Encouraging Your Child's Dreams

     As parents it is our job to encourage our children to pursue their hobbies and gifts that the Lord has given to them.  Our daughter took a real interest in the guitar a few years ago, and so we invested in her.  We bought her a guitar and we paid for lessons.  Now she is praying about becoming a worship leader once she graduates in May of this year. 

     God has a plan for our children and we are responsible to Him to see that we help them pray about where He is sending them and what field He is calling them to.  We must guide them and support them in the decisions they make.  We can not force our dreams on them.  God has a good future planned for our kids and we need to teach them to listen to Him as they make decisions, we then need to trust we have done our job and let them decide to do what they feel they are being led to do.

     Each child has gifts.  We need to cultivate those gifts with whatever means we have.  Most of all we need to pray that God will guide us as we train and teach them to Walk with Him.