199 - Day 198 - Despise Not Little Ones

Teaching children to love Jesus is often a parent's greatest motivation to keep loving Jesus themselves! Raising children definitely grows us as parents. Children test our ability to draw upon God's love.

Sean Martin shares his salvation testimony and how four days after he became a Christian, he met the woman who would become his wife. She had a burden for adopted children, and Sean did not. However, by the time they married, God had changed Sean’s heart.

"Dad, you just don't understand." As this phrase rang over and over in the ears of Jim Sammons, he knew that God was trying to get his attention. Something would need to change in the way that he interacted with his children or . . . .

Our sons and daughters can be protected from severe and unnecessary problems. That's because prayer isn't just for adults. When the disciples came, like children, to ask the Lord how to pray, he answered with an easy-to-remember model prayer. That model prayer has survived the test of time.