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ARE YOUR CHILDREN READY?
Are you ready to face the temptations of the devil? Are your children ready? A huge part of our mothering is preparing our children to face the onslaughts of the devil. For certainly the devil will come to tempt them. He wants their souls. Therefore, we must fortify them to withstand his fiery darts.
Jesus shows us the way. When Satan came to tempt Him in the wilderness, three times He said: “It is WRITTEN.” When Jesus spoke the written word out loud, the devil knew he was defeated.
Every Word of God is powerful, authoritative, and eternal. The devil knows its power and must obey.
That’s why we must know God’s Word. That’s why we must diligently teach our children God’s Word. They must have the Word , IN THEIR HEARTS AND IN THEIR MOUTHS, to use against the devil. Jesus was ready to quote the Word. Are you and our children?
Homeschooling children need God’s Word every day. His life-giving Word should be the most important thing they learn each day.
If there are Christian parents who are still sending their children into the public-school system to be subtly brain-washed by humanism, socialism, liberalism, progressivism, and now the gay agenda, transgender, and alternative lifestyles, they need to give their children TRIPLE DOSES of God’s Word each day. Or how will they survive the deceptions of the enemy? (I think they would be wiser to take their children out of the public school system immediately!)
What are the current statistics? Ben Merkle, President of New St. Andrews College in Idaho states: “If you look at the trends, it is in the first year, the freshmen year in college, that children walk away. A recent Lifeway study revealed that approximately two-thirds of students who are regular attenders at church in high school, fall away as soon as they go off to college, quit attending church, and most never return.”
There is only way to make our children strong against temptation. 1 John 2:14 says: “I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the WORD OF GOD ABIDES IN YOU, and ye have overcome the wicked one.”
It grieves me terribly that most Christ young people today, even those who are homeschooled, don’t have God’s Word in them. Most of them cannot recite a common Scripture. How are they going to be prepared for the battle of deception that is raging worse by the day?
What are you doing about it?
Blessings to you from Nancy Campbell
