Heavenly Advice for Children and Parents – part 1

As children and as born again children in the Family of God, each of us has a need to belong, a need for God’s love and a need for encouragement.

The Bible’s only perfect parent to child relationship is the relationship between the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus. Jesus offers a perfect example of a child, fully obedient to His Father. The Heavenly Father offers a perfect example of a parent, and we get to see how He interacts with His Son at the Baptism of Jesus. The Father is present. He’s vocal. He’s embracing. He’s affectionately loving. He’s encouraging.

Of course, all of us are children that had parents, whether you grew up with them or not. Please listen to this series with an open heart, and perhaps the Heavenly Father will heal you from a painful past, if needed.

So many of us grew up in abusive and/or legalistic homes, have had single, absent or no parents raising us, have gone through divorces and splits, and had not known a healthy and stable Christian home and family life. Instead, childhood may have been scarred with an unhealthy family, an unhealthy home and we somehow navigated through life and grew older. But the need to belong, the need for God’s love and encouragement was lacking. The tough reality is, that if this was your past, you may suffer with a tendency to bring these past hurts into the present. You might even see evidence of this by observing a path of interpersonal problems that lead to broken and unhealthy relationships in your adult life.

But, don’t let your past experiences negatively affect your present reality in Christ! If this is you, then allow God as a Heavenly Father to adopt you into His Family, the Church. Allow God to give you a new beginning, with His new Family, as He helps you create healthy relationships in the Church. (HINT: closeness in fellowship in God’s Family is God’s growth plan for every Christian) If you’re already a born again Christian, then humble yourself before God and allow Him to begin your healing process so that you can approach interpersonal problems with God’s agape love, grace, mercy and forgiveness. Don’t allow interpersonal problems to control you like a bad, recurring nightmare. This is a process and may take some time, but there is always hope to be an overcomer and victorious in Christ!

Furthermore, some of us are parents. If you’re a parent then please listen to this series with a humble and open heart, to learn some simple parental advice that the Heavenly Father gives you on raising your own children. God can help you to raise godly children, but you need His agape love to break out of a bad cycle that may have occurred with you, so that you don’t disciple your own children into the same painful and unhealthy habits.

May this minister greatly to all of our hearts as we receive healing, encouragement and restoration for the glory of God!

“A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
(Psalm 68:5-6)

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”
(Romans 8:14-17)