Fighting for Peace in Your Home [Cultivating Spiritual Growth in Your Home 2 of 5]

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 2 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home.

One of the most frequent questions we're asked is how we maintain a spirit of peace as a family of five and all we have going on. "How do you carry such calm in your interactions with each other?" wrote one long-time listener. To begin, peace doesn't come without a fight.

In this episode, we talk about practical ways you can war for and cultivate peace in your home.

We talk about:

Why our bodies feel safer in chaos than peace
Specific ways to consecrate your home and use prayer as your greatest weapon in the war for peace
How to take dominion over what God has given you
Keeping short accounts of sin in our lives
Playing the long game when seeing the day-to-day overwhelm

This series comes with a pdf workbook / discussion guide to go along with all five episodes (found in show notes below). You can use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.

Show Notes:
Download the free workbook / discussion guide for the Summer Series. https://www.famousathome.com/summerseriessignup

Order a copy of the Famous at Home book:
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John Eldredge's Daily Prayer (Head of Household)
https://wildatheart.org/pray

Sign up for the Famous at Home Starter Bundle
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Watch this episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/MyzmAb20Xrg

Time Stamps:
0:52 Introduction
3:10 Why we use the words fighting and peace together
7:15 Defining peace
10:05 Peace according to Philippians 4
14:20 Why we feel safer in chaos than we do in peace
17:54 The spiritual and real life implications of not warring for peace in the here-and-now
21:05 How it looks practically to war for peace
23:10 How to make decisions for peace and walk in Jesus’ authority
27:05 Prayers to pray to war for peace in your home
30:36 Practical ways to pray and war for peace in your home
42:30 Keep short accounts of sin in your life
43:20 Playing the long game for your soul

Transcript

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0:00.0	So what comes to me is that we're talking about peace and really what is peace is that I'm going
0:05.3	back to this treadmill analogy somewhat. But to also to just call this out, if your little
0:14.0	limbic system is used to chaos as norm, it will actually feel safer in chaos than it will in peace.
0:22.6	So when you try to remove things from your life, like the things we're about to talk about,
0:28.2	and you might actually feel anxiety rise in you because all you know is chaos.
0:36.2	You are listening to the famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and
0:40.8	Christy Straub. Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:51.9	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. We are in week two of a five-part series. This is our last one for the summer called cultivating a spiritual growth environment in your home. Last week, we talked about rethinking the household. This week, we're talking about fighting for peace in your home. And the reason we're having this conversation is because you have to war for
1:13.0	peace. And there's a lot of people who say, man, you guys just seem to really be at peace. You be at
1:18.2	peace. You know, just, and again, it's not always this way. But generally speaking, we'll get
1:22.8	comments. Like, you guys seem to just be at peace with each other. You seem to be peace. And you know what?
1:27.3	It has been warred know what it has been
1:27.8	wared for it has been fought for through prayer intercession uh therapy coaching spiritual
1:36.0	development and growth direction uh we war for peace and in ephesian six you know when paul is
1:43.8	writing about the armor of God and putting
1:46.2	on the armor of God, one of the things he talks about is readying yourselves with the shoes of
1:51.5	the gospel of peace. These are like combat boots that we've got to have, we have to get to be
1:56.3	ready in season for fighting for peace. And so what does that look like for each of us in our home?
2:03.8	I genuinely believe God wants to instill a spirit of peace in our homes. And there's a lot of
2:09.2	things combating that. Technology, screen time, breaking news cycle, everything that's happening
2:17.0	in our world around us right now is warring for
2:20.0	our peace. But how can we step in and receive the peace of God which surpasses all understanding?
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