Teach your kids

Proverbs 4:1 KJV — Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Teach your kids. Instruct them. Tell them how it is. Tell them what they should do.

Make it plain. Spell it out for them. And reinforce it at the dinner table, on a walk, at Bedtime, in stories, in games, in everything you do.

The world tries to get you to abdicate this job to the nearest flashing screen that is able to be controlled by someone else.

Don’t do that.

Teach your kids

The less you’ve got to lean on…

Proverbs 3:26 KJV — For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

…the easier it is for you to lean on the Lord (Proverbs 3:5-6).

Despite your various gifts and opportunities, let the Lord be your confidence.

As “you” gets out of the way, you give Him more space to be strong on your behalf.

WORD currencies

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Proverbs 3:14

There are world currencies like USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, CHF, MXN and others that comprise the 24/7 trillion dollars a day trading volume of the Forex market.

There are also WORD currencies like wisdom, understanding, knowledge and discretion…which were used in the creation and establishment of the world currencies, and everything else in creation.

The “it” in this verse is talking about WORD currencies.

He started it

1 John 4:19 KJV — We love him, because he first loved us.

God loves us results in us loving God.

Our love for God is simply the consequence of His love for us.

God started it.

More scared of you than you are of them

And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

Judges 7:11

What if the thing you’re feeling scared about is actually terrified of you?

What if the anxiety and terror you feel isn’t coming from you, but coming from them?

What if the narrative that you are assigning to the emotions you’re feeling is completely skewed and inverted?

What if “feeling scared” is actually your body receiving a transmission from the “daunting” people/opportunity/task that is in front of you?

When it comes to the narratives of fear, try swapping “they/them” and “I/me” and see what happens.

It starts with God

Proverbs 1:7 KJV — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

In the beginning, God. The same is true when it comes to the beginning of knowledge and wisdom.

It starts with God, continues with God and ends with God.

Be diligent in seeking the Lord

Hebrews 11:6 KJV — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Be diligent in seeking the Lord. It will be rewarded.

Often reproved

Proverbs 29:1 KJV — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Often reproved.

Often.

As in, being warned and corrected again, and again and again.

It isn’t forever, but it isn’t just one time.

Thank God for His long-suffering mercy and love.