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IT’S PERSONAL FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN
I love the words of God to Abram in Genesis 17:7: “And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, TO BE GOD TO YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU.” God wanted to be God to Abram. God also wants to be God to you. He is the One who seeks us out. He wants to have a personal relationship with us--every day and all through the day. As John the disciple confessed, “We loved him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
When David prayed to God, he prayed to One who was so personal to Him. Over and over again he addresses God as “MY God.” David understood God as the God of creation and King over all, but he daily experienced God personally in his life. He not only addresses God as “MY God,” but also as . . .
MY rock,
MY fortress,
MY deliverer,
MY buckler,
MY Savior,
MY high tower,
MY refuge,
MY shepherd,
MY exceeding joy,
MY strength,
MY defense and more.
David experienced God personally ministering to him in all these ways. And this is how God wants you to experience Him too.
But not only you. This promise is for your children. He wants to be God to your children. He wants them to know Him personally and to experience Him personally in every part of their lives. This is more important than all the education you give your children. They can be the most educated children in the world, but if they don’t KNOW GOD, the One who created them, died for them, and who planned their destiny before the foundation of the world, they are deprived of their destiny.
In John 17:3 Jesus said: “And this is life eternal, that they might KNOW THEE the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Amen.
When Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, he proclaimed the words: “For the promise is unto YOU, AND TO YOUR CHILDREN.”
Claim the wonderful promise in Isaiah 44:3 (NET): “I will pour my Spirit on ;your offspring and my blessing on your children.”
Let’s seek to know God personally and pray earnestly that our children will also experience God personally in their lives.
Blessings to you today,
NANCY CAMPBELL
