June 19, 2025 • 18 mins
We continue our June focus on our children by discussing how to cover their future in prayer, speaking life into their purpose even when they can't see it themselves.
• Referring to Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you" - as foundation for understanding our children's divine purpose
• Warning against dampening children's spirits by projecting our own limitations onto them
• Encouraging flexibility as children grow and change their aspirations over time
• Emphasizing the importance of having conversations that affirm their value and purpose
• Supporting children's evolving dreams rather than insisting they stick with earlier interests
• Modeling healthy responses to life's challenges since children observe how we handle difficulties
• Being careful not to make conversations about children's futures about our own expectations
• Seeking healing if we never received affirmation ourselves so we don't repeat patterns
• Finding balance between encouragement and over-promising
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
no-transcript, all right, so let me turn on my
(03:28):
background.
This is soaking music and itjust kind of helps set the
environment that I'm in forworship and teaching.
And a quick shout out to thoseof you who are watching the
replays If you're listening tothe audio versions, if you're
here, live good morning Dr Tracy, wherever you're watching from,
if you're on to the audioversions, if you hear, live good
(03:49):
morning Dr Tracy, whereveryou're watching from, if you're
on Facebook, linkedin, youtube,paradec, you know, audible,
whatever, whatever you'rewatching or listening from.
I'm so grateful that you'regiving me a little bit of your
time and what we're going to do,y'all, is we're going to
continue where we started in themonth of June, where we were
focusing on our children.
So it could be children, ifyou're parenting young children,
adult children, but it's allabout our kids.
(04:11):
You could be a godparent andeven a caregiver, auntie, uncle,
whatever, but if you havechildren under your assignment
right, children that you'recaring for we're leaning into
our kids this month of June.
This month is a tricky onebecause if you have younger
children, children who might'vejust graduated high school,
(04:31):
you're trying to figure out whatto do with them, their time.
A lot of kids who were having atough time trying to find a job
and feeling a little bitdisplaced before they go into
the next phase of their lives,in college.
Maybe you have adult childrenwho are in the job market or
they're doing their internshipsand life is kind of kicking off
(04:52):
for them, or you have young kidsand you're trying to navigate
how to take care of them duringthe summer.
So there's a lot of additionalstresses.
If we're honest, there's a lotof additional stresses that we
experience during these summermonths.
So that's the intention forJune is to we're really just
(05:14):
speaking life.
The last two sessions y'all I'mjust going to look at my notes
really quickly but the last twosessions week one we talked
about speaking life, not labels,and we talked about how our
words shape how our kids seethemselves and their future, the
words that we use.
We can either heal them oruplift them or guide them, or we
(05:34):
can totally destroy them withour words.
We know that because manypeople, many adults, are still
suffering from childhood trauma.
The second week so that's lastweek, right, we talked about
correcting with care and howdiscipline produces a harvest of
righteousness.
But it's not about y'allbreaking their spirit.
So we have to model God's gracewhen we're correcting and
(05:57):
guiding.
And I even linked it back tohow we show up at work, because
there are a lot of broken kidsat work, so even adults who
haven't got past some of thosepain, and they're showing up on
the job as adults and they'rebreaking other people's spirits.
So they're living out theiremotional trauma on the job as
(06:17):
adults.
So this week we're going to docovering their future in prayer.
Jeremiah 1.5 is one of myfavorites.
I know a lot of you all know it.
But this week we're going toreally talk about speaking over
their purpose, even when theycan't see it.
So it's really important for usto help our kids walk
confidently in who they'recalled to be.
And this can be really tricky ifyou are a parent who maybe
(06:42):
you're not sure what they'recalled to do or what you know.
We're not asking for you toprophesy right.
That's not where we're going.
What we're talking about is theway that we cover them, and so
we cover them through prayer,but we also cover them through
actions, the things that we doto help support our kids.
We're covering their futureright.
(07:02):
We're making sure that we givethem the best opportunity, the
best education you know, allthose things to help them walk
into a solid future.
