#70. I Get So Emotional... and So Do My Kids! : Modeling and Training Our Children to Handle Emotions Biblically | Part 1

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They're the joyful agains our children shout on the swings, the

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exhausting agains of cooking and laundry,

and the difficult agains of discipline.

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So much of what we do

as mothers is on repeat.

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So what if we woke up with clarity,

knowing which agains we were called

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to, and went to bed believing we

are faithful in what matters most?

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We believe God's Word is

the key to untangle from the

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confusion and overwhelm we feel.

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Let's look up together to embrace a

motherhood full of freedom and joy.

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Welcome back to the again podcast

I have the honor of being here

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with Emily Dio and Jen Freckman.

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And I am Stephanie Hickox.

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We are so grateful that

you are here to listen.

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And we feel the weight of this

topic as we talk about emotions.

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There is so much that we can talk about

both in how we steward our own emotions

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onto the Lord and also how we train

and develop emotions in our children.

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This is a nuanced topic and we only

want to say what the Lord would have us.

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So we just feel that it would

be best to begin this episode in

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prayer and humility that our words

would be edifying to the Lord.

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Heavenly Father, we come before

you and we thank you for all

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that you have done in our lives.

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We have countless testimonies

of your faithfulness.

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Lord, we thank you that you are a

Lord that is available to us, that we

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can draw near to you and that we can

approach your throne of grace with

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confidence, Lord, you are a holy God and

we just want to speak of you honorably.

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And we want to relate to

you as your word asks.

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And as it guides us, I pray that

any words that are of ourselves.

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And that are not glorifying to you

would just fade away from our minds.

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And that what would remain

would be truth that has spoken

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in love and seasoned with salt.

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We thank you, Jesus, for your

example on this earth and how

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winsomely you spoke, and we desire

to follow you and your example.

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So I just pray that the words of our

mouths and the meditations of our

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hearts would be pleasing in your sight.

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Oh Lord, our rock and our redeemer.

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We thank you, Holy Spirit, for the way

that you will guide this conversation.

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And I pray for the moms listening.

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That they would be Bereans, that they

would seek out your word for themselves.

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That anything that just sounds

off to them, that they would

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search it out in your word.

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But Lord, I pray that you would only

allow us to speak what is true of you.

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And I pray also that we would be

edified by this conversation, that

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you would bring us to a place of

unity and that you would guide.

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There

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are a lot of memes and jokes on

social media these days joking

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about how different our childhood

Was our generation, our era, how

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different it was from today's

children and how they're being raised.

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And I, we hear a lot about

the, get outside and don't

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come back in until it's dark.

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If you're thirsty, grab a drink out of

the hose , but I think attending emotions,

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I would definitely put in that category.

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I would say that many of us, the way we

were raised, there was more independence.

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It, I don't believe it was as

much of a requirement for mothers

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to be as in tune with their

children's emotional development.

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And I'm not even saying that's all bad.

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I think that there were

some benefits from that.

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But it seems as though we have

swung the pendulum and moms today

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are incredibly in tune with their

children, incredibly observant.

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Obviously, whenever we swing so

dramatically, then there are new

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cautions that we need to be aware of.

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And we want to be mothers who

are steadfast in the word of God,

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not directed by cultural trends.

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But it is really hard if you

feel like, Oh, wow, that mom is

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so in tune with her children.

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I want to be like that, or I'm

just balancing what, how would the

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Lord have me relate to my children?

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So we are going to talk

a lot about that tonight.

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But so much of this is how do we as

women, as mothers, how are we modeling

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healthy emotions for our children?

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Because it really does

need to start with us.

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Entrusted, Lessons 10, and I would

say 14 as well, really emphasize

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moms having healthy emotions and not

letting our anger get full reign in us.

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Emily, do you remember Lessons

10 and 14 and how they impacted

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you as you took Entrusted?

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Emily: I remember speaking to emotion

specifically, I remember I actually

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went out to lunch with Betsy.

