{"id":305313,"date":"2019-08-30T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/praying-for-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T04:16:55","slug":"praying-for-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/praying-for-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Nancy Guthrie | Nancy Guthrie, author of &#8220;What Every Child Should Know About Prayer,&#8221; recalls a season in her parenting when she realized she was worrying a lot more than praying. She fed her fears and allowed her train of thought to take her to the worst possible outcome. She realized her desires needed to be shaped by the Word of God. 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Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019re going to talk today with Nancy Guthrie about what it would look like, as parents, if our prayers for our kids were guided by Scripture\u2014how that would take us deeper. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We have\u2014I think we had a little time of confession already this week on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We\u2019ve all confessed how bad we are at prayer\u2014right?\u2014how we need help in this area. I guess we confessed it to one another; I don\u2019t know if we confessed it to God. Maybe, we need to do that as well.\n\nWe are talking about, not only teaching our kids how to pray, but we also want to talk, this week, about praying <em>for<\/em> our kids. Is that something that\u2014that you just do naturally and instinctively, as a mom; or is that something that you have to think about? Does it just happen, spontaneously, or are you intentional with it?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think I\u2019ve become disciplined in it as they come to my mind. It used to be that I would worry and fret; but now, I take those thoughts captive, and I take them before God. I kind of surrender them to God; but that has been a practice of discipline for me.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> What about for you, Dave?\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> It\u2019s a plea of desperation, I think, as a dad, when you just\u2014you have nowhere to turn; and you\u2019re like: \u201cGod, You know better. You are with them. I lift them up.\u201d It became a daily\u2014I mean, when they were first born, of course; but then, boy-oh-boy, you hit the teenage years\u2014and even, <em>now<\/em>, as they\u2019re adults.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014as adults.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, \u201cthe even now\u201d\u2014when they are home, as teenagers, you can kind of say: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t need to pray. I can work. I can make something happen here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> You\u2019re right.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> When they become adults, it\u2019s kind of like, \u201cI don\u2019t have as much influence as I used to have.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cGod, help!\u201d; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; that\u2019s the desperate plea.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got Nancy Guthrie joining us this week. Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Thank you. So glad to be with you.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Nancy has written a book to help parents teach their kids about prayer called <em>What Every Child Should Know About Prayer<\/em>; but she also wrote a book\u2014this is a one-year book\u2014<em>Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids<\/em>. You were telling us, earlier, this is a book that you went to the publisher and said, \u201cPlease let me write this book.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> [Laughter] Absolutely; you know, I was in a place in my parenting\u2014we were going through some difficult things, and I realized a number of things. First of all, just as you all have said, I realized I was doing a <em>whole<\/em> lot more worrying than praying.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But I also realized something else about myself, which is that, if I operated on solely just going to prayer\u2014pouring out what I wanted and what I thought was best\u2014here is the thing: <em>My<\/em> desires for my child are shaped by <em>many<\/em> things, and not all of them are good. I mean, I think most of us, as parents, would admit\u2014especially in this social media age\u2014I mean, you get on social media; and you see what\u2019s happening in other families\u2019 lives. You think, \u201cOh, boy, I wish that was happening in my child\u2019s life\u201d; right? Or you just watch\u2014I mean, it\u2019s so easy to be competitive, even about this thing\u2014right?\u2014or to fall into comparison.\n\nI realized, \u201cYou know, my desires for my child aren\u2019t necessarily shaped by what <em>God\u2019s<\/em> desires are for my child.\u201d I need the <em>Bible<\/em> to be shaping what I am praying for my child, not just my own desires; I need those to get shaped by the Word of God. What I did was\u2014I went to Tyndale\u2014I said, \u201cWhat I\u2019d like to figure out\u2014if I can do\u2014would be to work my way through a one-year Bible reading plan and find something in every day\u2019s reading that would, not only provide a challenge to parents or some insight about parenting, but then would create the basis for a prayer in which I could add blanks so that they could pray that passage of Scripture for their child.\u201d\n\nYou see, what that does\u2014it makes the Scripture\u2019s priorities for our kids <em>our<\/em> priority rather than our own. That\u2019s what I began to do\u2014I began working my way through this one-year Bible reading plan, looking for something every day. You know, sometimes, it\u2019s about your parenting; sometimes, it\u2019s about you, as the parent; and then creating these prayers for people, then, be able to insert their child\u2019s name so that we\u2019re praying for the things to happen in our child\u2019s life that God wants to happen in His children\u2019s lives.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let me give you an example of this. One of the things that you pointed out this day was in Acts 2:36-39. At the end, you have a prayer which reads: \u201cSpirit, speak to ____\u201d\u2014so you would insert your child\u2019s name\u2014\u201cthrough the preaching of Your Word, the reading of your Word, and through my own speaking of Your Word. Break through the familiarity, the resistance, and the hardness, and pierce ____\u2019s heart in such a way that ____ will be willing to repent and be joyful about identifying with You.\u201d That is a heartfelt prayer that is Scripture-based, pleading with God.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I\u2019m probably not going to come up with that prayer just on my own; but if you are in that passage of Scripture that day and then you want to apply that, then it <em>does<\/em>. You think, \u201cYes; this is what I want to have happen in my child\u2019s life.