We don't want to be theobstacle and the roadblocks for
our children, right?
And so that's what we're goingto talk about today.
So, real quickly, let's prayfirst.
Well, we just thank you firstof all, lord, for just reminding
(07:23):
us, in the same way that youmarked our, our future and our
plans, that you have sealed uswith you, blessed us, you've
given us these great talents andgifts.
We ask for God that you'll helpus as parents, as godparents,
as aunties and uncles, aswhatever role we play in the
children in our lives, whetherthey're young or old, that you
(07:44):
will help us to help them andcover their future and bless
them and guide them and instructand inspire them.
And I ask for that, in the sameway that you spoke to Jeremiah
and showed him that he was apart of a plan, he had purpose
for God, that you'll help us tospeak that into our very
children.
And I also ask that you'llbless us this morning for those
(08:06):
who are standing in need of anencouraging word, and that we're
going to take heed for what youshow us concerning our kids,
amen.
So this is really important,y'all, because a lot of times
again we talk about we want tobreak generational curses.
We are in the business of that.
Okay, jeremiah 1, verse 5,.
The verse says before I formedyou in the womb, I knew you and
(08:27):
before you were born, Iconsecrated you, I appointed you
a prophet to the nation.
So this is Jeremiah hearingfrom the Lord.
So, just in terms of context,jeremiah was in a village called
Anathoth and that's where helived.
Okay, and apparently it was.
I'm just going to contextualizeit.
Okay, apparently, it was a veryquiet day.
(08:48):
He was a young man and he wasgoing about his regular, his
day-to-day routine, and then theLord, he felt the spirit of
speaking to him.
He heard from the Lord and sohe was in this, you know, very
simple village, dusty streetsand all streets and all, and he
(09:14):
was hearing from the Lord andthe weight of what that meant,
the calling that he had.
He was humbled, but he was alsoafraid of what was the task
that was going to be set beforehim.
So the Lord was confirming tohim that Jeremiah was a prophet.
So there's a couple of things Iwant to share with you, because
sometimes, when you're in yourown familiar territory.
So, as a parent, right, forexample, when you're in your own
(09:35):
familiar territory and the Lordis, you know, showing you as a
parent, that my child has thesegifts, your child, you know,
will start exhibiting some ofthese gifts and a lot of times
we will dampen their spirits.
We, as parents, aunties anduncles, because of our own
experiences, we start tellingthem all the why nots right, why
(10:00):
they can't do the things.
We start looking to our ownlimitations.
You can't get to collegebecause I can't afford it.
You can't be a doctor becauseeverybody in my family is a
lawyer.
You can't be a pastor I don'tthink you've been called.
You can't be a project leaderbecause you don't have that type
of skill.
(10:21):
We start dictating our kids ourfuture.
We start to tell them out ofour own flesh, out of our own
desires and sometimes out of ourown fear, out of our own flesh,
out of our own desires andsometimes out of our own fear,
what we want them to do.
When my daughter was younger,the one thing she wanted to do
when she was younger she wantedto be a scientist.
So she had all these crazyexperiments that she would do in
(10:44):
her bathroom y'all, and therewere times when I was like you
are not about to take this housedown.
Times and I was like you arenot about to take this house
down, okay.
So she wanted to be a scientist.
She knew all the things.
She was really excited aboutthat, and this was when she was
much younger.
So what we did is we started tosupport her to say, okay, if
you're going to do that, thenthese are the subjects you're
(11:04):
going to have to excel in, theseare the things that you need to
study and you have to learnmore about the field.
Well, over time, what happenedwas the more she learned about
that field, the less she likedit.
So she started to shift intowhat she wants to do now.
So so she's a um, a risingjunior.
What she wants to do now isdifferent from what she wanted
(11:25):
to do when she was 10.
And so because that shifted, uh, and she is clearly walking
kind of in the in that vein, inthat path so we had to shift and
say, okay, well, then we'regoing to support you.
