{"id":301954,"date":"2010-01-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/praying-big-for-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:00:00","slug":"praying-big-for-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/praying-big-for-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying Big for Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you praying on behalf of your son or daughter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2010-01-05.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"12.02M","filesize_raw":"12608631","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2834],"tags":[4292,4000,4798,4805],"podcast_series":[7699],"cwp_profile":[9172],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301954","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-praying-for-your-children","tag-children","tag-growing-spiritually","tag-kids","tag-praying","podcast_series-pray-big-for-your-family","cwp_profile-will-and-susie-davis","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301954\/praying-big-for-your-kids","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301954\/praying-big-for-your-kids","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xMpzMuJBLn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/praying-big-for-your-kids\/\">Praying Big for Your Kids<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/praying-big-for-your-kids\/embed\/#?secret=xMpzMuJBLn\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Praying Big for Your Kids&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"xMpzMuJBLn\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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and if it is all that I do, that is all that they hear, then I have succeeded.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, January 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0\u00a0 We are going to talk about moms and dads praying BIG for their children today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Again today, before we get into talking about praying together as a couple for our kids in particular, we want to spend some time today encouraging moms and dads, husbands and wives, to get in the Word and get your family in the Word.\u00a0 We are hoping in 2010 that families will be a little more purposeful about spending time in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 We are using the verses that are found at the beginning of each daily devotional in the devotional guide that you and your wife, Barbara, have written, <em>Moments With You,<\/em> as our jumping-off point.\u00a0 What is the January 5<sup>th<\/sup> verse?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it is a convicting verse.\u00a0 I almost hate to read it in a way because it just gets me\u2014James 1:19.\u00a0 Anybody out there know what it is?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I know what it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cEveryone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.\u201d\u00a0 If there was a verse in the Bible that was written for marriages and families, James 1:19 is it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I need to comment!\u00a0 I mean, what else do we need to do other than focus on this?\u2014be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.\u00a0 Now talk about that tonight around the dinner table, either as a couple or as a family.\u00a0 How can your family practice this?\u00a0 Maybe hold one another accountable to do this in your marriage or in your family.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Again, our hope is that throughout the year you and your family will be more purposeful and more intentional about spending time together in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 We are going to keep reinforcing that theme as we move along here during the month of January.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow I also want to quickly mention that this week and next week we are encouraging listeners to contact us and take advantage of a special offer we are making for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to attend a FamilyLife Weekend to Remember marriage conference this spring.\u00a0 Buy one registration and get a second registration free.\u00a0 Basically, when you buy your own registration, your spouse comes absolutely free.\u00a0 So it is buy one; get one free.\u00a0 It is this week and next week only.\u00a0 It is for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners.\u00a0 If you want to take advantage of this; or if you want more information about the Weekend to Remember, go to familylifeweekend.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll the information about the conferences can be found on our website.\u00a0 You can get information about the conference in Washington, D.C.\u2014the Valentine\u2019s weekend that Dennis is going to be speaking at, along with his wife, Barbara; or get information about the conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where I am going to be speaking that same weekend at the Hershey lodge or any other conferences that are coming up this spring.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you sign up for one of these conferences this week or next week and you identify yourself as a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener, if you buy one registration, the second registration is free.\u00a0 Here is how you identify yourself as a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener.\u00a0 If you are registering online, type my name\u2014type \u201cBob\u201d\u2014in the key code box; and we will automatically calculate your savings when you check out or call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 When you register over the phone, mention that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>You can say, \u201cBob sent me,\u201d or something like that.\u00a0 They will get you registered and you will qualify for the buy one; get one free FamilyLife Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference special offer for <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>listeners.\u00a0 It is good this week and next week only so go ahead and contact us and then plan to join us for a Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow we are going to talk about praying together as a couple today\u2014praying specifically for our children.\u00a0 I am curious.\u00a0 I know you and your wife, Barbara, have prayed together throughout your marriage.\u00a0 You have made it a daily discipline and have rarely missed a day when the two of you have not prayed together.\u00a0 Do you think you have spent more time praying about your marriage, or you praying for Barbara, or do you think you have spent more time together praying for your kids?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Probably our kids.\u00a0 Looking back on it, issues they are facing.\u00a0 There are six of them\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, I guess\u2026 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Numbers alone\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Statistically, that\u2019s pretty much a slam-dunk. (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It works.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There are just a lot of needs surrounding that, you know.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t wait many years, actually only two, before we started having children.\u00a0 We were in the process of having children for almost 30 years.