TAKE NOTES - May 8, 2022

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TAKE NOTES

SUNDAY, May 1, 2022

"Entrusting our Children to the Lord" by Verna Proctor


Galatians 6:9 - Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Ezekiel 36:26 - I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new has come, the old has gone.

Matthew 27:51 - And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Ephesians 2:8-9 - For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

God desires salvation for our children

Jeremiah 33:3 - Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

1 Timothy 2:4 - who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

God desires health and safety for our children

1 Peter 5:7 - Give all your worries and your cares to God because he cares about you.

Isaiah 55:9 - As the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, says the Lord.

God desires spiritual mentorship for our children

Ephesians 6:4 - Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

God desires growth for our children in the way of wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man

Luke 2:52 - And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Deuteronomy 11:19 - Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

GROWING IN WISDOM

James 3:13 - If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.

Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

GROWING IN STATURE

GROWING IN FAVOUR WITH GOD

Colossians 1:9-14 - 9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

GROWING IN FAVOUR WITH MAN

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 31:26-29 - She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”