{"id":8540,"date":"2025-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2015-08-19T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:04:37","slug":"how-god-chastises-disciplines-his-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/how-god-chastises-disciplines-his-children\/","title":{"rendered":"How God chastises and disciplines His children"},"content":{"rendered":"Grace and peace to you from the Lord Jesus Christ! Welcome to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d! Today I would like to talk about\u00a0how God chastises and disciplines His children<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBasically, there are four ways God uses to discipline us:\r\n\r\n \r\n
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  1. God uses His Word, the Bible to discipline us.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nDo you have some separate time to read and personally study God\u2019s Word? Do you study the Word together with other believers? Do you listen regularly to the preaching of the Word? All these issues are very important, since it is the Holy Scripture that God uses to speak to us. Through the Word God corrects us and gives us important instruction concerning the way we should live. God sees and know how we live. God knows all of our hidden desires and thoughts, and He wants to correct us through His Word.\r\n\r\n \r\n
    \u00abAll Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work\u00bb\u00a0(2 Timothy, 3:16-17).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
    \u00abTeach me, O LORD, the way of Your statues, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. (..) Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 118:33-34, 133).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
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    1. God disciplines or disciples us through the people that have authority over us.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nGod sometimes speaks to us by sending us a word through our pastor or someone else who has spiritual authority over us. None of us should live isolated from other believers. We must be connected to one another and be accountable to one another. This is one of the ways how God can change, correct and prepare us to be the instruments of His mercy. The following Scripture passages emphasize the importance of this thought:\r\n\r\n \r\n
      \u00ab…submitting to one another in the fear of God\u00bb\u00a0(Ephesians, 5:21).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
      \u00abObey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 13:17).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
      \u00abLikewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for \u201cGod resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.\u201d\u00bb\u00a0(1 Peter, 5:5).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nApostle Paul encouraged young preachers to do the work of the ministry that God had called them to do. The important part of their work was to correct and reprimand the people in the church that lived incorrectly or in sin:\r\n\r\n \r\n
      \u00abI charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching\u00bb\u00a0(2 Timothy, 4:1-2).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
      \u00abSpeak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you\u00bb\u00a0(Titus, 2:15).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nTomorrow we will continue talking about what other methods God uses to correct us, to prepare us for such a ministry that will be pleasing to God and bring fruit for His Kingdom.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. God uses His Word, the Bible to discipline us.\r\n\r\nDo you have some separate time to read and personally study God\u2019s Word? Do you study the Word together with other believers? Do you listen regularly to the preaching of the Word? All these issues are very important, since it is the Holy Scripture that God uses to speak to us. Through the Word God corrects us and gives us important instruction concerning the way we should live. God sees and know how we live. God knows all of our hidden desires and thoughts, and He wants to correct us through His Word.","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-7114233-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40170,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions\/40170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}