Indulged Children: The Opposite of God’s Plan

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Even if you're not free deserve a go to like that like hey do to live comfy good to go to this is the Truth Network horses just inspire you as a relationship with all powers and things you never thought possible. Shirley Weaver wants to take you and now yesterday's episode all this is your first time stopping to listen. We focus on God's intervention in the last of his people and unusual, even supernatural ways today. Parents and grandparents. This is Fergie. This is just for you and the information that the Lord has for you here could be really life-changing, not just for you but for your children not because anyone is an authority on the subject. Not at all, but because God's word is clear. We have a clear instruction from his word.

Listen, this time in which you and your children and your grandchildren live. There are challenges faced no other generation has faced every generation has its own element of challenge.

Yours because I believe this is such a prophetic time is also very prophetically unique. So the question for the parents question for parents today grandparents in this message are you indulging your children, and if so in what way and what ways are you doing that because there are hundreds of ways. We unintentionally indulge them. There are ways that we intervene in their lives to sort of provide that cushion are give them what we see as the best for them.

One being the over provision in areas of material things, not just money but provision and all out all levels of material support, you know, to give them really a material high subcultures.

Some places in the world do that more than others in in training and equipping their children what you want what you want in this you need to make a note of this. You need to stop and ask yourself is my filter, something including what is age-appropriate for my child for my grandchild. For example me give you a couple of examples to say that dad's age. Whatever he has worked hard his experience the highs and lows of life, the difficulties plus the pleasant parts. The failures plus the successes now has arrived at a place in life as an adult, where he has the fruit of that hard labor to show and also includes his children and the benefits of that hard labor. See that dad has a frame of reference that the children do not have just because they are under his roof are under his authority does not mean that the children have the same frame of reference that he has said he has a duty to filter the things that he has access to before he makes that available to those children. They simply do not have the maturity to deal with those things in the same way that the father my essay a mother for example, is active in a socially mature setting and now she wants to introduce her school age daughter could be a sign but let's say daughter. She wants to introduce her school-age daughter into that same environment. See you got a disconnect there and as I said this is not a parenting lecture but just to say if you want is your goal to produce confidence in God. This is not the way to go about it and if you are thinking on some level of producing half their confidence in you. Believe me, the day will come when you can no longer provide the next extraordinary spectacular thing that is slightly more spectacular and the last thing you provided so in the way that you're providing. See you want to ask yourself does this level of provision actually frustrate the equipping that God has in the way that he is developing my son, my daughter to have confidence in him. Set another way am I teaching my child to have confidence in me to look to me and to emulate me and to be like me. Do I want him or her to be like me when they arrive at the point in life where I am. Do I want them to be like me. Do I want to clone my child to make them like me. That may sound okay. The word will contradict that kind of thinking because see the outcome is really diminished compared to what's possible in God and if you're thinking about it, you know, you do not want to diminish what God has you do not want to interject yourself into the way that God is laying out his plan for your child both to you and to them. You do not want to interrupt what he is presenting to them and that would be on the level where they are because of course God knows the heart. He knows what is in your child's heart. He knows what they're capable of and not capable mature enough for and to immature to grass.

He alone knows that he can measure where they are in present them with the right way to be equipped to be what he intends for them to be every child born has a destiny, and the parent. Hey, life is going to be enough challenge as it is the last thing his parents and grandparents. We should be doing is pulling that child away from confidence in the power of God is hard for them. His love for them you love your kids but you don't love them like God loves them. There is a verse that I love especially goes like this is in the book of Hebrews Jesus learned obedience through the things he suffered, he learned how to obey his father is heavenly father through the things he experienced good things, bad things, easy things. Tough things because life is the teacher and life teaches each of us from the time we are born until the end of our lives is a teacher teaching us to either trust God our trust in something else.

If we choose to trust something else we are running completely opposite to the plan that the Lord has for us. We are really an opposition to the outlay of his design, which is perfect in every way. So what we want to do is make an honest assessment at this point how much indulging how much of interfering enabling what could we honestly say we have administered to that little life that we are responsible for and we want to see all the possibilities that God has to redeem, redeem, restore the damage that we possibly done because the word is clear that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

And while you might not see indulging your children SN you can probably see that it falls short of the glory. Another word would be excellence. The provision, the plan the design that he has that Almighty God has for your children and your grandchildren in the setting of this podcast running with horses. Our goal is really to inspire you with the kind of bold confidence. Confidence in God that causes you to reach beyond the norm. Culturally, socially reach beyond that norm and keep before your eyes, the probability of unimagined possibilities that God has for you.

