It is a very important aspect of parenting to build a hedge around our family and home. Truthfully, it is God who builds the hedge, but we have to do our part. God built a hedge around Job's home. Satan was not able to touch Job until God removed the protective hedge He put around him. Satan tells God in Job 1:10: "Hast not Thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?"
God was able to build a hedge around Job, his family, and everything he owned because:
1) He was blameless and upright (a man of integrity).
2) He feared the Lord.
3) He turned away from all evil. Even allowing a little compromise of sin in our home gives an opening for enemy to come through the hedge.
4) He rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings for his children. In other words, he interceded before God for his children.
Job 1:5 says he did this CONTINUALLY! He was most concerned that his children could have sinned and cursed God in their hearts and therefore He interceded continually on their behalf.
I believe that you can build a hedge around your family as you and your husband pray daily and earnestly for your children. We can't afford not to. If we don't pray for our home and children, who else will? There are so many areas where Satan can subtly creep into our homes.
Sadly, in many homes today, there is such a spirit of worldliness that the devil fits right in. In fact, he feels quite comfortable. There's not much chance for God to build a protective hedge around the home because the devil has already come in!
May you and your husband be protecting parents who daily pray the hedge of protection around your family.
Love from Nancy Campbell