In our previous booklet, we said that our children need to be in a teaching environment where the Holy Spirit may operate through God's Word. This is because our object for them is not just to garner knowledge but to gain wisdom, the correct application of knowledge in God’s world. And for this, we are seeking to grasp God’s Promise to us for our children that the Holy Spirit would give them “eyes to see and ears to hear”. This Promise is about God being “God” to us and to them as He promised to Abraham, our whole redemptive environment. For this, we need to abandon the dualistic spiritual/secular view of education as it denies that God is our total environment and seek discipleship. Discipleship means more than just the gaining of new information, it means internalizing God’s views, values, and ways. For this, the most fertile mission field one can find is in the raising and education of the children in one’s own family. Further, understanding discipleship as education have great rewards now and far-reaching implications for eternity. For in the New Heavens and New Earth our Father will entrust it's management to us. Grasping God's Promises seeks to address these topics.

“For the Promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself. “Acts 2:39    This Promise for us, our children, and all who will come, is the ultimate fulfillment of God’s redemption of us all from the fall into sin and death and the completion of God’s promise to Abraham to be God unto him and his descendants after him. And we are Abrahams spiritual descendants through our Faith, he being “the father of all who believe” Rom. 4:11  “I will establish My covenant (Promise) between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. Gen.17:7 The outpouring and presence of the promised Holy Spirit in the book of Acts from the passage above is the final solution to our sin and death problem because it changes us internally not merely outwardly. Only He can change our hearts and minds. It allows us to trust His solution for our sins in the death and resurrection of Jesus and the transformation of our and our childrens minds and hearts though His Word by His Holy Spirit. So if God has offered this to us and our children, then why are we not regularly and faithfully praying for the fulfillment of HIs Promise in our childrens and families lives? Perhaps we have not because we ask not. Praying God's Promises for our Family  seeks to provide an understanding and guide for doing that.