How Should You Pray With Your Kids? | 344
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jerrad shares a chapter from the Dad Tired Mixtape audiobook. He tells a story from early parenting; one night when exhaustion and insecurity hit hard. It raised a question he hadn’t fully answered: Are we praying with our kids the way we should?
He discusses the barriers that keep dads from praying out loud with their children. Jerrad also reflects on how Jesus prayed: simple, honest, and from the heart. Then he connects it to what it means to lead your family in prayer today.
Tune in to hear how simple prayers can change the atmosphere in your home.
What You’ll Hear:
- Why many dads feel stuck or insecure about praying with their kids
- The power of short, spontaneous, and authentic prayer
- What Scripture reveals about how Jesus prayed
- Real stories from the Dad Tired community
- Why spiritual leadership isn’t about performance
- How to break through awkwardness and start praying out loud
- The connection between your personal prayer life and family leadership
- Practical ways to invite God into everyday moments
Episode Resources:
- Dad Tired Q&A Mixtape
- The Dad Tired Community – https://www.dadtired.com
- Invite Jerrad to speak – https://www.jerradlopes.com
- Read The Dad Tired Book – https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. If you're brand new here, if you just stumbled your way upon this podcast, we're really glad that you did, that you found us. seriously and sometimes it's hard to find guys who are like-minded in that way and so we just want to |
| 0:21.7 | connect you with other guys give you a bunch of resources to help equip you to be the man god's called |
| 0:26.1 | you to be speaking of resources we have a bunch of like books and conferences we do one-day conferences |
| 0:31.5 | retreats all kinds of fun stuff but we do have a brand new book coming out next week called |
| 0:35.7 | the dad tired mixtate where we address a bunch |
| 0:37.9 | of questions that guys are typically asking. And we just want to look through these questions |
| 0:42.1 | in a gospel center, Jesus-centered way. And so we actually have an audio book chapter from that |
| 0:47.8 | book that we're going to play for you today. We're specifically talking about what it looks like |
| 0:51.5 | for you to lead your family and prayer, specifically |
| 0:54.4 | how to pray with your kids. And so if that's something that you want to grow in, you figure, |
| 0:58.5 | you know, you probably know I should be praying with my kids or I want to be better at |
| 1:02.3 | praying with my kids or more consistent or whatever, but you feel stuck in that. This episode |
| 1:06.7 | hopefully will be helpful for you on your journey in that way. Also, if you're brand new and you want to get a |
| 1:11.4 | better idea of what we're all about, on December 12th of 2022, we recorded an episode called The Fight |
| 1:16.3 | That Changed Everything. If you go back and listen to that episode, it will give you an idea of what we're |
| 1:21.2 | all about as a ministry, kind of the heartbeat behind everything we do over here at Dad Tired. So go back and listen to that. Again, that was December 12th, 2022 called The Fight That Changed Everything. But anyway, I love you guys. Thank you for coming back |
| 1:33.2 | and listening every week. I just ran into a guy yesterday. I was at the airport and I was running to |
| 1:36.6 | the gate and some guy yelled my name out, which startled me. But he was a dad tired listener and |
| 1:42.5 | got to talk to him for just a minute. And just |
| 1:44.4 | so cool, man, that there's like guys all over the world who are trying to figure this stuff out, |
| 1:48.6 | just a bunch of humble guys who are like, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm not willing to |
| 1:52.6 | give up. I really do want to be the husband, the father, on this journey with you guys. I love you. I hope this episode is |
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