If you want to do this thing,here's the education that you
need.
You will have to go to college,you will have to get a degree.
You will have to do the thing.
You have to get great, like we.
(11:46):
So we started to shift ourperspective and how we supported
her.
What we didn't do is say well,the word says before I knew you
and you're supposed to do thatthing over there and you can't
change your mind.
The Lord called you and someonelaid hands and told you all the
things.
This is a point of correctionfor us as adults, because a lot
(12:13):
of times we refuse to beflexible as our children get
older and they start to changewhat they say they're going to
do, in the same way that we haveto experience our, our um, go
through life and experiencedifferent things.
Right, a lot of adults, right,y'all have gone through jobs
after jobs after jobs.
You have changed positions onyour jobs.
Right, you might've changedfields and companies.
Well, you have to allow yourchildren to make changes as they
(12:38):
go through their lives.
Right, you have to allow themto shift and learn and grow and
stretch and all the things.
So what we take from this is,when the Lord was speaking to
Jeremiah, he didn't say that I'mappointing you to a prophet to
the nations in the year of ourLord.
He didn't limit him.
(13:00):
He just said this is the field,this is who you are.
So before I formed you, I knewyou and you, you, and
essentially, what the Lord isdoing here is telling Jeremiah
that he has a purpose.
Right, there is a reason, hehas value, right?
Um, so I want to, I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna pull the screen down
, I'm gonna share this, sharethis with y'all.
(13:21):
I want to encourage us morethan anything, when we're
speaking to our kids, when wetalk about recovering their
future in prayer, is I want usto get into the habit of telling
them that I support your future.
We don't tell me and again,there are, you know, a lot of
times.
Our kids don't want to tell uswhat they want to do.
Because you're going to, you'regoing to say something negative
anyway, right, you're not?
(13:41):
I mean, come on, right?
So you want to have a.
First of all, ask the Lord forfavor with your kids so that you
can have a conversation, anhonest conversation, and you
know.
And then, lord, you know, thisis the prayer Lord, you give me
favor with my kids so I can havean honest conversation.
And then, when he does that andtells you, you'll know when
it's the right time to approachhim, you know.
(14:02):
Then you sit down and you'llsay and don't make it a thing,
y'all, don't make it about you.
Make it about them.
And you say you know, hey, um,maybe, if they're in the job
market and things aren't goingvery well, you know, just say
you know, just encourage themand say you know you're, um,
you're, you're, you speak lifeinto their future and you know
you're blessed to do this.
And you know, uh, all thingsare working together, like y'all
(14:24):
.
And also, um, don't just throwscripture at your kids.
They are watching your responseto when things are going down
in life.
If you, as an adult, when thingsgo wrong, you start freaking
out and crashing out, right, youare not in the position to
advise your children, I am sorryto say it.
Okay, so what we want to do isto remind them that they are
(14:48):
valued and they have purpose intheir life.
You have to speak that into ourkids.
If you don't do it, someoneelse is going to do it, and the
way that someone else does it,it might lead them into
something that's not meant forthem.
You know what I'm saying, okay,so that's what I wanted to
share, covering their future inprayer.
I pray that this is going toencourage you as a mom, auntie,
(15:09):
uncle, whatever it is, if youhave any approximation to
children, that the Lord hasassigned kids to you stepmom,
stepdad, bonus, whatever thetitle is you roll with that.
You have just a nice solidconversation where you let them
know that you believe in them,that you value them.
(15:30):
Again, like I said, don't makeit about you.
Just have a really quick tapconversation.
Tap in and check in on yourkids adult kids and young kids
and let them know that yourfuture is solid, your future is
bright, things are going to workout together for your good and
bless them in that way.
Right?
So we thank you, lord, that youremind us and you encourage us
(15:51):
that we all have purpose andthat we're living purpose-driven
lives, that you have alreadymarked us.
You've given us great gifts andgreat talents, and so now I'm
asking for you to give all of uswho are responsible for young
children and adult children thatyou give us the wisdom so that
we know how to encourage andinspire those kids in our lives.
