Prepare Your Kids for Spiritual Battles
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The Christian life is not free from hardship. John and Danny describe how to talk to your kids about difficult circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Before he returned to heaven, it's recorded in John's Gospel, chapter 16, that Jesus told his disciples, |
| 0:18.3 | in this world you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world world and that's a good lesson for us to remember |
| 0:26.4 | and to teach our kids we're going to face hardship in the Christian life but God |
| 0:30.8 | promises to never leave us I'm John Fuller along with Danny |
| 0:35.2 | Werta. He heads up our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the |
| 0:38.8 | family and let's go back to a conversation Jim Daly and I had with author Shauna Pilgrine in which Shauna was talking about |
| 0:46.4 | her family moving to San Francisco to serve God and some of the difficulties their family |
| 0:52.0 | faced. Here's how Jim Daly began that conversation. |
| 0:54.8 | Tell us about the day you were taking some food to a family when something scary happened. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean this is you know again these things are all tied together. The more you risk for the Lord, I think the more spiritually you're rewarded in seeing his actions, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Right. Well, and of course, you know, just as much as God is alive and working in our cities, |
| 1:16.8 | the enemy certainly is too. And so this one felt definitely like an attack. |
| 1:21.0 | But we had just gotten our new minivan and the kids had deemed it the Spy Mobile because it had, you know, dark windows. |
| 1:28.1 | So we were driving the Spy Mobile downtown to take a meal to a family and we scored a great parking spot which is hard to do |
| 1:36.7 | hard to do in the city I used to work in the bay area you know you know so we were all |
| 1:40.9 | high-fiving because we got a great parking spot. |
| 1:43.0 | We are probably inside the apartment for maybe half an hour. |
| 1:47.0 | And as we came down, I did the little clicker on the remote and it should have made a sound and it didn't. |
| 1:55.0 | And as I looked closer I thought, hmm, I think we've got a hole in our window. |
| 1:59.2 | So as I got closer, we realized, yes, someone had broken in and had taken our kids backpacks and made away with it. |
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