As a parent, I never get tired of someone reminding me how important it is to tell or show my kids how much I love them! Oftentimes, it’s my kids that will remind me – they will ask if they can snuggle with me or just run into me and ask for a hug. Those are the best reminders of all!
It is our prayer, here at ThumbPeople, that every parent, grandparent or caregiver realizes the impact and importance of showing and telling their children, often, that they love them! It’s also our prayer that every adult will realize how important and valuable they are and how much their Father in Heaven adores and loves them so much!
This is why we offer the books, music and soaking CD’s, curriculum, written communication and videos that we do. To give these healthy, helpful reminders and resources that spark a renewed flame within to bond at a deeper level with those around them, especially their children.
This video is very powerful and speaks for itself; right from the children’s hearts to ours. We would love your help in spreading this message to as many people you know that would benefit from this helpful reminder of what it is their children really need from them.
Father God, I pray for every family represented here – that you would bind them together, in unity, with your supernatural power of Love. I pray for healing over broken families and hearts and draw each person closer to your son, Jesus which in turn will draw them closer to each other. Thank you, Lord – in Jesus name I pray – AMEN!!
We just posted an article “25 Ways to Instill Self Worth in Your Child” and I was pondering these ideas and concepts when it dawned on me that we can use a lot of these same concepts with each other – adult to adult.
We can honor one another by making the other person feel genuinely worthy of our time, attention and care. Take a look at the list and see how these can apply to your adult to adult relationships as well as your relationship with your children and how you can help instill self worth in those around you.
• Stop what you are doing and give the person that is talking to you your full, undivided attention.
• Make eye contact with the person that is talking to you.
• Be aware of your body language when talking with them – show positive expression as they tell you a story.
• Partake in your friends/child’s hobbies.
• Learn to appreciate your friend’s/child’s style of music
• Give your friend/child meaningful compliments
• Take note of your friend’s/child’s strengths and bring them to their attention.
• Help your friend/child set meaningful goals. Then help them to measure their success toward each goal – help to keep them accountable.
• Encourage your friend/child to try new things
• Allow your friend/child to fail but be there to lift them back up
• Expand your friend’s/child’s sphere of life experiences
• Give your friend/child hugs
• Laugh together with your friend/child
• Do some sort of service project with them
• Be a great example of how to treat others with respect and how to see the worth in every individual – making sure you speak positively about others especially in the presence of your friend/child. Seeing the worth of others helps us to recognize our own worth.
• Most importantly, and first on the list, talk with your friend/child about their Father in Heaven, about Jesus their savior who died for them and the power of the Holy Spirit. Tell them they are not a mistake but that God loves them so much that He created them to have a relationship with Him. Tell them that God has a wonderful purpose and plan for their lives and knew them before they were even born. All of these truths help your friend/children to see themselves as a prized gift and so worthy to be alive. This is the only place any of us will find the real foundational structure of our self worth.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for loving us all so much – I ask that you would pour out your wisdom and understanding upon us that we would know how worthy we really are in light of who you say we are! Help us to know this so deeply in our hearts that we would be so full of joy, gratitude and a heart that loves you and seeks after you even more, Lord.
The accuser of all people is satan himself – he will do anything to steal all of our blessings that come from God including our peace, joy, faithfulness, goodness, kindness, finances, health etc. He especially wants to destroy all of our relationships including our marriages, family and relatives; friends & coworkers, with our selves and most of all with Jesus.
How does he do all these rotten things? He entices us to agree with him about all the bad and wrong things about ourselves and others. So much so that we believe this is the truth about who we are and who others are and we speak and act out in terrible ways towards ourselves and others. We become tools in satan’s kingdom to partake in the worst bloodshed of all over ourselves and other people’s lives.
Pretty drab picture I know but we all have times that we partake in the above scenario – now let’s move onto the brighter picture!
God, who is love, sent his one and only son, Jesus, who sacrificed His life for each of us so that we may have abundant life in Him. He is the one that saves us from the ways mentioned above. The way in which He sees us and perceives us is with pure love and understanding of who we were created to be – not what we may look like right now. He knows the purposes and plans that God has for each one of us and when we’ve been caught in the enemy traps, He wants to set us free so we can become all that we were created to be.
We are to be the ones that the Kingdom of God uses to help set others free from the accuser. We have the living God, by the power of Holy Spirit, inside of us to help us see ourselves and others through the power of love. A love that knows that someone hurt them, but sees deeper into the heart of that person to see that they are being held captive by the enemy and we hold the power to help set them free.
The next time you start talking badly about others or have terrible thoughts about yourself – try to stop and ask yourself these questions – am I agreeing with the evil one by accusing this person or am I agreeing with God over this person’s life and being a lover? If you are agreeing with the wrong Kingdom, say a quick prayer asking God to help you to see yourself or the person from His perspective and what action you should take – He longs to show us!
Dear Father God –I am so sorry for the way we have agreed so often with the accuser and ask for you to forgive us. You are the one who loves and cherishes each one of us so much. We are asking for eyes to see and ears to hear your word. Open our hearts so that we may have a deeper understanding and knowledge of your ways. Your ways seem so unnatural to us so we need your guidance of how to become lovers not accusers of ourselves or others! In Jesus name I pray, AMEN!!!
I Love these words – to be in WONDER – to be in AWE and to be full of THANKFULNESS. Kind of reminds me of what little children experience as they go about their day trying to figure out their world around them – so free, secure and trusting.
I’ve been pondering these words for quite some time now and have been moving from a serious, weighed down almost unhappy way of living life to a more upbeat, expectant and silly way of looking at things around me. It’s like I’ve aloud myself to experience things in a more light-hearted, little kid way again and it’s so much more fun this way!
Listening to the upbeat songs from our “You Are Thumbuddy” kid’s CD helps put me in the “little kid” mindset. As you can tell from my past blogging, I’ve been doing things more often that seem a little odd or ridiculous and I’m starting to like it because it causes me to giggle inside and changes the way I see things that are happening around me.
Maybe some of you have been feeling overwhelmed, pressured or weighted down with daily life and are looking for some ideas of how to break free of that. Jesus teaches us the importance of becoming like little children in Matthew 18:3-4 He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
I pray, Lord, you will help each of us become more childlike in nature – more secure in you, Lord, and who you made us to be, more in wonder of the World around us more dependent and trusting of you for all that we need. Lord help those of us who have gotten weighted down with such seriousness in life that we have forgotten how to laugh more and enjoy all that you have given each one of us. – I pray more of you and your joy upon every person reading this - in Jesus name I pray, AMEN!
By the way — our ThumbPeople books and CD’s are not only for kids – they have an amazing way of helping you bond with your children and at the same time help you to be more aware of the amazing plans and purposes God has always had for you . . . His child!
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