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And I felt like my oldest was withdrawing

a little bit and I remember she had told

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me, Emily, you can't let them retreat

into their head, you have to draw it out.

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And I'm looking back, that's

really my first encounter with.

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Dealing with emotions now, temper

tantrums and all of that when they're

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little, of course, we all know and

acknowledge that is a reality that

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we're all dealing with, but then when

they get older and we're speaking to

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them giving words to their emotions.

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Then it's a whole other game and we have

kids that speak so eloquently to their

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emotions and then we have kids that

struggle and sometimes retreat and don't

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want to give words to their emotions

and honestly, they probably can't there,

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sometimes they're just so in their head.

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So when you're asking a mom to be in

tune with their children's emotions,

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it's just like this fine little string

that they have to be in tune with.

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And each child has a fine little

string that they have to understand.

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And as we were preparing for this, I

just thought the vastness That, that

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our creator made us in and the detail

that he gave us really blows my mind.

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Emotions are actually a beautiful thing.

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And we look in the Bible and

we see David who was extreme.

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I just see him as extremely emotional.

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He wrote these beautiful Psalms and

he speaks to the beauty of the Lord

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and just so eloquently describes him.

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And I feel like he had to be emotional.

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We have these attributes the Lord gave

us, and we're teaching our children

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from preschool to elementary to middle

to high about how how to control

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emotions, express emotions, give

words to emotions, suppress emotions.

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And and so we're talking them

through all of that and it's

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a gift to be able to walk.

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alongside them as we go

through what all that means.

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Steph: reminds me of that quote,

if you listen to the little things

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when they're little, they'll tell

you the big things when they're big.

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And I think emotions,

that's definitely true.

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If we are aware and available for them,

for What they're going through, then

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they're going to keep us in the loop

as they grow that 15 minutes a day,

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principal and entrusted is so valuable

because I think often parents are

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like, I'll wait till they're older.

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I'll wait till they're in junior high,

and then we'll start having these

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deep talks, but that bonding, that

practice of hearing your children's

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hearts needs to start so early.

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So I think that is a

fantastic way to keep your.

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Pulse on your children.

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Jen: Piggybacking on what Emily was

saying with the drawing it out, that

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stuck out to me as well during that

session when Betsy talked about that.

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And I remember thinking like, okay,

when my child is retreating and being

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quiet, I need to ask them, like, what's,

what's going on in your, in your heart?

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What's going on in your mind?

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And sometimes they don't know

at those little tiny ages.

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They don't really know.

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They can't, they don't have words for it.

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Like you had mentioned, they don't

really understand it, but as they're,

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as they're Older and you see them, you

know, withdrawing and, and just kind

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of being in there stuck in their head.

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I think oftentimes as the teen years

come up, they become focused on

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in what is going on in their head.

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What are they thinking in it?

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And they replay things in their minds and

they, they work things out in their minds

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without sometimes not every kid, but some

kids without expressing it to the parents

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and letting them know how they're feeling.

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And so helping them to not be

constantly evaluating the things

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that are going through their

minds in them, in their minds.

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By themselves and saying to them,

like, wait, what, when you meant that,

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or when you said that, what did you

mean when you said nobody at school

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likes me, what did you mean by that?

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Does that really mean that nobody likes

that you, or are you having problems with.

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One of your friends, and

that's making you sad.

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And that makes you feel

like nobody likes you.

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And so drawing that out of them, but also

I think a key thing for what scripture

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talks about with how we handle our

emotions is that we need to make sure

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that we take every thought captive.

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Every thought captive second Corinthians

10, 15 says, take every thought

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captive and make it obedient to Christ.

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And I think that's the biggest thing

we need to tell these teenagers as.

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Okay, wait, wait, hold on.

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Before you are constantly

repeating this to yourself, you

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need to take that thought captive.

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Is that something that the

Lord wants you to think about?