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Pray more fervently and passionately for issues with your kids than you have for Barbara?\u00a0 I guess it depends on what the issue is.\u00a0 When Barbara\u2019s heart was racing, you were praying hard for her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0\u00a0 Various things we have faced as a couple\u2014her praying for me and me praying for her.\u00a0 Yes, I think it would be a fair answer to the question.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think it is the case for most parents.\u00a0 I mean, we are raising kids from a state of helplessness to maturity.\u00a0 There is a lot of praying along the way as those kids go through all those developmental stages.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They need parents praying for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Praying BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Praying BIG.\u00a0 We have a couple here, Will and Susie Davis, who know how to pray BIG.\u00a0 Will, Susie, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Hello.\u00a0 Thanks for having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Will is a pastor in Austin, Texas: that is because Longhorns <strong>need <\/strong>the church.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This is true.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 I agree.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We have a mutual friend, Todd Nagel, who is orange.\u00a0 He is just orange.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He is very orange.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He is very orange.\u00a0 You went to Baylor; so you are not into orange.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>N<\/strong>ot into orange.\u00a0 I love Austin, love the Horns, but I\u2019m a Baylor Bear.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Was this where you learned to pray BIG?\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>When you are a Baylor fan, every football victory is a miracle.\u00a0 Yes, you pray BIG when you go to Baylor.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are a pastor.\u00a0 You and Susie have three children.\u00a0 You have, undoubtedly, prayed often and prayed BIG for your children.\u00a0 Before we talk about praying BIG for your children, explain the concept of what it means to pray BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Praying BIG is praying the kind of prayers that Jesus teaches in the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u00a0 They are specific; they are focused; and they require faith.\u00a0 I picture Zachariah and Elizabeth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tZachariah is in the temple.\u00a0 He is the father-to-be of John the Baptist\u2014He doesn\u2019t know it yet.\u00a0 He is doing his work in the temple there, and an angel shows up and says, \u201cYour prayers have been answered.\u00a0 You are going to have a baby.\u201d\u00a0 Remember she is beyond child-bearing years.\u00a0 She is barren.\u00a0 They have never had kids.\u00a0 You go, \u201cTime out!\u00a0 Were they actually praying for a son?\u00a0 That is big, hairy, bold, and audacious\u2014not something they can do.\u00a0 I think they got their inspiration from Abraham and Sarah.\u00a0 They knew the story of God giving a child to a couple who couldn\u2019t have it.\u00a0 So they prayed for a miracle, and God gave them one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of course the funny part of the story is that as soon as the angel shows up and says, \u201cYou are going to have a son.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He gets in trouble.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Zachariah says, \u201cWell, how can this be?\u201d\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>How can he do that?\u00a0 And he had been praying for it!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He was praying BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He had been praying for it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, the story of Peter.\u00a0 Peter is imprisoned.\u00a0 There is a prayer meeting for Peter.\u00a0 (knocking)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He knocked incessantly on the door.\u00a0 \u201cLet me in!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cLet me in; let me in!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIt can\u2019t be you, Peter.\u00a0 We\u2019re praying for you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It can\u2019t be you.\u00a0 Get back in jail where you are supposed to be.\u201d\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is right!\u00a0 That is the way we are in our prayers, though.\u00a0 Even in our efforts to believe, we are feeble.\u00a0 We are weak.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The kingdom of God is a real deal.\u00a0 We are living in the kingdom\u2014He is building His kingdom in us right now.\u00a0 Prayer, I believe, is the currency of God\u2019s kingdom.\u00a0 It is how we get things done.\u00a0 It is the transactional power in the kingdom of God.\u00a0 I have to work; but most of all, I have to pray.\u00a0 I am trying to raise kingdom kids.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to raise, not just good citizens, not great soccer players, I\u2019m trying to raise men and women in my home who love Jesus and build His kingdom.\u00a0 I cannot do that without prayer.\u00a0 It is impossible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You tell a story in your book about a little girl Mariah who was in the sixth grade.\u00a0 Her mom figured out how to pray BIG for her, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We know Mariah quite well.\u00a0 She was having panic attacks.\u00a0 She was on antidepressants and she was a day or two away from being put in the psychiatric hospital.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 And she was only like 12. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 She was middle school at best.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t keep her in school.\u00a0 On the last day they dropped her off in school before they were going to pull her out and commit her and her mom through up one of those prayers \u201cOh, God.\u00a0 Help my child survive the day\u201d kind of prayers.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all prayed them.\u00a0 Her mother felt the Holy Spirit saying right then, is that the best you can do?\u00a0 Is that really all you can ask for is for your child to survive?\u00a0 And she said, okay fine.\u00a0 I want my child to prevail.\u00a0 I want my child to be healed of this and to get back to health and have a great day and a great year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSix hours later Mariah comes out and she had had a pretty good day.\u00a0 In two weeks she\u2019s off anti depressants and that panic attacks have stopped.\u00a0 We know her today as a bright, healthy child.\u00a0 The difference is I think we typically settle for the God help my child kind of prayers and Christ died to give us more than that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are parents right now who have prayed for a child who has maybe an emotional problem or a struggle at school and they\u2019ve prayed and they are not off of anti depressants or they are still acting out.\u00a0 This is tough stuff here when you step out and pray something big in the life of a child who you can\u2019t control and won\u2019t control.\u00a0 It really is up to God and God may be deciding this is going to be a part of who this child is.