Building Habits of Prayer With Your Children

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Parenting can be intense, especially raising young children. Moms, especially, have a desperate need for God’s help every single day. Sarah Holmstrom and Stephanie Thurling want to encourage families to make prayer time a regular part of their routine, and they suggest fun games and traditions that can help get your kids more engaged with prayer.

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0:00.0	Yes, I believe praying for my kids is important, but we get so busy, it's hard to keep up with it.
0:06.6	Prayer sounds like a good idea, but how do I start?
0:09.9	My kids need lots and lots of prayer if you get my drift.
0:14.0	Of course I pray for my kids all the time, but help me Lord.
0:19.0	Well do you pray for your children and if so a lot or a little do you pray with confidence or maybe some
0:25.1	desperation. Today I'm focused on the family we'll explore why prayer is an
0:30.1	important part of your parenting journey and how you can activate your
0:34.3	children to pray. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller and your host is
0:38.3	focused president and author Jim Daly. And Jim this is an appropriate topic for today, the National Day of Prayer
0:45.0	here in the US. Well, it's great. When you said that about confidence or desperation, the
0:49.4	answer is yes and yes. Some days it's confidence and some days it's desperation.
0:54.6	But I want to encourage our listeners and viewers
0:57.2	to take a few moments sometime today
1:00.0	to pray for this national day of prayer.
1:03.0	Pray for the nation, for the president.
1:05.4	I don't care about the party.
1:06.6	We got to pray for who's an authority over us.
1:08.7	That's what the scripture talks about.
1:11.1	Pray for wisdom, obviously, for godly wisdom, and then pray for your marriage
1:16.9	and your family.
1:18.2	And that's a good way to end on this National Day of Prayer.
1:21.6	You know, I would hope as Christian parents that we approach
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