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s a <em>good<\/em> example of one thing I discovered as I worked my way through this. So often, the prayers are asking God to give my child a love for His Word; because the thing is\u2014there is no lasting change in a child\u2019s life\u2014there might be a little behavior modification\u2014but there is no lasting change\/there is no genuine, lasting spiritual fruit if my child does not come to love and know God\u2019s Word.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Honestly, I mean, that might not be the first thing I would pray about. Especially, we tend to\u2014we tend to allow our prayers to be so circumstance-driven\u2014whatever circumstance is going on in our child\u2019s life, we\u2019re just praying. Then, of course, we figure out what the best outcome is, as if we know. [Laughter]\n\nThe Scriptures are what help us to pray, I think, into the deeper things to create the more organic, life-giving, long-lasting transformation in our child\u2019s life.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Have you found, as people read this book, that they apply it to more than their kids? Because, as Ann was reading that prayer, I\u2019m like, \u201cShe\u2019s prayed that for me a lot of times\u2014[Laughter]\u2014that God would speak to me.\u201d But it does sound like, \u201cMan, it\u2019ll be applicable to anybody.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, I certainly hope so. As you worked your way through the book, you would also discover that I\u2019m constantly speaking to parents because we, as parents, I think sometimes\u2014maybe, it begins right when we get pregnant.\n\nI don\u2019t know if you remember this, Ann. Do you remember when you got pregnant and somehow the word gets out to all of the diaper companies\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014formula.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014formula companies; right. You start getting magazines and coupons in the mail. They, like, know; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Immediately, you start getting all these magazines; and it\u2019s all \u201cFive Steps to\u2026.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cHere\u2019s how you are going to get your child to eat right and\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014\u201csleep right.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014\u201csleep right\u201d; \u201c\u2026give them good self-esteem,\u201d\u2014all of these things. Somehow, I think that makes us think, as parents\u2014nobody ever tells us this outright\u2014but we get the idea: \u201cIf I do this right, then my child\u2019s going to turn out \u2018right.\u2019\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cThere\u2019s a formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cThere\u2019s a formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cIf we just follow the formula, it\u2019ll work.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s up to <em>you<\/em>.\u201d So, if your kids are struggling, what does that do to us, as parents? We become convinced, \u201cI didn\u2019t do it right!\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> There is an overwhelming sense of <em>failure<\/em> that comes upon us, as parents, when our kids are struggling. You know, another message, throughout the book, is the message of the grace of God for imperfect parents; because you know what? There has only ever been one perfect parent. If you think about it, He had rebellious children\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; that\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014Adam and Eve; the nation of Israel. There is good news in this for us, as parents, who are so hard on ourselves, wanting to be good parents, but even wanting to be perfect parents.\n\nWe need to see God the Father: He has had rebellious children. Then we need to see Jesus the Son: this One who took upon Himself the punishment that we deserve for all of our failures, including our failures, as parents; because all of us have those. Then we did fellowship with the Holy Spirit: because the Holy Spirit is the One who is working in us; and the Holy Spirit is the One we want to be working in our children\u2019s lives.\n\nSee, you mentioned earlier, Ann; we think we can control these things. I think one of the things that drove me to write this book, and to want to pray more, is\u2014at a point, I think, when your kids are still in your house, you can convince yourself that, if you do start doing the right things\/if you figure it out, that you\u2019ve still got control. It\u2019s not until your kids move out of your house\u2014and as you mentioned, as they move into young adulthood\u2014all of a sudden, you realize, \u201cI don\u2019t have control!\u201d I mean, we were kidding ourselves to think we did, earlier, when they were in our house; but it is, as they become young adults, we <em>really<\/em> realize it.\n\nI think the other thing we realize\u2014certainly, I did\u2014was the things I need to happen in my child\u2019s life are actually things that only God can do.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> So, that means all of my strategizing and all of my worrying isn\u2019t going to accomplish what needs to happen in my child\u2019s life; God must do it! I don\u2019t want to presume upon Him to do it; instead, I want to pray and ask Him to do it\u2014He\u2019s honored by that.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Nancy, I\u2019m thinking about the prayer that Ann read from your book, from Acts, Chapter 2. I\u2019m thinking, \u201cOkay; if a mom is pregnant or has a newborn, this idea that God\u2019s Word would do this or that they would\u2014the sermons they\u2019d hear\u2014or me speaking...\u201d I\u2019m going, \u201cThey\u2019re not\u2014they\u2019re a year old.\u201d Do you have to wait until your kids are five to start working through a book like this?\u2014and at what age do you quit using a book like this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, I think different days are going to hit you at a different place with your kids; but from the day you know you\u2019re pregnant, the central prayer of our heart is: \u201cGod, would You work through Your Word\/by Your Spirit and make this child, who is going to be born, spiritually dead\u2026\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Our greatest need is that God would work to make that child spiritually alive. Boy, that\u2019s something to begin praying, from the very beginning; and we pray it throughout their lives. We praise God when we see fruit of that. I mean, somehow\u2014here is something else I missed. I think, somehow, I thought this parenting gig was, maybe, like 18 years long. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Why didn\u2019t they tell us?