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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

How Prayer Can Reset Your Mind

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When you're stressed as a parent, taking a second to pray is one of the best ways to calm your mind. Danny opens up about how he learned to pray for his kids when they were little. Also, Jim Daly talks with Hillary Ferrer and Julie Loos on how to pray even when you don't feel like God is close.

 

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:12.4

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0:14.7

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0:16.3

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0:23.3

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0:33.0

Parenting is pretty stressful at times. I mean, it's a joyful journey, but there are moments you're going to be going, ah!

0:39.6

And prayer can help kind of calm things down.

0:43.1

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta.

0:45.3

He's our vice president of parenting here.

0:47.3

And Danny, I'm not suggesting there was a time when you realized, oh, yeah, I could pray.

0:52.9

But it seems like his parents, we get into these moments,

0:55.7

and one of the last things we think about is prayer.

0:58.6

Why is that?

1:00.0

We say, I'll just pray about it.

1:03.5

And it's, man, that's a weapon.

1:04.9

It's truly our spiritual weapon.

1:07.3

And that is having an ongoing conversation with our Heavenly Father,

1:10.7

and it actually

1:11.3

brings us closer within our brain pathways to other people when we pray and we're close to our

1:18.3

Heavenly Father.

1:18.9

So it's fantastic.

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