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Is it pure?

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And what, what does the Lord

want you to think about?

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Things that are like Philippians

4, 8, things that are pure and

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true and honorable and lovely

and just and commendable and

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excellent and praiseworthy.

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Okay.

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So if it's one of those, yes,

Keep thinking about that.

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That's awesome.

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But if it doesn't line up to that

in scripture, then you need to take

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that thought captive and you need to

make that thought obedient to Christ.

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So if your thought is, I'm not loved

or I'm not appreciated at school, okay,

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how can I make that obedient to Christ?

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Well, what is it that the Lord would say?

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First, if I'm struggling with

that, then that means that That's

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something that makes me sad.

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That means I need to bring it to Christ.

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I need to tell him about it and allow

him to take the weight off of me.

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Lord, I'm feeling like

nobody at school likes me.

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That's how we take that thought captive

because we just telling ourselves over

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the, and over in our head and thinking

about it that way does us no good.

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But when we take it captive

and make it obedient to Christ.

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Now we've laid it at his throne

and that is, that took it captive

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and made it obedient to him.

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So I think that's a huge key part that

some of society is not talking about.

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Even in the Christian realm, I find

a lot of believers really don't talk

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about how we take our thoughts captive.

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Steph: And sometimes, a thought that

keeps coming to mind, is conviction.

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The Lord is trying to

convict you of something.

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Maybe the thought is, I'm

not a good friend and that's

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why people don't like me.

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Or maybe there's some truth to it.

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We need to process it with the Lord

and actually Or maybe he's he's

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calling us to be a better friend to

others and then that will result in

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greater friendships and I, I just

think that sometimes that, it's like

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people will twist it either way, right?

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Either they're not taking thoughts

captive and they're letting their

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brains just run free, or they're

taking every thought captive.

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When actually the Lord would have

you process and meditate upon that

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and see how you can transform into

the likeness of Christ through

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what he's laying on your heart.

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Jen: For sure.

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But I think that would

fall under the category of.

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Making it obedient to Christ.

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You did the same thing, but you,

by saying, Oh, maybe I'm not

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being a good friend, then that

thought has become obedient to

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Christ because you've realized,

Oh, this is how I can change this.

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You know?

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So I do think it's funny.

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Cause when I think about that, the

first thought that comes to my mind

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is Betsy ten boom in the hiding place.

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When you read about her story, she had.

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Every reason for anxiety, anger

bitterness, resentment, every emotion

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that you could ever think of, she had

every reason for it, being stuck in a, a

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concentration camp and having fleas that

are biting her and sleeping with eight

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women in a bed and it just was, it was

absolutely horrible, but what did she do?

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She literally thought nonstop

about God and literally she

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thanked God for every single thing.

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And so she took those thoughts and she

changed it around and made it captive

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and she, keeping her mind on him.

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And helped her heart to

not go astray from him.

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And so sometimes I think when we are,

when we, and we're stuck in our heads

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being like, wait, Lord, I want to be

thinking about what it is that you have

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for me here and how I can thank you.

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And as we were reading this book together

in our family, I was like, there is

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no way in my sinful mind that I would

have thanked God for those fleas.

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I know without a shadow of a doubt,

I would have been the first one to

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be like, God, you created these fleas

and you can also kill these fleas.

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So please make these

fleas leave this room.

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I don't want them anymore.

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I would be praying it away.

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But Betsy in her wonderful heart and

her sinless, it seems heart she actually

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prayed and thanked the Lord for the fleas.

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And by doing so, she took her thoughts

captive, she made him obedient to

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Christ, and she did not pray away her

greatest blessing like I would have.

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Because in the end of the book, you

find out that the reason that no

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concentration camp policemen or, or,

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Steph: the guards.

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Jen: The guards, no guards came in

the room was because of the fleas.

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So here, sinful Jen, I would have been

praying away the greatest blessing that

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God has for me, but she took what God

had for her and thanked him for it.

