God’s Love: Your greatest help when parenting is tough…

Every parent out there has at one time or another prayed that God would infuse them with the supernatural ability to be a better parent. Honestly, have you ever wished that you could be more patient with your kids? How about more kind? I know I have! There are just times that I know that I could use some help being the parent that my kids need.

Well, here is the good news… God HAS given everyone who is a Christian exactly that. God has given us all a supernatural gift, this gift is called “love”! The problem is that we don’t understand what love is or what it is supposed to be when it is activated inside the Holy Spirit filled believer. The problem with most Christians is that we are not walking in the truth that we already know. We are searching from some new, fresh Word or Revelation when God has already given us all we need to live victorious lives. The same is true for our lives as “Christian Parents”.

The great Apostle Paul describes this supernatural gift of love in 1 Corinthians 13, lets look at Paul’s description of God’s Love activated inside a Christian…

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

 

You may be saying to yourself, “but I’m not patient, or kind, and I am rude, and I do feel like giving up”! That’s why this is God’s gift to all of us. Because we really, really need it! Love is the essential thing that we need in our walk with Christ and I our everyday life. Why would it be any different in our parenting? Love is the primary fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22). Jesus said that love is the most important thing to God and that everything written in the Old Testament can be fulfilled with love! (Matthew 22:37-40)

It may be time that you become a Spirit-Filled Parent”! When you let the Holy Spirit guide you in parenting you will operate in the Supernatural!

So your impatient, your always demanding your own way, you feel like losing hope with your kids. That is in the flesh. The Bible says that those who are Spiritual set their mind on the things of the Spirit… Let God transform you into the man or woman of God and the parent you were made to be. This comes from being led by the Spirit of God!