Quiet Times for Noisy Families
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Scriptures
Deuteronomy 32:47
Psalm 42:1-2
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Matthew 6:33
Mentioned in Podcast
Little Visits with God -This collection of devotions has served as a devotional resource for families with children (ages 7 to 10) for 50 years. An editor’s letter serves as a foreword, encouraging parents to attend weekly worship and to include devotions in their daily routine.
Each devotion clearly articulates the message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ and offers practical examples of God’s action on our lives today. Each includes a Bible verse, short reading, activity suggestion, and prayer starter.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everybody. This is Heidi, C. John. Welcome to the Busy Mom podcast. Today is Monday, |
| 0:05.7 | December 18th. And wow. Can I just say it's almost Christmas. It's a week from today. Christmas |
| 0:12.8 | is happening a week from today. I hope you guys are doing good. Today we're going to talk a little |
| 0:16.9 | bit about the myth of quiet time. It's mailbox Monday. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:30.0 | So I got a letter from a mom a few weeks ago and she sounded really discouraged. She said that |
| 0:36.4 | she had been trying to do her quiet time by herself and it wasn't working. So she tried to do |
| 0:41.9 | quiet time with her children and that was frustrating. And she said she feels weak as a mom |
| 0:48.0 | and discouraged in her time alone with the Lord. And so I thought, you know what? I think what's |
| 0:53.3 | happening to her. And she asked to remain anonymous. So I'm going to say, this is for you, |
| 0:58.3 | anonymous for the person who feels discouraged in their quiet time. I want to just remind you |
| 1:04.4 | really quickly that I believe that that is by design. We've talked about that on the podcast before. |
| 1:10.4 | How the enemy will come in and just make us feel like we're failing. And I'm here to tell you |
| 1:15.9 | right now and I say this to homeschool moms all the time, your 10 minutes in the Bible every day with |
| 1:20.8 | your with your children or alone with the Lord God will multiply it like the loaves and the fishes. |
| 1:27.1 | Good like that. And so I'm going to take you back to the word today and just encourage you |
| 1:32.4 | in what God says about not only the priority of his word and then I'm going to also give you some |
| 1:38.9 | ideas. So some practical things. So I'm pulling this mailbox Monday quiet time for noisy families |
| 1:45.6 | because I have a noisy family. And so a moment of silence for everybody with a noisy family. |
| 1:51.7 | Before I get too much farther into this, I want to let you guys know. |
| 1:56.2 | Well, a couple of really cool things are going on. First of all, I am going to be speaking. |
| 2:01.0 | I'm going to be come out and come to a monstron conference. You guys, I'm heading to Sparta, |
| 2:05.9 | New Jersey. So I'll be flying nonstop. I'm kind of excited about this actually with my girls |
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