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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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How do you pray for your teen when he or she feels insecure? Danny and John address how they've tried to do that when their kids were in the teen years. Plus, Jim Daly asks Jodie Berndt how she battled insecurities in her own teenage years, and ways the Bible gave her comfort.
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1:02.2 | I think during every parent's journey, particularly during the teen years, there is a kind of a heightened |
1:08.4 | sense of prayer. I need to be praying for my teenager. |
1:12.4 | And I know you get it if you've got teens or if you're about to have teens. It's good to |
1:17.9 | pray over them. And we're going to talk a little bit about that today. I'm John Fuller, |
1:22.6 | joined by Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team. Danny, did you find like your prayer life |
1:28.3 | intensified as your kids were becoming teenagers? I'd say yes. I mean, I guess intensified is a good |
1:37.8 | word, John. I loved getting to know more about their internal struggles with some more words to them, a little bit |
1:46.6 | more depth to really what is happening inside. And everybody carries insecurities. Everyone that's |
1:52.2 | listening, us, John, you and I, we carry insecurities with us, some more than others and some more |
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