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Nobody told us\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014did they; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> They didn\u2019t tell us\u2014especially, I mean, I think\u2014when I think about our son, I think, in some ways, he\u2019s needed us more, as parents, in his young adult years than he even did as a kid. I mean, parenting\u2014I\u2019m just finding it doesn\u2019t end. As I see, even parents who have children even older than I do\u2014as I see other parents, who have kids who get married and then, maybe, the marriage is a struggle; and they have grandchildren, and they are watching how their kids parent those grandchildren\u2014I\u2019m just realizing: \u201cParenting never ends! Our kids <em>never<\/em> come to the end of their need to be prayed for by their parents.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; I\u2019ve gone through a one-year Bible, probably for, maybe, ten years. I\u2019ll read through the Bible every year. I like having this because it\u2019s not long\u2014it\u2019s just a page that you\u2019re kind of going back over some key Scripture; it would be easy to do. Have you seen couples do this\u2014read it through together?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I have; it\u2019s such a beautiful thing to me. I got an email, last week, from a Christian leader your listeners would probably have heard of\u2014he said, \u201cYou know, my wife\u2014I just wanted to write you. My wife and I were reading it,\u201d\u2014he told me the date on which they were reading it\u2014he said, \u201cI just need you to know this is <em>exactly<\/em> what we needed today; and my wife said, \u2018This just keeps blowing me away every day.\u2019\u201d That made me genuinely happy.\n\nI can think of another couple that, because of his work in the government, they are\u2014they don\u2019t wake up together in the same house every day. She wrote me and told me that they read it together over the phone, every day, to pray for their kids. Those kinds of things just make me really happy. I think that reflects the fact that these parents realize: \u201cOkay; we want to pray together. We want to pray. We want to be in God\u2019s Word, and we want to pray for our kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I think what they find is that this book brings some of those things together.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I just read today\u2019s date, and man, your insight\u2014here\u2019s what I read\u2014the story that many of us know. Stephen is getting stoned in the Book of Acts, and your prayer ended up somewhere I never expected it to go; so great insight. It was like, \u201cWell, there is Saul, watching this.\u201d Her prayer for your child is: \u201cGod, through Your Holy Spirit, would You speak and convict, my son\/my daughter: \u2018Get truth into me,\u2019 like Saul?\u201d Saul is watching this man get martyred for his faith, and something happened. The Holy Spirit moved in such a way that, later, Saul becomes Paul and writes life-changing things.\n\nI thought: \u201cWow. What an insight! That\u2019s not where I would have, typically, gone with that story. Yet, when you think about that and praying for your children\u2014wow\u2014and that could be a prayer for <em>anybody<\/em>.\u201d You\u2019re really good.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I like the idea, too, of\u2014I could see you and I doing it\u2014but I could also see doing this with my friends: of calling each other and saying, \u201cHey, this is\u2014let\u2019s pray over this for our kids today.\u201d I have three friends, and we\u2019ve been fasting and praying, one day a week for our kids, for probably 12 years. We text each other our prayer requests for the day, and we each take a turn each week. Like this week, it will be my friend, Michelle\u2019s, turn; so we\u2019ll pray for her all day.\n\nI like the idea of having this prayer, based on the Scripture that we\u2019ve read that day. It\u2019s a great idea.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Did you spend a year writing this? Did you,\u2014\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Almost.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014each day, take a passage, pray through it?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> No.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> How did you do it?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I mean, I probably spent nine months\u2014I mean, honestly, it came with a lot of tears because I was\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s like birthing a baby.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I was going to say, \u201cNine months is the appropriate time to write a book on praying for your kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and I did this because I needed it. I mean, you might read those prayers and think they are really helpful for your kids\u2014and I really hope they are\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but I\u2019ve got to tell you\u2014you know, as I wrote, each one was for <em>our<\/em> child. You know, I won\u2019t go deeply into it; but I just have to say to you\u2014I remember, maybe, a year after this book came out\u2014you remember I told you about how one thing I saw was, over and over again, that the prayer would be that God would give my child a love for His Word.\n\nCan I just admit that a lot of these prayers that were all prayed, first of all, for my own child\u2014a lot of times, I didn\u2019t have the faith to believe that God would answer them? [Emotion in voice] I\u2019d like to say I did; I should <em>know<\/em> by now, but they just seemed <em>too big<\/em>\u2014some of them just seemed <em>too big<\/em>.\n\nI\u2019ll never forget\u2014about a year-and-a-half after this book came out, my son came down. He works for my husband; works in our house every day. He handed me a piece of paper on which he had printed the text of Philippians 1. He said: \u201cHey, Mom, would you help me memorize Philippians 1? We\u2019re memorizing it together in the Bible study that I\u2019m in.\u201d I just had to step into the pantry and kind of gather myself. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re getting a little choked up, now, even thinking about it.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Oh my goodness! I just\u2014I just thought about all those prayers like that that I had written that I, honestly, didn\u2019t have the faith to believe that God would <em>answer<\/em>; yes. In that day, those things came together for me\u2014that sense of: \u201cHere, God has done this!\u201d You know what?\u2014I\u2019ve just got to tell you\u2014that wasn\u2019t about the example of his mom and dad or our input\u2014this is something God did! He did it in His timing through the people that <em>He<\/em> intended. It wasn\u2019t anything I manipulated; I couldn\u2019t manipulate to make that happen!