Whether they realize it or not, parents are constantly influencing their children, either for bad or for good. So how do parents communicate the fear of God in their home? How do we do this on a daily basis as we live life alongside our children? In this video, Kevin Swanson explains that parents can demonstrate to their children godly fear by being in prayer themselves, by living as though God is present everywhere and at all times, and by speaking about God in everyday conversations with their children. Being a godly example throughout the day is something that every parent should prayerfully strive to do. Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (NKJV) - “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Well, what we want for ourselves, for our husbands and wives, is that we all are godly. The word godly really has a godwardness sense. In other words, we're constantly living as if God is right there, and we are living quorum deo in the face of God. And so her children ought to recognize some godliness and some reverence about her throughout the day and the way she interacts with the problems that come up and how she prays and how she respects God and acknowledges God throughout the day. I think the fear of God is something that just has to swim throughout the entire household.

It's got to be there all the time. And children begin to recognize it as they grow up in homes that fear God.