FJWL_02:367
         I will hold you responsible for the training that you give your children. I have placed them in your hands as precious treasures. I have trusted these most precious possessions into your care. You are My stewards, My servants, as regards your children. They are Mine, but I have given them unto you to teach and train and love in My ways, in My Word. Some of My greatest blessings and rewards go to those who are the most diligent and faithful with their children.
         Teach your children to love Me and fear Me. Teach your children to love and hunger after the Words of David. Teach your children the value of winning souls and witnessing. Teach your children to stay dropped out of the System. Teach your children to be Endtime witnesses, to give an unpopular message, to be as voices crying in the wilderness, proclaiming that the day of repentance is at hand. Teach your children that My return is imminent, and that worldly pleasures and accomplishments will be as husks in their teeth when they stand before Me. Especially teach your children of My love. Help them to know how I love them endlessly, unconditionally, personally, through your own loving example. Your children need the security and feeling of acceptance that they will gain from knowing that I love them. They will be peaceful, happy children as they learn to experience My love and forgiveness and lack of condemnation.
         Your children are your mission field. Whether you stay in a home field or go abroad, your children are your mission field. The time you invest in teaching, training and loving your children is time well spent, and you will be rewarded with great reward. But if you fail to teach and train and love your children, you will find with time that it is a great defeat, a great loss, and you will weep bitterly until you feel your heart breaking.
         So I beseech you, I plead with you, I beg you to look and see, "What is that in thine hand?" Open your eyes to the precious, invaluable jewels that I have placed in your hands and given unto your care. If you put these little ones and their needs and training first, then I will open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing on you such as you have never seen--a blessing of supply and contentment and joy.
         If you have children, then it is easy to know My will, for I have set it before you plainly. My children are My gift to you and My work for you. That is your first and foremost mission field--your children. If you are faithful to this calling, you will reap the rewards of your children as they grow to be strong soldiers, mighty children of David, great Endtime witnesses. They will go farther and do more than you have ever done yourselves. But you will share in their rewards and you will bask in their glory. Their crowns will also be your crowns.



Copyright (c) 1998 by The Family