\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> God had to do that! But I do believe, for some reason, God works through our prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I can\u2019t explain it. It wouldn\u2019t be the way I would do it, but that\u2019s the way God has chosen to do it. It\u2019s one of <em>many<\/em> prayers in there that I am seeing answered.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I would say, just hearing that story\u2014for a listener out there, right now, just going, \u201cI\u2019ve given up.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes!\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Don\u2019t give up. I\u2019ve felt that; we\u2019ve all felt that, as parents. It\u2019s like, \u201cKeep asking; keep going to your knees; keep believing.\u201d You don\u2019t know when, or how, or what\u2014you don\u2019t have <em>any<\/em> idea\u2014but you know the God who can do it, and you just keep asking.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> A few weeks ago, I found this box that I had forgotten about. It was a box where I would take strips of paper, and I\u2019d write my prayer requests down, and I throw them in this little\u2014it was like this little wooden box. I came across it, and it had <em>all<\/em> these prayers. I realized, like, \u201cOh, I forgot.\u201d My kids knew about the box; and they would put prayer requests in, too, because they saw that I was praying.\n\nI pulled them out, and I wept of how many of those prayers have been answered over the years that, at the time, I really didn\u2019t have the faith to believe, either, that God would answer them. Yet, there were <em>so many<\/em> that I saw God\u2019s faithfulness, not only to us, but to our kids. He\u2019s faithful, and it\u2019s what we talked about earlier\u2014God hears our prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember reading an essay, years ago, where\u2014something C.S. Lewis had written. He was asking the question: \u201cIf God is all knowing and all loving, why pray? If He\u2019s going to do what He\u2019s going to do, why pray?\u201d Lewis\u2019s answer was, \u201cWhy breathe?\u201d He said, \u201cIf God wants air in your lungs, why do you breathe?\u201d He said: \u201cYou breathe because you were designed to breathe. You breathe because that\u2019s what humans do. It\u2019s a part of God\u2019s design that you breathe. Why pray?\u2014it\u2019s because you were designed to pray.\u201d It\u2019s what children of God do\u2014they pray.\n\nTrying to figure out how or why it all works together, that will just cause you to sit over in the corner and, maybe, go crazy over time; right? But you pray because it\u2019s what you do. It\u2019s what you were made to do. I think to have a guide like this\u2014that walks you, day by day, through; and helps prompt you to pray; and helps you think, biblically, about what you\u2019re going to pray\u2014I think that just helps you be the person God\u2019s created you to be.\n\nNancy, thanks for taking time to help us think about how we can teach our kids to pray and how we can do a better job of praying for them.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> My joy to do that.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We have got copies of both of these books, <em>What Every Child Needs to Know About Prayer and Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids<\/em>, both by Nancy Guthrie. You can go to our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center to order from us online. Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; our number to call is 1-800-358-6329\u20141-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nNow, here, as the month of August is coming to a close, so is the opportunity for listeners to join us in the matching-gift opportunity that\u2019s been available to us, here, at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> during August. One of the things we are hoping to do, as a result of this month, is expand the work of the <em>Art of Parenting<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u2014not just here in the United States\u2014but around the world; in Latin America, in South America, in Arabic- and in Mandarin-speaking countries.\n\nDavid Robbins, who is the President of FamilyLife, is here with us. We have seen how God is using this content in people\u2019s lives; it\u2019s making a <em>dramatic<\/em> impact.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> Yes; absolutely. The stories coming in from, specifically, Latin America over the last three months, after we launched <em>Art of Parenting<\/em> there\u2014I mean, it\u2019s breathtaking, sometimes,\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> \u2014to see the life-change that is happening.\n\nFor me, personally, though, I got to experience it myself. Meg and I, with our small group\u2014we\u2019ve got about 20 kids, amongst the five families, that are upstairs playing. Amongst all of that chaos, we end up having the best conversations, as a group of ten people; and then, Meg and I end up having even <em>better<\/em> conversations afterwards. It is the biblical practical help and hope that you have always trusted FamilyLife for. It\u2019s one of our latest resources that I got to experience, personally; and I get to see God use, throughout the world, as these stories come in.\n\nWe are down to our final hours of this match and opportunity that we have before us. I just want to invite you to join in our mission. Our mission is effectively developing godly marriages and families who change the world one home at a time.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> This resource is such an <em>amazing<\/em> resource that God is taking around the U.S. and around the globe.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; imagine what could happen if hundreds of thousands\/if millions of parents are reoriented in their thinking about parenting and starting to be more intentional and more biblical\u2014that\u2019s the goal for <em>us<\/em>. The only limiting factor is having the resources available to help make that happen; so we\u2019re asking you: \u201cIf you can, make a donation today so we can take advantage of the matching gift; and we can expand the outreach of FamilyLife.\u201d\n\nGo to FamilyLifeToday.com to donate or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation. We have a thank-you gift we want to send you\u2014a copy of Dennis and Barbara Rainey\u2019s book, <em>The Art of Parenting<\/em>. You can keep it for yourself or pass it on to someone who would benefit from having it. Thank you, in advance, for partnering with us and helping to equip husbands and wives, and moms and dads, all around the world with practical biblical help and hope for their marriage and for their family.\n\nWe hope you have a great weekend. I hope you and your family are able to worship together in your local church this weekend. Join us back on Monday, if you can. We\u2019re going to talk to Rob Green about what we can do to help couples, who are thinking about marriage, go into marriage with their eyes wide open. How can we help them tie the knot so it\u2019s secure? Hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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Guthrie recalls a season in her parenting when she realized she was worrying a lot more than praying. She realized her desires needed to be shaped by the word of God. Using the Scriptures to pray helps parents pray for even deeper things.