We're encouraged in the New Testament by the Apostle Paul to pray without ceasing.

But how do you do that if you have three little ones pulling on you and interrupting?

You can barely have three seconds to do anything without ceasing.

What we're going to encourage you today, we have some practical advice.

I'm John Fuller,

along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the Focus on the Family Parenting Department.

And we're going to turn now to a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Jim spoke with Stephanie Thurling and Sarah Holstrom. They have small children, and they know that there's no quiet, no privacy for a mom,

and yet they have encouragement for you to learn how to pray.

Speak to the struggle parents have about prayer.

You know, we're making a bit of an assumption there, but it is true.

It's hard to sometimes keep that perspective.

How do we pray for our kids?

Why aren't moms and dads praying for their kids as often

as maybe we should? And the other side is the guilt of it. I mean, maybe we are praying, but are we

praying enough? I mean, is there some secret formula that God has? There is no secret formula. There's

no secret formula. I think, but that's kind of part of the struggle, right? Is we think there is a secret formula.

I have to be praying in a certain way.

I have to pray for certain things.

And I have to be able to have, you know, everyone knows that person at church or in their

lives who's the most eloquent prayer.

And you just, every, they start praying and everyone starts crying. And you know, like you have to be that person to pray for your kids really well. And we just feel so strongly that God just wants your heart.

God wants to communicate with you, right? And God wants to, you to go to him with everything. And I think

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