(16:11):
So, lord, I ask that you'llbless us, and asking you to even
heal those of us who neverheard these words of
encouragement.
Growing up, they never hadsomeone, they didn't have a
parental figure, they didn'thave a family member or a friend
encouraging them, and so I askthat you will heal the broken
hearts and broken minds of thoseso they don't repeat this
behavior with their children.
(16:33):
Father, I also ask that youwill give us a measure of grace
to do this, so that we don'tover promise that there's a
balance in how we do this.
A lot of us are speaking thingsinto our lives that our kids
truly were not meant to do, andso we're just asking that you
will help us to stay balanced inthese conversations.
Give us favor so we can speakto our kids, and also that they
(16:55):
will hear from our heart.
Thank you, lord, for blessingus today.
Thank you for giving us thisgreat series this month, as we
are helping one another toparent and help our kids and
families and all these things weasking in your son Jesus's name
.
Amen, y'all.
Like I say every week, we aredoing life together right, so
it's important for us Again.
You can know scripture all daylong, you can know the Bible
(17:17):
stories all day long, you can bea Bible scholar, apostle,
prophet, preacher, pastor allthe things all day long, but we
still have to live and existright, we still have to share
the space with each other, andso just really grateful for this
community where we're learningand growing together.
And so, again, shout out to allthe moms and dads, aunties,
(17:38):
uncles and grandparents, all ofus who have this incredible,
blessed position to pour intoour kids, and thank you, god for
all of the.
I call them my invisible kids.
I have a lot of invisible kids,meaning kids that I didn't give
birth to, but I still claimthem as my own and covering them
in their awesome futures aswell.
All right, so I hope thatblessed y'all have an amazing
(18:01):
day.
Don't forget it's Thursday.
That means we have prayer today.
Also, a quick shout out andthank you.
We've had over 300 callers thismonth.
This, I'm sorry, this half ofthe year, starting from prayers
like what over 300.
So shout out to the threepraying sisters.
You know who you are.
Thank you for serving.
We're praying this month forcaregivers.
(18:21):
Thank you for showing up y'all.
We have we do have people whojoin the line and say nothing,
and that's okay.
Thank you for dialing in and weask that you'll just you'll
share the information with afriend or family member who
could use just a little bit ofencouragement this year.
Otherwise, y'all have anamazing Thursday and I will be
back next week, see you.
no-transcript, all right, so let me turn on my
(03:28):
background.
This is soaking music and itjust kind of helps set the
environment that I'm in forworship and teaching.
And a quick shout out to thoseof you who are watching the
replays If you're listening tothe audio versions, if you're
here, live good morning Dr Tracy, wherever you're watching from,
if you're on to the audioversions, if you hear, live good
(03:49):
morning Dr Tracy, whereveryou're watching from, if you're
on Facebook, linkedin, youtube,paradec, you know, audible,
whatever, whatever you'rewatching or listening from.
I'm so grateful that you'regiving me a little bit of your
time and what we're going to do,y'all, is we're going to
continue where we started in themonth of June, where we were
focusing on our children.
So it could be children, ifyou're parenting young children,
adult children, but it's allabout our kids.
(04:11):
You could be a godparent andeven a caregiver, auntie, uncle,
whatever, but if you havechildren under your assignment
right, children that you'recaring for we're leaning into
our kids this month of June.
This month is a tricky onebecause if you have younger
children, children who might'vejust graduated high school,
(04:31):
you're trying to figure out whatto do with them, their time.
A lot of kids who were having atough time trying to find a job
and feeling a little bitdisplaced before they go into
the next phase of their lives,in college.
Maybe you have adult childrenwho are in the job market or
they're doing their internshipsand life is kind of kicking off
(04:52):
for them, or you have young kidsand you're trying to navigate
how to take care of them duringthe summer.
So there's a lot of additionalstresses.
If we're honest, there's a lotof additional stresses that we
experience during these summermonths.
