When You Don't Know What to Pray :: Jodie Berndt [Summer of Mentorship -wk 2]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
There is so much encouragement in this episode for standing on the truth of God’s word and relying on scripture to help shape your children, teens and adult children. Of course, we as moms can’t help but be changed when we hide his word in our hearts and pray them over our family.
What we chat about:
- Using God’s word for prayers is powerful.
- There isn’t a need we’ll face in parenting that God hasn’t provided for in his word.
- Specific scriptures to pray for your child’s salvation
- Asking God what we can nurture and pray for in each child’s unique giftings
- God will accomplish the changes in your child’s character. Our job is to partner with him.
- Praying against fear and for protection
- Asking God to shape your children into good friends
- Processing popular media with your kids and discussing how it aligns or doesn’t align with a Godly world view
- The power of having others pray for your kids in community
- When prayers aren’t answered the way we want, God is still writing their stories.
- Free resources available at https://jodieberndt.com/resources
- Ephesians 4:29 - Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- John 15:7 - If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Psalm 121:7-8 - The Lord will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
- Acts 26:18 - Open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
- Colossians 3:12 - Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
- Philippians 2:13 - for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
- Psalm 91:11 - For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
- Proverbs 17:17 - Shape my child into a friend who loves at all times
- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
- Proverbs 16:28 - A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
- https://jodieberndt.com/
- Mom Life Unscripted YouTube Channel
- Jeannie Cunnion’s “Mom Set Free” Book
- Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children: By Jodie Berndt
- Praying the Scriptures for Your Children: By Jodie Berndt
- Praying the Scriptures for Your Life: By Jodie Berndt
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- Do you have scriptures you pray for your children? Were there scriptures Jodi shared you wanted to start using?
- What is a need you have right now in parenting that you need a verse to pray for?
- How can you incorporate praying for your children into your daily rhythm?
- Pick one of the verses/prayers Jodie shared and write it down on a Post-it or notecard. Put it somewhere you will see it and pray.
- Share a need for one of your children with the group. Pray for each other and ask God to breathe new hope and faith into your parenting.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:19.0 | And in this episode, it is week two of our summer of mentorship, |
| 0:23.4 | and I am republishing a great conversation with Jody Burnt. |
| 0:29.3 | And what the Lord has really showed me over the years, |
| 0:31.8 | as I have grown in this practice of letting his word shape my prayers, |
| 0:36.7 | is that the more we read the Bible and the more |
| 0:39.4 | we let it sort of soak into our souls and transform kind of how we think as we understand it. |
| 0:45.0 | And the more we use it to shape those prayers, the more our requests will begin to line up |
| 0:50.0 | with what God already wants to do because we're just breathing back to him, praying back to him, |
| 0:55.0 | the things that he already set in place. |
| 0:58.1 | It's like we're saying, I'm using your word to shape how I parent, how I think, and how I pray. |
| 1:04.3 | This episode originally aired in February of 2018. |
| 1:09.1 | So you can imagine that seven years ago. A lot has changed in my own house. But even then, |
| 1:16.0 | Jody was the parent to four adult children and she provides so much wisdom and perspective |
| 1:21.0 | for us moms. And I had her come on the show because she'd written several books. At that time, she'd written |
| 1:27.9 | three, and now she has even more about praying scriptures. And it was for your children, |
| 1:34.1 | teens, your young adults, and now she has some for your life and for your marriage. There's |
| 1:39.6 | even a beautiful journal for trusting God with your parenting. And the reason I included this in our |
| 1:46.1 | summer of mentorship series, the one where we're kind of leaning into John Mark Comer's |
| 1:51.7 | practicing the way is, so last week was with Jackie Hill Perry. And I really wanted to lean |
| 1:58.6 | into the concept of trusting God because John Mark |
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