As a result of your determination to develop your confidence in him instead of something else, which is why we were speaking to parents and grandparents today. The Bible speaks of many demonstrations of God's hand reveal this way the divine power and divine intervention that we read about in the Bible hereabouts through testimonies and stories that we read about the accounts of how this has been done in the lives of people all over the world in every generation since they were inspired when we hear these things to develop confident trust and also to allow God to discipline us for strength actually the word disciple includes the concept of right, righteous discipline, it's what you want for your children. It's what we want for the next generation, like all of creation.

You and I are children and our grandchildren. We were born for a purpose. Hey, let's don't frustrate that purpose. The stone eliminate that high probability that God will develop his purpose in this.

If we let him. If we allow him don't quit the we shouldn't be so quick to put our hand out to cushion the fall of that little that little thing we brought into the world, leading get some bumps and bruises, leading get some knocks, let him or her experience some sadness, some failure some not always fitting in and and just being so cool and wonderful. So cute and beautiful. Let them experience that because when you can no longer cushion the fall. Believe me, those things will continue. You were born for a purpose.

We all were for this time. You gotta think about that and you've got to keep it as your focus and don't get in the way is the purpose why we equip the next generation and the outcome we want is excellent, yes, but it's excellence in God. I read somewhere began as you mean to continue going which is a reminder that our short-term decisions have long-term results. It helps to be reminded of that mean we know that right helps to be reminded because we want to reach a desired destination. The way we start out in the way we check ourselves along the way to make sure were still on course helps determine if we will reach the destination. We intended when we began when the baby was born only dedicated them to the Lord. When we train them early. Where are we now all that saying course.

Believe me, it's actually pretty simple. It's pretty simple. It's not complicated, though, we can complicated just see if you're still on course with the intention and the destination you had in mind when you began. Proverbs 22 verse six makes it clear start children all in the way they should go and even when their old they will turn away from it. So let's say that what we have laid out today really resonates with you and that you see yourself here in this setting, and you say in your thinking yeah I need to switch gears. What we need to change course here. I've gotten off course so recognize what you're doing and the super not natural part that God wants to give to you right now I believe me, he's either he's waiting. He wants to give to you right now to redeem is the supernatural element he can redeem what has already happened. Mistakes already made a course change that needs to happen any place where you have missed stepped any missteps of yours.

You want to say God I need you to redeem this and then you should watch him do that very thing your response going forward from this point now that you're seeing clearly this is resonating with you means everything it means everything that you recognize that you decide to change. Adjust tweak going forward set another way, just to be brought you need to stop, you need to decide to stop indulging your children they are not sufficiently mature, mentally their little hearts can't handle all that exposure.

They look grown because their tall or taller. They seem to be more savvy will hopefully if their older children.

They are more aware than they were. As toddlers the there is no reason to cause that to fast-forward beyond what their soul can accommodate. The soul is the mind the will the emotions everything that has ever happened to you and how you responded that's it's the makeup of who that person is to repeat what we said earlier, only the Lord knows the depth are the dimension of what your child is capable of your job is to see to it that they are protected that the heart is protected and kept as innocent as possible for as long as possible and again in some parts of the world. It is very difficult to guard the innocence of a child's heart and mind.

But we all can make this our goal and do our due diligence to seek the Lord ask him are we on course with the purpose for my child's life, the destiny you have in mind and am I doing this in a way that honors and glorifies you say that to the Lord, and believe me, if you ask him. He will help you with that I say.

Believe me because we learn ourselves and then we have so much to share. I am sharing with you. Things I've learned and there's so much more to learn. So we continue to watch for one another, help one another in this word today is coming along side of parents and grandparents to say what Ephesians 32 verses there.

Verse 20 and 21 sets it out like this now unto him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that you can ask or think, according to the power that works within you to him. Therefore will be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, in every generation for ever and ever. Amen and amen we should stop indulging our children.

We need God's power to help us do that we need to follow his design and his plan. Let's pray that my father in Jesus name that is our prayer, our request, we look to you for help show us where we failed to show us where we've missed the mark. Show us where we fallen short, and then lay out for us.

Clearly, clearly the path that you have for each of my children for each of my grandchildren and God I pray that the power of your Holy Spirit. Do not let me miss this.

Do not let me fail. And when I reach with Monahan to provide something that my child cannot handle something that is not good for them. Quicken me by your spirit.

Check me, remind me know that that is something that is coming out of the inside of me and it is not your highest and your best for them and what I promise.

When you check me like that when you Quicken me like that I will obey. I will obey you and I pray over my children over every one of them individually. That light, Jesus.

They will learn obedience to Almighty God through the things that they experience that are not necessarily easy, but will always be work for their good according to the working of your power in their lives.

We pray this in Jesus name God, we thank you in advance for everything that you are doing in the last of her children in the last of our grandchildren and today God in our lives.

Thank you for intervening in talking to us. Hallelujah a man a man listen to forget, you have the mind of Christ.

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