COMING OUT OF OLD PARENTAL BONDAGE
Dear spiritual parents, do not provoke My children to wrath. If you use the weapons of flesh to force change, it will eventually produce the fruits of angry, bitter and rebelling children. Using flesh is enforcing behavior by coercion, demands, commands, anger, yelling, striving, intimidation, domination, manipulation and control. These are not only the works of the flesh but also demonic. Anger from man will never produce the righteousness My children need to make right choices.
Instead, seek to educate them, tenderly training them with counsel and with sincere, pleading warnings. Let them hear My yearning, loving voice through yours. Let them know the seriousness of their actions and My spiritual laws that every seeds reaps what is sown. Call attention to the warning places where they wander and seek to bring them back to the right path.
If they are rebellious and will not listen, honor their free will to make wrong choices, but grant them the consequences of that choice through disciplinary action, always backed with My concern for their welfare and love. Teach them to be accountable for their choices and in so doing, they will grow up to become mature adults who know how to rule and temper their own flesh and souls under the reign of My Spirit. Children learn by watching role models. Be the godly role model I have called you to be by representing My heart, through your voice, countenance and actions.
Eph 6:4 NKJV
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath , but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Eph 6:4AMP
Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.
James 1:19-20 NKJV
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
