Parenting (Part 1) - June 22, 2025

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Parenting (Part 1)

Jon Fredricks

Today's Scripture: Genesis 1:27-28 NIV

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Genesis 1:27-28 NIV

27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

 

Ephesians 2:10 NIV

10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

 

Mark 1:17 NIV

17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

 

2 Timothy 2:2 NIV

2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.

 

1) WALK

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NIV

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

 

Micah 6:8 NIV

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

 

2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV

9 For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”

 

1 Corinthians 13:8 NIV

Love never fails.

 

Jeremiah 17:7-9 NIV

7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.”

 

2) WATCH

Psalm 139:13 NIV

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

 

Romans 12:4 NIV

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,

 

Proverbs 20:5 NIV

The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.

 

Proverbs 22:6 ERV

Teach children in a way that fits their needs, and even when they are old, they will not leave the right path.

 

3) WRESTLE

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

 

Proverbs 15:29 NIV

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

 

James 5:16b NIV

… The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.