[SPEAKER_00]: Christian parenting.
[SPEAKER_00]: music music music music music hey friends welcome back to part of the mess i'm your host courting to fail and we only have two more weeks praying together in this school year and has been such a pleasure to do this with you but i don't know if you heard the news i announced this last week or the week before i can't remember it's operating together
[SPEAKER_00]: But it is time for me to pass the mic to another host on part in the mess and if you haven't heard this I'm so sorry to just spring this on you, but basically Cynthia Janoff started this podcast with Christian parenting and she was the original host for three years And then she passed the mic to me to be the host it has been three years two hundred and seventy episodes millions of downloads.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot believe it
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just felt like a piece from God that it was time to pass the might to someone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I love about this podcast, it is so much bigger than one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like God is doing something within Christian parenting through this podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is really, really humbling to have been a part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so here's the kind of the schedule of your like, what's the deal?
[SPEAKER_00]: We just announced the news.
[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't announced the new host yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll find out soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: This week on Thursday, I'm having my minty, Megan Jones, a girl, Megan Jones,
[SPEAKER_00]: she's actually going to interview me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so for those of you that are like, wait, I want more to the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to just share with you like how God presses on me when I'm trying to make decisions.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you walk away from something that is good and godly and fulfilling for something else?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we're kind of going to unpack to my own story and just maybe encourage you if you're making a tough decision on what to do next in your career journey or faith journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so tune in for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then our new host will be on with me on the Thursday episode and I can't wait for you to meet her.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to love her and have got great news.
[SPEAKER_00]: The prayer journal is still happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: So make sure you'll order it this summer when you see the links come out.
[SPEAKER_00]: She will be praying with you all school year long and I will be listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: and praying with you just like you have done all year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just won't be hosting the conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll be in it together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today we're gonna just pray about how to spread God's word and then our kids would have a passion to spread God's word.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to look this up because I'm like, how do you say this name?
[SPEAKER_00]: a paparaditis.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's how you say it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know if that's not it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we find out about a paparaditis and he's in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was sent by the Philippians church to bring a gift to Paul.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who was in prison?
[SPEAKER_00]: But y'all, he did more than deliver a package.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ministered.
[SPEAKER_00]: He encouraged.
[SPEAKER_00]: He served so faithfully.
[SPEAKER_00]: So faithfully, in fact, that it became sick and nearly died.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once he recovered, he carried back the letter to the Philippians, making sure that Paul's message
[SPEAKER_00]: reached the church, which is such a cool thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're like, what is my bio?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a pretty cool bio, is that you were a part of making sure the church
[SPEAKER_00]: read Paul's message for the church, reached the church.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I love that so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he was a minister, a brother, a co-worker, a soldier.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was totally committed to Paul and Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his story is honestly a reminder that God uses all of us to spread God's Word.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that we can just look at like, ministers, or pastors, or protestors, or, you know, whoever that has in public ministry to say like, your job is to spread God's Word.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, no, that's for all of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And lately I've just been reminded of the power of God's Word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we want to make it so cute and make the image on Instagram so cute when it's like just straight up the word of God that Gospels can pierce someone's heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the way nothing else can.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a live and active.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not returned void.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is something that we need to keep putting in front of our kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've said before, we need to bribe them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all scripture, remember, get scripture into their hearts, get praise music going.
[SPEAKER_00]: In your home and it will not return void is so so.
[SPEAKER_00]: powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was reminded of a story with Larsen.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was kind of walking with a friend who had been through some kind of hard high school years and their newer friends and she didn't really know where she was at her faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: But all of a sudden, this friend knew of Larsen's belief and started reaching out to her to say, do you have a Bible verse for this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do I look for this?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so people are hungry for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it can reach your soul and such a deeper level than any level of motivational quote, any little meme, any little pat on the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when we share God's word with someone,
[SPEAKER_00]: It really does transform them in a way that it's just there's nothing like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was joking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I had to make this political, but let's make gods were great again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: I sure just said that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's not forget that that's the whole ball game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that we have devotionals.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that we have worship music.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Influencers, tell us what they think about Jesus, but let's not make God's word kind of down on the list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's make it the number one thing, and that we are just like a forward dietist as that his name, a forward dietist, that we are passionate about actually physically traveling and moving God's word in two spaces.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I've been pressed on in this new season, I really wanna go and speak, and I wanna share more about that next week, but I wanna get in your towns and your communities.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna like see you face to face,
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think people were built for isolation and as much fine as technology and podcasting is, like I look at your pictures of my computer, but I wanna see your faces.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna give you a hug.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna talk to your friends and say, speaking is gonna be one of the things I'm doing more of next year.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also, we are opening a new campus of our church at a federal women's prison in the area.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am so fired up to be a part of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just get to go put my arms around people that need to be reminded that they're loved and they're forgiven and that is going to be such a great privilege.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other thing I wanted to tell you about is I was talking with a friend the other day that I went to college with and I don't we do not that close anymore, so I didn't really track with her on her daughter or what was going on with her in high school, but I know that they are a Christian family, you know that they've.
[SPEAKER_00]: raised her to go to church, but she sent me her testimony from her daughter's testimony from FCA where she was sharing about her love of God and she sent it to me and I was blown away but that God used her worst college moment to bring her to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: She hurt herself major injury, college athlete, college swimmer and God used that very thing to just wreck her heart to say my identity was inswimming but actually it needs to be in Jesus and so I
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to remind you if you're not seeing fruit from your kids or the word is not sticking in their hearts like just give it time one day and God's timing and it will be their decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will be so sure that God sees them and loves them that they can't help but talk about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here she is a new believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not a new believer but just someone that has been rocked and kind of rededicated her life to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's traveling college campus to college campus talking about the love of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: How cool is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: So let me pray for us today and we'll just get going on this second to the last one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for the moms that are on this podcast that I've never met face to face that I hope to meet and thank you that they that we are bonded by this that we are women and moms that love Jesus and we want to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: very specifically about our families, lives, about our kids' faith, about our faith and Lord, we just, I'm thankful for technology that we get to do this together.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just thank you that I got to have a rhythm of prayer through this podcast and that it will continue in my life because of you inviting me into this privilege.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been a host for just a few years, and so I pray for the next hose that you will continue to bless this podcast and use it for your glory.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for Ella and Larsen that they would just
[SPEAKER_00]: use it to reach others that they will use it when they don't know what to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: And someone is struggling, they will just keep pointing people back to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, we love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: We thank you for all that you've done in our lives in Jesus' name, amen.