Challenge Day 3
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[00:00:00] Welcome back to day three of our 12 day roadmap to parenting, clarity and purpose in 2024 challenge. I'm loving your feedback in the Facebook group and through emails. So please keep that coming. Day three is all about strengthening our faith. As Christians, we know our faith plays a very significant role in how we raise our children, the approaches that we take, the considerations that we make, and so on.
Today, we're going to reflect on our own personal faith journey, take steps to strengthen our faith, but also really importantly, we're going to learn strategies for more easily incorporating faith into our daily interactions with our children. So what can you expect from today? We will explore the impact of your personal faith journey on your parenting approach, learn practical ways to incorporate faith into your daily interactions as a family and commit to remaining strong [00:01:00] in your spiritual journey.
There are two gifts you received today. Those are emailed out to anyone who's signed up for our challenge, which you can still do until December 12th at covenantcollections. com slash 2024. And they're also uploaded into our free Facebook group, the Christian Parenting Community. So this is a family faith calendar.
which shares with you 10 ideas for nurturing faith at home within your family. And it's also a set of 20 faithful parenting affirmations. So, these are really great supplemental resources for what we're working through today. I want to take a moment. And talk about the impact of our faith on our parenting approach.
Proverbs 22, six advises us to raise our children up in the way they should go. And when they are old, they will not depart from it. We know that God wants us to use his approach in our parenting. We also know that our faith [00:02:00] has a huge influence on our values, which act as the foundation of our approach.
One of my values is honesty. So think for a moment. I'm going to talk a little bit about all of the various perspectives that you take to certain situations and how being faithful has shaped your responses to your children or situations that you face as a family. An example for me would be because of one of my values being honesty, which is based on my faith.
I'm not comfortable with little white lies that other parents may tell their child to elicit a certain response or get a desired. Behavioral result, things like they won't leave the playground. So you say that the playground is closing soon when it's not, or they won't hurry up and get ready to leave the house.
So you say that you're going to leave them when you're not, I'm not comfortable doing things like that. And your convictions are going to be a little bit different. So, we all [00:03:00] have certain convictions that stem from our faith. We all have values that are built on a foundation of faith. At the end of the day, we need to honor what scripture tells us regarding our approach.
We can lean on our faith for strength, for comfort, for guidance, for a peace that surpasses all understanding. Ephesians 6, 4 tells us to bring up our children in the training and instruction of the Lord. It's important for us to teach them about God, about love, about values, and to set a strong example for them through our actions.
Now, realistically, we all know most of the ways that we can incorporate faith into our day to day, but the tricky part can be making the time to do so or committing to doing so. So I want us to all challenge ourselves to make God a part of every single day, because that is the single best [00:04:00] thing you can do for your family.
If you all pray each day, But you do it separately, I want to encourage you to also pray together, as a family, in a group, out loud. Daily devotionals are amazing ways to incorporate faith in a way that you can tailor towards the ages of your children, and even certain times of year. Like right now, it's December.
So our daily devotional is working through Luke in the Bible, and each day you read one chapter, and then you read through a quick devotional that accompanies it. That can be incorporated whenever works for you. A lot of people get hung up on things like details. Morning devotionals, I don't have time in the morning.
So do it at night. Make it a bedtime devotional. Make it a dinner table devotional. Make it an on the way to school audio devotional playing in the car. Make it work for you and your family. There's almost always a way that you can take something that speaks to you, but doesn't quite fit for [00:05:00] you, and then tailor it for your life.
You can do Bible memory verse challenges within your family to make it fun. And you can do faith themed game nights and things like that as well. I have a family devotion starter kit at covenantcollections. com starter kit. It has a family devotional already written for you, a fun Bible game activity for family night bonding, and a meaningful discussion prompt to get deeper conversations going and strengthen your connections.
So you can download that if you're interested at covenantcollections. com slash starter kit. It's another completely free resource that I've made just to help you bring your families closer to God and closer to each other. I want to also discuss Deuteronomy 6 verses 6 and 7, where we're told these commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit [00:06:00] at home. When you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. Scripture makes it very clear to us that we have a responsibility as parents to incorporate our faith into our day to day lives. He wants to be a part of our families.
He wants relationships with us even more than we want relationships with our own children. So, for context, think about it that way. If you're children that you get to spend time with every single day, you get to love and connect with every single day, If they only spoke to you for 10 minutes once a week, wouldn't that hurt?
Let's understand how important it is to have and strengthen a real, loving, and strong relationship with God, and just really commit to incorporating that faith into our lives in a more consistent way. I want to wrap up our day with a few of our faithful parenting affirmations. [00:07:00] Your resource for today has 20.
So make sure you check those out and use those to connect with the truth of what you're saying and strengthen your commitment to this process. My parenting journey is guided by faith, love, and compassion. I trust in God's wisdom to navigate the challenges of parenting. Every interaction with my child is an opportunity to share God's love.
I am a vessel of patience, understanding, and grace in my parenting. Through faith, I create a home filled with warmth, security,
And last, if you missed yesterday's announcement of what our giveaway gifts are, 12 of you will be winning our calm and confident club membership, which is stuffed full of 3 amazing programs that are designed to fill you with peace, confidence and clarity on your parenting journey with step by [00:08:00] step on demand trainings to walk you through every process.
Our full leadership inspired parenting program that will help you create efficiency and peace in your home in a way that works for you as an individual and with your unique child's needs. Our chaos to calm program that helps you break through the roadblocks that stop you from creating a consistently peaceful home environment.
Our Complete Connection Blueprint Training that helps you master the parent child bond and ensure you're creating and nurturing lifelong bonds in your family, plus tons of bonus trainings. Lots of digital products like journals, planners, success guides, and more with an ever growing library and new additions monthly, a private community for like minded parents to come together for support and guidance and ongoing coaching support from a certified parenting and family coach.
[00:09:00] Live calls for connection and reflection with one another, and an upgrade to VIP, which also comes with three group coaching sessions each month, and up to four digital coaching sessions via email, and one member receiving a one to one breakthrough hot seat coaching session per month. All in addition to the regular membership and our giveaway winners throughout this challenge will receive that full membership with the VIP upgrade completely for free for an entire year.
So make sure you comment on the homework post inside of the Christian parenting community free Facebook group to enter into those giveaways and today's homework. Is literally just commenting on that post any emoji of your choice, but that emoji signifies and represents that you have agreed to make a commitment to incorporate faith into [00:10:00] your day to day family life.
That's it. Have a great rest of your day and I'll see you tomorrow for a quick lesson on cultivating consistency.