\u00a0 There are going to be lessons for him to learn or her to learn or you to learn.\u00a0\u00a0 There is something bigger I\u2019m up to than just resolving the problem.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to be okay taking my heart before God and pouring it out to him as David did in the Psalms and other places.\u00a0 Letting him decide what he is going to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0 Where I often fail in prayer is not being honest in my heart and saying God I really want you to heal my kid.\u00a0 Take this cup from me if it is your will.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to be mature enough to pray boldly and ask God to do big, hairy, bold, audacious things and be mature enough to let him do what he is going to do.\u00a0 That is the difference.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Susie, you\u2019ve observed your husband Will develop this message over the past 20 or almost 25 years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What is the most important thing you\u2019ve learned from him about praying BIG?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think staying at it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had two go off to college and I\u2019m sure your wife would agree it\u2019s pretty traumatic.\u00a0 Because you love those kids and you want them to walk out a godly life and as a mother I sometimes feel like their life is better when I\u2019m in it.\u00a0 But when they go off to college that is not how it works.\u00a0 There is a verse in Acts that says basically I entrust you to God and goodness of his word that he is going to give you an inheritance.\u00a0 For me that keeping at it thing is commending things back to God that really don\u2019t belong to me.\u00a0 In this case when my kids went off to college that prayer verse in Acts calmed me and helped me.\u00a0 It gave me security knowing that I was entrusting my kids back to God.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t just throwing them out to the wild blue yonder and I wasn\u2019t going to freak out when I thought about them running around doing stuff and worrying about their safety and their health.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrayer for me is continual dialog with God about basically his goodness in the world and his control in life.\u00a0 Yes, it is about things happening and things coming about but it is also a constant reminder to me of who I\u2019m in relationship with and who holds those people who are dear to me in his hand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whose will is being done here?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and I love that verse in Romans that says I do think we need to pray the things that we feel drawn to pray for but the Holy Spirit intercedes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 He knows.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 So I think our responsibility is to pray.\u00a0 And pray and pray.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think God gets mad at us because we aren\u2019t praying the right thing.\u00a0 We just need to pray and know that the Holy Spirit is going to intercede with groanings too deep for words.\u00a0 He is going to translate for God the Father the things that need to be happening.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think many of us pray for our kids when we are very aware of problems.\u00a0 If you have a prodigal you spend a lot of time on your knees.\u00a0 If you have health issues you spend a lot of time in prayer.\u00a0 If everything is going okay we kind of back off and we don\u2019t do as much praying.\u00a0 We need to be as proactive in the good times in prayer as we are in the troubled times don\u2019t we?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 When I read my Bible and I read it every day for the most part.\u00a0 I keep a pen handy.\u00a0 I\u2019ll see a verse that describes what I want to be true in one of my kid\u2019s lives or in Susie\u2019s life.\u00a0 I\u2019ll write her initials or their initials next to that verse and I\u2019ll pray it right then.\u00a0 \u201cLord, do that in my son.\u00a0 Help my son to love you and be a mighty man of God.\u201d\u00a0 Then whenever I go back to that verse and I see his initials I pray it again.\u00a0 Sometimes and I did it this week I\u2019ll email my kid and say I prayed this for you today.\u00a0 This is what I\u2019m asking God to make you be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is this wonderful conduit and it keeps them aware that this is a spiritual thing they are involved in.\u00a0 Again, it takes the guess work out of prayer for me.\u00a0 Instead of wondering how to pray for my child I figure the Bible is a prayer script and I just pray the word and it works.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What about you Susie?\u00a0 You are a mom and you undoubtedly have some very basic things you pray for your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t pray with my kids every single night as Will does.\u00a0 I have a different approach.\u00a0 Typically I try to read the Bible first thing in the morning because it makes me a nicer person.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be reading along and all of a sudden something pops out at me I\u2019ll write that verse down.\u00a0 Then I write my prayers out.\u00a0 One thing I want to say about prayer especially for your children is prayer for your children is about a vision.\u00a0 When you are parenting and you have a ten year old who will not make their bed or who will not study.\u00a0 Or you have a teenager that just doesn\u2019t get it and you are concerned it\u2019s really easy to get locked into what is happening right now but for me prayer is having a bigger vision for my child, a bigger vision for my husband and myself.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrayer pushes me out and releases my faith to believe that God can really do what he says he is going to do in the Bible.\u00a0 He can do that in my life and in my child\u2019s life.\u00a0 I do pray with them.\u00a0 I prayed with Sarah before we left to come here but I think equally important and especially if you don\u2019t like praying out loud or if you are intimidated by it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that stop you from praying.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that stop you from talking with God.\u00a0 For me writing it out has been what fits with my personality.\u00a0 I do talk to them about what I am praying for them but sometimes I don\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s about having a bigger vision than what you can see.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Articulate that vision for us.\u00a0 What is that vision?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 For my kids?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 One thing I do pray for my children every single day is they would love God with all their energy all their life.\u00a0 I pray this for myself too.\u00a0 That is really a paraphrase out of Mark 12.\u00a0 I figure that is one of the best blanket prayers you can pray for any human alive\u2014To love God with all their energy all their life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI desperately want that because I think that it\u2019s one thing to pray for something coming up and then it happens and it\u2019s over.\u00a0 To love God as long as we are alive with all of our energy now that is something.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You speak of a time in your book of a time when you prayed about a crisis in your son Will, Jr.