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2019-08-30.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, August 30<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019re going to talk today with Nancy Guthrie about what it would look like, as parents, if our prayers for our kids were guided by Scripture\u2014how that would take us deeper. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We have\u2014I think we had a little time of confession already this week on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We\u2019ve all confessed how bad we are at prayer\u2014right?\u2014how we need help in this area. I guess we confessed it to one another; I don\u2019t know if we confessed it to God. Maybe, we need to do that as well.\n\nWe are talking about, not only teaching our kids how to pray, but we also want to talk, this week, about praying <em>for<\/em> our kids. Is that something that\u2014that you just do naturally and instinctively, as a mom; or is that something that you have to think about? Does it just happen, spontaneously, or are you intentional with it?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think I\u2019ve become disciplined in it as they come to my mind. It used to be that I would worry and fret; but now, I take those thoughts captive, and I take them before God. I kind of surrender them to God; but that has been a practice of discipline for me.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> What about for you, Dave?\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> It\u2019s a plea of desperation, I think, as a dad, when you just\u2014you have nowhere to turn; and you\u2019re like: \u201cGod, You know better. You are with them. I lift them up.\u201d It became a daily\u2014I mean, when they were first born, of course; but then, boy-oh-boy, you hit the teenage years\u2014and even, <em>now<\/em>, as they\u2019re adults.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014as adults.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, \u201cthe even now\u201d\u2014when they are home, as teenagers, you can kind of say: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t need to pray. I can work. I can make something happen here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> You\u2019re right.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> When they become adults, it\u2019s kind of like, \u201cI don\u2019t have as much influence as I used to have.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cGod, help!\u201d; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; that\u2019s the desperate plea.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got Nancy Guthrie joining us this week. Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Thank you. So glad to be with you.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Nancy has written a book to help parents teach their kids about prayer called <em>What Every Child Should Know About Prayer<\/em>; but she also wrote a book\u2014this is a one-year book\u2014<em>Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids<\/em>. You were telling us, earlier, this is a book that you went to the publisher and said, \u201cPlease let me write this book.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> [Laughter] Absolutely; you know, I was in a place in my parenting\u2014we were going through some difficult things, and I realized a number of things. First of all, just as you all have said, I realized I was doing a <em>whole<\/em> lot more worrying than praying.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> But I also realized something else about myself, which is that, if I operated on solely just going to prayer\u2014pouring out what I wanted and what I thought was best\u2014here is the thing: <em>My<\/em> desires for my child are shaped by <em>many<\/em> things, and not all of them are good. I mean, I think most of us, as parents, would admit\u2014especially in this social media age\u2014I mean, you get on social media; and you see what\u2019s happening in other families\u2019 lives. You think, \u201cOh, boy, I wish that was happening in my child\u2019s life\u201d; right? Or you just watch\u2014I mean, it\u2019s so easy to be competitive, even about this thing\u2014right?\u2014or to fall into comparison.\n\nI realized, \u201cYou know, my desires for my child aren\u2019t necessarily shaped by what <em>God\u2019s<\/em> desires are for my child.\u201d I need the <em>Bible<\/em> to be shaping what I am praying for my child, not just my own desires; I need those to get shaped by the Word of God. What I did was\u2014I went to Tyndale\u2014I said, \u201cWhat I\u2019d like to figure out\u2014if I can do\u2014would be to work my way through a one-year Bible reading plan and find something in every day\u2019s reading that would, not only provide a challenge to parents or some insight about parenting, but then would create the basis for a prayer in which I could add blanks so that they could pray that passage of Scripture for their child.\u201d\n\nYou see, what that does\u2014it makes the Scripture\u2019s priorities for our kids <em>our<\/em> priority rather than our own. That\u2019s what I began to do\u2014I began working my way through this one-year Bible reading plan, looking for something every day. You know, sometimes, it\u2019s about your parenting; sometimes, it\u2019s about you, as the parent; and then creating these prayers for people, then, be able to insert their child\u2019s name so that we\u2019re praying for the things to happen in our child\u2019s life that God wants to happen in His children\u2019s lives.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Let me give you an example of this. One of the things that you pointed out this day was in Acts 2:36-39. At the end, you have a prayer which reads: \u201cSpirit, speak to ____\u201d\u2014so you would insert your child\u2019s name\u2014\u201cthrough the preaching of Your Word, the reading of your Word, and through my own speaking of Your Word. Break through the familiarity, the resistance, and the hardness, and pierce ____\u2019s heart in such a way that ____ will be willing to repent and be joyful about identifying with You.\u201d That is a heartfelt prayer that is Scripture-based, pleading with God.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I\u2019m probably not going to come up with that prayer just on my own; but if you are in that passage of Scripture that day and then you want to apply that, then it <em>does<\/em>. You think, \u201cYes; this is what I want to have happen in my child\u2019s life.