Secure your own mask -

Secure your own mask on your face before putting it on your children… It sounds funny when you first hear it. I am a parent and if things go wrong I want to protect my kids first but if you ponder it, how can you protect your children if you are unconscious or dead? Well you can’t, right? So you must secure your own mask first to protect your children and others in the long run.

Secure Your Faith

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1 Secure Your Faith

2 Secure Your Prayer Life

3 Secure Your Study Habits

4 Secure Your Own Mask And Reach Out And Help Others

5 Live Out That Security

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The same goes for us and our faith.

We can’t expect our children to develop the habits of faithful Bible reading, memorization, prayer and walking out their faith if they are not seeing that in our lives.

They will not just do what we say but will do as we do. We must remember to be faithful before them!

Moms and dads, they have to see that we make it a point to put God and our relationship with him first. Before our jobs, the stacks of laundry or a having a perfectly clean house (yeah, right), getting all the dishes done or the huge TO-DO list gets tackled. They need to see that we make him a priority so they can see the steps we take to do that same thing. Secure your mask.

Secure Your Prayer Life

Pray. Not only is it urgent that we cover our family in prayer but it is also just as urgent for them to see us on our knees practicing the habit of communication with the Lord.

James 5: 16 The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. NLT

Secure Your Study Habits

Study your bible. How are we to know the precepts and promises if we do not spend time in the Word of God daily? How are we to teach them to our children? So many of us leave this to the church, the youth pastor or youth leaders but mom and dad, this is OUR job. I know we are exhausted. But, we wonder why we feel so empty inside, why that it feels like everyone needs a part of you and nothing is filling you back up. The answer is time in the bible. I know it sounds strange but it is true, time reading and meditating on God’s Word refills our empty tank and allows us to then fill others without feeling depleted ourselves.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. NLT

Read Good Quality Christian Books. We need to surround ourselves with what is good and right. Our eyes and ears are bombarded with sights and sounds and ideas and we need to be careful just like our children do with what we take in because it becomes what we believe and our worldview.

I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. Psalm 101:3 NLT