The more you grow, the healthier your family becomes. Why is that? Because it’s really hard to influence people to where you haven’t been. So what do you want changed in your family? The next question should be, “how do I need to grow to influence the change I desire?” You have so much more influence than you might realize, but we all need to keep learning and growing to cultivate a thriving family in these uncertain times. Your influence matters! This episode will encourage and motivate you to take your next steps.
Main Points From This Episode:
- You can’t influence where you’ve never been
- Why it’s not healthy to say “I did the best I could”
- We shouldn’t live with regrets and discouragement, but if we don’t own our mistakes we won’t make the changes to improve our parenting
- It’s vital to grow spiritually as parents
- If you don’t grow, you will become a lid to growth for your own family
Scriptures From This Episode:
– Romans 12:9-16 – “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.“
– 2 Timothy 2:14-17 – “Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,“
– James 3:1 – “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.“
– Matthew 10:24 – “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.”
– Proverbs 18:15 – “An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.“
– 2 Timothy 2:14-17 – “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,”
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