Notes For Moms To Remember

NOTES FOR MOMS TO REMEMBER: 

(Excerpt from Video - "I'll Need You Mom" by, http://www.ignitermedia.com

✿ Train up a child in the way he should go, 

And when he is old he will not depart from it. 

(Proverbs 22:6)

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1 • When your child becomes... too concerned with what their friends think of them,

=►Teach them how they "only need God’s approval". 

(Matthew 10:28); (Colossians 3:23); (Galatians 1:10); (Acts 5:29); (1Thessalonians 2:4); (John 12:43).

2 • When your child wants everything all the time,

=►Teach them how to "be a servant". 

(Acts 20:35b); (Philippians 2:3-5); (Galatians 5:13); (Exodus 20:1-26); (1 Timothy 5:8). 

3 • When your child tends to think they are smarter then they actually are, 

=►Teach them to "learn from God’s Wisdom". 

(1 Corinthians 3:18-19); (Isaiah 55:9); (James 3:13-18); (Proverbs 9:10); (1 Corinthians 2:1-16); (2 Timothy 3:16).

4 • When your child acts as if they have no problems,

=►Teach them to learn how to "share their struggles with others".

(Romans 5:3-5); (Galatians 6:2); (James 1:2-4); (1 John 3:17); (Revelation 21:4); (Matthew 5:3-12); (Mark 12:31); (Psalm 82:4); (Proverbs 3:27). 

5 • When your child thinks about themselves before others, 

=►Teach them that "the Last will become First".

(Mark 9:35)

6 • When they have many reasons to hold grudges, 

=►"Model forgiveness" in front of them & teach them "to show Grace unto others".

(Ephesians 4:32); (Mark 11:25); (Matthew 6:14-15); (Luke 6:27); (Romans 3:23); (1 John 1:8); (Proverbs 25:21).

7 • If your child has money to buy whatever they want, 

=►Remind them that "all of their things belong to God". 

(Deuteronomy 10:14); (Psalm 50:10); (Psalm 50:12); (Haggai 2:8); (1 Chronicles 29:11); (Matthew 5:42); (Proverbs 28:8); (2 Corinthians 9:7); (Proverbs 13:11); (Proverbs 22:16).

8 • When your child struggles with their looks or their appearances,

=►Show them that they have been "fearfully & wonderfully made by God".
(Jeremiah 1:5); (Psalm 139:13-16); (Job 31:15); (Isaiah 64:8); (Genesis 2:7); (Genesis 1:26); (Revelation 4:11).