Many parents, grandparents, and guardians have children
either going away to college or going back to school this month. Here is a
Preach Letter that I think can really help you with that:
CONFRONTING WORRY ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN
The mechanic didn’t call me right away about my “baby
car” and I started to worry. I can’t even imagine how you parents are tempted
to worry about your children. There are two things that can help stop our minds
from spiraling downward. First: The Word of God. It doesn’t take a lot of
scriptures; it just takes the right ones. Isaiah 54:13 says: “And all thy
children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy
children.” What does that mean?
It means that the Lord is their teacher, whether He works through you or
someone else, or circumstances or in any other way, He will do it if you pray
for it and believe it. You are not their savior, Jesus is! God has entrusted
them to you, but you have to pray for them, believing that the Lord is around
them and with them every day to care for, guide, and instruct. If I were a
parent, I’d be praying this scripture every morning over my children and every
night too. And the second half of the verse also: “Great shall be the peace of
[my] children.”
I also suggest Psalm 91:11-12 “For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone.” Stones are in the physical realm, so this
scripture is telling us that angels are available to keep your children (and you
too) from being tripped up by physical things. You can name a great number of
possible stumbling blocks, such as bullies, bad friends, bad habits, bad
health, etc. Angels’ jobs are to minister for you, so use their abilities like
the scripture says, to keep an eye on your children and keep them from tripping
up. Of course, we can pray this scripture for other family members and friends
too.
Lastly, this is a great verse for parents (maybe I should have listed this one
first!): “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
You can say, “God I give You my anxiety today because You care about me and You
can take care of the stress. Thank you so much. In Jesus’ name.”
I said there were two things needed to get rid of worry. The first is to
believe what God says in the scriptures and pray the ones that work for you.
The second important thing is to talk to your children. And I don’t mean
telling them how much you worry. That will only enforce the negative. But
instead, ask them questions about what’s going on in their lives. Listen with
your heart to their answers. And be bold enough to pray with them.
I didn’t pray with my mechanic, but I did pray a verse I found in the gospels
about transportation and then I called him and was totally at ease. My baby
truck was going to get fixed. I believe your kids will be okay too, if you pray
the scriptures over them and love them. The Lord will even show us different
ways to express our love, if we are listening.
When was the last time you read some of First Corinthians
13, the chapter on love? I hadn’t read it in a while, but when I did today, it
really inspired and blessed me.
The Excellence of Love
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but
have not love [for others growing out of God’s love for me], then I have
become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction].
And if I have the gift of prophecy [and
speak a new message from God to the people], and understand all mysteries, and
[possess] all knowledge; and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can
remove mountains, but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing.
If I give all my possessions to feed the poor,
and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no
good at all.
Love endures with patience and serenity, love
is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love
does not brag and is not proud or arrogant.
It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not
provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into
account a wrong endured.
It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the
truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what
comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all
things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things
[without weakening].
Love never fails [it never fades nor ends]” (1 Cor.
13:1-8).
Love, Carolyn
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