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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

How to Hear from God About Your Kids

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes as a parent, you want to make a decision. Yet, deep inside you feel like God is telling you to do something different. Danny tells John about a time he had to follow God's lead when he didn't feel like it, and provides some insights on how to hear from the Lord about your parenting. Featuring David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock.

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0:00.0

As apparent, there are times when something happens and you want to say, I know how to handle this, but deep inside, you have the sense that God wants you to do something other than what you're feeling.

0:14.4

I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleague Dr. Danny Werta and Danny I'm sure

0:19.3

like all of us you faced that kind of scenario where the gut said this and the kind of the spirit said, well, wait.

0:25.0

Yeah, you know, there's so many of those where you think, okay, I want to, I remember this one time, this is a perfect example I was we were in a hurry I didn't

0:37.2

want to bring back the the change that I was supposed to with this clerk they gave me the wrong change

0:46.1

it was going to take some time it would end up benefiting us I think it was two dollars

0:49.9

or three dollars and my kids saw that and knew that.

0:53.6

I was going, I just don't have time,

0:55.0

I'll figure out a way to get the three, some other way.

0:58.8

And I could see it and God was just nudging me

1:01.1

and saying, this is such an important lesson for your kids

1:04.5

to watch you be honest in the little things.

1:07.8

Because when you're honest in the little things,

1:10.4

you're faithful in the big things,

1:12.2

and you've told them that and here's your opportunity to model that

1:16.4

Even though it's the most inconvenient time and I felt that now. I was going. That's just my God. Maybe it's a food

1:22.3

I got really do I need to do that and then I looked at the

1:26.2

kids and we were starting to take off in the car because I was going no I just got a

1:29.7

I got and then I turned around they said where, where are we going, Dad?

1:32.8

Well, we got to go back in.

1:33.9

We really, I can't do it this way.

1:36.8

This is not right, it's not honest.

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