Discipling Our Kids: Godly Decisions

One of the most important steps in discipling our kids is teaching them to make decisions, Godly decisions. This step requires a lot of training.

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Our human nature is to think only of ourselves, how we feel or what we think. When you’re going through life it is easy to just make a decision based on what you think or your feelings. Unfortunately the world tells you to “do what makes you feel good/happy”, so that makes this step all the more important.

Godly Decisions Making Requires Parental Examples

Our kids watch us make decisions every day. Some of them are simple like, what to have for dinner or whose turn it is to do the dishes. While how we handle these decisions is important, they don’t typically require prayer or God’s guidance.

Kids watch and listen to us closer than we think, though often more at times we wish they weren’t probably. When difficult decision making comes our way, we need to ensure we show our kids the right way to handle them.

Godly Decisions Require Prayer

In order to ensure that we make Godly decisions throughout life, we must go to the Lord in prayer each time. Sometimes the situation doesn’t allow for a audible prayer or a lengthy one, but still we must be the example our kids need. If at all possible, pray as a family. Praying with your kids about life decisions shows your kids that they are important to you, and are an important part of the entire family. This is a wonderful way to train your children to pray first in order to make Godly decisions someday with their family too. 

Godly Decisions Require Waiting Sometimes

Hasty decisions are often made when we don’t take time to pray first. That is why it is the first step, as well as the most important. If we make decisions in the moment, they are typically based on our feelings/emotions and thoughts at that time. Anything that has happened previously in life, or something that could be a result of the decision, often are not in the forefront of our thoughts.

Once we’ve begun to pray about the decision, we must train our children to continue to pray while they wait on the Lord for direction. Waiting is often the hardest step in the Godly decision making process. So, it will require the most training. Ensuring our children know to continue living and serving the Lord right where they are while they wait on His direction is important. Unless God has shown us to stop moving in a particular direction, then we must continue to be faithful in His calling on our lives where we are right now.

Godly Decisions Require Action

No matter what God’s direction is for the decision we’re faced with, we must act. It doesn’t matter whether the action is in changing directions or to keep moving forward where He has us now. We must ensure our children know that God’s ways are the best, He can see the end of the path we’re on and knows the best way to get there. We must ensure our children know that action in the direction given by the Lord is the final step in making a Godly decision.

May we never forget as parents and train our children to remember that…

Godly decisions are a result of following God’s direction. 

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About Misty Leask

Misty is a Daughter of THE King, Texas girl always, Navy brat at heart, loving Fisherman's wife, blessed mother of 2. She is passionate about being real throughout all of life's struggles, successes and dreams. Her heart is full of ideas and passions, but the hours in her day never multiply to get it all done. Misty loves writing and reading in her spare time. Music and photography are favorite past times of hers as well.

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Discipling Our Kids: Godly Decisions — 8 Comments

  1. It is a wonderful post. I will put it inside my heart. I am just aware that everything is started with decision. Getting kids thinking what to do and decide to do is deliberately important. Thank you for sharing.

    • Yes, we must decide to point our children to the Lord and making decisions based on His word and direction. Thank you for stoppin by! Blessings!

  2. I love that one of the good things that God draws out of our experiences can be the example it is to others, especially our kids. May we always be good ambassadors for Christ in our parenting.
    Thanks for sharing at Essential Fridays.
    Blessings
    Mel from Essential Thing Devotions

    • Amen! As parents I think we forget that they not only see what we’re doing, but they learn from it and it has a lot to do with who they become later in life. Being intentional in our discipling is important to raise Godly men and women! Thank you for hosting the link up Mel!

    • Simple doesn’t mean easy that’s for sure 😉 Practice does make perfect though, so if we can strive to practice that which we want to do more often, then we will begin to see progress. Prayer MUST be our first step, and oh how I know I’m not too good at that one. Thanks for stoppin by! Blessings!

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