W RITE I T O N T HE Deuteronomy 11:18-25 D OORPOSTS AND G ATES

Deuteronomy 11:18-25 “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Deuteronomy 11: You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the L ORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. 22 For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do,

Deuteronomy 11:18-25 …loving the L ORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, 23 then the L ORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours.

Deuteronomy 11:18-25 Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25 No one shall be able to stand against you. The L ORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

1.Let our hearts be filled with the Word of God

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

“Before we were born to our parents, we were born in the mind of God.” Max Lucado

2.Let your eyes be fixed on the Word of God

Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

“You teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are.” Mark Batterson

A.Personally

B.Privately

C.Publically

D. Persistently

“Don’t be satisfied with just reading the Word. Live the Word in power.” AW Tozer

E.Visually

“Your words will tell others what you think and your actions will tell them what you believe.” Mark Batterson

3.Let us speak the Word of God

What are some practical ways of speaking the Word of God over your children?

What advice would you give moms, and even dads, when they want to give up, because they have tried everything to teach their children and it doesn’t seem to work?

What are some words or phrases that you would have written on the doorposts of your home?

What would you say to a parent whose child has left the faith?