\u2019s life where he was lost.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks for bringing that one up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I want to keep this lofty discussion close to planet earth where most of our parents live.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s such a great story.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a bad story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a gritty story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s great because God did a good work in it.\u00a0 I lost my son on a mountain literally.\u00a0 He was 13 and we were hiking at about 13,500 feet in the Rocky Mountains.\u00a0 He was having the climb of his life.\u00a0 We had done two peaks and we were going to a third.\u00a0 I was talking to somebody at the summit that we had met up there and he said I\u2019m going to go ahead and start and I said I\u2019m right behind you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell instead of going around a little ledge he walked over the edge and disappeared into this canyon and I didn\u2019t see it.\u00a0 I walked to the next summit and my son was gone.\u00a0 I searched for an hour and a half and I couldn\u2019t find him.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t communicate with the walkie talkie because a ridge was between us and I ran an hour and a half to trail head to see if he was there and he wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0 I made the gut wrenching decision to drive an hour to the ranger station and report him missing on that mountain.\u00a0 It was probably the lowest point in my adult life as a parent.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What time was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was about four o\u2019clock in the afternoon and I lost him about one o\u2019clock. Thunderheads had blown in and it was going to get cold at night.\u00a0 He\u2019s 13 and I can\u2019t find him and it\u2019s hundreds and hundreds of acres of landscape.\u00a0 I drove to that ranger station thinking two very critical things.\u00a0 One where is my son and two what am I going to tell my wife?\u00a0 When do I make the call to Susie that Will is missing?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy son did two really good things.\u00a0 First he remembered what I had taught him about finding your way in the wilderness but more importantly he prayed.\u00a0 He sat down on a rock and said okay God here I am give me my bearings and he remembered where the sun was and how to gage and he found his way out in no time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt ended up being a non event that could have been a terrible event.\u00a0 I prayed some pretty significant prayers during that time for him.\u00a0 He\u2019s in the book because we are raising kids that live in a pretty exposed wilderness that is a rough and tumble world.\u00a0 I can\u2019t be with them all the time.\u00a0 They need to have the tools to push pause and say God I need you to guide me out of this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is especially true for young girls who are told to dress and act a certain way or little boys and all their temptations we need to equip them to pray and to seek God.\u00a0 We do this by praying with them and praying for them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour kid may be breaking your heart right now don\u2019t ever stop praying for them.\u00a0 Prayer works.\u00a0 Prayer absolutely changes lives so keep praying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t let the enemy convince you to lose heart.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Never give up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of my favorite passages on prayer is found in Jeremiah 33:3.\u00a0 I pray this all the time for our ministry and what we are doing at FamilyLife.\u00a0 Jeremiah records the word of the Lord, \u201ccall to me and I will answer you and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.\u201d\u00a0 He goes on to talk about how ultimately he will bring health and healing to the houses of the nation.\u00a0\u00a0 I think what you are challenging us to do is to pray for the health and healing of our marriages and our children and families and legacies.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome who are listening have been given some tough legacies and they want to change the legacy of divorce and perhaps addictions and abuse.\u00a0 They want to see God create a trophy of grace.\u00a0 The real answer and exhortation here is don\u2019t give up.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give in.\u00a0 Keep on praying.\u00a0 I want to say thanks to both of you Will and Susie for your work and ministry and for writing these books.\u00a0 What a great exhortation to all of us to not lose heart in praying both for our marriages and our families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up and pray BIG.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pray BIG.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to encourage you to go to our website FamilyLifeToday.com there about the book that Will and Susie have written called <em>Pray BIG for Your Marriage<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also information about resources that we have come up with to help you pray regularly, consistently, effectively for your children.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking of the book <em>While They Were Sleeping<\/em> that has been used by lots of parents to pray on a regular basis for their children and for specific character qualities to be developed in the lives of kids.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain information about the resources we have on prayer both for husbands and wives and for moms and dads can be found at our website.\u00a0 We do hope that praying together is something that will become a part of your routine during the new year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also hope that many of our listeners will plan now to join us for a Weekend to Remember sometime this spring.\u00a0 We will kick off our spring season of Weekend to Remember Marriage Conferences Valentine\u2019s weekend, February 12-14.\u00a0 Dennis and Barbara are going to be speaking at the Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference at the Gaylord National hotel on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile they are in the nation\u2019s capital that same weekend I\u2019m going to be in the chocolate capital in Hershey, Pennsylvania at the Hershey lodge.\u00a0 Whether you live in one of those areas or wherever you live around the country if you register this week for one of our upcoming Weekend to Remember Marriage Conferences when you buy one registration you get a second one absolutely free.\u00a0 It\u2019s a buy one get one free offer that is good for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners and we need to hear from you this week or next week at the latest. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, go to FamilyLifeToday.com there\u2019s more information on our website and register online.\u00a0 If you do that you have to type my name \u201cBob\u201d in the key code box on the online registration form and you\u2019ll be automatically set up for the buy one get one free offer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY, that\u2019s 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 When you call just mention that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> or mention my name.