25/05/2026
📖 Brother David Mashau our Sunday School Teacher ministered during Children Sunday Service 👧🏾👦🏾✨
📝 Sermon Title: Preparing Children for God's Purpose
📚 Main Texts: Romans 8:19, Proverbs 22:6, Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Ephesians 6:4
🌟 Introduction
The world is waiting! 🌍 Romans 8:19 tells us that creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. But the question today is: As the world waits, what are we doing?
✅ Our answer is simple: We prepare the children. 👧🏾👦🏾
If we desire a generation that will stand for God 🙏🏾, we cannot leave their formation to chance. We must be deliberate, intentional, and faithful in raising them.
📌 1. Preparation Requires Intentional Training
📖 Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go...” is not accidental.
The Hebrew word chanak means:
1️⃣ To dedicate – Set apart for God’s purpose from the beginning ✨
2️⃣ To discipline – Correct, guide, and shape with love ❤️
Training is not only telling children what to do. It is walking with them 🚶🏾♂️, teaching them 📚, and modeling the life we want them to live.
📌 2. The Trainer Must Carry Certain Characteristics
If we are to prepare children, we ourselves must be prepared 🙌🏾. A child cannot be led where the leader has not gone.
❤️ A. We Must Show Love – Proverbs 13:24
Discipline without love becomes punishment. Love without discipline becomes permissiveness. Children learn best when they know they are loved and safe 🤗
🌟 B. We Must Be Able to Inspire – Ephesians 6:4
Do not provoke children to anger, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Children follow vision 👀, not just rules.
📖 C. We Must Teach and Encourage – Deuteronomy 6:6-7
God’s Word must first be in our hearts ❤️, then taught daily — when we sit, walk, lie down, and rise up.
🏡 D. We Must Provide a Safe Haven and Secure Base – Psalm 103:13, Isaiah 66:13
Trust between child and caregiver is the soil where faith grows 🌱. When children feel safe, they become open to hearing about God.
📌 3. What We Sow in Children Will Grow 🌱
🔑 Key Principle: The Word of God is a seed.
🌾 What we instill in children will grow and propagate.
👀 What we show children will also grow and propagate because children learn by observation.
You cannot teach a child to pray 🙏🏾 if they never see you pray. You cannot teach honesty if they see you lie. Our lives are the most powerful curriculum 📚
📌 4. Look to Biblical Examples
📖 Daniel 2-3
Daniel and his friends were trained in the ways of God 🙌🏾. Even in a foreign land, their training remained firm. They refused to compromise because what was planted in them early could not be uprooted 🌳🔥
🙏🏾 May God help us raise children who will stand boldly for Him in this generation and beyond. Amen!
