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 devotional where we share the

word, prayers,

in 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. Well, hello, hello. We are wrapping up another week's

worth of shows on the Friday Five, Five Word Prayers Daily around here, and you guys love this Friday

five, which makes me so happy.

Today on our list of five things, we're diving into a topic a lot of you asked me to cover

how do you deal with a prodigal, meaning if you take out the Christian lingo, a child who was

raised in the faith, but for whatever reason they leave the faith and for the moment aren't returning

to God. I know it's a deep ache for many

parents and some of us who may not be in that place right now may find ourselves one day there,

so we should pay close attention to what approach to take when this happens. Because we all know

that while we parent children, we are ultimately only responsible for one person, and that's ourselves, right? All of us get to choose.

All of us get to move away from God and faith if we want to. And so I think the best thing as parents,

we can do is talk about how to help the best we can in our approach of a prodigal child.

You ready? Let's go.

So let's get into it.

Five ways to deal with a prodigal in today's Friday five.

Number one, take the direct approach, talk to them.

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