Are You A Negative Or Positive Influence On Your Child

When our children reach their teenage years and become rebellious, one of the statements most parents make is, I don't know where this attitude come from. Could it be that we taught it to them? In the early stage of a child life all they want to do is love and obey their parents.So, how did it go from love and obeying to being rebellious and lying? In life we as parents have the biggest influence in our child life. Now that influence will either be a negative influence or a positive influence.My children are all grown now and are doing great, but those teenage years was something I could have done without. The talking back and lying was getting to me. I was always asking them, WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM! After a few years, I was reading the story of Jacob and almost fell out my chair.The Holy Spirit let me know that it was me who taught them.I was taken back to when my son was about 6 years old and always loved to be around his daddy. I use to take him everywhere, and one of the main things I engraved in him was, never tell mama where we been or what we did. It worked like a charm. Everytime his mama asked him about our activities, he had my back. By the age of 11 he knew how to avoid the truth very well.The influence I had on him as a child was a very negative influence. I mentioned the story of Jacob because you can see how his mother had a very negative influence on Jacob life. She taught him to lie and be very deceiving.If you are a parent and are teaching your children to tell the person on the phone that you are not there, or tell the person at the door that you are not home, you make be setting your children up for a very rebellious teenage and adult life.

God Answers Prayer

Are you a Christian that is still waiting on their blessing?You pray,fast,and pray some more each week and it just seem as though God is not listening.Well I have a question for you.Has your prayer been answered and you didn’t receive it?Sometime in life we can get in our own way of receiving our blessing.We continue to ask God why is he not answering our prayer.The fact of the matter is, he has already answered us and we just won’t receive the answer.We just continue to pray about it and God is telling us to quit praying for things he has already answered.Our problem is that we need to learn how to recognize the answer so we can receive it.
How many of you remember the story in the book of Acts when Peter was in jail and the church was in prayer across town.I can imagine that this wasn’t just normal praying but some Holy Ghost praying.When you read the story you will see that God answered their prayer while they were still praying,but watch what happens!Peter knocked on the door and when the girl looked out and saw who it was, she didn’t bother opening up the door.Instead she went and told the praying church that Peter(the answer)was at the door.Their response to her was that she was crazy because Peter was in jail.Finally when they did come to the door and saw it really was Peter,they were shocked.It was as though they wasn’t expecting for God to answer them.If you are praying for something and want God to move in your behalf, you have to be willing to receive the blessing.Don’t just let your blessing continue to stand at your door knocking.In order to receive the blessing you must open the door.

Activating Gods Word By Faith

God said that his word will never come back to him void,which means his word will do exactly what it said it would do.Now the main problem most of us Christians have is that we expect God to do all the work.We pray and ask God for blessings and then we just kick back waiting on the blessing.I stopped by to tell you ,you will be waiting a long time.It’s not that God can’t do it without you,but it will be your faith that moves him.The bible say faith without work is dead.The problem is that most of us don’t activate Gods word.

Hebrews teaches us that the Word Of God is quick,powerful, and sharper than any two-edge sword,which means the word is only alive when you activate(apply) it to your life.The word quick means “to revive,bring back to life”.In the Old Testament, we saw that Sarah in her old age body was quicken(revived,stimulated)in order for her to conceive.In order for you to receive that which God has promised you must apply it to your life.Once you do that then the word becomes powerful to do what it was sent out to do.

Let me give you an example.Most of us have Credit Cards.When the credit card is first issued to us it tells us we have $500 to spend.Even though that is true, if you take it to the store and try purchasing something, the card will be denied even though you know the money is there.You had not given the card the power to do what it was intended to do.If you take that same card and activate it by calling the number on the back, you have just given the card the power to do what was intended for it to do and you will be able purchase what you need.The same goes for Gods word.You must take the Word and apply it daily to your life so it can accomplish that which it was sent out to accomplish.