\u00a0 Don\u2019t put off calling.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to again just quickly thank those of our listeners who over that last several weeks have been contacting us to make a year-end donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We appreciate all of the calls and all the 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Bob Lepine.\u00a0\u00a0 We are going to talk about moms and dads praying BIG for their children today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Again today, before we get into talking about praying together as a couple for our kids in particular, we want to spend some time today encouraging moms and dads, husbands and wives, to get in the Word and get your family in the Word.\u00a0 We are hoping in 2010 that families will be a little more purposeful about spending time in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 We are using the verses that are found at the beginning of each daily devotional in the devotional guide that you and your wife, Barbara, have written, <em>Moments With You,<\/em> as our jumping-off point.\u00a0 What is the January 5<sup>th<\/sup> verse?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it is a convicting verse.\u00a0 I almost hate to read it in a way because it just gets me\u2014James 1:19.\u00a0 Anybody out there know what it is?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I know what it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cEveryone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.\u201d\u00a0 If there was a verse in the Bible that was written for marriages and families, James 1:19 is it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I need to comment!\u00a0 I mean, what else do we need to do other than focus on this?\u2014be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.\u00a0 Now talk about that tonight around the dinner table, either as a couple or as a family.\u00a0 How can your family practice this?\u00a0 Maybe hold one another accountable to do this in your marriage or in your family.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Again, our hope is that throughout the year you and your family will be more purposeful and more intentional about spending time together in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 We are going to keep reinforcing that theme as we move along here during the month of January.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow I also want to quickly mention that this week and next week we are encouraging listeners to contact us and take advantage of a special offer we are making for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to attend a FamilyLife Weekend to Remember marriage conference this spring.\u00a0 Buy one registration and get a second registration free.\u00a0 Basically, when you buy your own registration, your spouse comes absolutely free.\u00a0 So it is buy one; get one free.\u00a0 It is this week and next week only.\u00a0 It is for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners.\u00a0 If you want to take advantage of this; or if you want more information about the Weekend to Remember, go to familylifeweekend.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll the information about the conferences can be found on our website.\u00a0 You can get information about the conference in Washington, D.C.\u2014the Valentine\u2019s weekend that Dennis is going to be speaking at, along with his wife, Barbara; or get information about the conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where I am going to be speaking that same weekend at the Hershey lodge or any other conferences that are coming up this spring.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you sign up for one of these conferences this week or next week and you identify yourself as a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener, if you buy one registration, the second registration is free.\u00a0 Here is how you identify yourself as a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listener.\u00a0 If you are registering online, type my name\u2014type \u201cBob\u201d\u2014in the key code box; and we will automatically calculate your savings when you check out or call 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 When you register over the phone, mention that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>You can say, \u201cBob sent me,\u201d or something like that.\u00a0 They will get you registered and you will qualify for the buy one; get one free FamilyLife Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference special offer for <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>listeners.\u00a0 It is good this week and next week only so go ahead and contact us and then plan to join us for a Weekend to Remember.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow we are going to talk about praying together as a couple today\u2014praying specifically for our children.\u00a0 I am curious.\u00a0 I know you and your wife, Barbara, have prayed together throughout your marriage.\u00a0 You have made it a daily discipline and have rarely missed a day when the two of you have not prayed together.\u00a0 Do you think you have spent more time praying about your marriage, or you praying for Barbara, or do you think you have spent more time together praying for your kids?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Probably our kids.\u00a0 Looking back on it, issues they are facing.\u00a0 There are six of them\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, I guess\u2026 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Numbers alone\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Statistically, that\u2019s pretty much a slam-dunk. (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It works.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There are just a lot of needs surrounding that, you know.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t wait many years, actually only two, before we started having children.\u00a0 We were in the process of having children for almost 30 years.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Pray more fervently and passionately for issues with your kids than you have for Barbara?\u00a0 I guess it depends on what the issue is.\u00a0 When Barbara\u2019s heart was racing, you were praying hard for her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0\u00a0 Various things we have faced as a couple\u2014her praying for me and me praying for her.\u00a0 Yes, I think it would be a fair answer to the question.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think it is the case for most parents.\u00a0 I mean, we are raising kids from a state of helplessness to maturity.\u00a0 There is a lot of praying along the way as those kids go through all those developmental stages.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They need parents praying for them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Praying BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Praying BIG.\u00a0 We have a couple here, Will and Susie Davis, who know how to pray BIG.\u00a0 Will, Susie, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Hello.\u00a0 Thanks for having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Will is a pastor in Austin, Texas: that is because Longhorns <strong>need <\/strong>the church.\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This is true.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 I agree.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We have a mutual friend, Todd Nagel, who is orange.\u00a0 He is just orange.