Truths About Prayer
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Even if your child is doing well, it's still important to pray for him or her. But what about when you don't feel like praying? John and Danny explain the importance of making prayer a regular habit in your parenting. Featuring Jodie Berndt.
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| 0:00.0 | Even if your child is doing well, I'm sorry, you really never get to a place where you can stop praying for your son or daughter. |
| 0:10.0 | My kids have all grown up now. They're all adults. The stakes are higher. I actually |
| 0:15.3 | pray more for my children as adults than I did when they were kids. I don't know why that |
| 0:19.6 | is except life gets scarier and more dangerous and the stakes, as I said, get higher. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny |
| 0:30.4 | and Danny, I know that you pray a lot for your kids. Talk about that. What's that like? |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah, it really lines up my mind towards their lives. It causes me to think carefully about what is it that I really want for my kids? |
| 0:46.0 | Have I been listening to what they've been telling me and what they're struggling with? |
| 0:50.0 | And how do I want to enter into that conversation with my Heavenly Father to bring this before him |
| 0:56.2 | and to show my love for them and to think deeper about their lives, to think the long view and the short view into my kids lives |
| 1:06.7 | and then to let them know, hey I prayed for you, just know that. |
| 1:10.0 | I, this and sometimes I'll tell my son or daughter I'll say hey I prayed this for you to show them I'm really listening and paying attention to where things are at and I'm I'm in this with you |
| 1:21.6 | as you battle this or as you praise God for some things that have |
| 1:25.9 | happened in your life. That's good. Now let me just ask a side conversation |
| 1:30.5 | your personal counseling time for John Fuller. My prayers have been all over the |
| 1:35.0 | map these past 30-some years for my kids. I remember praying for them to be successful for |
| 1:42.0 | God and then I realized do I really want that or do I want them to |
| 1:46.7 | be real Christ followers and not worry about some specific outcome that John would |
| 1:52.4 | like for them. So then I started praying that John would like for them. |
| 1:53.0 | So then I started praying that they would be just men and women of godly character. |
| 1:58.0 | There's room for a lot of different kinds of prayers, right? |
| 2:02.0 | And what I hear you saying, what I like about what I'm saying, a lot of different kinds of prayers, right? |
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