Simple Reminder: You can do this!

Anything a father practices in , his children will practice to .

Any sin a father practices in moderation, his children will practice to excess. A father’s influence is so formidable that even if his children are too young or otherwise unable to imitate his actual sins, the children still come under great attack. – Jim Logan

“What are you practicing right now that your children will do in excess later today or tomorrow?

Deuteronomy 6:4-12 (NIV)4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 

12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

We must Love God .

Remember, what you practice in moderation, your children will practice in excess.

What are you  the next generation?

Deuteronomy 6:6 (NIV)These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 

You can not  what you do not have.

Deuteronomy 6:7-9 (NIV)

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Remember, what you practice in , your children will practice in .

What will you model for the people in your life?

You are Called to  and Faith

Deuteronomy 6:7 (NIV)

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

You are Called to Teach and Model Faith Diligently To , and Every day.

You do this! You what it takes! 

2 Peter 1:3-9 (The Message)

3-4 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

5-9 So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities, you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

You can do it because of what has been to you.

You can do it the future.

Proverbs 20:7 “The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.”

Remember, what you practice in moderation, your children will practice in excess.

One warning…

“Be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery” (v. 12). 

Do not forgot the Lord, who…

Remember, what you practice in moderation, your children will practice in excess.