Praying Scripture Over Your Child's Life
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
You try to be a godly parent. Yet, when the demands of raising your kids leave you feeling exhausted, finding time to pray and read Scripture can be hard. John and Danny offer a helpful tool that will benefit your home environment. Featuring Jodie Berndt.
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| 0:00.0 | Like many parents you probably aspire to be the mom or a dad who gets up early in the morning has a nice |
| 0:08.7 | quiet start to your day you read your Bible maybe sip some, you pray for your children. |
| 0:14.0 | All of this happens before anybody else is awake. |
| 0:17.0 | But when the demands of parenting leave you exhausted and it's now 11 or 12 at night, |
| 0:22.0 | you really don't want to get up before everybody else and you feel like I'm not measuring up. |
| 0:26.7 | If that seems familiar to you stay tuned we're going to offer some hope. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm John Fuller along with my friend and |
| 0:33.4 | focus colleague Dr Danny Huerta and we're going to be hearing right now from |
| 0:38.2 | Jody Burnt who is passionate about helping parents pray for their kids. |
| 0:43.0 | With that desire, though, was born out of some struggles, |
| 0:46.0 | and here she is now with Jim Daly. |
| 0:49.0 | Jody, welcome to focus on the family. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome back, really. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you, Jim, thank you you John. Just a big treat to be back. It's good to have you. You are passionate about prayer. You've written several books about it over the past couple of decades. |
| 1:04.0 | You, I think I'd define you well as a prayer warrior. |
| 1:07.2 | Let me go right to it. |
| 1:08.2 | How does your husband Robbie feel about this? |
| 1:11.6 | Really, you probably have taught him like Jean. I think that is a very kind label that I'm not sure I deserve if you mean do I pray do I have to pray a lot. Yes. I'm very aware of my own failings and inadequacies and I think |
| 1:25.6 | any parent will tell you we want God's best for our kids and so I might say almost any parent |
| 1:31.2 | has the makings of a prayer warrior just because we want to bring our |
| 1:34.1 | kids before the Lord. But you asked me about Robbie, what did you ask? |
| 1:37.1 | Oh no. Sometimes men in marriage we could be intimidated by prayer warrior wives like maybe I'm not doing |
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