to help set a child in the right direction for their life.
 For the Christian parent, appropriate training; vocationally, morally, intellectually, musically, educationally, spiritually, or simply encouraging the development of deportment or the promotion of individual gifts and talents, should always be founded on the Word of God and bathed in daily prayer, as day by day they seek to set an example of right living and of godly conduct.
 Children, grandchildren, boys, and girls are all a gift from God. May we who have been given the privilege, responsibility, and joy of children, whether our own or those of others, seek to train them up in the way they should go. May we share with them the good news of Jesus Christ and, day by day, point them in the direction of godly conduct, wise choices and appropriate accountability, praying always that when they are older that they will not depart from the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 22:6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the privilege, responsibility, and joy of the children You have placed in our lives. We humbly ask that You would guide us in the way that we should teach them and train them, and pray that they may grow up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. May they grow in godly conduct, make wise choices, and learn to be both responsible towards others and accountable to authority. Keep them from worldly ways, direct and govern their lives, and may they never depart from the way of righteousness. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.