My daughter told me this morning that this week is 'test week'.
I got down to her level and asked her if she was nervous. She replied with "a little".
This is what i told her -
Your test mark does not determine who you are.
Your grades do not determine who you are.
God tells you who you are. If you get rubbish grades and don't do well in school then thats ok as it does not determine your future of who you are.
Your identity is in Christ.
Yes we want you to do well. But all Mummy and Daddy ask of you is that you do the best of your ability and if you do your best then thats all we ask of you then thats great.
If you try and do the best you can do then thats the best you can do and no one can ask more of you.
I then prayed for her and sent her off into her classroom ready for her reading test at aged 8.
You see i think so much pressure is piled onto our kids at such a young age that is unnecessary.
grow up, don't grow up
answer me, don't answer back
talk, shhh
wear this, don't wear that
don't wear a cardi its too hot, cover yourself up
sit still, go run in the garden
watch tv, don't watch too much tv
We need to remind our children where their identity comes from.
We need to continue to remind them who their Daddy is.
Our Children are Royalty.
They are kids of the king of kings.
My Children don't even belong to me. they belong to Christ and i am looking after them for a while. I need to remember this, that it is my job as a Mother to bring them up the way that God wants me to bring my 2 children up. And to always bring it back to Christ.
I see the fruits already coming from my kids. Because they love Jesus so much. And i believe that God has a great future for them because it says in his word -
For i know the plans i have for you, plans to prosper, to bring you a hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
It is my job as a Mother to make sure my kids are rooted in him.
Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and build up in him, established in faith as you were taught,and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
That God formed them exactly to his specifications, exactly how he decided they would be.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5
You see God doesn't say - i have anointed you a prophet but actually you have to start when you are a little bit older as 8 is just too young.
No, God appoints us before conception. He planned us exactly right from the beginning. Yes its all in his timing, our future is all in his timing but the seed is already within us at birth.
Yes i want my children to flourish and do well but does that mean school?. Partly. I want them to do the best they can. I don't want them to be stressed out and fearful of the future. I want them to be secure in the knowledge that God has always and will always have their back.
That when they try to the best of their ability that, that is enough.
No - could have, should have, would have. Just safe in the knowledge that they are 'enough'.
Remember that your children are 'enough'
Maybe you need to remind yourself that you are 'enough'.
Sometimes we get swept up in life and everywhere we turn - news, media, magazines, people are telling us that we need to be better, do better, want better.
Let me tell you, If you are in that place, God doesn't not want you to be fearful. Because to him. You are fearfully and wonderfully made and just right.
I was reminded recently of the movie Narnia and The voyage of the dawn treader.
There is a part in it where Lucy is wishing she was just like Susan, her sister. To her, her sister is more beautiful, fun, lovely. So when she gets this magic book she rips out the page and takes it away with her.
In secret she reads the words and transforms into Susan.
She is happy as she has got everything that she has always wanted but when reality hits she finally realises that by turning into Susan that Susan doesn't exist anymore and that she wished away her only Sister and in doing that she wished away herself.
Your children are not meant to be anyone other that who they have be created to be. ENOUGH
I got down to her level and asked her if she was nervous. She replied with "a little".
This is what i told her -
Your test mark does not determine who you are.
Your grades do not determine who you are.
God tells you who you are. If you get rubbish grades and don't do well in school then thats ok as it does not determine your future of who you are.
Your identity is in Christ.
Yes we want you to do well. But all Mummy and Daddy ask of you is that you do the best of your ability and if you do your best then thats all we ask of you then thats great.
If you try and do the best you can do then thats the best you can do and no one can ask more of you.
I then prayed for her and sent her off into her classroom ready for her reading test at aged 8.
You see i think so much pressure is piled onto our kids at such a young age that is unnecessary.
grow up, don't grow up
answer me, don't answer back
talk, shhh
wear this, don't wear that
don't wear a cardi its too hot, cover yourself up
sit still, go run in the garden
watch tv, don't watch too much tv
We need to remind our children where their identity comes from.
We need to continue to remind them who their Daddy is.
Our Children are Royalty.
They are kids of the king of kings.
My Children don't even belong to me. they belong to Christ and i am looking after them for a while. I need to remember this, that it is my job as a Mother to bring them up the way that God wants me to bring my 2 children up. And to always bring it back to Christ.
I see the fruits already coming from my kids. Because they love Jesus so much. And i believe that God has a great future for them because it says in his word -
For i know the plans i have for you, plans to prosper, to bring you a hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
It is my job as a Mother to make sure my kids are rooted in him.
Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and build up in him, established in faith as you were taught,and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
That God formed them exactly to his specifications, exactly how he decided they would be.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5
You see God doesn't say - i have anointed you a prophet but actually you have to start when you are a little bit older as 8 is just too young.
No, God appoints us before conception. He planned us exactly right from the beginning. Yes its all in his timing, our future is all in his timing but the seed is already within us at birth.
Yes i want my children to flourish and do well but does that mean school?. Partly. I want them to do the best they can. I don't want them to be stressed out and fearful of the future. I want them to be secure in the knowledge that God has always and will always have their back.
That when they try to the best of their ability that, that is enough.
No - could have, should have, would have. Just safe in the knowledge that they are 'enough'.
Remember that your children are 'enough'
Maybe you need to remind yourself that you are 'enough'.
Sometimes we get swept up in life and everywhere we turn - news, media, magazines, people are telling us that we need to be better, do better, want better.
Let me tell you, If you are in that place, God doesn't not want you to be fearful. Because to him. You are fearfully and wonderfully made and just right.
I was reminded recently of the movie Narnia and The voyage of the dawn treader.
There is a part in it where Lucy is wishing she was just like Susan, her sister. To her, her sister is more beautiful, fun, lovely. So when she gets this magic book she rips out the page and takes it away with her.
In secret she reads the words and transforms into Susan.
She is happy as she has got everything that she has always wanted but when reality hits she finally realises that by turning into Susan that Susan doesn't exist anymore and that she wished away her only Sister and in doing that she wished away herself.
Your children are not meant to be anyone other that who they have be created to be. ENOUGH
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