160. Intentional Fatherhood (with Matt Adkins)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Matt Adkins, with over 25 years of music experience, is a seasoned musician, worship pastor, and service programming director at Gwinnett Church. From picking up his first guitar at 8 and growing up surrounded by the sounds of bluegrass, Matt’s journey in music has been nothing short of remarkable. Transitioning from a touring musician at 17 to a worship pastor at 30, he has dedicated his life to shaping the purpose of musicians within the local church. Matt’s passion is to create transformative worship experiences and empower others to express their faith through music. Matt lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Eryn and their three daughters.

Show Summary: Father’s Day is coming up and that can bring out a variety of feelings in us. Some of us come from broken families with absent fathers or divorced families where we’ve seen a parent only part time. Today’s guest is learning how to parent three daughters in the aftermath of divorce and remarriage. Despite that, Matt Adkins does everything he can to be an intentional father. Join Elisa Morgan and Eryn Adkins as they talk with Matt about his different seasons of fatherhood and parenting teenage daughters during this God Hears Her conversation.

Notes and Quotes:

“When it’s from the Holy Spirit, it just flows. You don’t have to force it.” —Matt Adkins
“If you’re not intentional with the time you have, the time goes fast.” —Eryn Adkins
“They [little girls] don’t want to be fixed, they want to be heard.” —Matt Adkins
“The relationship between me and my heavenly Father, and my relationship with my 3 girls as a father, the thing that I desire most with my girls, is the thing that my Father desires with me—time.” —Matt Adkins

Links:

Father’s Day Video: https://youtu.be/21N5O1N5OKg?si=X-l0AgBzkpbOz5tO
God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
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Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/
Elisa’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisamorganauthor/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The biggest thing that I've been learning lately is it goes back to a word that we've already thrown out today is surrender and the relationship between me and my Heavenly Father and the relationship between me and my three girls as a father.
0:18.5	The thing that I desire most for my girls is the thing that our Heavenly Father desires
0:25.5	most of me, which is relationship.
0:34.3	You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you,
0:40.8	He sees you, and He loves you because you are his. Find out how these realities free you today on God
0:47.2	Hears Her. Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Erin Atkins. And I'm Elisa Morgan. Father's Day is coming up. And if you've been
0:56.4	a listener for a while, you know that we like to do special episodes with a dad or someone that
1:02.0	can speak into fatherhood. Today's guest is extra special. Now, why is that, Erin? Because it's my
1:09.9	husband.
1:15.1	I have been wanting to get Matt on this podcast for so long.
1:20.2	He's a father of three daughters, and he has so much insight for different seasons of fatherhood.
1:25.6	He's super intentional with everything that he does, and I just can't wait for this conversation.
1:27.1	I may either, Aaron.
1:34.5	Okay, well, let's start off this God hears her conversation by asking Matt more about who he is.
1:42.3	A musician started playing guitar when I was 17, traveled, did a lot of traveling in my 20s.
1:46.5	And now I work out of church, Gwinnett Church.
1:52.9	And I've been pouring into shaping the next generation of musicians for over a decade.
1:54.4	I love that.
2:03.6	I feel like it's my calling from the Lord to pass on my experience and knowledge of what I've learned and really just shaping the purpose of the musician within the local church. So I love it. As far as my fatherhood, I have three
2:12.3	girls, 16, 14, and 8. They're all in the evens. And you got those from a different relationship than your relationship with Eric.
2:19.8	My former spouse and I, we, yeah, Hallie was born in 2008 and then 2010.
2:25.2	And the last one was born on Pie Day.
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