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Session #32 “A Man And

His Kids”

Recommended Reading

By Gary Smalley

It's Easier To Build A Child Than To

Repair An Adult

Six Qualities Of A Healthy Family

1.  Are Committed To The Family 2.  Spend Time Together 3.  Have Good Communication

Six Qualities Of A Healthy Family

4.  Express Appreciation For Each Other

5.  Have A Spiritual Commitment 6.  Are Able To Solve Problems In

A Crisis

What Are Kids Anyway?

1. A Gift And A

Blessing

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Psalm 127:3 (NASB) 3 Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the

womb is a reward.

 

Psalm 127:4-5 (NASB) 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth.

5 How blessed is the man whose

quiver is full of them;

 

Psalm 128:3-4 (NIV) 3 …your children will be like olive

shoots around your table.

4 Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the LORD.

What Are Kids Anyway?

2. They Are Not An Accident

Psalm 139:13-16 (NIV) 13 For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s

womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are

wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you     when I was made in the secret

place,     when I was woven together in the

depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;

    all the days ordained for me were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:13-16 (NIV) 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,

    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body,…

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Psalm 119:73 (NIV)

Your hands made me and formed me;…

3. God Loves Them And

Wants Us To Love Them To

What Are Kids Anyway?

Matthew 19:14 (NIV)

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of

heaven belongs to such as these.”

1. To Teach

What Is Our Responsibility?

Deuteronomy 4:9 (NIV)

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the

things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you

live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV) 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, when

you lie down and when you get up.

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This Includes Discipline

What Is Our Responsibility? “Behavior is

determined by the

consequences that follow it”

2. To Provide

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What Is Our Responsibility? 2 Corinthians 12:14b (NIV)

…After all, children should not have to save up for their

parents, but parents for their children.

1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially

for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse

than an unbeliever.

Life Implication:

Without proper and love-filled parenting our kids are destined

to be influenced by the kingdom of this world.

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Life Application

Life Application Discussion:

1.  How would I rate my understanding of how special kids are?

2.  Am I doing a good job in teaching and providing?!