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s a <em>good<\/em> example of one thing I discovered as I worked my way through this. So often, the prayers are asking God to give my child a love for His Word; because the thing is\u2014there is no lasting change in a child\u2019s life\u2014there might be a little behavior modification\u2014but there is no lasting change\/there is no genuine, lasting spiritual fruit if my child does not come to love and know God\u2019s Word.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Honestly, I mean, that might not be the first thing I would pray about. Especially, we tend to\u2014we tend to allow our prayers to be so circumstance-driven\u2014whatever circumstance is going on in our child\u2019s life, we\u2019re just praying. Then, of course, we figure out what the best outcome is, as if we know. [Laughter]\n\nThe Scriptures are what help us to pray, I think, into the deeper things to create the more organic, life-giving, long-lasting transformation in our child\u2019s life.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Have you found, as people read this book, that they apply it to more than their kids? Because, as Ann was reading that prayer, I\u2019m like, \u201cShe\u2019s prayed that for me a lot of times\u2014[Laughter]\u2014that God would speak to me.\u201d But it does sound like, \u201cMan, it\u2019ll be applicable to anybody.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, I certainly hope so. As you worked your way through the book, you would also discover that I\u2019m constantly speaking to parents because we, as parents, I think sometimes\u2014maybe, it begins right when we get pregnant.\n\nI don\u2019t know if you remember this, Ann. Do you remember when you got pregnant and somehow the word gets out to all of the diaper companies\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014formula.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014formula companies; right. You start getting magazines and coupons in the mail. They, like, know; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Immediately, you start getting all these magazines; and it\u2019s all \u201cFive Steps to\u2026.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Oh, yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cHere\u2019s how you are going to get your child to eat right and\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014\u201csleep right.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014\u201csleep right\u201d; \u201c\u2026give them good self-esteem,\u201d\u2014all of these things. Somehow, I think that makes us think, as parents\u2014nobody ever tells us this outright\u2014but we get the idea: \u201cIf I do this right, then my child\u2019s going to turn out \u2018right.\u2019\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cThere\u2019s a formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cThere\u2019s a formula.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cIf we just follow the formula, it\u2019ll work.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s up to <em>you<\/em>.\u201d So, if your kids are struggling, what does that do to us, as parents? We become convinced, \u201cI didn\u2019t do it right!\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> There is an overwhelming sense of <em>failure<\/em> that comes upon us, as parents, when our kids are struggling. You know, another message, throughout the book, is the message of the grace of God for imperfect parents; because you know what? There has only ever been one perfect parent. If you think about it, He had rebellious children\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; that\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014Adam and Eve; the nation of Israel. There is good news in this for us, as parents, who are so hard on ourselves, wanting to be good parents, but even wanting to be perfect parents.\n\nWe need to see God the Father: He has had rebellious children. Then we need to see Jesus the Son: this One who took upon Himself the punishment that we deserve for all of our failures, including our failures, as parents; because all of us have those. Then we did fellowship with the Holy Spirit: because the Holy Spirit is the One who is working in us; and the Holy Spirit is the One we want to be working in our children\u2019s lives.\n\nSee, you mentioned earlier, Ann; we think we can control these things. I think one of the things that drove me to write this book, and to want to pray more, is\u2014at a point, I think, when your kids are still in your house, you can convince yourself that, if you do start doing the right things\/if you figure it out, that you\u2019ve still got control. It\u2019s not until your kids move out of your house\u2014and as you mentioned, as they move into young adulthood\u2014all of a sudden, you realize, \u201cI don\u2019t have control!\u201d I mean, we were kidding ourselves to think we did, earlier, when they were in our house; but it is, as they become young adults, we <em>really<\/em> realize it.\n\nI think the other thing we realize\u2014certainly, I did\u2014was the things I need to happen in my child\u2019s life are actually things that only God can do.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> So, that means all of my strategizing and all of my worrying isn\u2019t going to accomplish what needs to happen in my child\u2019s life; God must do it! I don\u2019t want to presume upon Him to do it; instead, I want to pray and ask Him to do it\u2014He\u2019s honored by that.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Nancy, I\u2019m thinking about the prayer that Ann read from your book, from Acts, Chapter 2. I\u2019m thinking, \u201cOkay; if a mom is pregnant or has a newborn, this idea that God\u2019s Word would do this or that they would\u2014the sermons they\u2019d hear\u2014or me speaking...\u201d I\u2019m going, \u201cThey\u2019re not\u2014they\u2019re a year old.\u201d Do you have to wait until your kids are five to start working through a book like this?\u2014and at what age do you quit using a book like this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Well, I think different days are going to hit you at a different place with your kids; but from the day you know you\u2019re pregnant, the central prayer of our heart is: \u201cGod, would You work through Your Word\/by Your Spirit and make this child, who is going to be born, spiritually dead\u2026\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Our greatest need is that God would work to make that child spiritually alive. Boy, that\u2019s something to begin praying, from the very beginning; and we pray it throughout their lives. We praise God when we see fruit of that. I mean, somehow\u2014here is something else I missed. I think, somehow, I thought this parenting gig was, maybe, like 18 years long. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Why didn\u2019t they tell us?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Nobody told us\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014did they; right?\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Exactly.