Uninvited Guests - How to Develop Your Child's Full Potential, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We all have dreams for our children. But do you know that God has a dream for your child that is higher and even more amazing than yours? If that’s true, how do you cooperate with God to allow His highest and best purposes to become a reality in the life of your son or your daughter? Join Chip and find out how to develop your child’s full potential.
Introduction: God’s Dream for Your Child
- You must understand your child’s two primary needs are for SIGNIFICANCE and SECURITY.
- You must recognize your child’s primary responsibility is to learn OBEDIENCE.
- You must remember, obedience is a DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS.
- You must commit to providing the necessary RESOURCES for your child to learn obedience.
- Obedience is achieved when your child has TRANSFERRED his/her primary love, submission, and dependency from YOU to JESUS CHRIST.
Three characteristics of righteous children
- They make wise DECISIONS. -Philippians 1:9-11
- They keep their COMMITMENTS. -Proverbs 20:6
- They care genuinely for OTHERS. -John 15:13
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| 0:00.0 | We all have dreams for our children, but did you know that God has a dream for your child |
| 0:07.0 | that is higher and more amazing than anything that you could ever imagine? |
| 0:11.0 | The question is, how do you cooperate with God so that his dream becomes a reality in your child's life? |
| 0:19.0 | That's today. Stay with me. Welcome to this edition of Living on the |
| 0:24.4 | Edge with Chip Ingram. Our mission is to inspire Christians, to be genuine followers of Jesus, |
| 0:30.0 | and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. Well, coming up today, |
| 0:35.0 | Chip continues our series Uninvited Guests by highlighting the one crucial |
| 0:39.4 | habit every child needs to learn that'll help fulfill the dream God has for him. |
| 0:44.3 | Well, Chip's got a lot of ground to cover, so if you're ready, let's settle in for his message |
| 0:48.5 | how to develop your child's full potential. |
| 0:52.4 | When I was a young dad, I remember, I have four children, and I remember at times coming |
| 0:58.7 | home late from a meeting or maybe being out of town and house is quiet and we had a small |
| 1:05.4 | little house with real tiny bedrooms that were all one, two, three and then ours was over |
| 1:09.7 | here. And I could turn off the three, and then ours was over here. |
| 1:11.2 | And I could turn off the bathroom, all the lights, except the bathroom light, and get just |
| 1:16.4 | enough light. |
| 1:18.1 | And I'd been out, and so I'd sort of gaze and see my little girl there, you know. |
| 1:23.7 | Little girls when they sleep look like angels. |
| 1:26.9 | Then my youngest son, he looks like he and the covers have been doing battle, you know. |
| 1:32.3 | And then the twins were in the last bedroom. |
| 1:35.3 | And, you know, sometimes when you're really sort of keyed up, |
| 1:38.3 | you're not really quite ready to go to bed. |
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