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And because of that.

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That was her greatest blessing,

and she got out of her head.

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She, she kept herself from going

insane and becoming a lunatic

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and becoming resentful and

bitter and angry and depressed.

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I mean, if anybody has a reason

to be depressed, it would

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be her in that situation.

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And she did it by thanking the Lord

and keeping those thoughts captive.

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Steph: Absolutely.

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And it sometimes it's just, it's the

baby steps of, okay, I'm just gonna,

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I'm going to walk in obedience in this.

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I don't feel it, but I'm going

to trust you Lord, because

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I'm going to honor your word.

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And I love Philippians 4, 8, the verses

you just quoted about whatever is

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true, whatever is lovely, whatever is

honorable, think about these things.

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It's preceded by be anxious for

nothing and why, and then the verse

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before that is Let your reasonableness

be made known to everyone.

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The Lord is at hand.

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Like every time in scripture, we're told

to not be anxious or to not be afraid.

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So often it's because he is

with us and it's the presence of

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God that's holding us together.

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It's not, it's because I feel

there's so many religions that are,

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about your mental strength, right?

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And it's about attaining this

level of meditation or something.

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But we're meditating on the fact

that the Lord is with us and

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we trust in his good character.

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And so that's why we can endure suffering.

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That's why we can go through these trials

because we believe in the goodness and the

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sovereignty and the power and the might of

the Lord that I think that helps transform

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when we have the trust in his character.

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And that's what sets us apart from

other religions that might also

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recommend Being mentally diligent,

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Jen: Mm hmm.

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Mm hmm.

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Emily: So we have to teach our kids that

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sometimes their anxiety comes

from the negative distraction

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that lead to negative emotion.

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We talked about, in the beginning I

had said that our emotions are good.

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We do have displays of it in the Bible

and how it was displayed for the pray,

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the glory and praise of the Lord.

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And, but also.

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We, there's there is a hard side that

our kids are dealing with because

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there's more distraction these days.

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Jen you were talking about how, she didn't

pray her hardest thing away but I think

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we look for Instant comfort and because

we don't want the uncomfortableness

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of what we have to be in and so that

negative distraction leads to a negative

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emotion and we have to teach our kids

that filter and how to filter all of that

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so that the right, we're seeing it in

a right way and making, that our center

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and I think that's where, uh, I think

that's where maybe our greatest struggle

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is CO is teaching our kids to, to cope

with all of this and as they filter

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everything that would lead to the right

emotions and not the negative emotions.

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Jen: Totally.

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I think I I'm reminded of the

verse in Psalm 50, 14 offered to

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God as sacrifice of thanksgiving.

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Whenever I think of sacrifice, I

think of like, you know, the altar

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and killing and death and, not good,

like sacrifices usually are giving

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up something that is it is not good.

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It's just strength surrendering

or destroying something.

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And then you hear the term

Thanksgiving in there as well.

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And Thanksgiving is a happy thing.

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You're, you're rendering thanks

for something, usually a joyful

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expression of gratitude for favor

or, or mercy or something like that.

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But here, a sacrifice of

Thanksgiving, those two words

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together don't seem to fit.

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And so in today's society, when we don't.

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Still offer things upon the altar.

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We don't, you know, do a we don't kill

a lamb and put it on the altar anymore

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as our sacrifice, our sacrifices of

today's world are whatever is causing

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us anxiety that That is our sacrifice

and so we take whatever it is that's

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causing us the anxiety if it's the the

fear of what might happen in the future

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to, or the, the worry about how our kids

are going to handle any situation, any,

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any, Fear, any anxiety that we have,

we take that and we offer that upon the

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throne of Christ as our sacrifice to him.

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We offer that sacrifice of worry and

of doubt and fear and exhaustion.

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We offer that unto the throne and

that becomes our offer of thanksgiving

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because it's, thank you, Lord.

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Thank you that you are taking this

and you are making something from.