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> They didn\u2019t tell us\u2014especially, I mean, I think\u2014when I think about our son, I think, in some ways, he\u2019s needed us more, as parents, in his young adult years than he even did as a kid. I mean, parenting\u2014I\u2019m just finding it doesn\u2019t end. As I see, even parents who have children even older than I do\u2014as I see other parents, who have kids who get married and then, maybe, the marriage is a struggle; and they have grandchildren, and they are watching how their kids parent those grandchildren\u2014I\u2019m just realizing: \u201cParenting never ends! Our kids <em>never<\/em> come to the end of their need to be prayed for by their parents.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes; I\u2019ve gone through a one-year Bible, probably for, maybe, ten years. I\u2019ll read through the Bible every year. I like having this because it\u2019s not long\u2014it\u2019s just a page that you\u2019re kind of going back over some key Scripture; it would be easy to do. Have you seen couples do this\u2014read it through together?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I have; it\u2019s such a beautiful thing to me. I got an email, last week, from a Christian leader your listeners would probably have heard of\u2014he said, \u201cYou know, my wife\u2014I just wanted to write you. My wife and I were reading it,\u201d\u2014he told me the date on which they were reading it\u2014he said, \u201cI just need you to know this is <em>exactly<\/em> what we needed today; and my wife said, \u2018This just keeps blowing me away every day.\u2019\u201d That made me genuinely happy.\n\nI can think of another couple that, because of his work in the government, they are\u2014they don\u2019t wake up together in the same house every day. She wrote me and told me that they read it together over the phone, every day, to pray for their kids. Those kinds of things just make me really happy. I think that reflects the fact that these parents realize: \u201cOkay; we want to pray together. We want to pray. We want to be in God\u2019s Word, and we want to pray for our kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I think what they find is that this book brings some of those things together.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I just read today\u2019s date, and man, your insight\u2014here\u2019s what I read\u2014the story that many of us know. Stephen is getting stoned in the Book of Acts, and your prayer ended up somewhere I never expected it to go; so great insight. It was like, \u201cWell, there is Saul, watching this.\u201d Her prayer for your child is: \u201cGod, through Your Holy Spirit, would You speak and convict, my son\/my daughter: \u2018Get truth into me,\u2019 like Saul?\u201d Saul is watching this man get martyred for his faith, and something happened. The Holy Spirit moved in such a way that, later, Saul becomes Paul and writes life-changing things.\n\nI thought: \u201cWow. What an insight! That\u2019s not where I would have, typically, gone with that story. Yet, when you think about that and praying for your children\u2014wow\u2014and that could be a prayer for <em>anybody<\/em>.\u201d You\u2019re really good.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I like the idea, too, of\u2014I could see you and I doing it\u2014but I could also see doing this with my friends: of calling each other and saying, \u201cHey, this is\u2014let\u2019s pray over this for our kids today.\u201d I have three friends, and we\u2019ve been fasting and praying, one day a week for our kids, for probably 12 years. We text each other our prayer requests for the day, and we each take a turn each week. Like this week, it will be my friend, Michelle\u2019s, turn; so we\u2019ll pray for her all day.\n\nI like the idea of having this prayer, based on the Scripture that we\u2019ve read that day. It\u2019s a great idea.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Did you spend a year writing this? Did you,\u2014\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Almost.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014each day, take a passage, pray through it?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> No.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> How did you do it?\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I mean, I probably spent nine months\u2014I mean, honestly, it came with a lot of tears because I was\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> It\u2019s like birthing a baby.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I was going to say, \u201cNine months is the appropriate time to write a book on praying for your kids.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> \u2014and I did this because I needed it. I mean, you might read those prayers and think they are really helpful for your kids\u2014and I really hope they are\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but I\u2019ve got to tell you\u2014you know, as I wrote, each one was for <em>our<\/em> child. You know, I won\u2019t go deeply into it; but I just have to say to you\u2014I remember, maybe, a year after this book came out\u2014you remember I told you about how one thing I saw was, over and over again, that the prayer would be that God would give my child a love for His Word.\n\nCan I just admit that a lot of these prayers that were all prayed, first of all, for my own child\u2014a lot of times, I didn\u2019t have the faith to believe that God would answer them? [Emotion in voice] I\u2019d like to say I did; I should <em>know<\/em> by now, but they just seemed <em>too big<\/em>\u2014some of them just seemed <em>too big<\/em>.\n\nI\u2019ll never forget\u2014about a year-and-a-half after this book came out, my son came down. He works for my husband; works in our house every day. He handed me a piece of paper on which he had printed the text of Philippians 1. He said: \u201cHey, Mom, would you help me memorize Philippians 1? We\u2019re memorizing it together in the Bible study that I\u2019m in.\u201d I just had to step into the pantry and kind of gather myself. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re getting a little choked up, now, even thinking about it.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Oh my goodness! I just\u2014I just thought about all those prayers like that that I had written that I, honestly, didn\u2019t have the faith to believe that God would <em>answer<\/em>; yes. In that day, those things came together for me\u2014that sense of: \u201cHere, God has done this!\u201d You know what?\u2014I\u2019ve just got to tell you\u2014that wasn\u2019t about the example of his mom and dad or our input\u2014this is something God did! He did it in His timing through the people that <em>He<\/em> intended. It wasn\u2019t anything I manipulated; I couldn\u2019t manipulate to make that happen!\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Right.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> God had to do that! But I do believe, for some reason, God works through our prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> I can\u2019t explain it. It wouldn\u2019t be the way I would do it, but that\u2019s the way God has chosen to do it. It\u2019s one of <em>many<\/em> prayers in there that I am seeing answered.