1. Pray for your children.

Thanksgiving: Children are a gift from the Lord (Ps. 127.3). Thank God everyday for your children, their spouses, your grandchildren.

Wisdom: Pray for spiritual wisdom to make godly decisions.

Know Him better: Ask God to grow them deep in their knowledge and love for Christ.

Future Hope: Pray that your children live with eternity in mind.

Glorious inheritance: Thank God for the promise of eternity. Pray for children or grandchildren who don’t yet know Jesus.

Great power: As God to give them power through the Holy Spirit to live obediently.

Strength: Ask the Holy Spirit to provide them strength to resist temptations.

Established in love: Pray that they demonstrate a 1 Corinthians 13 love.

Grasp the love of Christ: Pray that they understand who they are in Christ and live in the freedom of the unconditional love of Jesus.

2. Use this Christmas to begin a time for family devotions.

3.   Help your children determine what to look for and pray for in a friend and future spouse.

4.  Teach your children how to handle responsibility.

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

-Luke 2:52

God:  Favor with God/Spirit

Personal Daily Devotions
Attend church weekly—corporate worship, get involved with a Bible Study on campus/dorm
Godly habits

Read:  Wisdom/Mind

Focus on Studies
Maintain GPA
Get to know professors—ask questions

Others: Favor with Man/Heart

Considerate of roommates
Dating—healthy physical boundaries. Remembers he’s someone’s future husband/wife and you are someone’s future husband/wife.
Stay in touch is family

Work Out: Stature/Body

Rest
Exercise
Eat Healthy

5.  Be a student of your children and their culture so that you can be the best teacher to your children.

6. Let’s work together to become an unselfie church.