After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that resources that they

suggested, they helped me tremendously in getting over guilt

and shame, walking me through that so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good

mom. So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all without focus on the family.

I'm Jim Daly.

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But I want to speak to the parents whose kids are presenting concerns for them because I think we can make our children into idols

when we give in to worry and fear, when we allow those concerns to take up the radar screen

of our thoughts and our minds rather than God and his glory and his throne and his power,

kids can become idols when they make us so proud and they can become idols when they make us so worried, and they can become idols when they make us so

worried.

That's Jody Burnt, who shared with us last time about the importance of prayer and how you can

use God's word to pray more effectively for your teenager.

You'll hear more today on the special Best of 2024 program of Focus on the Family with Jim

Daily.

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