For the Family: Preparing Your Heart to Pray

When someone you love is struggling, making choices you don’t understand, or creating conflict in your family, it can be easy to move quickly into fixing, advising, worrying—or even trying to manage them through prayer.

But what if God wants to begin with us?

In Episode 2 of our For the Family series, Elizabeth and Kimberly talk about preparing our own hearts before we pray for the people closest to us. Drawing from Sylvia Gunter’s For the Family, they explore the difference between interceding for someone and carrying responsibility for them, how fear and control can get mixed into genuine love, and why prayer begins with relationship and surrender rather than our plan for someone else.

You’ll hear practical questions to help you slow down before reacting:

• What am I feeling?
• What am I tempted to do?
• Who is God for me here?
• Who does God want to be for the person I love?

They also discuss the Love Checkup from 1 Corinthians 13, the difference between conviction and shame, unmet needs in family relationships, and how our families often learn more from watching how we respond to God than from what we intentionally teach them.

Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is stop trying to figure out how to change someone and bring both them—and ourselves—back into the presence of God.

🎧 Join us for Episode 2 of For the Family.

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