What Have You Stored up for Your Children?

2 Cor. 2v. 14 states: “ Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want what you have--I want you. After all, children don't provide for their parents. Rather, parents provide for their children.”

If you are a parent, you have the responsibility of working to ensure you store up wealth to leave for your children. The Apostle Paul knew that and the above account shows he did, and taught others to do so. The main problem many children die poor like their parents is because their parents have turned them into money machines. The child does not have any time to enjoy his or her youth because the parents want each and everything the child earns. These greedy parents follow up each and everything about their grown up children to know every time a child earns some money, and after getting the information, they begin to trouble the child even though they have more money than the child. When these wicked parents were young, they saved nothing for their children and if they have anything, it is inherited from their parents. And they want their children to follow their bad examples. If you are a parent and you are strong, be satisfied with what you earn and do your responsibilities at home until the time you will be too old to work. At that time, your children will take care of you. You are to honor your parents in the Lord only. When Jesus was on this earth, we read of how his mother followed him in places he was preaching taking food to him, but sadly today some parents deny their children food and other things they have a legal right to, and follow them up everywhere in greed, to get the little they have to add to the much in their pockets. And if you give them something, they hold it, look at it, and greedily ask: "Don't you have something more?" Jesus had money in his ministry and work, but his mother took food to him. How many times have you supported your child? You are cursed, because instead of supporting your children until they get stable, you are denying them even cooked food. What will you do when you cannot earn anything yourself? Are you aware that God can kill whatever you think is your strength? God can even kill any of your cohorts who are inciting you against others just as he killed the Egyptian firstborns. Some children support the greed of their parents and those who oppose the said greed, these children and parents attack and persecute, but God shall deal with them.

Young people, take my advice. Do not allow your parents to turn you into a money machines such that they use you and at the end of the day you die poor, having saved nothing for your children. David saved for Solomon. Abraham saved for his children. Jacob did the same. These people did not become a bother and nuisance to their children. They saved for them, and when the children added their inheritance to what they got for themselves, they were able to save for their children too. But these cursed parents want us to store up riches for them in their pockets, which is a doctrine of the devil. When you are broke, they cannot give you anything, but want the little you earn. If your parents are earning something, let them be satisfied with that and give you a chance to manage your future. You must invest for your future, and if you allow your parents to run your life, you will live in stress, especially if they are only thinking you are their bank. Some of our parents are illiterate, and you have a Ph.D, and you father wants to manage you! It cannot work. You are in different worlds and will always be going in different directions. Some of your things are too complicated for them to get, so let them mind what is in their level, and leave you to do what is your domain. I have seen some illiterate relatives trying unsuccessfully to dictate what I should do in things in my profession and ministry! They are busy asking about me, even sometimes impersonating me to get information about my life, but have not changed me or stopped me. They are just stressing themselves to death for things they should forget about. Personally I am minding my own business, and so should they. It is sad to see parents who have money greedily forcing their children to give them the little they have to add to what they have. Such parents are cursed and have forgotten it is them to add to what their children have because it is their duty to leave a fortune for their children. I have personally made up my mind. I will take care of my parents when they cannot earn anything, but when they are earning, I will work on my projects no matter what they think. And I have a legal right to the family assets. I do not care what they may think. I will follow what the Bible teaches.

Children have left home and never want to go back because they know that home is a place of torment. When they earn peanuts, their parents are there greedily demanding it all to add to the much in their pockets. The Bible in Ephe. 6v. 4 says parents should not provoke their children. Provoking them brings discouragement. And these parents cannot support these children in their difficulties. We must rise up and condemn this type of greed. I remember a certain sister who used to cry a lot because of her parents. She was a house help and her parents wanted to dictate how she used her little money. They even wanted it all, making her become a slave. I cannot become a slave of my parents. If they want to curse, let them do so, but the curse causeless shall not come to rest based on Prov. 26v. 2. There are many people who cannot accept to work near home because their parents want to know each and every little thing about them. They want to know how much you earn, and even go ahead and budget for you!!! Such kinds of parents are a nuisance and must be opposed. Do not become a slave of any man. When time comes to take care of parents, we will dos so, but when it is not yet, we will mind our own business, and they must do the same.Honoring and loving your parents does not mean living in fear and worshiping them. You must be hard on them when it comes to doing what is right. They had their own live to live, and so they should not try to live yours. How many parents do we know, who when they get money from their children, they go and use it with other women or men, and give it out to the children of those they commit adultery with.

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