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1. The goal of raising children is for them to leave home as mature adults ready to start their own families. This empty nest time should be used to focus on one's spouse through fulfilling marital duties and avoiding arguments. 2. With more free time, parents should focus on ministry work like teaching younger women and the word of God, as the example of Anna in the Bible shows. 3. God provides for his people as they age, so empty nesters can cast their cares on him through prayer and have his peace.

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Empty Nest

1. The goal of raising children is for them to leave home as mature adults ready to start their own families. This empty nest time should be used to focus on one's spouse through fulfilling marital duties and avoiding arguments. 2. With more free time, parents should focus on ministry work like teaching younger women and the word of God, as the example of Anna in the Bible shows. 3. God provides for his people as they age, so empty nesters can cast their cares on him through prayer and have his peace.

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1. The goal of raising children is to have them leavehome as mature,
God-fearing adults, ready to have their own homes.
~ Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and
mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

:d Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are a crown to the aged, and


parents are the pride of their children.
Psalm 78:5-6 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the
~ law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their
children, so the next generation would know them, even the

;I children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

Joel 1:3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to
their children, and their children to the next generation.
:I 2. Use this time to focus on your mate.
Proverbs 21: 19 Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome
:J and ill-tempered wife.
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the

tI builder of everything.
1 Corinthians 7:3-5 The husband should fulfill his marital duty
to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body
tI does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same
way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to
his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and
:I for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come

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together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your
lack of self-controL

Proverbs 5:18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice
in the wife of your youth.

3. Focus on ministry as time is more free.


Titus 2:3-5 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in
the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine,
but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women
to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure,
to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,
so that no one will malign the word of God.
Psalm 92: 12-14 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they
will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD,
they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit
in old age, they will stay fresh and green.

Anna's Example

Luke 2:36-37 There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter


of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived
with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a
widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but
worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

4. God provides for us as we age.


Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he
who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will
sustain you and I will rescue you.
Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain
you; he will never let the righteous fall.
Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in
everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in ChristJesus.

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