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Who Pays the Most for Social Mileage?

Hi, we are continuing from the thought we started to explore yesterday. I have a few more questions for us to explore today. Are you ready? Then let’s go!

• Do we have our children enduring things to bring us social mileage?
• What are the things from A to Z that your children are involved in currently and have been involved in?
• How much of it has inspired the truth about them?
• How much of it has been about you?
• Have you ever stopped to scrutinise your children’s educational process?
• Is the path they are on now for them or is it that you do not know of any other way?

All this could be influenced by the way we are seeing- our perception. The thing is, God’s will is the way. If we are blinded to His will, we will not see and will walk in other paths.

I do know that social comparison motives can get the better of us and force us to love our children conditionally. This will affect the harmony of our deeper values and bring us social values or goodwill rather than doing good for our children

Today, let us renounce from our lives every spiritual blindness that will prevent us from seeing eye to eye with God.

Go ahead and talk to God on your own today. Tomorrow I’ll provide a prayer.

Please view this link below.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/72361/15-famous-people-who-picked-careers-their-parents-disapproved

Proverbs 14:12

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

My son’s shipment of textbooks arrived today. The excitement was high, we didn’t know which one to peruse first. I believe it was the Holy Spirit that had us decide on a particular one authored by Stephen R. Covey.

We read for about ten minutes and I was consumed by what I read for the rest of the day. I could not help but think of asking you this question, “What is your honest perception of your children?”

We have been making declarations and unearthing issues and situations that could and will negatively impact our children if we do not take deliberate actions.

Between you and me, “What are your perception of your children?” Are you so caught up in their weakness that you are blinded to their strengths; their person and their truth.

Are you forcing yourself to see them through the eyes of your friends, your parents and or your colleagues?

Are you cheering them on though they are being forced down a path that is only right for some others and can only bring peril to them? If this is the case, it must be tearing you apart.

Covey shared a scenario where his son that, to me, seems to have special needs was playing baseball and was a spectacle to onlookers. He and his wife tried to soften the blows of ridicule and humiliation that hit him constantly by saying things to him that they truly did not believe. Although they encouraged him, they believed that he was inadequate.

Through what lens do you see your children?

Let us pray

Philippians 4:8

Father, in the name of Jesus, I come to you today for help. My help comes from You. You are my Help.

My children are good gifts.

Help me to feed my mind with and meditate on the things that are true about my children.

There are noble things about them, help me to see and to embrace each of them.

Each one is authentic, compelling and full of grace.

Let me see the best, not the worst. The beauty, not the ugly and things to praise not to curse.

Help me to put into practice that which I have seen heard and learnt so that You can make everything work together for my good.

Amen.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”

Galatians 5:22-23

God of Mercy and Grace, I love you. I thank you for the gift of a brand new day filled with new opportunities to love and serve to bring you glory.

I have read the verse above and now pray that the fruit of the Spirit will be evident in my life and the lives of my children, their schoolmates, colleagues, co-workers, friends, and spouses.

Cause us all to be filled to the overflow with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Amen

Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.

“For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.”

Psalm 5:12

Hallelujah! What an assurance this Bible verse provides. Would you help your children to memorise it today?

We exist in a time and place where it is so obvious that getting by depends on your connections- those you know or by whom you are known.

Well, what a blessing it is to be known by the Everlasting God, who fainteth not neither is weary!

Our children are surrounded with favour as with a shield. Hallelujah! They will never need backdoor deals. It is the Lord who will open and close doors on their behalf.

Thank You, Lord. You sit in the heavens and look low. You are intimately involved in the affairs of my children.

You establish and order their steps. You will make a way when it seems as though there is no way. You are the Way Maker, the Promise Keeper, and their Help.

Amen.

Thanks for your time. Jabneh Christian Academy wishes for you a happy Sunday.

See you again in a few hours

Psalm 118:5

I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

Jesus, our Advocate, Deliverer and Just Judge, we exalt You today.

Grateful we are that You have set us free. You have paid the price for my children’s freedom. Thank You, Lord.

Help them to know, believe and walk in this reality, Lord.

Put it in their hearts and write it on their minds.

My children will walk in freedom because they seek and will continuously seek out Your principles.

Your instructions will instruct them in the way they should go.

Give me the insight to guide my children to exercise this freedom.

May my parenting style and my influence on my children not restrain them but cause them to be untrammeled.

God, My Deliverer, break my children free from every situation that they are now involved in whether overtly or covertly that will prevent them from being unfettered, in Jesus’ name, amen.

Aha! Today is National Child’s Day in Jamaica. I couldn’t be more excited. Today we celebrate Jamaica’s future. With the journey we have been on these 18 days, in addition to what we have been doing before, without doubt, Jamaica will be in better hands. Joy will come in the morning! A praise break is necessary right here.

Join me and let us make some declarations about our nation’s children today. Our children alone cannot do what must be done in Jamaica. We need all the children.

Jehovah God, Sovereign King, and Friend of Little Children, we join you in exuberant joy for our nation’s children.

We declare that you will dwell in their hearts by faith and that they will be rooted and grounded in love.

We know that no weapon that is formed against them will prosper.

We thank You that their righteousness is of You and they will be able to condemn every maligning, discriminating, accusing and bitter tongue.

Truth and victory belong to them and their eyes are fixed on those things that are eternal.

Oh yes, Lord, great will be their peace because they will be taught by You.

Satisfy them with long life and show them your salvation.

Our souls magnify You , oh Lord, and our spirits praise Your name.

You are the Sovereign Ruler.

Your throne is from generation to generation. You rule over all!

Amen

Can Mindsets Change?

Mindsets can be shifted and be shifted quickly too. Since you have started reading these blogs some of your beliefs have been altered somewhat. Should you spend much time conversing with me, your mindset about your children’s ability and educational trajectory will shift.

Likewise, your children can develop a positive mindset. The truth is, they need to develop a positive mindset. This is required for finishing well.

Here are a few ways to develop a growth mindset.

https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/develop-a-growth-mindset/

Go all the way to the bottom of the article until you see the heading “25 Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset”.

I trust that you were able to complete the mindset test yesterday as well as your children. If not, it takes just a few minutes. You could try it now. The information will help you to be better able to follow me today.

According to Carl Dweck, children with fixed mindset find it most challenging to respond to failure or challenges in healthy ways. They will more likely resort to self-defeating strategies. They may also believe that they are defined by occurrences.

On the other hand, children with growth mindset see challenges and failures as fertile soil to evolve and or to unearth latent potential. Challenges and failures are transformed into opportunities. They will know that “in all these things, they are more than conquerors” rather than retreating into the dark alley of self-destruction and negative self-talk.

It is true that we, as well as our offsprings, need to have the mind of Christ and employ it in every area of our lives.

Understanding that through Christ Jesus we can do all things is a positive mindset. It will cause us to try until success is realised.

Hmmmm!

Today you will choose the task for your children as you listen to what the Lord is saying to you.

See you tomorrow for the continuation.

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