There are certain principles you want to pass on to your children.

Nancy Lee-Demaw says there's one powerful way to do it.

The power that stories can have to put those principles into the hearts of children is incalculable.

Now, moms, you think about the things your children are being exposed to.

The things they're reading at school, the things they're seeing on television, the things they're hearing about

from their friends, and ask yourself what kind of influence is going into my child's mind

and heart.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, July 10th.

One of the things we try to do through the ministry of revive our hearts is to encourage and inspire and to equip moms to be passing on the truth of God to their children with the goal that their children will pass it under their children.

In fact, I'm thinking of a passage from Psalm 78 that I've often quoted on this program,

but I think it bears repeating.

The psalmist says, give ear, oh, my people to my teaching, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable.

I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known that our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord in his might

and the wonders that he has done. And it goes on to say how God gave a law to his people,

and he wrote it down, and then he commanded our fathers to teach it to their

children that the next generation might know them the children yet unborn and arise and tell them

to their children so that they should set their hope in God. And that passage goes on. I'm reading

from Psalm 78 to talk about the importance of passing on the baton of faith from one

generation to the next. And one crucial way that my family did that as the seven children of my

family were growing up was through the reading of good books. I found that there, and my parents believed

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