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I would say, just hearing that story\u2014for a listener out there, right now, just going, \u201cI\u2019ve given up.\u201d\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> Yes!\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Don\u2019t give up. I\u2019ve felt that; we\u2019ve all felt that, as parents. It\u2019s like, \u201cKeep asking; keep going to your knees; keep believing.\u201d You don\u2019t know when, or how, or what\u2014you don\u2019t have <em>any<\/em> idea\u2014but you know the God who can do it, and you just keep asking.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> A few weeks ago, I found this box that I had forgotten about. It was a box where I would take strips of paper, and I\u2019d write my prayer requests down, and I throw them in this little\u2014it was like this little wooden box. I came across it, and it had <em>all<\/em> these prayers. I realized, like, \u201cOh, I forgot.\u201d My kids knew about the box; and they would put prayer requests in, too, because they saw that I was praying.\n\nI pulled them out, and I wept of how many of those prayers have been answered over the years that, at the time, I really didn\u2019t have the faith to believe, either, that God would answer them. Yet, there were <em>so many<\/em> that I saw God\u2019s faithfulness, not only to us, but to our kids. He\u2019s faithful, and it\u2019s what we talked about earlier\u2014God hears our prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I remember reading an essay, years ago, where\u2014something C.S. Lewis had written. He was asking the question: \u201cIf God is all knowing and all loving, why pray? If He\u2019s going to do what He\u2019s going to do, why pray?\u201d Lewis\u2019s answer was, \u201cWhy breathe?\u201d He said, \u201cIf God wants air in your lungs, why do you breathe?\u201d He said: \u201cYou breathe because you were designed to breathe. You breathe because that\u2019s what humans do. It\u2019s a part of God\u2019s design that you breathe. Why pray?\u2014it\u2019s because you were designed to pray.\u201d It\u2019s what children of God do\u2014they pray.\n\nTrying to figure out how or why it all works together, that will just cause you to sit over in the corner and, maybe, go crazy over time; right? But you pray because it\u2019s what you do. It\u2019s what you were made to do. I think to have a guide like this\u2014that walks you, day by day, through; and helps prompt you to pray; and helps you think, biblically, about what you\u2019re going to pray\u2014I think that just helps you be the person God\u2019s created you to be.\n\nNancy, thanks for taking time to help us think about how we can teach our kids to pray and how we can do a better job of praying for them.\n\n<strong>Nancy:<\/strong> My joy to do that.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We have got copies of both of these books, <em>What Every Child Needs to Know About Prayer and Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids<\/em>, both by Nancy Guthrie. You can go to our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center to order from us online. Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; our number to call is 1-800-358-6329\u20141-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nNow, here, as the month of August is coming to a close, so is the opportunity for listeners to join us in the matching-gift opportunity that\u2019s been available to us, here, at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> during August. One of the things we are hoping to do, as a result of this month, is expand the work of the <em>Art of Parenting<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u2014not just here in the United States\u2014but around the world; in Latin America, in South America, in Arabic- and in Mandarin-speaking countries.\n\nDavid Robbins, who is the President of FamilyLife, is here with us. We have seen how God is using this content in people\u2019s lives; it\u2019s making a <em>dramatic<\/em> impact.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> Yes; absolutely. The stories coming in from, specifically, Latin America over the last three months, after we launched <em>Art of Parenting<\/em> there\u2014I mean, it\u2019s breathtaking, sometimes,\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> \u2014to see the life-change that is happening.\n\nFor me, personally, though, I got to experience it myself. Meg and I, with our small group\u2014we\u2019ve got about 20 kids, amongst the five families, that are upstairs playing. Amongst all of that chaos, we end up having the best conversations, as a group of ten people; and then, Meg and I end up having even <em>better<\/em> conversations afterwards. It is the biblical practical help and hope that you have always trusted FamilyLife for. It\u2019s one of our latest resources that I got to experience, personally; and I get to see God use, throughout the world, as these stories come in.\n\nWe are down to our final hours of this match and opportunity that we have before us. I just want to invite you to join in our mission. Our mission is effectively developing godly marriages and families who change the world one home at a time.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>David:<\/strong> This resource is such an <em>amazing<\/em> resource that God is taking around the U.S. and around the globe.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; imagine what could happen if hundreds of thousands\/if millions of parents are reoriented in their thinking about parenting and starting to be more intentional and more biblical\u2014that\u2019s the goal for <em>us<\/em>. The only limiting factor is having the resources available to help make that happen; so we\u2019re asking you: \u201cIf you can, make a donation today so we can take advantage of the matching gift; and we can expand the outreach of FamilyLife.\u201d\n\nGo to FamilyLifeToday.com to donate or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation. We have a thank-you gift we want to send you\u2014a copy of Dennis and Barbara Rainey\u2019s book, <em>The Art of Parenting<\/em>. You can keep it for yourself or pass it on to someone who would benefit from having it. Thank you, in advance, for partnering with us and helping to equip husbands and wives, and moms and dads, all around the world with practical biblical help and hope for their marriage and for their family.\n\nWe hope you have a great weekend. I hope you and your family are able to worship together in your local church this weekend. Join us back on Monday, if you can. We\u2019re going to talk to Rob Green about what we can do to help couples, who are thinking about marriage, go into marriage with their eyes wide open. How can we help them tie the knot so it\u2019s secure? Hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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