Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin

and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome back, day three, and what it means to be a godly dad.

What I want to talk to you about today is this, that the discipleship of your kids is primarily

your responsibility. It's not primarily your wife's responsibility. It's not even primarily

your church's responsibility. That if you're at a healthy healthy church then the local church wants to partner

with you to disciple your children but your children's discipleship is primarily your responsibility

dad now involvement in the local church is so crucial i'm going to give you two keys to

disciple your kids one involvement in the local church.

You see, because as your kids get older and they move from like kids to student ministry,

most healthy student ministries are built around relationships with godly people. And in both my

son and my daughter's life, I have a 20 year old boy and a 16 year old girl, and they're both

walking closely with the Lord.

And one of the primary reasons is because they have godly adults in their life. Now, your kids are going to get to a place in their life where they're not going to talk to you about everything anymore. And I know you think you're cool and they're going to talk to you about everything. It's just not true. You didn't talk to your dad about everything, and they're not going to talk to you about everything.

But you want to have godly people in their life that can steer them towards Jesus. It is your job to make sure that happens, okay? It is worth the fight. You make sure that your kids are involved in the local church so that they can have these relationships. Another primary pillar in the spiritual

formation of your kids is one of the things that I did with my kids, especially when they were

young, is every night at bed, I would pray Bible verses over them. I pray the same verses over my

son and over my daughter every single night for, I over a decade over j p every night when he would go

to bed we would pray psalm one blessed is the man who does not walk in the way of the wicked or stand in the way

of the center or seat in the seat of the scoffers or sit in the seat of the scoffers but his delight

is in the law of the lord and on his his law, he meditates day and night.

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