Your My Family....

 Faith in Jesus Christ

the Core Value of Christian Families

Presentation by Sasa (Sara Fontana) 

https://www.deepwatersacademy.org/

October 9, 2024

Who created the world?   (God)

Who created men?  (God)

Who created women? (God)

So how many have heard of the story of Adam & Eve?

Where can you read about this story? (in the Bible)

How many of you have a Bible?  How many of you have been taught to read the Bible?  When we pray we talk to God.  Reading the Bible is like praying because it is listening to God’s Word to us.  So it’s important to take the time to read the Bible.

Genesis 2:24 says: That is why man leaves his Father & Mother and is joined with his wife and the two become one flesh.  So God created marriage between man & woman.

Genesis tells us that Adam & Eve had several children.  In Genesis 5: 1-5 “When God created man God made them in the likeness of God.  God created them male & female.”  Genesis 5 goes on to tell the story of Adam & Eve’s third son, Seth.  The name Seth means appointed or placed.  Genesis 5 continues to share about Seth and his descendants. So Adam & Eve became grandparents!

So who created family?  (God)

The Old Testament goes on to tell about how men & women struggled to follow God’s commands.  They cried out for a Savior.

The New Testament tells us about Jesus Christ, our Savior, being born. 

Who knows the story of the beginning of the Christian family, when Jesus was born?  Jesus was born to Mary who was married to Joseph.  John 1:16-17 says, “ The Law was given through Moses (in the Old Testament) Grace & Truth came through Jesus Christ.”  Christ means Savior.  Jesus came to show us the way to God the Father. 

So Faith in Jesus Christ is the foundation of our Christian families. Christian families are the place where children learn to live out what Jesus Christ teaches us and where we are called to learn to  how we stay focused on the way Jesus Christ teaches us to live.

When my husband, Francis, & I were married and had children we wanted to find a way to keep our family focused on Jesus Christ on a daily basis and keep God at the center of our lives every day.  Colossians 3:16 says, "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God".  We used songs in our nightly prayer time.  I want to teach you two of these songs. 

The first is one that my 2 year old granddaughter wants to sing every night at bed time.  It’s called You’re my family and it has hand motions. 

YOU’RE MY FAMILY.

Will you come with me and walk with me and          

   pray with me and talk with me. 

You're my family.

Don’t leave me all alone.

Let us laugh together, cry together,                            

live together, die together. 

I need your help together we’ll be strong. 

 For the next one I am going to have my granddaughter, Marie, come and teach you the hand motions.  Coraline is going to help her. 

SEEK YE FIRST

Seek ye first the kingdom of God
And His righteousness;
And all these things shall be added unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!

 

Ask, and it shall be given unto you;
Seek, and you shall find.
Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!

 So a wonderful way to keep Jesus Christ at the center of your Christian family is to have Christian songs that you use in your evening prayer and throughout the day. 

In closing I want to share with you our family prayer.  This is the prayer that our family said every morning before our kids went to school and every night before they went to bed. The Grandkids now say it at night as well.

DEAR GOD,

GRANT US THE WISDOM TO DISCOVER THE RIGHT, THE WILL TO CHOOSE IT AND THE STRENGTH TO MAKE IT ENDURE.  THANK YOU GOD FOR ONE MORE DAY.  YAY GOD! Amen!