God gives your child the Spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him, having the
eyes of their heart enlightened,
that they may know what is the
hope to which He has called
them (Ephesians 1:17-18). God
assures us that He watches over
His Word to perform it (Jeremiah
1:12) so stand in
expectation of the
fullness of God to
manifest as you
pray over your
child.
5. Help your child
build
spiritual
muscles. One of
the main challenges for Christian parents is the
habit of exporting
the
responsibility of the spiritual
training of our
children to the
local church. Children’s ministry on
Sunday mornings
is a way to augment, not replace,
spiritual development. If we are
not actively teaching our children
about
intimacy
with God, hearing
His voice and fulfilling Jesus’ command to heal the
sick, raise the dead and cast
out demons, we will unintentionally raise spiritually ignorant
adults. So set a standard of
behavior that includes spiritual
disciplines. Invite your child to
pray alongside you for someone
who is sick. Teach them how to
listen to the voice of the Lord.
Show them how to be imme-
diately obedient and sensitive
to His direction. Create games
where they memorize scripture
about their spiritual authority
and identity in Christ. Use every
chance to get the Word planted
in their hearts, so the Holy Spirit
can have greater opportunity to
speak through them and guide
them.
So what do you do if you have
no idea what your child is called
to?
Join your child (if they are willing)
in prayer, asking God to reveal
His purposes and plans for their
life. God is a progressive God
and He works in seasons. Under-
stand that the fullness of their
destiny won’t come immediately.
Proverbs 25:2 says it’s the glory
of God to conceal a matter; to
search it out is the glory of kings.
This indicates there is a responsibility on our part to steadfastly
pursue what He’s hidden for us
to discover, however, God works
in times and seasons and what He
hides for a season,
He reveals at the
proper time. We
see in Exodus 2
that Pharaoh was
on a hunt to kill all
the Hebrew baby
boys under the
age of 2. By divine
orchestration,
God hid Moses in
Pharaoh’s household, to be raised
as a prince of
Egypt.
Moses’
life was protected
until it was time
for the fullness
of His divine call
to be revealed:
as the one who
would
deliver
God’s people out
of Egypt. Many
times, the enemy
comes to abort a
destiny while the
child is young.
If
the
enemy
can’t completely
destroy a destiny, he will shift it
(looking for every avenue and
open door) to bring rejection,
fear and pain. A vigilant, praying
parent is God’s solution. Your
prayers protect your child as God
aligns their purpose and builds
the internal maturity required to
fulfill t heir destiny.