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Loading Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Notice where the words go first: in your heart. Parents are not asked to deliver material they have not received. The teaching described here is not a scheduled lesson but a conversation spread across ordinary life, sitting, walking, lying down and rising up.

A prayer from this passage

Father, put Your words in my heart first, so that what I pass on to my children is real. Give me patience in the small hours, wisdom in correction, and grace to talk about You in ordinary moments.

Key truth

Children are taught the faith mainly through parents who hold it themselves and speak of it in daily life.

Related Scriptures

  • Training a child in the way he should go.
  • Fathers warned not to provoke, but to nurture.
  • Children described as a heritage from the Lord.

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