Trusting God and Your Instincts
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What does it look like to trust God when your child is struggling? John and Danny share about the difference counseling can make for a hurting parent, and Jim Daly speaks with Allison Bottke on how she's learned to trust God with her adult son.
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| 0:00.0 | If your child is struggling, it might be easy for friends to look on and say, |
| 0:06.8 | well, just trust God. It'll be okay. And those folks mean well, but what does it mean to trust God when you're facing a really |
| 0:14.9 | difficult circumstance with your child? |
| 0:17.7 | I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Werta who heads up our focus on the family parenting |
| 0:21.9 | team and Danny I know we've got parents who are thinking, |
| 0:25.0 | that's me. |
| 0:26.0 | I am really struggling with trusting God right now |
| 0:28.9 | because my child just, you know, fill in the blank. |
| 0:31.6 | They're making bad choices or they're they've painted themselves into a corner and I'm losing sleep over this |
| 0:37.4 | How do I respond? Yeah, and that's such a hard place to be in it's it's super difficult. I mean trust itself is difficult but when you |
| 0:45.4 | feel absolutely powerless and helpless even more so and it's when it's your child that is self-destructing that can be a place where you feel very, very powerless. |
| 0:59.2 | And so really a parent that's in that place, What I've seen go well is a parent that journals |
| 1:05.6 | and writes down all the thoughts. |
| 1:07.3 | Just takes however long and just vomits |
| 1:10.0 | their thoughts into paper, in the |
| 1:15.0 | and the end of the journal to let God know here are my thoughts and I'm giving them to you |
| 1:17.2 | they're not going away this is my angst this is my concern and they pray over |
| 1:22.0 | that but then having people pray with them is a good way to |
| 1:25.3 | manage that and then you have to do that hard thing and that is to know that God is |
| 1:30.6 | shaping your son or daughter and they're on a journey of |
| 1:34.5 | transformation and sometimes that's pruning and shaping that can be very painful |
| 1:39.0 | we've heard the Anvil and other ways other analogies of how life is sharpened along the way and that's |
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