So that's the intention forJune is to we're really just
(05:14):
speaking life.
The last two sessions y'all I'mjust going to look at my notes
really quickly but the last twosessions week one we talked
about speaking life, not labels,and we talked about how our
words shape how our kids seethemselves and their future, the
words that we use.
We can either heal them oruplift them or guide them, or we
(05:34):
can totally destroy them withour words.
We know that because manypeople, many adults, are still
suffering from childhood trauma.
The second week so that's lastweek, right, we talked about
correcting with care and howdiscipline produces a harvest of
righteousness.
But it's not about y'allbreaking their spirit.
So we have to model God's gracewhen we're correcting and
(05:57):
guiding.
And I even linked it back tohow we show up at work, because
there are a lot of broken kidsat work, so even adults who
haven't got past some of thosepain, and they're showing up on
the job as adults and they'rebreaking other people's spirits.
So they're living out theiremotional trauma on the job as
(06:17):
adults.
So this week we're going to docovering their future in prayer.
Jeremiah 1.5 is one of myfavorites.
I know a lot of you all know it.
But this week we're going toreally talk about speaking over
their purpose, even when theycan't see it.
So it's really important for usto help our kids walk
confidently in who they'recalled to be.
And this can be really tricky ifyou are a parent who maybe
(06:42):
you're not sure what they'recalled to do or what you know.
We're not asking for you toprophesy right.
That's not where we're going.
What we're talking about is theway that we cover them, and so
we cover them through prayer,but we also cover them through
actions, the things that we doto help support our kids.
We're covering their futureright.
(07:02):
We're making sure that we givethem the best opportunity, the
best education you know, allthose things to help them walk
into a solid future.
We don't want to be theobstacle and the roadblocks for
our children, right?
And so that's what we're goingto talk about today.
So, real quickly, let's prayfirst.
Well, we just thank you firstof all, lord, for just reminding
(07:23):
us, in the same way that youmarked our, our future and our
plans, that you have sealed uswith you, blessed us, you've
given us these great talents andgifts.
We ask for God that you'll helpus as parents, as godparents,
as aunties and uncles, aswhatever role we play in the
children in our lives, whetherthey're young or old, that you
(07:44):
will help us to help them andcover their future and bless
them and guide them and instructand inspire them.
And I ask for that, in the sameway that you spoke to Jeremiah
and showed him that he was apart of a plan, he had purpose
for God, that you'll help us tospeak that into our very
children.
And I also ask that you'llbless us this morning for those
(08:06):
who are standing in need of anencouraging word, and that we're
going to take heed for what youshow us concerning our kids,
amen.
So this is really important,y'all, because a lot of times
again we talk about we want tobreak generational curses.
We are in the business of that.
Okay, jeremiah 1, verse 5,.
The verse says before I formedyou in the womb, I knew you and
(08:27):
before you were born, Iconsecrated you, I appointed you
a prophet to the nation.
So this is Jeremiah hearingfrom the Lord.
So, just in terms of context,jeremiah was in a village called
Anathoth and that's where helived.
Okay, and apparently it was.
I'm just going to contextualizeit.
Okay, apparently, it was a veryquiet day.
(08:48):
He was a young man and he wasgoing about his regular, his
day-to-day routine, and then theLord, he felt the spirit of
speaking to him.
He heard from the Lord and sohe was in this, you know, very
simple village, dusty streetsand all streets and all, and he
(09:14):
was hearing from the Lord andthe weight of what that meant,
the calling that he had.
He was humbled, but he was alsoafraid of what was the task
that was going to be set beforehim.
So the Lord was confirming tohim that Jeremiah was a prophet.
So there's a couple of things Iwant to share with you, because
sometimes, when you're in yourown familiar territory.
So, as a parent, right, forexample, when you're in your own
(09:35):
familiar territory and the Lordis, you know, showing you as a
parent, that my child has thesegifts, your child, you know,
will start exhibiting some ofthese gifts and a lot of times
we will dampen their spirits.
