9/19/2023 0 Comments Children like arrows in a quiver![]() God, please, please, please draw all these kids that are in our minds to yourself, to your love, to grace, your mercy, in Jesus. ![]() We pray that they would come to know you, your grace and your love at early ages. We praise you because they’re made in your image because they are loved by you. God, even kids that are hard sometimes to deal with and this way or that way, we praise you for them. But beyond that, for children in the churches we’re a part of and I think about the kids faces who I just saw recently, just a room full of kids. I think about my kids, others thinking about their kids. Maybe children aren’t in our physical families. God, we pray for every child that comes to our mind right now. Sort of look at the kids in the church, children and to pray. So I just want to lead us to pray for our kids, if you have kids, but even if you don’t, to think about for all of us to think about all the kids in the church that we’re a part of, to remember church families is even deeper than physical family. One of the things that excites me most as a pastor is thinking about all these kids growing up in the church, hearing God’s word, being taught God’s word, being modeled God’s word, being shown God’s word, encouraged in God’s word to follow God, to trust God and those who do like the arrows, they are in the world for the glory of God, for the good of so many people. They are such instruments that God has designed to experience his blessing and to spread his blessing in so many different ways. I look across the church I’m a part of and I see all of these kids, all of these kids who are a blessing, a heritage from God and they are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. I pray for this for my kids and not just my kids. “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.” The whole picture is just the reward that is evident in children who are thriving for the glory of God in the world. The whole picture here is children as a blessing from God, who are instruments in God’s hands, in parents’ hands, for blessing in the world. ![]() Then it goes on to say, blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. When I think about my kids, like arrows in the hand of a warrior, are these kids.
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