God’s Will vs. Your Will vs. Everyone Else’s Will — How to Teach Discernment

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Decision-making is a vital life skill that every child must be equipped with in these unprecedented times
Teaching Your Children How to Discern God’s Will & Auditing their Influences Go Hand-in-Hand!

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If you equip your children in how to make decisions from a biblical perspective, you have transformed their future path. One of the biggest and most difficult questions people wrestle with in life is if they are making decisions within God’s will or not. Trying to discern what God’s will is seems so difficult to so many people and it could be possible that they haven’t identified the principles God teaches us in HIs Word that help us to discern His will. 

Romans 12:2 challenges us to discern God’s will and also tells us what is necessary in order to do so, a renewed mind which comes from the washing of the Word. If adults struggle with understanding this, how can they disciple children to confidently walk in God’s will? There are many scripture passages that literally tell us what IS GOD’S will for us and warn us about what is NOT God’s will. 

In this episode Isaac and Angie go over many of these scriptures and give practical tips on discipling your own children to be able to discern God’s will for their life over their own will or other’s will for them. This is a vital part of being equipped for unprecedented times and being ready to stand firm in the truth of God as well. Whether you are wrestling with a big decision in your own life right now or teaching your children how to make biblically wise decisions, today’s episode will likely be one you will want to take notes on or at the least replay. 

What you will hear in this episode:

  • Isaac and Angie share a few tips from two of the chapters in their newest book, Courageous Parenting: Biblical Parenting in Unprecedented Times 
  • The importance of living out what you teach your children with regard to seeking God, surrendering your will unto the Father, and walking by the Spirit, not the flesh. 
  • Prepare your children for the reality that there is a difference between God’s will, their own will (fleshly desires), and the will of others and how many people will have a “will for your life.” 
  • Teach them to practice the spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, being still and abiding in Christ, and seeking wise counsel in their decision-making process.

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Scriptures in Today’s Episode Include: 

  • Matthew 6:5-18
  • Romans 12:2
  • Eph. 1:11
  • 1 Thess. 5:16-18
  • 1 Thess. 4:3-5

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Written By Angie Tolpin
Angie has been married to Isaac for 19 years and together they have eight children, whom she homeschools. She is the Founder of CourageousMom.com, a doula, the author of the best-selling book Redeeming Childbirth, and the creator of the first ever Christian Postpartum Course. Angie loves ministering to Women and has created a few online Bible Studies on Biblical Friendship and Motherhood.

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