We, as parents, aunties anduncles, because of our own
experiences, we start tellingthem all the why nots right, why
(10:00):
they can't do the things.
We start looking to our ownlimitations.
You can't get to collegebecause I can't afford it.
You can't be a doctor becauseeverybody in my family is a
lawyer.
You can't be a pastor I don'tthink you've been called.
You can't be a project leaderbecause you don't have that type
of skill.
(10:21):
We start dictating our kids ourfuture.
We start to tell them out ofour own flesh, out of our own
desires and sometimes out of ourown fear, out of our own flesh,
out of our own desires andsometimes out of our own fear,
what we want them to do.
When my daughter was younger,the one thing she wanted to do
when she was younger she wantedto be a scientist.
So she had all these crazyexperiments that she would do in
(10:44):
her bathroom y'all, and therewere times when I was like you
are not about to take this housedown.
Times and I was like you arenot about to take this house
down, okay.
So she wanted to be a scientist.
She knew all the things.
She was really excited aboutthat, and this was when she was
much younger.
So what we did is we started tosupport her to say, okay, if
you're going to do that, thenthese are the subjects you're
(11:04):
going to have to excel in, theseare the things that you need to
study and you have to learnmore about the field.
Well, over time, what happenedwas the more she learned about
that field, the less she likedit.
So she started to shift intowhat she wants to do now.
So so she's a um, a risingjunior.
What she wants to do now isdifferent from what she wanted
(11:25):
to do when she was 10.
And so because that shifted, uh, and she is clearly walking
kind of in the in that vein, inthat path so we had to shift and
say, okay, well, then we'regoing to support you.
If you want to do this thing,here's the education that you
need.
You will have to go to college,you will have to get a degree.
You will have to do the thing.
You have to get great, like we.
(11:46):
So we started to shift ourperspective and how we supported
her.
What we didn't do is say well,the word says before I knew you
and you're supposed to do thatthing over there and you can't
change your mind.
The Lord called you and someonelaid hands and told you all the
things.
This is a point of correctionfor us as adults, because a lot
(12:13):
of times we refuse to beflexible as our children get
older and they start to changewhat they say they're going to
do, in the same way that we haveto experience our, our um, go
through life and experiencedifferent things.
Right, a lot of adults, right,y'all have gone through jobs
after jobs after jobs.
You have changed positions onyour jobs.
Right, you might've changedfields and companies.
Well, you have to allow yourchildren to make changes as they
(12:38):
go through their lives.
Right, you have to allow themto shift and learn and grow and
stretch and all the things.
So what we take from this is,when the Lord was speaking to
Jeremiah, he didn't say that I'mappointing you to a prophet to
the nations in the year of ourLord.
He didn't limit him.
(13:00):
He just said this is the field,this is who you are.
So before I formed you, I knewyou and you, you, and
essentially, what the Lord isdoing here is telling Jeremiah
that he has a purpose.
Right, there is a reason, hehas value, right?
Um, so I want to, I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna pull the screen down
, I'm gonna share this, sharethis with y'all.
(13:21):
I want to encourage us morethan anything, when we're
speaking to our kids, when wetalk about recovering their
future in prayer, is I want usto get into the habit of telling
them that I support your future.
We don't tell me and again,there are, you know, a lot of
times.
Our kids don't want to tell uswhat they want to do.
Because you're going to, you'regoing to say something negative
anyway, right, you're not?
(13:41):
I mean, come on, right?
So you want to have a.
First of all, ask the Lord forfavor with your kids so that you
can have a conversation, anhonest conversation, and you
know.
And then, lord, you know, thisis the prayer Lord, you give me
favor with my kids so I can havean honest conversation.
And then, when he does that andtells you, you'll know when
it's the right time to approachhim, you know.
(14:02):
Then you sit down and you'llsay and don't make it a thing,
y'all, don't make it about you.
Make it about them.