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ashes, and you are going to make

it into something beautiful.

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And so I'm laying this on

your throne and I am saying, I

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don't want to pick it back up.

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It is my sacrifice to you and I

need you to help me with this.

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And when we offer a sacrifice to God and

we call upon him in our trouble, he will

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deliver us and he will be glorified in it.

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And.

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The delivering does not always mean

that every single thing turns out

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exactly how we pray for it, right?

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Like, that doesn't happen.

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That's not always that way, but

our hearts can still be delivered.

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Betsy still died in the concentration

camp, but her heart was delivered

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because she constantly was offering

these sacrifices of thanksgiving

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to the Lord and thanking him over

and over for even the hard things

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that came into her, into her life.

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And when we.

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Offer that he is glorified and he orders

our heart rightly and that I think is

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what is happening to our kids these days.

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Their hearts are disordered and

when they have anxiety and when

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they have any fear or worry or

doubt, they're stuck in their heads.

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They're not thinking, taking

their thoughts captive.

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They're not bringing it

to the throne of the Lord.

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They're not thanking him for these

things and you get all messed up.

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And I think.

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Betsy Tinboom was such a great example

of how to help order your mind rightly.

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Steph: hmm.

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Well, and It's very hard to order

it rightly when we are constantly

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facing distractions and so many

different, everybody's highs and lows.

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And if you're on social media or

even the news, how does that play

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with our emotions, the, what the past

few generations have gone through

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by just having world news is quite.

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New in history.

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And so you add to that just all of the

technological advances and there's.

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Fight, flight or freeze, but the freeze

can be the numbing of just scrolling

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on social media so that you're never

really allowing yourself to feel.

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You saw a post, it made you

feel envy, but you're just

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gonna scroll to the next thing.

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And oh, I laughed.

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And then I'm gonna

scroll to another thing.

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And, oh, that made me feel sad.

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But I'm gonna scroll to the next thing,

and you might be feeling 10 emotions.

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Five minutes, but you're not

allowing yourself to really

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meditate on any of them or let any

of them connect you with the Lord.

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And I believe that is one of the

main purposes of emotions, is to

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make you aware of your need for the

Lord and to run to him with them.

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Emotions were intended to inform us.

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So that we run to him.

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They also connect us with each other.

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We need each other.

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I feel like that's a

very misunderstood thing.

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If our culture tells us all

emotion, Is good because right

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now how we feel is paramount.

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How we feel trumps biology.

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How we feel trumps every reality

I can identify as how I feel.

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That is not how we were created.

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No, there is truth.

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And then our emotions need to follow that,

but we can still name how we're feeling.

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It is not a sin to say, I am

lonely, Lord, would you fill that?

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Emily: yeah,

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Steph: That is a good thing to, to

just recognize the lack in your life.

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Maybe you need to be transformed

and say, no, actually, Lord, you

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have provided helped me to be

grateful for what I have here.

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Or maybe I do have a lack of.

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Human provision for that, but

Lord, you will meet my needs and.

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If we take it to him, he does help us

rewrite the story that we're telling

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ourselves, that narrative, but if

we don't take the time to really

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understand what am I numbing or what

am I running from, and I think often

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people can run from in good ways.

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It literally could be running or, but

if that becomes a, you not running

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to the Lord, it becomes a problem.

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Jen: Right.

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Steph: Yeah.

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We all need to evaluate what do I do

when I have those triggering moments?

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How do I handle it?

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And as mothers, if we are numbing

ourselves, and then all of a

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sudden the kids get a little bit

noisy in the background and you

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realize Oh, that's when I snapped.

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But did it have anything to do

with the kids being rambunctious?

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Or was it because I just looked at

something that made me feel sad or

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envious or jealous or hurt or Excluded?

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I feel so often the triggers have to do

with things that we need to take to the

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Lord and not actually with our parenting.

