It's hard doing it alone. I'm in spiritual isolation. Plus the only concept of God my 14 year old daughter gets is from me, and she's already at that difficult age. I was quite an existentialist at that age, and then Mom got breast cancer. We all prayed for her and she felt a surge of electricity pulse through her body, and the aggressive cancer was all dead the next morning when she had her surgery. I also had a church youth group to communicate with other Christians my age. My daughter has none of that. I'm trying to raise her in God's word, after neglecting this for so long.
Fren, I know it must be difficult when all around you don't know Jesus. But fortunately, you have the internet and an enormous number of Bible based churches that post their services on line. While it's not the same as being there in person, it is better than being all alone. Please start looking around, because there are a lot of them.
We have 4 children. The last 2 were home schooled all the way thru elementary, junior and senior high. Public schools are now very toxic to the raising of healthy, normal children.
I can only imagine. My daughter was learning trigonometry in the 4th grade while kids in America are learning about "Suzie and her two mommies and their trip to the communist bookstore" for story time.
Thanks. My daughter always asks for a smartphone, but I say no to that. My wife has one and lets my daughter use it a bit, but we control her screen time as much as we can. Her school home tutoring program employs a tablet computer of sorts though, but that cannot be used for regular internet purposes. I really am opposed to 5G, but that is slowly being thrust on us. My wife's smartphone and my flip phone are 4G at least.
I have 4 children. They didn't get a cellphone with an internet connection until they started college. Before they started college the wife & I would allow them to use borrow ours under supervision. I don't understand parents allowing pre-teen & even teens to have their own cellphone. The internet can be a dangerous place. Lots of grooming going on.....
God is not inside us all. "You are of your father the Devil" Jesus said to those who oppose him, the edomite Jews. . He also said "test their spirits. A tare cannot become wheat. No matter how much we believe that God can do anything it is not his will to save what is corrupted. He will save what he created because it is "good". The devil has sowed tares among the wheat.
God dwells within His people. His people are those who have become His children and his children became so because they claimed the promise of Roman's 10:9 and 10.
Confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead and thou shalt be saved. For with the mouth confession is made unto salvation and with the heart believing unto righteousness. Rm 10:9,10
Only those who have claimed this promise have the gift of holy spirit and have God in them. Its free for the taking but nobody has it from birth.
It's hard doing it alone. I'm in spiritual isolation. Plus the only concept of God my 14 year old daughter gets is from me, and she's already at that difficult age. I was quite an existentialist at that age, and then Mom got breast cancer. We all prayed for her and she felt a surge of electricity pulse through her body, and the aggressive cancer was all dead the next morning when she had her surgery. I also had a church youth group to communicate with other Christians my age. My daughter has none of that. I'm trying to raise her in God's word, after neglecting this for so long.
Fren, I know it must be difficult when all around you don't know Jesus. But fortunately, you have the internet and an enormous number of Bible based churches that post their services on line. While it's not the same as being there in person, it is better than being all alone. Please start looking around, because there are a lot of them.
We have 4 children. The last 2 were home schooled all the way thru elementary, junior and senior high. Public schools are now very toxic to the raising of healthy, normal children.
I can only imagine. My daughter was learning trigonometry in the 4th grade while kids in America are learning about "Suzie and her two mommies and their trip to the communist bookstore" for story time.
For it is written, "raise up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he shall not depart from it." Proverbs.
Yeah the word and not religion. We've swapped truth for ritual and man made dogma. Time to get back to the Word.
Thanks. My daughter always asks for a smartphone, but I say no to that. My wife has one and lets my daughter use it a bit, but we control her screen time as much as we can. Her school home tutoring program employs a tablet computer of sorts though, but that cannot be used for regular internet purposes. I really am opposed to 5G, but that is slowly being thrust on us. My wife's smartphone and my flip phone are 4G at least.
I have 4 children. They didn't get a cellphone with an internet connection until they started college. Before they started college the wife & I would allow them to use borrow ours under supervision. I don't understand parents allowing pre-teen & even teens to have their own cellphone. The internet can be a dangerous place. Lots of grooming going on.....
Good call, don't let her have a smart phone....
God is not inside us all. "You are of your father the Devil" Jesus said to those who oppose him, the edomite Jews. . He also said "test their spirits. A tare cannot become wheat. No matter how much we believe that God can do anything it is not his will to save what is corrupted. He will save what he created because it is "good". The devil has sowed tares among the wheat.
God dwells within His people. His people are those who have become His children and his children became so because they claimed the promise of Roman's 10:9 and 10.
Confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead and thou shalt be saved. For with the mouth confession is made unto salvation and with the heart believing unto righteousness. Rm 10:9,10
Only those who have claimed this promise have the gift of holy spirit and have God in them. Its free for the taking but nobody has it from birth.