(Deuteronomy 11:18 NIV) Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

(Proverbs 3:12 NLT) For the LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.

(Proverbs 3:12 MSG) But don’t, dear friend, resent God ’s discipline; don’t sulk under his loving correction. It’s the child he loves that God corrects; a father’s delight is behind all this. '

(Proverbs 13:24 NIV) Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

• Demonstrates LOVE.

(Proverbs 3:12 NLT) For the LORD corrects those he loves, …

(Hebrews 12:6 MSG) It’s the child He loves that he disciplines, the child that He embraces, He also corrects.

(Revelation 3:19 NLT) I correct and discipline everyone I love. . . .

• You have HOPE and BELIEF in them.

(Proverbs 19:18a NIV) Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; ...

(Proverbs 19:18b NIV) ….. do not be a willing party to their death.

(Proverbs 19:18 NLT) ... Otherwise you will ruin their lives.

• Giving WISDOM.

(Proverbs 29:15 NLT) To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

(Proverbs 22:15 MSG) Young people are prone to foolishness and fads; the cure comes through tough-minded discipline.

• You want them on THE RIGHT PATH.

(Proverbs 22:6 NLT) Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

(Luke 7:35 NLT) But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it."

√ Commit to INSTRUCTION.

(Proverbs 23:12 NLT) Commit yourself to instruction; listen carefully to words of knowledge.

(Proverbs 15:32-33) 'An undisciplined, self-willed life is puny; an obedient, God-willed life is spacious. Fear-of- God is a school in skilled living— first you learn humility, then you experience glory.'

√ Celebrate the WINS. (Good Stuff)

(Proverbs 23:24-25 NIV) The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him. May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!

√ It is about turning HEARTS.

(Malachi 4:6 NLT) His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. ...."

(Psalm 119:36 NIV) Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

√ Never forget the ETERNAL picture.

(Proverbs 23:13-14 MSG) 'Don’t be afraid to correct your young ones; a spanking won’t kill them. A good spanking, in fact, might save them from something worse than death.

(Hebrews 12:11 MSG) ... discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off big-time, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.