Praying for Your Teen’s Heart and Future (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Parents often face the teen years with fear because we often don’t fully understand what struggles teens are dealing with. Jodie wants to equip parents of teens to pray with confidence about dating, peer pressure, social media, prodigals and more — using the power of God’s Word. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0	As a young teen Mary became a follower of Jesus after reading focus on the family's
0:06.2	Brio magazine.
0:08.1	And I remember thinking to myself, I don't have that.
0:11.3	I'd really like to know what that's about and so it was an inward
0:16.2	decision right there that I made in my room after reading you know this article in the
0:20.9	Brio magazine that I want to have that kind of
0:23.6	walk with God that this girl is talking about.
0:26.0	For 30 years we've helped Mary grow in her faith.
0:29.0	We've strengthened her marriage and now we're equipping her to be a good mom to her own kids.
0:34.8	Like really focused on the family has been and all the different resources and
0:39.3	individuals the voices of focusing the family. It's really been a mentor to me, to my family. It's really been a mentor to me, to my family and just it's
0:46.2	cool to see the legacy. I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can save more
0:50.6	families like Mary's every month.
0:53.2	Please call 800 a family or donate it
0:56.0	focus on the family.
0:57.3	dot com slash family.
1:00.4	My favorite parenting teen prayer comes out of Philippians 2 verse 13.
1:10.0	That verse says, it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
1:15.8	In other words, he's giving you, he's giving your teens the desire and the power to do what pleases
1:22.0	him.
1:22.8	We think it's on us.
1:23.8	I got to get my kid to think and say and do, you know, the right thing.
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