The Parenting Series | 3 Needs Every Child Has
Wednesday, August 15th 2018
You’re #1 responsibility as a parent is to provide for your children’s needs!
You’re #1 responsibility as a parent is to provide for your children’s needs!
1 Timothy 5:8 NIV
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Romans 8:15 NLT
So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”
Need #1: Love
Romans 8:38-39 NET
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Need #2: Significance
John 10:10 NLT
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
1 Corinthians 2:9 NET
That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
Need #3: Hope
Proverbs 13:12 NLT
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
Philippians 4:13 AMP
I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]
The word “Abba, Father used in Romans 8:15 represents God our Father as Intimate/Tender/Familiar.
God is the perfect parent, what has he highlighted in Scripture as our needs…needs of our children from us?!
Love gives us/them an overwhelming sense of security.
All of us have purpose, as parents we are to help our children find it.
Every person is created with a desire for significance and meaning, they want to experience risk and reward, they don’t want to live a boring, insignificant life, they are designed by God to want to be a part of a bigger, better story.
Hope gives us the strength to push through the hardest trials.