I cry, I cry; Oh Israel your children are laying in the way side. Bring them close to you as a heritage to YHWH. They belong to Him and it is our responsibility to train them on the ways of Yah. We must test them in love with the knowledge of YHWH just as the Shema commanded us parents. Our conversations must reflect our belief and our saltiness should bring them up to love YHWH. They are betrothed to Mashiach as we are, they are a Bride. The Father wants a Bride without wrinkle or blemish, and example to the world in word, conversation, love, Spirit, faith and purity. How many times our children, YHWH's children, have conversations in the Word or walk with a pure heart in the Spirit? We must remove the worldly influences and traditions of man form them too. They are not of this world. They are bethroyed to a Hebrew Messiah and will be a wed in a Yehuddim wedding. Their hearts must remain pure towards YHWH. The enemy is seeking who to devour, our guard must be high in all season. We can not let those who have set a lower standard for their children to take what has been so hard for us taking our families through a narrow path.
Psalm 127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of YHWH: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which YHWH your Elohim commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2That thou mightest fear YHWH your Elohim, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the YHWH your Elohim of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4Hear, O Israel: YHWH your Elohim, YHWH is one :
5And thou shalt love YHWH your Elohim with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates
1 Timothy 4:12
12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Let me speak to you about results. The church has failed and lost a whole generation with the approach of fun, fellowship and come as you are and leave as you are. 8 our of every 10 leave the faith of their parents according to Barna Research. Are we raising 10 out of the 100 that come to the feast or we are bringing up the first fruit that have a desire to please YHWH because they love Him more than themselves. Let's test what our children know by the results of their actions. Let's raise a renmant unto YHWH that will be standing high above the rest as a pure Bride. A Bride that loves Yeshua HaMashiach and will dress inside and out in modesty.
Jeremiah 2:32
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.