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He is very orange.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He is very orange.\u00a0 You went to Baylor; so you are not into orange.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>N<\/strong>ot into orange.\u00a0 I love Austin, love the Horns, but I\u2019m a Baylor Bear.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Was this where you learned to pray BIG?\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>When you are a Baylor fan, every football victory is a miracle.\u00a0 Yes, you pray BIG when you go to Baylor.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are a pastor.\u00a0 You and Susie have three children.\u00a0 You have, undoubtedly, prayed often and prayed BIG for your children.\u00a0 Before we talk about praying BIG for your children, explain the concept of what it means to pray BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Praying BIG is praying the kind of prayers that Jesus teaches in the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u00a0 They are specific; they are focused; and they require faith.\u00a0 I picture Zachariah and Elizabeth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tZachariah is in the temple.\u00a0 He is the father-to-be of John the Baptist\u2014He doesn\u2019t know it yet.\u00a0 He is doing his work in the temple there, and an angel shows up and says, \u201cYour prayers have been answered.\u00a0 You are going to have a baby.\u201d\u00a0 Remember she is beyond child-bearing years.\u00a0 She is barren.\u00a0 They have never had kids.\u00a0 You go, \u201cTime out!\u00a0 Were they actually praying for a son?\u00a0 That is big, hairy, bold, and audacious\u2014not something they can do.\u00a0 I think they got their inspiration from Abraham and Sarah.\u00a0 They knew the story of God giving a child to a couple who couldn\u2019t have it.\u00a0 So they prayed for a miracle, and God gave them one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of course the funny part of the story is that as soon as the angel shows up and says, \u201cYou are going to have a son.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He gets in trouble.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Zachariah says, \u201cWell, how can this be?\u201d\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>How can he do that?\u00a0 And he had been praying for it!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He was praying BIG.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He had been praying for it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, the story of Peter.\u00a0 Peter is imprisoned.\u00a0 There is a prayer meeting for Peter.\u00a0 (knocking)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He knocked incessantly on the door.\u00a0 \u201cLet me in!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cLet me in; let me in!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIt can\u2019t be you, Peter.\u00a0 We\u2019re praying for you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It can\u2019t be you.\u00a0 Get back in jail where you are supposed to be.\u201d\u00a0 (laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is right!\u00a0 That is the way we are in our prayers, though.\u00a0 Even in our efforts to believe, we are feeble.\u00a0 We are weak.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The kingdom of God is a real deal.\u00a0 We are living in the kingdom\u2014He is building His kingdom in us right now.\u00a0 Prayer, I believe, is the currency of God\u2019s kingdom.\u00a0 It is how we get things done.\u00a0 It is the transactional power in the kingdom of God.\u00a0 I have to work; but most of all, I have to pray.\u00a0 I am trying to raise kingdom kids.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to raise, not just good citizens, not great soccer players, I\u2019m trying to raise men and women in my home who love Jesus and build His kingdom.\u00a0 I cannot do that without prayer.\u00a0 It is impossible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You tell a story in your book about a little girl Mariah who was in the sixth grade.\u00a0 Her mom figured out how to pray BIG for her, right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We know Mariah quite well.\u00a0 She was having panic attacks.\u00a0 She was on antidepressants and she was a day or two away from being put in the psychiatric hospital.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 And she was only like 12. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 She was middle school at best.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t keep her in school.\u00a0 On the last day they dropped her off in school before they were going to pull her out and commit her and her mom through up one of those prayers \u201cOh, God.\u00a0 Help my child survive the day\u201d kind of prayers.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all prayed them.\u00a0 Her mother felt the Holy Spirit saying right then, is that the best you can do?\u00a0 Is that really all you can ask for is for your child to survive?\u00a0 And she said, okay fine.\u00a0 I want my child to prevail.\u00a0 I want my child to be healed of this and to get back to health and have a great day and a great year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSix hours later Mariah comes out and she had had a pretty good day.\u00a0 In two weeks she\u2019s off anti depressants and that panic attacks have stopped.\u00a0 We know her today as a bright, healthy child.\u00a0 The difference is I think we typically settle for the God help my child kind of prayers and Christ died to give us more than that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are parents right now who have prayed for a child who has maybe an emotional problem or a struggle at school and they\u2019ve prayed and they are not off of anti depressants or they are still acting out.\u00a0 This is tough stuff here when you step out and pray something big in the life of a child who you can\u2019t control and won\u2019t control.\u00a0 It really is up to God and God may be deciding this is going to be a part of who this child is.\u00a0 There are going to be lessons for him to learn or her to learn or you to learn.\u00a0\u00a0 There is something bigger I\u2019m up to than just resolving the problem.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to be okay taking my heart before God and pouring it out to him as David did in the Psalms and other places.\u00a0 Letting him decide what he is going to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0 Where I often fail in prayer is not being honest in my heart and saying God I really want you to heal my kid.\u00a0 Take this cup from me if it is your will.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to be mature enough to pray boldly and ask God to do big, hairy, bold, audacious things and be mature enough to let him do what he is going to do.\u00a0 That is the difference.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Susie, you\u2019ve observed your husband Will develop this message over the past 20 or almost 25 years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What is the most important thing you\u2019ve learned from him about praying BIG?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think staying at it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had two go off to college and I\u2019m sure your wife would agree it\u2019s pretty traumatic.\u00a0 Because you love those kids and you want them to walk out a godly life and as a mother I sometimes feel like their life is better when I\u2019m in it.