And you say you know, hey, um,maybe, if they're in the job
market and things aren't goingvery well, you know, just say
you know, just encourage themand say you know you're, um,
you're, you're, you speak lifeinto their future and you know
you're blessed to do this.
And you know, uh, all thingsare working together, like y'all
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.
And also, um, don't just throwscripture at your kids.
They are watching your responseto when things are going down
in life.
If you, as an adult, when thingsgo wrong, you start freaking
out and crashing out, right, youare not in the position to
advise your children, I am sorryto say it.
Okay, so what we want to do isto remind them that they are
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valued and they have purpose intheir life.
You have to speak that into ourkids.
If you don't do it, someoneelse is going to do it, and the
way that someone else does it,it might lead them into
something that's not meant forthem.
You know what I'm saying, okay,so that's what I wanted to
share, covering their future inprayer.
I pray that this is going toencourage you as a mom, auntie,
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uncle, whatever it is, if youhave any approximation to
children, that the Lord hasassigned kids to you stepmom,
stepdad, bonus, whatever thetitle is you roll with that.
You have just a nice solidconversation where you let them
know that you believe in them,that you value them.
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Again, like I said, don't makeit about you.
Just have a really quick tapconversation.
Tap in and check in on yourkids adult kids and young kids
and let them know that yourfuture is solid, your future is
bright, things are going to workout together for your good and
bless them in that way.
Right?
So we thank you, lord, that youremind us and you encourage us
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that we all have purpose andthat we're living purpose-driven
lives, that you have alreadymarked us.
You've given us great gifts andgreat talents, and so now I'm
asking for you to give all of uswho are responsible for young
children and adult children thatyou give us the wisdom so that
we know how to encourage andinspire those kids in our lives.
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So, lord, I ask that you'llbless us, and asking you to even
heal those of us who neverheard these words of
encouragement.
Growing up, they never hadsomeone, they didn't have a
parental figure, they didn'thave a family member or a friend
encouraging them, and so I askthat you will heal the broken
hearts and broken minds of thoseso they don't repeat this
behavior with their children.
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Father, I also ask that youwill give us a measure of grace
to do this, so that we don'tover promise that there's a
balance in how we do this.
A lot of us are speaking thingsinto our lives that our kids
truly were not meant to do, andso we're just asking that you
will help us to stay balanced inthese conversations.
Give us favor so we can speakto our kids, and also that they
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will hear from our heart.
Thank you, lord, for blessingus today.
Thank you for giving us thisgreat series this month, as we
are helping one another toparent and help our kids and
families and all these things weasking in your son Jesus's name
.
Amen, y'all.
Like I say every week, we aredoing life together right, so
it's important for us Again.
You can know scripture all daylong, you can know the Bible
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stories all day long, you can bea Bible scholar, apostle,
prophet, preacher, pastor allthe things all day long, but we
still have to live and existright, we still have to share
the space with each other, andso just really grateful for this
community where we're learningand growing together.
And so, again, shout out to allthe moms and dads, aunties,
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uncles and grandparents, all ofus who have this incredible,
blessed position to pour intoour kids, and thank you, god for
all of the.
I call them my invisible kids.
I have a lot of invisible kids,meaning kids that I didn't give
birth to, but I still claimthem as my own and covering them
in their awesome futures aswell.
All right, so I hope thatblessed y'all have an amazing
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day.
Don't forget it's Thursday.
That means we have prayer today.
Also, a quick shout out andthank you.
We've had over 300 callers thismonth.
This, I'm sorry, this half ofthe year, starting from prayers
like what over 300.
So shout out to the threepraying sisters.
You know who you are.
Thank you for serving.
We're praying this month forcaregivers.
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Thank you for showing up y'all.
We have we do have people whojoin the line and say nothing,
and that's okay.
Thank you for dialing in and weask that you'll just you'll
share the information with afriend or family member who
could use just a little bit ofencouragement this year.
Otherwise, y'all have anamazing Thursday and I will be
back next week, see you.
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