Four Christmas Gifts You Can Give Your Children
2 Timothy 1:5 (NIV)
I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
Mark 10:13-16 (MSG)
The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.” Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them.
Matthew 18:6 (NKJV)
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Exodus 29:29-30 (NLT)
“Aaron’s sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained. 30 The descendant who succeeds him as high priest will wear these clothes for seven days as he ministers in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.
1. A Love for the Word of God
Psalm 119:97-98 (NIV)
Oh, how I love your law I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.
“The Bible is the only book where the author is present every time you read it” -Bill Johnson
Romans 10:8 (NKJV)
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
2. A Love for God's House
Joshua 24:19 (NIV)
Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.
Psalm 84:10 (NIV)
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
“You know you are backsliding when your child has to ask, ‘are we going to church today?’ -Jentezen Franklin
Hebrews 10:25 (NIV)
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
3. A Prayer Life
Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and [a]mighty things, which you do not know.’
Luke 1:13 (NLT)
But the angel said, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give you a son, and you are to name him John.
Psalm 66:19 (AMP)
But certainly God has heard [me]; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
4. Words of Blessing
Proverbs 18:21 (ESV)
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Genesis 49:28 (NIV)
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.
