six traits of strong families gods wisdom from proverbs
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Strong Families Strong Religious Faith in God Strength comes from faith Focus on God in the home (1:7; 9:10; 15:16) –Bible reading (2:1-5; 23:23,26) –Prayer (15:8,29) –WorshipTRANSCRIPT
Six Traitsof Strong Families
God’s Wisdom from Proverbs
Family Breakdown
• We continually hear of family breakdown in the world (11:29)
– Breakdown due to inner weakness
– Breakdown due to outward pressure
• God gives us the wisdom to build strong families (3:33; 12:7; 14:1,11)
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Strong Religious Faith in God
• Strength comes from faith
• Focus on God in the home (1:7; 9:10; 15:16)
– Bible reading (2:1-5; 23:23,26)
– Prayer (15:8,29)
– Worship
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Strong Inward Character
• Strength comes from application of God's word throughout age
• A man of honorable character (20:29; 27:21; 29:3)
• A woman of honorable character (11:16; 12:4; 19:13-14; 31:10ff)
• A youthful honorable character (10:1; 13:1; 15:5,20; 28:7)
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Strong Love Within the Family
• Strength comes from commitment
• Love for one another’s welfare (10:12; 15:17; 30:23)
• Avoid selfishness that destroys family life (12:15)
• Give heart-felt appreciation, affection, and praise (4:3-4; 23:24-25; 25:11)
• Avoid harsh / critical words that tear down (12:8; 15:4; 17:1; 21:9,19)
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Strong Love Within the Family
• Cultivate good words that will build up (15:23; 18:13,20-21)
• Angry words tear down (15:1-2,14,17,28)
• Children loving parents (19:26; 20:20; 23:22-25; 30:11,17)
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Strong Discipline in the Home
• Strength comes from training
• Instructive discipline (3:11-12; 13:1; 15:5; 19:18; 22:6)
• Corrective discipline (13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15,17)
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Strong Ties That Bind
• Strength comes from spending enjoyable time together
• Positive interaction builds bonds and ties (4:10-11; 5:15ff; 23:26)
• Excessive business separates and suffocates family ties (27:8)
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Strong Defenses
• Strength comes by building defenses
• Righteous principles help us overcome life’s difficulties (24:10,16)
• Spiritually healthy families pull together in times of crisis (4:18-19; 17:17)
Six Traits of Strong Families
Faith
Character
Love
Discipline
Ties
Defenses
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• God wrote the manual on strong families (24:3-4)
• Let us build in ourselves and our children the strength it takes to make it to heaven!