The Lies of I’s—Turn “I Deserve” into “How to Serve”

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

How often do you hear yourself saying “I”? I want. I need. I wish. We have these “Lies of I’s” – lies we tell ourselves that culture tells us are a truth. My husband I were having a discussion the other day and I heard myself saying, “I deserve.” That’s a phrase I don’t even let my kids use, and here I was disagreeing with Corey saying, “I deserve better.” We seem to live in a world and society that is full of entitlement. We have the participation trophy generation that was always told they couldn’t lose and the social media natives that are constantly comparing people’s perfectly curated lives to their own. How do we teach our kids to overcome this attitude and that life isn’t always fair? Listen to the latest episode of the #FearlessPodcast where I look at the root of the problem and 4 ways we can have conversations with our children about serving and not deserving.

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0:00.0	Proverbs 910 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and we need to have a healthy view of what fearing the Lord is and
0:08.8	Fearless is a word that we use here on the podcast all the time. My podcast is named Fearless. It's a word that's so important to me, but it can have different meanings and different stages of life and different connotations, but we are of course are living in a hostile culture that's an increasingly hostile to
0:26.2	biblical truth of course and I wrote a fearless family devotional for those that didn't know. And it's a study on First Peter.
0:34.0	It's only 14 days long,
0:36.0	but it's to help equip you to spend daily time in God's word
0:39.0	and to help you prepare your family
0:41.0	to have a fearless faith. And Peter of course he wrote this
0:44.7	short letter to believers who were living in turbulent times just like we are
0:49.0	today and I will put a link in the show notes of how you can get your own copy but it's also on my website
0:55.2	sissy Graham Lynch.
1:05.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith and a compromising culture. Welcome back to another episode of Fearless and today I'm going to introduce kind of a
1:29.6	mini series that has just been on my heart and I'm going to call it the lies of eyes and these are the
1:36.4	lies we tell ourselves that have come from our culture that culture tells us as a truth and we've heard
1:42.2	them over and over and some of
1:44.6	them you might already have heard in a Christian circle kind of discussed
1:47.3	already these are nothing new but for the content of myself I'm raising two children I'm raising three children but two of them are at the age where they're starting to kind of catch on to some of these cultural tells and I have a daughter 10 years old, love those preteen years.
2:04.7	And we're just kind of starting to have these conversations
2:07.4	of why this doesn't work.
2:08.4	And the first lie of I is I deserve.
2:12.8	Corey and I were in our kitchen the other day
2:15.8	and we were probably having a very heated conversation.
2:18.9	I'm sure we are not the only ones
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