\u00a0 But when they go off to college that is not how it works.\u00a0 There is a verse in Acts that says basically I entrust you to God and goodness of his word that he is going to give you an inheritance.\u00a0 For me that keeping at it thing is commending things back to God that really don\u2019t belong to me.\u00a0 In this case when my kids went off to college that prayer verse in Acts calmed me and helped me.\u00a0 It gave me security knowing that I was entrusting my kids back to God.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t just throwing them out to the wild blue yonder and I wasn\u2019t going to freak out when I thought about them running around doing stuff and worrying about their safety and their health.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrayer for me is continual dialog with God about basically his goodness in the world and his control in life.\u00a0 Yes, it is about things happening and things coming about but it is also a constant reminder to me of who I\u2019m in relationship with and who holds those people who are dear to me in his hand.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whose will is being done here?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and I love that verse in Romans that says I do think we need to pray the things that we feel drawn to pray for but the Holy Spirit intercedes.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 He knows.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 So I think our responsibility is to pray.\u00a0 And pray and pray.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think God gets mad at us because we aren\u2019t praying the right thing.\u00a0 We just need to pray and know that the Holy Spirit is going to intercede with groanings too deep for words.\u00a0 He is going to translate for God the Father the things that need to be happening.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think many of us pray for our kids when we are very aware of problems.\u00a0 If you have a prodigal you spend a lot of time on your knees.\u00a0 If you have health issues you spend a lot of time in prayer.\u00a0 If everything is going okay we kind of back off and we don\u2019t do as much praying.\u00a0 We need to be as proactive in the good times in prayer as we are in the troubled times don\u2019t we?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 When I read my Bible and I read it every day for the most part.\u00a0 I keep a pen handy.\u00a0 I\u2019ll see a verse that describes what I want to be true in one of my kid\u2019s lives or in Susie\u2019s life.\u00a0 I\u2019ll write her initials or their initials next to that verse and I\u2019ll pray it right then.\u00a0 \u201cLord, do that in my son.\u00a0 Help my son to love you and be a mighty man of God.\u201d\u00a0 Then whenever I go back to that verse and I see his initials I pray it again.\u00a0 Sometimes and I did it this week I\u2019ll email my kid and say I prayed this for you today.\u00a0 This is what I\u2019m asking God to make you be.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere is this wonderful conduit and it keeps them aware that this is a spiritual thing they are involved in.\u00a0 Again, it takes the guess work out of prayer for me.\u00a0 Instead of wondering how to pray for my child I figure the Bible is a prayer script and I just pray the word and it works.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What about you Susie?\u00a0 You are a mom and you undoubtedly have some very basic things you pray for your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t pray with my kids every single night as Will does.\u00a0 I have a different approach.\u00a0 Typically I try to read the Bible first thing in the morning because it makes me a nicer person.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be reading along and all of a sudden something pops out at me I\u2019ll write that verse down.\u00a0 Then I write my prayers out.\u00a0 One thing I want to say about prayer especially for your children is prayer for your children is about a vision.\u00a0 When you are parenting and you have a ten year old who will not make their bed or who will not study.\u00a0 Or you have a teenager that just doesn\u2019t get it and you are concerned it\u2019s really easy to get locked into what is happening right now but for me prayer is having a bigger vision for my child, a bigger vision for my husband and myself.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrayer pushes me out and releases my faith to believe that God can really do what he says he is going to do in the Bible.\u00a0 He can do that in my life and in my child\u2019s life.\u00a0 I do pray with them.\u00a0 I prayed with Sarah before we left to come here but I think equally important and especially if you don\u2019t like praying out loud or if you are intimidated by it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that stop you from praying.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that stop you from talking with God.\u00a0 For me writing it out has been what fits with my personality.\u00a0 I do talk to them about what I am praying for them but sometimes I don\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s about having a bigger vision than what you can see.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Articulate that vision for us.\u00a0 What is that vision?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 For my kids?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 One thing I do pray for my children every single day is they would love God with all their energy all their life.\u00a0 I pray this for myself too.\u00a0 That is really a paraphrase out of Mark 12.\u00a0 I figure that is one of the best blanket prayers you can pray for any human alive\u2014To love God with all their energy all their life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI desperately want that because I think that it\u2019s one thing to pray for something coming up and then it happens and it\u2019s over.\u00a0 To love God as long as we are alive with all of our energy now that is something.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You speak of a time in your book of a time when you prayed about a crisis in your son Will, Jr.\u2019s life where he was lost.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks for bringing that one up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I want to keep this lofty discussion close to planet earth where most of our parents live.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s such a great story.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Susie:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a bad story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a gritty story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s great because God did a good work in it.\u00a0 I lost my son on a mountain literally.\u00a0 He was 13 and we were hiking at about 13,500 feet in the Rocky Mountains.\u00a0 He was having the climb of his life.\u00a0 We had done two peaks and we were going to a third.\u00a0 I was talking to somebody at the summit that we had met up there and he said I\u2019m going to go ahead and start and I said I\u2019m right behind you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell instead of going around a little ledge he walked over the edge and disappeared into this canyon and I didn\u2019t see it.\u00a0 I walked to the next summit and my son was gone.\u00a0 I searched for an hour and a half and I couldn\u2019t find him.