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Emily: I feel like my mind is running

all these different places because

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I just want to speak to ever just

speak to everything all at once

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because you said so many things that

just triggered all these thoughts.

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But

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Steph: huh.

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Emily: Jen, what that my mind just

kept thinking as you were talking,

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Oh, so sometimes God puts us in

uncomfortable places to grow us.

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What?

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We don't want to be uncomfortable.

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Can we just grow in comfort, please?

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But think that he puts us in those places

so we can come back and rely on him.

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But And as you were talking, Stephanie,

I just kept thinking like, not only

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are we numbing out, but our kids now,

social media is a whole other topic

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that that whether we do or don't allow

our kids personally, we don't I'm not

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saying that's that, everybody has to

make their own decision, but But I know,

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especially girls struggle with feeling,

they already are struggling with these

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emotions of feeling left out, what's

wrong with me, no one likes me, all

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of these emotions, and then they're

scrolling and seeing all these things.

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We have to be aware of how our kids

are processing what they're seeing, not

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only on social media, but in school and

friend groups and what people are saying.

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And if they made the team and I'm

on this team, I but I'm trying out

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for the other and just all of the

things that they're going through,

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we have to be really so in tune.

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To their little hearts because it's

being pulled and tugged in so many ways.

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And just tending to their heart

and emotion through all of that

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as they walk through it all

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Jen: For

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Emily: is something that's so important,

but as you were talking about to the

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Lord, we have voids and and we're filling

them with all of the mind numbing

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things and the easy things instead of.

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Doing the heart, the deep heart work

of plowing to whatever that emotion is

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that we, maybe he's trying to root out.

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Or maybe he's trying to

grow us in that area.

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But we have to be in tune with the

Lord as he leads us to to grow and root

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out these different emotions we face.

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Jen: Totally.

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I think, I think you're so right

and you're so onto something.

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I think we as a culture may very well

be pushing down, numbing, medicating,

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ignoring, therapisting Out of true

deliverance that the Lord wants us to

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bring out this sin out of our lives or,

or this situation that is super sad.

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It may not be sin.

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It may just be an emotion of hurt and pain

that we have to work through, but working

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out our own salvation with fear and

trembling and working these things out.

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It takes work.

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It takes time to acknowledge

and to wait for clarity from God

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on where my heart or mind is.

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It went off.

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Where did my thinking go off, Lord?

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Why am I feeling this way?

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It takes time and work to humble

ourselves and to offer that upon

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the throne as a sacrifice to him.

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And it takes time to wait on him to answer

us and to give us the heart that we need.

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It's not instant.

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It's not quick.

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It is.

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It takes time.

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And then it takes time and work to

figure out, okay, Lord, until you

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move in this area, tell me what is the

next right thing that I need to do?

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What is the next right thing?

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Move.

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What is the next right thought that I

need to have and to trust him that he

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will make everything work out in the end

for my good, even if it doesn't go the

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way I want, and that takes the fear away.

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But as Elizabeth Elliott used to

say all the time, I accept it.

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I do not like it, Lord, but I accept it.

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And, and trusting that he continues to be

in the business of taking ashes and making

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beauty, and Go and busy ourselves serving

others and praying for, for deliverance

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from this and working it out in our brain.

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But getting our minds off ourselves

and getting our minds fixed

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on the Lord, that takes work.

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It's way easier to run to

Instagram and just numb ourselves.

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Done.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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Steph: Yes, I

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Actually we are far

from done on this topic.

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In the weeks to come, we will

be fire hosing scriptures on

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emotions that the Lord has used to

work in us and in our parenting.

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We will share some personal

testimonies of working through

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emotions in our own motherhood

and even some natural solutions.

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The Lord has provided

to help us biologically.

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There's so much more to come.

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We'll see you next week.

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But before you go, I just like to ask

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We're rooting for you.

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To this end, we always pray for you,

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calling, and may fulfill every resolve

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Him, according to the grace of our God.

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And the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Until we meet again.