Hi, friend. I'm so grateful you've joined me on the Jesus Over Everything show. If you haven't heard the news, we have gone retro this summer. For the months of June and July, we are featuring our five word prayers daily. The show, this show started as, and so many of you love so much, five-minute podcast shows on topics of all kinds, the short inspiration you need for every day of the week.

So enjoy these shows, keep listening all summer, and see you right here back in August for a

powerful season six.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray

will be five minutes well spent. So, parents, this month is dedicated to you. It's sort of

a parenting theme month on the show, and this fresh week is all about the spiritual side of things.

I suspect, and by the way, what I hear from you

is that the spiritual lives of our kids, raising them to grow up and love Jesus, is the most

important thing in our lives. I certainly hope that's the truth because their greatest desire

is going to drive everything else. If they live for themselves, it will be a very

miserable, self-centered life. But if they live for Jesus, it will be the most amazing, fulfilling

life. And I think as parents, we want to know how to help them get there. Well, today's show is

going to cover what I believe to be the absolute key in this, really, truly. So stick

around to hear more. I hear a lot of parents say this about their kids. I just want them to be

happy. And I get this because, let me tell you, there is nothing that brings us more joy as parents

than to see our kids being happy and fulfilled. On the other side of that, there is nothing that brings us more joy as parents than to see our kids being happy and

fulfilled. On the other side of that, there's not much worse than seeing our kids unhappy or miserable.

When my oldest son went off to college his freshman year, he was pretty unhappy for a time.

And quite honestly, he wanted to come home really after the first few weeks, but especially at the

Christmas break after that first semester, which is I know familiar to a lot of parents who've

sent their kids off their freshman year of college. It's just a rough time kind of. And everything

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