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t communicate with the walkie talkie because a ridge was between us and I ran an hour and a half to trail head to see if he was there and he wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0 I made the gut wrenching decision to drive an hour to the ranger station and report him missing on that mountain.\u00a0 It was probably the lowest point in my adult life as a parent.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What time was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 It was about four o\u2019clock in the afternoon and I lost him about one o\u2019clock. Thunderheads had blown in and it was going to get cold at night.\u00a0 He\u2019s 13 and I can\u2019t find him and it\u2019s hundreds and hundreds of acres of landscape.\u00a0 I drove to that ranger station thinking two very critical things.\u00a0 One where is my son and two what am I going to tell my wife?\u00a0 When do I make the call to Susie that Will is missing?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy son did two really good things.\u00a0 First he remembered what I had taught him about finding your way in the wilderness but more importantly he prayed.\u00a0 He sat down on a rock and said okay God here I am give me my bearings and he remembered where the sun was and how to gage and he found his way out in no time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt ended up being a non event that could have been a terrible event.\u00a0 I prayed some pretty significant prayers during that time for him.\u00a0 He\u2019s in the book because we are raising kids that live in a pretty exposed wilderness that is a rough and tumble world.\u00a0 I can\u2019t be with them all the time.\u00a0 They need to have the tools to push pause and say God I need you to guide me out of this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is especially true for young girls who are told to dress and act a certain way or little boys and all their temptations we need to equip them to pray and to seek God.\u00a0 We do this by praying with them and praying for them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour kid may be breaking your heart right now don\u2019t ever stop praying for them.\u00a0 Prayer works.\u00a0 Prayer absolutely changes lives so keep praying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t let the enemy convince you to lose heart.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Never give up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of my favorite passages on prayer is found in Jeremiah 33:3.\u00a0 I pray this all the time for our ministry and what we are doing at FamilyLife.\u00a0 Jeremiah records the word of the Lord, \u201ccall to me and I will answer you and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.\u201d\u00a0 He goes on to talk about how ultimately he will bring health and healing to the houses of the nation.\u00a0\u00a0 I think what you are challenging us to do is to pray for the health and healing of our marriages and our children and families and legacies.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome who are listening have been given some tough legacies and they want to change the legacy of divorce and perhaps addictions and abuse.\u00a0 They want to see God create a trophy of grace.\u00a0 The real answer and exhortation here is don\u2019t give up.\u00a0 Don\u2019t give in.\u00a0 Keep on praying.\u00a0 I want to say thanks to both of you Will and Susie for your work and ministry and for writing these books.\u00a0 What a great exhortation to all of us to not lose heart in praying both for our marriages and our families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t give up and pray BIG.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Will:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pray BIG.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to encourage you to go to our website FamilyLifeToday.com there about the book that Will and Susie have written called <em>Pray BIG for Your Marriage<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 There is also information about resources that we have come up with to help you pray regularly, consistently, effectively for your children.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking of the book <em>While They Were Sleeping<\/em> that has been used by lots of parents to pray on a regular basis for their children and for specific character qualities to be developed in the lives of kids.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain information about the resources we have on prayer both for husbands and wives and for moms and dads can be found at our website.\u00a0 We do hope that praying together is something that will become a part of your routine during the new year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also hope that many of our listeners will plan now to join us for a Weekend to Remember sometime this spring.\u00a0 We will kick off our spring season of Weekend to Remember Marriage Conferences Valentine\u2019s weekend, February 12-14.\u00a0 Dennis and Barbara are going to be speaking at the Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference at the Gaylord National hotel on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile they are in the nation\u2019s capital that same weekend I\u2019m going to be in the chocolate capital in Hershey, Pennsylvania at the Hershey lodge.\u00a0 Whether you live in one of those areas or wherever you live around the country if you register this week for one of our upcoming Weekend to Remember Marriage Conferences when you buy one registration you get a second one absolutely free.\u00a0 It\u2019s a buy one get one free offer that is good for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners and we need to hear from you this week or next week at the latest. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, go to FamilyLifeToday.com there\u2019s more information on our website and register online.\u00a0 If you do that you have to type my name \u201cBob\u201d in the key code box on the online registration form and you\u2019ll be automatically set up for the buy one get one free offer.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY, that\u2019s 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 When you call just mention that you listen to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> or mention my name.\u00a0 Don\u2019t put off calling.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to again just quickly thank those of our listeners who over that last several weeks have been contacting us to make a year-end donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We appreciate all of the calls and all the folks who logged on and the letters that we received at year end.\u00a0 We are grateful for your financial support.\u00a0 We are still doing some tallying here and we are going to post the results online as soon as we can to let you know if we were able to take advantage of our matching gift opportunity.\u00a0 Thanks so much.\u00a0 Your support does mean a lot to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow we\u2019re going to introduce you to a former NFL cornerback.\u00a0 I think he was a two time pro bowl candidate but he may be best known today at least for some of our listeners as the evangelism linebacker.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Derwin Gray:<\/strong>\u00a0 As a former NFL player any time I can tackle somebody and not go to jail is a good day.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019ll meet Derwin Gray tomorrow.\u00a0 Hope you can be back with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our 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