Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So we're talking spiritual development of our kids on this week's daily, and I hope you're listening every day and telling your parent friends because this is an important week. In fact, there's nothing more important in what we do as parents than instill in

our kids a healthy love, respect, and follow ship of Jesus Christ. He is everything, and we want him to be

their everything in life, because we won't always be here, but he will. Today's topic is another important one in this

regard. How do we instill in our kids a no conviction in a world that tells us we should always say

yes, except, of course, when it comes to standards. Interesting that that's about the only thing the

world doesn't want us to say yes to. Everything else, pretty much anything goes. I want to talk about how to

instill in our kids that inner strength to say no, even when everyone around them, it seems,

is saying yes. You ready? Well, peer pressure is a real thing. It's been around forever, I guess.

I mean, you could even

say there was some peer pressure going on in the garden with Adam from Eve and even Eve from

the snake. And look, probably every single one of us has done something at some point that someone

talked us into or we knew better but said yes to because we wanted to please them it's hard in our society to say no if

you've followed me for any time you know that I have said that I find it important as a leader

to follow some influencers online who I actually fundamentally disagree with but are clearly

social influencers and clearly loudly speaking into our culture because I need to

know what things I need to be speaking into, what truth I need to be preaching to combat some of

these wrong messages that are going out. The other day, one of these social influencers posted

something about God being a God of yes.

And it wasn't aligned to, or in the context of the scripture about all the promises of God are yes

and amen. It wasn't like that at all. It was this humanistic idea that anything we feel or

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