Honoring parents

Honoring your parents

Hello brothers and sisters, I hope God has blessed you plenty this week. I also hope you will be blessed through this post also. I've been meaning to post this for months now but haven't had the time to, so I finally said I was going to post it today. I was inspired to do this post by listening to a sermon by the Nebblett family  so most of the advice will be from the sermon entitled "Honoring our parents". 

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. - 

Colossians 3:20

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. -Exodus 20:12 (One with a promise!) 

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. - Proverbs 20:20 

Obeying our parents comes with blessings and disobeying... well let's just say,comes with consequences.

Eleven way to obey our parents

1. Speaking respectfully. 

2. Obeying ( most important.)

3. Using your tone wisely 

• One tone can be respectful.
• The other can be disrespectful.

4. Watching your tone of voice.

5. Persisting and contradicting your parents, especially in front of other people is very disrespectful.

• Better to come to them in private and respectfully in private.

6. We should be respectful toward our parents whenever they're not around. ( EX. when talking to friends.) 

7. Attentiveness, facial expression, and eye contact all matter because they tell how you feel towards your parents.  ( For example when your parents ask you to do something and you forget or don't quite remember, that calls for attentiveness.)

8. Listening to they're counsel. ( They know best because they were once your age.) 

9. Being sensitive to their needs. 

10. Expressing our love and care for them. 

• Surprising mom with setting the table, or cleaning the house without being told. 
• Helping dad by washing his car or helping him organize his work papers. ( or maybe helping him fill out a form from work online because he thinks technology has advanced way too quickly.)

11. Encouraging them!!!

Try to at least do this things for a month or two, and maybe it will be a daily routine. 

Do this for it pleases our heavenly father. 

God bless 

-zipporah